Growing a vegetable garden is fun, one of my summertime passions. It is end of January and I am really starting to miss vegetables from my garden. I am thinking I better get my pepper and tomato seeds on order, so I can get them started for spring planting. I love going out to the garden and swooping up an armful of veggies and I am sure missing doing that today. I grow lots of different kinds of vegetables, the more the better. I preserve vegetables by drying, canning and freezing. They are great but still not the same as fresh. I can keep carrots, potatoes and onions, quite awhile in their fresh state, as we still have some of those left from last summers’ garden. I plant as many different kinds of vegetables that I can, filling my garden plot up to the brim. I grow, tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, popcorn, carrots, potatoes, lots of peppers and so much more. I also like to plant flowers to attract the good bugs and have them for fresh cuttings to bring into the house. Gardening is such a pleasure, I enjoy planting the seeds, plants, and bulbs and watching them emerge from the soil and grow to bear the veggies, I love to eat.
Homegrown Vegetables are the best!
Fresh cauliflower is so good and quite easy to grow. Here is Northeast Nebraska, I like to plant it mid April, so it is ready before the extreme heat of summer hits. Plant it about 2-3 foot apart in a row. Watch if for aphids when it is small and as it starts to form heads, watch for the green cabbage worms. I used garden lime instead of the regular bug chemicals. It works pretty good and it also works to deter rabbits.
Growing Cauliflower is easy., grow it early in the spring when it is cool.
Oohh fresh greens in the spring are the best. I like to plant lettuce, spinach and romaine mid April as well. It grows best when temperatures are cool. I will plant them several times thru the spring, summer and fall. They also germinate better when temperatures are cooler.
Fresh spring lettuce is so delicious, grows best planted early in spring.
always like to try something new, this year I tried garden huckleberry. It makes a nice good flavored jam or is good to mix with other berries in jams.
Garden Huckleberry makes delicious jams and bars.
