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Self sufficient gardening
BryanR:
I have similar thoughts as the previous replies. Grow what you actually eat or like. I pick vegetables based on being able to collect seeds for the next year. Been doing a garden and chickens/turkeys for 6 years. I stopped canning. I prefer to freeze or dry store.
My 2023 garden will be garlic, beets, onions, black beans, green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, zucchini, cucumber, lettuce and carrots.
The chickens/turkeys can have everything out of the garden except garlic and onions. It's reported to be toxic to them. The occasional onion that's made it to the chickens was never touched. The birds love anything with seeds, especially zucchini and spaghetti squash. I leave my lettuce bolt at the end of the season and toss them a whole plant. The birds also get an entire tomato plant or zucchini vine. The only thing that actually makes it to the compost bin is the woody vine itself.
Marc St Louis:
I tend to grow things that are fairly easy to grow up here but can be expensive to buy
Pat B:
Sweet potatoes grow well in Eastern NC and are tasty, nutritious and easily stored.
PaulN/KS:
Tomatoes,green beans and hot peppers are my mainstay here. We dry and grind the peppers or roast and freeze them. Tomatoes become salsa,sauce or just frozen in bags.(Gonna use some of that in tonight's jambalaya.) Green beans get frozen as well. Sweet corn we just buy from a farm up the road, that way they have to deal with the coons...
sleek:
--- Quote from: PaulN/KS on January 25, 2023, 05:06:59 pm ---Tomatoes,green beans and hot peppers are my mainstay here. We dry and grind the peppers or roast and freeze them. Tomatoes become salsa,sauce or just frozen in bags.(Gonna use some of that in tonight's jambalaya.) Green beans get frozen as well. Sweet corn we just buy from a farm up the road, that way they have to deal with the coons...
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Tell me more about the ground peppers. What do you do with them, how do you store them, how long do they last, how do you dry and grind them?
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