Gardening season is coming up! [emoji271]

[Malum Argenteum]

That brocollini is great, isn't it? Freezes well, too.

I grow that, and tomatoes (Brandywine and either San Marzano or Amish Paste -- sauce making and dehydrating for weeks in the fall -- and sometimes a cherry variety of some sort), and butternut squash, and cantaloupe. I used to love to grow Swiss chard, but between the slugs and Japanese beetles I gave it up. Strawberries too, though I need to work on the weeds better -- they're getting overrun by wild violets. My wife and daughter have their own half of the garden (good idea, but some days we need a fence between the sides, too ) and grow a lot of other veggies.

We start seeds early April, and plant about the end of May. All our food crops are entirely organic, just to make it a little more challenging. We raise our own meat, too (lamb, chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl), but not organically unfortunately.

We also have a little orchard with about 6 apple varieties, and sour cherries, and plums, and I'm thinking of planting a couple pears (I don't think any are self-fertile, so need two).