Homegrown

[Ski213]

4 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Do you guys have any favourite varietys? I usually go with Big Boy or Better Boy tomatoes, California Wonder bell peppers, and Top Crop bush green beans. These have done well on my area. I get a truckload of horse manure from a local guy each fall and till it in. Let it sit all winter, and the soil is ready each spring. I try to avoid too much commercial fertilizer or bug spray if I can. Keep things as organic as possible. A little seven dust usually keeps most bugs away

My ground is good old Missouri clay, so it needs some help.

I’ve do better boy some years. I always do early girl and mortgage lifter. I like German pink but I don’t always grow them. 

[TnRiver46]

27 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Looks great

Thanks ! It was a little more than we needed, that was back when they said “shelter in place” .  It turned into a jungle really quick, haha. More banana peppers than you could ever eat. We plant a little less now , but always fail to plant enough green beans . I need to get them to crawl all over the outside of my fence 

[Mobasser]

Just now, Ski213 said:

I’ve do better boy some years. I always do early girl and mortgage lifter. I like German pink but I don’t always grow them. 

Do you know the story behind Mortgage Lifter?

1 minute ago, Mobasser said:

Do you know the story behind Mortgage Lifter?

A guy developed this one and saved his small farm from foreclosure. True story I've hesrd

[Ski213]

3 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Do you know the story behind Mortgage Lifter?

A guy developed this one and saved his small farm from foreclosure. True story I've hesrd

I’ve heard that as well. Pretty neat story!

[T-Billy]

53 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Give me some morrels, fresh crappie fillets, and some fresh tomatoes slices and I'll be a happy camper. Super good!

It's no coincidence that the morels come up at the same time the crappie spawn. A match made in Heaven. Mmmm Good!!!

[Mobasser]

4 minutes ago, T-Billy said:

It's no coincidence that the morels come up at the same time the crappie spawn. A match made in Heaven. Mmmm Good!!!

Yes sir! One of my favourite things!

[DitchPanda]

We don't do a garden but several friends and family members do so we always have tomatoes, various peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and summer squash. I also hunt asparagus like a fiend in the spring. From time to time I stumble on a big batch of morels.

[NYWayfarer]

The wife has a garden at her parents place together they grow Tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, cucumbers and herbs.

 

They prepare and preserve it in many ways. My favorite is always the zucchini bread. My wife makes a bunch of loaves slices and freezes them so I have a stash over the winter.

[Way north bass guy]

We usually grow about 6-8 different varieties of tomatoes every year. Pretty much all heirloom varieties, and we change it up every year just to try new ones. My absolute favourite has been Black Krim. They grow pretty good sized, and are packed with flavour. We also grow a lot of beans every year. Our favourite lately has been Rattlesnake climbing beans. They’re a purple/green coloured bean that grows like a weed and puts out beans until a hard freeze comes. My wife pickles tons of them and they are fantastic all winter long. 

[Skunkmaster-k]

My dad and I plant a garden every year. Last year we drove the old pickup to the organic dairy and got a bed of the sweet stuff and tilled it In. Our maters were out of sight dy-no-mite ! Store bought can’t hold a candle to picking one and stuffing it in your mouth fresh . 

[PressuredFishing]

11 hours ago, Mobasser said:

Do any BR members like to garden, and grow vegetables at home? The taste is beyond compare.

Majoring in horticultural science, nursery tech and ecology in school right now, yes it's my secondary to fishing, wish I could say more but the forums rules are strict regarding ecological science  (controversial topics where modern politics exists)

[N Florida Mike]

Growing up we had a big garden out back where we grew onions, carrots , squash, melons, eggplant, greens, corn, beans, ‘ maters  , and what not. Also had a few citrus trees. We fertilized them with all the fish guts .

My specialty was greens, and corn. We even dug all the azaleas up in the front of our house and planted beefsteak , big boy, and better boy ‘maters. It became a 5 foot tall hedge. We would have so many we had to stake them and tie them on…

My uncle in NC always had a much bigger garden where he grew a lot of the same, but just lots more of it. He had a huge cornfield behind his house too. My grandpa sharecropped a farm down the road from their home so it’s in our dna lol. 

