Cats and plants - show me your gardens

[Ferguson K]

It was in the 80s yesterday and will bbbbw again today.

 

[Pamela]

We are in south central Idaho. Been here for most of my life. Love it, but we do get very bipolar weather.

 

[samssimonsays]

I am with you @Pamela Minnesota weather is insane too. It is snowing today... was 60 degrees on Tuesday.

I am trying Eggplant this year too, just to try it out. I Have beans growing on my kitchen table with peas still as that is all the cat hasn't killed. A few of my egg plants and pepper plants have survived yet. I attempted Strawberries, blackberries and blue berries waaay back in January but they never came up through the dirt so I tried a different method and I had forgotten about them... THey are in plastic baggies in damp paper towels on top of the fridge. We have never used the garden that we have on the property, it has been vacant for about 5 years now (2 years before we moved in even) so it will be interesting to see how it does. Not expecting a good year but I have a bit of soil, a lot of rabbit poop that has been composting for up to 3 years and ash to till into it.

I plan to plant lots of corn, zucchini, winter squash, cucumbers, carrots, the egg plant, okra, swiss chard, lettuce, kale, Beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, watermelon, cantaloupe and basically anything I can get my hands on.

Oh, and brussel sprouts even though I have no idea if I like those either.

First year with a garden AND goats so we will be fencing that off as well as adding to the goat pen and possibly adding in chickens... All depends on how far we get. Garden and goat pen come first before a coop for chickens.

 

[Ferguson K]

My goats are determined to harvest my crops before me.

I let them clean up the plants and the pigs clean up the dirt. Works wonders.

 

[Baymule]

Fried eggplant is good! I peel, slice, dip in cold water, dredge in cornmeal and fry in hot oil. Or you can make a batter with egg, milk and flour, dip sliced eggplant in it and fry. Take fried slices and lay in a pan, spoon spaghetti sauce over them, top with cheese and bake in oven.

 

[samssimonsays]

baymule that sounds yummy!

 

[greybeard]

Yep. four 50' long rows of corn, 2 rows purple hull and two 50' rows cowder peas and and two 50' long squash are up now. 24 Tomatoes have been in the ground about a week and potatoes are just peeking up out of the dirt. Cool nights and brisk N winds aren't helping tho--keeps the ground temp just borderline for growing.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We love eggplant around here too. Don't tell my kids but for years I sliced peeled eggplant into French fry size pieces, dipped in eggwash and then rolled in bread crumbs (we use Panko bread crumbs now) and oven baked. We called 'em 'dipped fries' and to this day my kids still say they don't like eggplant but the love, love, love those dip fries!

 

[Pamela]

Our garden fence is up, which means my 4 piglets get the run of it for the next 6 weeks. I can't wait to see how well they turn it up!

 

[Ferguson K]

My potatoes are just now starting. I've got two or three popping up out of the ten we already put in the ground. I've got 30ish more to plant but this weather is insane.

Everything else is trying to go. I'm not sure my footage yet. We're putting in a second garden. At the moment it's about 400 square feet. Give or take. Not very big.

Putting in another 16x32 in the next few days. Going to plant more leafy veggies. I've mostly got peppers, corn, carrots, beans, and pea. .. potatoes, tomatoes, onions. .. My herbs, which are two years old now, all the fruit trees, and the fruit garden.

I'm going to fill my pantry back up after we flooded out last year. @greybeard y'all had to havw been nearly underwater last year at this time. The rivers were higher then than they are now.