TweetJapanese Purple Sweet Potato and Cubanelle Peppers in my Aviary.
Time for a fun show looking ahead to when all the ice and danger of heavy frost is gone. Last year I found some new gems and this year I am planning major grow bed expansion so I have found some new ideas and some old favorites to add to the 2018 planting list.
Basically if you are a Gardner or grower or plant geek, today is a bit of plant porn for the winter cabin fever blues. I will be providing a link for all seeds, some will be to companies that are MSB partners, some to companies that offer things our partners do not and some even to Amazon or eBay because you just can’t get them any other way.
My view with growing plants for food has always followed this guidelines in no particular order…
Grow what you like to eat
Grow what is expensive to buy
Grow what you can’t buy or is hard to find
Grow things that store well with little to no effort
Grow things that are perennial or that self seed
Grow things with more than one use
Grow things that have little disease/pest pressure
Grow honey badger plants (plants that just don’t give a shit)
Grow things that allow you to interplant in layers
Try a few new/weird things each year
Grow things that are “super foods”
Look any one of those is enough reason for me to grow something, frankly “because I effing feel like it”, is enough reason but the more check marks something gets, the more interested in growing it I become.
Join Me Today As I Discuss…
Why grow more than just the usual suspects
My plant starting set up for this year
Things I plant to grow this year and why
Cubanelle Peppers – link
Datil Peppers – link
Lemon Drop Peppers – link
Habnada Pepper – link
Corbaci Pepper – link
Hairy Gourd – link
White Flowered Gourd – link
Bitter Mellon – link
Mouse Mellon – link
Scarlet Runner Beans – link
Red Noodle Beans – link
Japanese Purple Sweet Potato – link
Daikon Radish – link
Tomatillo Verde – link
Achocha – link
Beets – (Baby recycled) – Just get them in a grocery store
Zucchino Rampicante Squash (trombone zucchini) – link
Orach – Mixed – link
Bloody Dock – link
New Zealand Spinach – link
Hopi Red Amaranth – link
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Grow Tent I am Using for Seed Starting
600 Watt Grow Light I am Also Using
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