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Post by macmex on Aug 18, 2017 11:43:24 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 18, 2017 18:50:43 GMT -6
That Homesteading Edu article was a really good read. I need to plant some turnips!
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Post by macmex on Aug 19, 2017 5:03:00 GMT -6
Ron, your gardening year has put new significance into the term "complicated!" You set a great example in dealing with it all.
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Post by macmex on Aug 19, 2017 12:46:25 GMT -6
Grand Asia is must for my garden.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 20, 2017 11:38:34 GMT -6
My sweet potatoes were hit by deer in early July so heavily that the vines never got over two feet long. I don't imagine I'll have much of a harvest, but I picked some pawpaws today that were bigger than the biggest apples I've ever seen. That kind of made up for the sweet potato hardship. It's hard to imagine why the wildlife out there left the pawpaws alone?
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Post by macmex on Aug 20, 2017 14:07:01 GMT -6
When you dig sweet potatoes, let us know.
I don't know why deer choose not to bother some things, at some times, and not at others. But I've observed it.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 27, 2017 17:53:02 GMT -6
I finally got some turnips planted for Fall.
My Grandma Fannie used to buy turnip seeds and sow them along the road sides for 'travelers' to eat while they were walking to town. (That was back in the early '60s when a few folks around still walked).
You can buy turnip seeds at the Tahlequah Farmers' Co-op for $4.00/lb. I bought a 1/4 pound for $1.00 and planted half of them. I gave the other half to George.
I looked up the turnip seed count per pound today and found it was approximately 170,000 turnip seeds per pound. If that is true, the 1/8 pound of seeds I sowed last week should equal to a little over 20,000 turnips, assuming a very high germination rate above 90%. (Not too shabby a return for 50c worth of seeds.)
I've been sowing 1/8 pound of turnip seeds every year for the last decade or so. One year, I had so many turnips that I pulled 800 pounds of them to give away to anyone who would take a few. I left a couple baskets at the Moodys Store and took the rest to Tahlequah. It took me all day long to get rid of them.
I missed a few of them while picking the rest and as a result of negligence they grew bigger than softballs. I figured they would be woody, tough, or too hot, to eat, so I never harvested them. A neighbor of mine pulled one of them about Christmas time that Winter and cut it open to see what it tasted like. It was bigger around than a slice of bread, crisp, and sweet!
If we get ample rain early enough this Fall and have a wet Winter, I might run into that same situation this December. If so, maybe I'll be able to share my harvest with lots of friends.
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