Low Carb Garden 2006!

[2big4mysize]

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yep there is nothing like going out with your scissors and cutting the lettuce you want for your salad. get one of those mesulin mixes and in 35 days you are harvesting and will keep havesting until the weather gets too hot and it bolts but you can seed some more in aug or sept and havest till a hard frost. If you plant a tomato or pepper plant in the middle of the pot it will shade the lettuce and make it last even longer and with weather events making lettuce $4 a pound you can save money too.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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I love love love being able to step out the door and harvest something fresh for dinner! I love those mesculin mixes 2big! In fact I'm going to put some more seeds in the ground this weekend!

[not2late]

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I actually prefer to grow salad greens in containers than in the ground. For some reason, I just feel the greens are "cleaner"---ie: not dirty from the dirt (yeah, it's one of my hang-ups....) Plus, if you put your container on some cinder blocks on your doorstep, it's easier to harvest.

[2big4mysize]

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I actually prefer to grow salad greens in containers than in the ground. For some reason, I just feel the greens are "cleaner"---ie: not dirty from the dirt (yeah, it's one of my hang-ups....) Plus, if you put your container on some cinder blocks on your doorstep, it's easier to harvest.

So do you use a soilless mix for your containers?

[Heidi3]

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LOOK WHAT I GOT AT THE FARMERS MARKET!!!! I AM SO EXCITED
this is a trillium ..you know who loved these as much as I do ...remember Jollymonbass? well he did that and cheese were common ground for us ..I really miss that guy sometimes!

so here is my baby trillium


this is a shooting star both of these are natives and both need shade..something I do not have much of actually so I may keep them in pots for a while and see what happens

[2big4mysize]

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oh they are endargered here too and you can't did non native but we have a yard full in the back woods. What kind of trillum is it? read yellow or white upright or nodding head?

you can create all the shade they need by planting them in the shadow of an existing pot or tree.

LOL doesn't your shooting star look like leaf lettuce plants? I was sure somebody had dumped a pack of lettuce seeds in mothers woods when i saw them coming up this spring. those flowers on the tip of the spike are awesome.

[not2late]

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So do you use a soilless mix for your containers?

No I don't...that's why it's just one of my hang-ups! For some reason soil on the ground seems "dirtier" to me than that same soil in a container. Yeah, yeah, I know...it's just me being crazy!

But I like the convenience of using containers for some veggies. Plus it covers up this eye-sore cement slab I have on my side yard. I don't know what the previous owners used it for, but it's a 4' x 10' rectangle--southeast facing. It gets alot of sun and the plants are happy there.

[Heidi3]

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I dont know what kind it was it is not wild harvested I know that so do not worry we have a lot of native gardens that sell them here this was donated from them ..it is a local species but I have never seen one this tiny have you? I wonder if the tag says I will check

[Heidi3]

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it is a 3 year old Trillium ovatum I have to look it up now

I was so excited to see it on the table I had to have it..this little plant brings me more joy than you can imagine

[Heidi3]

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http://www.naturepark.com/trilinfo.htm

[boonie stomper]

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WOW! What a teriffic thread! I'm fairly new at ADBB, but as it just so happens, I love to grow things, so while emptying the house of induction no-no's, I ran across potatoes, onions, scallions, leeks, turnips, radishes, scallions, carrots, eggplant, parsnips, horseradish root and peppers which had gone soft and/or growing while I'd been fasting prior to deciding to do Atkins in Feb.

All of them are now growing happily, along with tomatoes and my regular herb garden residents.except the eggplant which went on the compost pile.

My big question is, do any of you know if the greens of the root veggies are induction-friendly?

[2big4mysize]

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beet greens and turnip greens are great for induction. I love Bulls blood in salad raw

Heidi I have seen 1 yr olds that small but not 3 yr olds wow! yep the gardenclub memebers dig their gardens to provide plants for the sales here too.

here is what Mother's shooting Star looks like it isn't pink like yours.

[Heidi3]

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ok 2big your shooting star kicks my shooting stars asssss ..beautiful!

[Heidi3]

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I Have shooting stars in my tattoo

[boonie stomper]

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Bulls blood??? I hope that's some kind of veggie!

Thanks for the tip on the greens. Anyone know if the carrot or parsnip tops are OK? (I know the alliums are & taters aren't).
The horseradish leaves are good, too.
Those shooting stars look a little bit like my bleeding hearts. Pretty neat!
I've got a crazy amarillus just opening its flowers in my back yard, and I'm waiting for my pink ladies' slipper to come up.