Re: what are you planting?

Sounds "GREAT"!!!!  After the storm came through,my garden looks very bad,the
large Christmas butter beans,(running-about 9ft high)are all laying down,the
okra,peas(field-pink-eye purplehull),squash,tomatoes(took a beating in
cages),everything is down!!! Mustard,collards,broccoli,cabbage,look better,what
didn't wash away.Well,have fun,from Southern Mississippi,JIM

Sheila Roskie wrote:

> 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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