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3 Feb

Kid’s Garden Planner

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in DIY, future plans, vegetable gardening. Tagged: basil, broccoli, flowers, green beans, pumpkin, squash, strawberries, strawberry, sugar snap peas, tomato, watermelon, zucchini. 3 Comments

I am adding two new 4 ft x 8 ft garden beds this year, so I decided to let my kids each plant one. I’ll also let our wonderful friend and neighbor, M., plant one of my existing 4×8′s. These children are 8, 6 and 6 years old, so I made them up a planning [...]

20 May

Canned Good Jars

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in vegetable gardening. Tagged: apple-pear-cinnamon jelly, applesauce, asparagus, canning, canning jars, chili sauce, dill pickles, glass, green beans, ham and bean soup, homemade ketchup, jars, ketchup, salsa, strawberry jam, strawberry preserves, strawberry rhubarb jam, strawberry syrup, sweet bread and butter pickles, turkey stock, victorian BBQ sauce. 8 Comments

Chili sauce, apple-pear-cinnamon jelly, sweet bread and butter pickles, victorian BBQ sauce, turkey stock, ham and bean soup, salsa, green beans, applesauce, dill pickles, asparagus. We have already finished all the ketchup, spaghetti sauce, cinnamon applesauce and a couple other things I’m forgetting. I *so* love canning! Up next: strawberry rhubarb jam, strawberry jam, [...]

17 May

May 2009 Backyard Garden

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in vegetable gardening. Tagged: beets, broccoli, carrots, chives, cilantro, corn, cucumbers, fence, green beans, heirloom, honeydew, hybrid, lettuce, melons, onions, parsley, planted bales, radishes, raised beds, straw bales, strawberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, trellis, vegetable gardening, watermelons, zucchini. 8 Comments

Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]

26 Nov

2009 Tentative Garden Layout

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in future plans, vegetable gardening. Tagged: 2009, 2009 garden, bales, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, green beans, herbs, onion, peppers, radishes, square foot gardening, straw, tomatoes, watermelon, zucchini. 2 Comments

8 ft x 6 ft beds. The lettuce at the top will be planted on/in 20 inch high bales of straw, thanks to a few awesome bloggers who taught me this trick in their posts. I’m going to do a broccoli experiment this spring. I’ll plant two whole beds of broccoli, one with a closer [...]

7 Oct

Extra long green bean madness.

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in cooking, vegetable gardening. Tagged: garden, green beans, pole beans, yardlong. 4 Comments

I’ve had better tasting green beans than the Yardlong variety we grew. They weren’t bad…just not great. They truly were EXTREMELY prolific for the space they took up. I had to cook them quite a while to get them to the point where I could really enjoy them. Butter and bacon helped too.

16 Jun

Garden changing weekend ramble

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in future plans, life happens, vegetable gardening. Tagged: broccoli, cantaloupe, carrot, cauliflower, container gardening, creek, cucumber, flood, garden, green beans, green pepper, jalapenos, lettuce, peas, radish, salad, staggered harvest, tree house, vegetable garden, vines, watermelons, zucchini. 1 Comment

The lettuces are done. They never made a head…it just got too warm for them and now they are bitter and milky inside. I pulled all of them out. We did eat 5 or 6 salads from the garden. The last bed of radishes did not form bulbs…headless! All carrots are coming along slowly, very [...]

5 Jun

Garden changes for 09…early June edition

Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn in future plans, vegetable gardening. Tagged: backyard gardening, broccoli, double planting, green beans, raised beds, vegetable garden. 5 Comments

By fall all of these opinions will have probably changed, but as of today, here is what I would/will be doing differently with next year’s garden: Raise the two beds on lowest ground another 8 to 12 inches. Eliminate trying melons at all. I set aside a lot of space for them and they don’t [...]