Re: what are you planting?

Nicole,
We school at home and garden/plants are an on-going part of our studies too.
Our direct sow seeds are in and coming up: peas, carrots, favas, spinach,
corn salad ... we will be harvesting radishes for dinner tonight :D  We
potted up seeds and have starts to rotate in: broccoli, cabbage, red Russian
kale, Brussels sprouts; they are hardened off and ready to go.  We just have
to wait for the pumpkins to get done ... another week or two.  We are also
waiting for all the cabbage moths to leave!  While they look lovely in the
garden, they are a pest (actually their offspring)!  Unfortunately we have
way too many right now and they don't seem to want to be leaving any time
soon. Hoping for a slow start to winter so we can get in some turnips and
mangles.  The husband likes beets such as ruby red or bulls-eye but we get
such a kick out of saying 'we're growing mangles' and watching people's
faces as they say WHAT?!
We got our mangle seed from Seeds of Change.  For those of you thinking
'what-the-hey?!': mangles are heirloom, French beets from the 1800's.  We
grew the yellow intermediate variety.  These have white flesh; not the usual
blood red.  They taste just like beets, smell just like beets but!  if you
use straight cast iron cookware beware: it will cook up a bit grey  which is
not pleasant for the visual picky eaters.  We are letting one yellow  mangle
go to seed and noticed we had a few reds so I made sure we saved one red for
seed too.
sheila
zone 9
sunset zone 17

----- Original Message -----
From: John & Nicole Hightower <nhightower@bak.rr.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: what are you planting?


> At school, we will be planting carrots, lettuce, turnips, broccoli,
> cauliflower, cabbage, radishes and peas in the next few weeks.
> The sweet peas (flowers) will be going in the ground this week also.
>
> Nicole
> Zone 9
>
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