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Food for when your being cheap or being poor Posted: 8/4/2009 7:48:50 PM
..I'll second that notion on remembering the friends with gardens...Sheesh I think I've thrown out about 50 lbs. of yellow summer squash and zuchinni so far this summer. I just got my carrots started 3 weeks ago...and will have fresh carrots from the garden all winter...even when it's so cold you hesitate to open the door. I mulch the carrots with about 8 inches of leaves...so the ground doesn't freeze..and dig them all winter. I always seem to have much more lettuce than I need...sometimes I even let one plant go to seed to save the seed for next year...It's pretty simple to pull out a plant and let it dry in the garage until the seeds can be harvested. The green beans are coming on great right now...I suppose I might need to water them a bit between pickings. I usually get 3 pickings off of one row..but if I take care of them..there will be more, enough for several meals. The cabbages are looking fine...and I can't wait to fry some...it's much tastier than boiling it. The one thing I've always felt was silly to grow..was potatoes. Geez..they're so cheap in the store or farmers market, it's a shame to waste the garden space on them. So this year I decided to try something fun. I got a couple of plastic 55 gallon barrels and put 6 inches of compost in them with several potatoes in the bottom then as the potatoes grew..I'd fill it up with more compost. After a couple months..the potatoes are standing up out of the top of the barrel...with compost almost to the rim. I'm thinking this will be really fun to see how many lbs. of potatoes can be harvested this way. The funniest thing is there haven't been any potato beetles on them...and I almost always had beetles chewing them to shreds before.