tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5712914579181689211.post5069248048626286291..comments2023-06-27T04:34:36.485-05:00Comments on Crafty Homestead: Lessons for Next Year's GardenCrafty Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326541021824340834noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5712914579181689211.post-60518621421637702562014-10-04T09:04:31.145-05:002014-10-04T09:04:31.145-05:00Wow thank you for all the info Aunt Sarah! We migh...Wow thank you for all the info Aunt Sarah! We might take you up on A frame come Spring. And if that rhubarb is still going I'd love some.Crafty Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11326541021824340834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5712914579181689211.post-5266545070764946262014-10-01T23:45:18.761-05:002014-10-01T23:45:18.761-05:00Great list! If I can get it still, I will give you...Great list! If I can get it still, I will give you some of the superb rhubarb descended from the plants of your great grandmother LaBelle, to your grandfather and then to me, who had to plant it in friend's gardens when I lost my own. I have not checked lately to see if the plants survived. Unless you have a source already? It needs LOTS of compost and is a perennial that likes sun, so needs a thought or two when being planted.<br />Yes, plant that garlic now. Talk to your cousin Brooke, she has mastered it. Plant it now like a flower bulb, harvest it about July, it is fun to watch it grow. I got it going when Jim was alive, he ate it raw... And I do not like it at all, but it was fun to get it growing.<br />I used to get dozens of peppers from one plant. How did I do that?<br />Huge zucchini will still surprise you, I think they grow that big overnight. But no reason not to keep trying.<br />The little tomatoes might sprout on their own next spring, so watch for them. It is the big tomatoes that need transplants, unless you start them indoors, serious gardening, over my head.<br />Do you remember all the work you did to get it so my carrots would grow, long years ago? Soil had too much clay, so sand was added, rather, you added sand and mixed it perfectly, and we got carrots! You can interplant radishes with carrots, as the radishes will be up and eaten by the time the slower carrot seeds sprout. And the radishes kind of make it easier for the tiny carrot seeds to sprout and live.<br />Well, I have hit my favorite topic! I hope you two have lots of fun planning out next year's garden and have as much success as you did this year.<br />I have an old metal A frame meant to hold up indeterminate tomatoes (or anything else vine-y. Yours if you want it. Plus a pole bean thingy that might still be worthwhile.Sarah Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674395968982387023noreply@blogger.com