Boston Marrow Squash (the big orange ones that early Americans in New England liked…Misc squash, Zuchini and ScallionsGarnet YamsThese are great cust in slices and roasted or washed and bakedUnlike growing potatoes where you cut them in slices and let the eyes grow then plant, yams need to be made from slips. You let shoots grow even a few inches, ideally much more and them twist them off and root by soaking in water for maybe a week and then plant. Thi way you get sweet potatoes and not just leaves. The leaves are good and very healthy to eat either way. Delicoota squash, kale, asian pears, amaranth, grapes.
Bao, Vietnamese squash
More baoAfter learning to use make and use Biochar, our soil was amazing, and we had a Bao plant grow 40 ish feet long and twenty feet up into a neighbor’s tree. We gave the Veitnamese school in Dorchser several trunk fulls.Bitter Melon. Very bitter but makes you live to 100…Edible Luffa on the top left. Ground cherries mixed with strawberries. In the back high row the edible luffa flowers get bombabred by bees.This picture coincidentally was taken may 9th but some years ago and today happens to be May 9th. I only just started getting stuff in the ground this year but as much as two months earlier in previous years like in March I stated cold crops like chines broccoli, kale, carrots, beets, lettuce early as either direct seed or from seedlings grown indoors but started in February lol. These simple caterpillar tunnel nonheated greenhouse-like structures can get you two extra months – at least. A month or two on either side of the growing season. Beats, swiss chard, scallion, fennelMini Mexican cucumbers (turned out to get crazy with maybe 1,000 produced. Too many and they are good but not that good. The strawberries are Mara Des Bois which I consider the only ones to grow. Insanely sweet and grow all season unlike most that grow mostly in June. And these spread like crazy. I pad $30 I think when I bought them now I give sprouts away. We get huge blackberries. Can;t remember the variety. We have Arapho also but they are smaller and while Good we prefer the giant ones. So do the birds so you sadly need to net them or lose them. OuchGrapes are fairly easy to grow and super sweet. You need to cut the vines back in the spring. Danvers carrots, delicata squash, cherry tomatoes, french fillet beans It’s much easier to eat veggies when you grow them. Much more nutritious and flavorful.
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