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Submitted by Willow2010 on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 1:34pm

I think there was a blog similar to this a few weeks ago, but I did not get to read it all and I can't remember who posted it so I am going to revisit it.

My garden is about done for this season. I did great on the bush beans and cucumbers. My corn and peas and okra did not make it at all.

Are any of you going to do a winter garden? I think I am. I have never done one before so I am going to try. I am going to plant spinach, lettuce, bush beans, and some bell pepper.

Do any of you can? I want to. But I rarely have enough left over from garden to can. (I am going to try a MUCH larger garden next year.) I only have a pressure cooker that has canning capabilities. I have not tried to can in it yet but I do LOVE to cook in it! (I am a little intimidated by the stove top pressure canners.)

If you plant a winter garden...what will you plant?

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Submitted by DaizyDuke on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 1:38pm

GAH! I WISH I could "winter" garden! After months of having fresh picked lettuce and spinach for my salads, today was the first day that I actually had to pack a salad with store bought lettuce and spinach and it is nowhere near the same. It sucks. But in my neck of the woods, winter gardening is completely out of the question.

I am however, excited about our pumpkins this year! We took over one of the horse pasture so that we could plant more than our regular patch and by last count we are going to have over 130! Going to be the best decorated house on the road! Wink I think I'm going to try and sell some too!

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Submitted by not2sureimsanea... on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 5:01pm

Oh oh oh!

Okay so I have a perennial edible garden. Right now it consists of sage, rosemary, oregano, scallions, chives, lemon balm, german thyme, rhubarb, sunchokes, purslane (which people usually think is a weed), ASPARAGUS (omg, fresh asparagus straight from the garden is HEAVEN), strawberries (alpine and regular), blueberries, raspberries, white and red currants, bulb fennel (I'm testing the theory that they are supposedly perennial), maypop (the only passion fruit native to the US), saffron (yes, SAFFRON, red gold, right about now they should be planted), sweet potato (the leaves are just like spinach), hostas (yup, hostas, the Japanese call them urui, and their shoots in the spring are eaten like bok choi, steamed, sauteed, etc.) garlic, egyptian walking onion.

What didn't make it was ostrich fern (which gives the only noncarcinogenic fiddlehead that can be eaten but they can be planted right now as well.)

Next year I'm going to add crosnes, multiplier onions, sea kale, and sea holly to the garden, and re-attempt ostrich ferns.

I'm in zone 7 but I use edibles that can survive zone 6.