Did a little garden cultivating today ...

[blueriver]

Looking good!!! Just planted ours. Hoping to match last year's bumper crop.
We shall see.

Thanks and I am glad you got yours in ... put up 30 qts of beans today (the wife did) 10 quarts of Broccoli and dug some of those little red taters for dinner ... Life is good.

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

Do you eat all those potatoes?

Very nice and BIG garden.

 

[blueriver]

Do you eat all those potatoes?

Very nice and BIG garden.

Thank you ... I inherited a grandson who is now 14. He was a city boy and I expaned a couple years ago ... a lot can be said for a young man working with you in the garden. This year I will introduce him to road side sales, Saturday night country auctions and marketing some of the products.

 

[blueriver]

The garden is producing ... picked and canned again today, at this stage you start asking ... Why so much !!!!

 

[blueriver]

Few Onions and a bucket of beans ...

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

Beautiful produce. Now that's a bunch of onions.

I tried keeping onions a couple of years back, they did last till about January but then they started rotting. I let them dry, took a rope and tied them off individually to get air. One reason is I raise the Texas Sweets and they don't keep as well as the hard red or white onions but we love them.

That should be a wonderful experience for your grandson, I hope he will appreciate the experiences he is getting. When mom got old we wanted to trade our new house in town for her 30 acre farm to raise the kids on, but no way. I think she thought we were getting the better of the deal. Little did she know we were talking about tearing down the old house and building new, but it didn't work out. Our son would have been better off to have grown up in the country, he missed so much I think.

 

[PossumHound]

Great looking produce there, blueriver. I had no idea SE OK's growing season started so early. Here in mid NC we're just beginning to think about digging a few taters and pulling some sping onions.

PH

 

[jinman]

Wow! When did you set out onions? We put ours out in February and they are nowhere near yours in size. Ours are just starting to bell-out good on the bottom.

 

[Bartcephus]

I'm with Jinman on the onions... just starting to bell out but I like em small and tender too! been harvesting a few here & there. Taters got a late start because of the rains etc. I used to live in SE Oklahoma. My parents still do. Season is about the same as North Texas, but depends on the soil workability. When I was in the fifth grade, we moved from a big city to rural. I wouldn't change that experience for the world. Grew up innocent of drugs etc. Many of my grade school friends ended up with problems because "there was nothing to do but . . ." anyway glad someone is carrying on the tradition. I've always heard people slam the country as "nothing to do" but I have found, there is much more to do in the country than a city full of shopping malls. :laughing:

Best Regards

 

[blueriver]

Beautiful produce. Now that's a bunch of onions.

I tried keeping onions a couple of years back, they did last till about January but then they started rotting. I let them dry, took a rope and tied them off individually to get air. One reason is I raise the Texas Sweets and they don't keep as well as the hard red or white onions but we love them.

That should be a wonderful experience for your grandson, I hope he will appreciate the experiences he is getting. When mom got old we wanted to trade our new house in town for her 30 acre farm to raise the kids on, but no way. I think she thought we were getting the better of the deal. Little did she know we were talking about tearing down the old house and building new, but it didn't work out. Our son would have been better off to have grown up in the country, he missed so much I think.

Thank you ... everyday that boy surprizes me ... I find it so rewarding.