This spring I just plan to put out some mustard greens and beans…

[Mobasser]

1 minute ago, N Florida Mike said:

Growing up we had a big garden out back where we grew onions, carrots , squash, melons, eggplant, greens, corn, beans, ‘ maters  , and what not. Also had a few citrus trees. We fertilized them with all the fish guts .

My specialty was greens, and corn. We even dug all the azaleas up in the front of our house and planted beefsteak , big boy, and better boy ‘maters. It became a 5 foot tall hedge. We would have so many we had to stake them and tie them on…

My uncle in NC always had a much bigger garden where he grew a lot of the same, but just lots more of it. He had a huge cornfield behind his house too. My grandpa sharecropped a farm down the road from their home so it’s in our dna lol. 

This spring I just plan to put out some mustard greens and beans…

Mike, I think it's in my dna also. It's a good thing to know how to grow things. It was a good experience for me being around all this as a kid also. I learned a lot

[N Florida Mike]

I didnt tell you all of it. I worked on a local farm off and on for 6-7 years, where we grew primarily blueberries, strawberries and Citrus. There was a deep freeze in the 80s that killed all the citrus except the wild oranges . At least we could make marmalade out of them. It took us months to cut up all the dead citrus…

By the way, this thread was a great idea @Mobasser

[Mobasser]

7 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

I didnt tell you all of it. I worked on a local farm off and on for 6-7 years, where we grew primarily blueberries, strawberries and Citrus. There was a deep freeze in the 80s that killed all the citrus except the wild oranges . At least we could make marmalade out of them. It took us months to cut up all the dead citrus…

By the way, this thread was a great idea @Mobasser

Thanks Mike. I've run out of likes here.

[CountryboyinDC]

17 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

You could hunt for morels, chanterells and ramps .

If you've been eating ramps, don't stand upwind from me!  

[TOXIC]

Funny story, my wife wanted a garden when we moved to Massachusetts where we had 5 acres of land in an area that was in small mountains.  She went home to visit her mother in Kansas City and I thought I would be a good husband and dig her a small plot about 50:feet square.  I quickly found out that you couldn’t turn a shovel of dirt without hitting a rock.  I labored for 2 days and made little headway when my neighbor, whom I’d never met stopped by and asked me what I was doing, with a chuckle in his voice.  He kindly offered to come by with his tractor and till it for me.  We got it done, he busted the blade on his single plow (he owned a metal fabrication shop so no problem) and after he was done, the bed was 3 feet lower than the surrounding ground, I had enough rock to build a wall half way around the garden and I had about 4 inches of soil before the next layer of rock.  Come to find out my neighbor had a big garden that he had tons of topsoil trucked in by dump truck.  We were able to raise some cold weather plants like egg plant, broccoli and some herbs/lettuce but that was about it.  My neighbor was so impressed by my determination that weekly we would find a big crate of veggies, squash, tomatoes or whatever was ready that was dropped off by my neighbor.  We became good friends.  

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, CountryboyinDC said:

If you've been eating ramps, don't stand upwind from me!  

My brother accidentally left a grocery sack full of them in the trunk of his car for a day and a half……..

[N Florida Mike]

What the heck is a ramp?

[TnRiver46]

16 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

What the heck is a ramp?

A stinky type veggie kind of like an onion that grows wild 

[Tennessee Boy]

I’ve dabbled in gardening at various levels over the years.  I typically don’t eat what I grow,  the deer eat all of it. ?

[flatcreek]

2 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I’ve dabbled in gardening at various levels over the years.  I typically don’t eat what I grow,  the deer eat all of it. ?

I bet that keeps you in plenty of deer meat

[VolFan]

Same for me with squirrels, rabbits, and labradors.

[cyclops2]

  You eat Labradors ?

[TnRiver46]

8 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I’ve dabbled in gardening at various levels over the years.  I typically don’t eat what I grow,  the deer eat all of it. ?

I’m with @flatcreek, deer tastes better than veggies anyway