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HARVEST 2020
5 years ago
Hello Mr and Mrs America, and all the Furs at sea:
just got in form harvesting the potato pot and got 30 potatoes. That may not sound like a lot, but considering it was from a garden pot in my front yard? and started off with three small sprouted seed potatoes that i harvested from an experiment i planted last year from a gnarly sprouted spud i found in the back of the pantry? i got 8 good potatoes from it and 6 or 7 seed portatoes some of which i gave away this spring so i wasn't expecting much the Bluelakes I got about 15 pounds of beans off of just harvested the last of them about 28 pods still on the 4 vines they grew with the potatoes and up three sunflower plants that are just setting seed heads.
Around the 5th, i pulled the beets from last year that had gone to seed and they are hanging and will collect the seeds when they are dry (Beets take two years to produce seeds) at the same time i turned that pot added some new potting mix and planted about 20 Italian Bush beans in their place. they are some of the crops that can be planted in this area for a late fall harvest. I Might be able to slip in some Early Wonder Beets that have a 45 Days to maturity. meaning i may be able to slip in a dozen or so i do love me some slow roasted beets, and beetroot soup!-Yum!
Growing food in hard times takes a bit of knowledge and understanding but with a bit of luck and pluck you can grow your own food! anyone interested should dig up a copy of "Gardening when it counts" by Steve Solomon he founded the Territorial Seed Company in cottage grove Oregon his book will teach you what you need to know to better become food independent. Having grown up in a rural farming community and grown a half acre garden for almost 20 years i know the sense of calm and personal satisfaction that can come from growing your own food. saving seeds and growing a garden from seeds you saved year after year. Not only does it feed both body and soul, but reconnects you to the earth.
When looking for long term seeds try and avoid hybrid seeds and look for Open pollinated or "heirloom" varieties those are the kind you can save seeds from and replant year after year. here is a list of
20 crops to plant in august
1.Beets
2. Beans
3. Cabbage
4. Kale
5. Swiss chard
6. Brocolli
7. Zuchini
8. Cucumber
9. Bunching onion
10. Carrots
11. Rutabaga
12. Turnip
13. Peas
14. Radish
*in the ground late august
15. Spinach*
16. Lettuce*
17. Kohlrabi
18. Dill
19. Purslane
20. Amaranth
Spinach and Lettuce tend to bold quickly in the summer heat but do well as fall crops thus the * notation
as you can see it's not too late to grow something! without a community garden space I've had to get creative and scored some 5 gallon buckets and large planter pots filled them with potting soil and set them in my front yard it's not the same as row gardening but it's something i can do to provide for my family and it makes a nice green space in front of the building. and i have inspired my neighbors to get into it as well.
the totals so far from three large pots and a couple five gallon buckets:
30 potatoes, 15 pounds of green beans, 5 pounds of Japanese salad turnips, 10 pounds of Tuscan Kale, 15 pounds of beets, 5 pounds of sugar snap peas in the spring. Snow peas can be planted in August the harvest in the fall.
so not a bad haull
and i expect about 10+ pounds of Roma Beans in early October that i planted on the 5th of August and they have broken ground and are loving the warm weather. so get out there and GROW SOMETHING!
--Rick
Around the 5th, i pulled the beets from last year that had gone to seed and they are hanging and will collect the seeds when they are dry (Beets take two years to produce seeds) at the same time i turned that pot added some new potting mix and planted about 20 Italian Bush beans in their place. they are some of the crops that can be planted in this area for a late fall harvest. I Might be able to slip in some Early Wonder Beets that have a 45 Days to maturity. meaning i may be able to slip in a dozen or so i do love me some slow roasted beets, and beetroot soup!-Yum!
Growing food in hard times takes a bit of knowledge and understanding but with a bit of luck and pluck you can grow your own food! anyone interested should dig up a copy of "Gardening when it counts" by Steve Solomon he founded the Territorial Seed Company in cottage grove Oregon his book will teach you what you need to know to better become food independent. Having grown up in a rural farming community and grown a half acre garden for almost 20 years i know the sense of calm and personal satisfaction that can come from growing your own food. saving seeds and growing a garden from seeds you saved year after year. Not only does it feed both body and soul, but reconnects you to the earth.
When looking for long term seeds try and avoid hybrid seeds and look for Open pollinated or "heirloom" varieties those are the kind you can save seeds from and replant year after year. here is a list of
20 crops to plant in august
1.Beets
2. Beans
3. Cabbage
4. Kale
5. Swiss chard
6. Brocolli
7. Zuchini
8. Cucumber
9. Bunching onion
10. Carrots
11. Rutabaga
12. Turnip
13. Peas
14. Radish
*in the ground late august
15. Spinach*
16. Lettuce*
17. Kohlrabi
18. Dill
19. Purslane
20. Amaranth
Spinach and Lettuce tend to bold quickly in the summer heat but do well as fall crops thus the * notation
as you can see it's not too late to grow something! without a community garden space I've had to get creative and scored some 5 gallon buckets and large planter pots filled them with potting soil and set them in my front yard it's not the same as row gardening but it's something i can do to provide for my family and it makes a nice green space in front of the building. and i have inspired my neighbors to get into it as well.
the totals so far from three large pots and a couple five gallon buckets:
30 potatoes, 15 pounds of green beans, 5 pounds of Japanese salad turnips, 10 pounds of Tuscan Kale, 15 pounds of beets, 5 pounds of sugar snap peas in the spring. Snow peas can be planted in August the harvest in the fall.
so not a bad haull
and i expect about 10+ pounds of Roma Beans in early October that i planted on the 5th of August and they have broken ground and are loving the warm weather. so get out there and GROW SOMETHING!
--Rick
