Gardening season is coming up! [emoji271]

[Daniel_Effler]

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).

It is and grows better than standard broccoli for me.
I have thought about growing Swiss chard this year but I had not made up my mind yet. We do have a lot of slugs and Japanese beetles though. The Japanese beetles try to strip all the leaves off my plum and peach trees every year before I can get them off. I usually use a light soapy water mix to spray my trees with. It does decent but if it rains it washes most of it away.

I tried growing brussel sprouts last year but I never got any brussel sprouts off them. I might have started them too late or something.

I also raised some animals though I mainly down to just chickens now. I have two types of large breed and some small breed chickens. Speckled Sussex, Bielefelders, and D'Uccle. Though I used to raise a lot of quail. Mainly coturnix quail.

I love fruit and I have peach and plum trees but I grew up with my grandfather having a large Apple orchard. I used to help him tend the orchard when I was little and I have a lot of fond memories of it.

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