Only half of what we started as seeds grew big enough for transplant.. Of that though, everything did really well.
I bought seeds for a southwest Asian zucchini, in Arabic it's called kousa, but that basically translates to zucchini - it grew well in Michigan.
Okra also did well, again, another southwest Asian variety.. It starts off green and becomes reddish
Our best crop was these miniature cucumbers.. I lacto-ferment them.
...corn, well, we planted a Hopi blue meant for flour that I was planning to nixtamalize for tamales, but raccoons apparently had other plans. Completely destroyed our crop. Next year they get to feel the excitement of climbing over electrified wire mesh.
Beets, red and golden did ok, not enough to do much with - we'll eat the reds but the golden get fermented.
Carrots, onions, spinach, most tomatoes and hot peppers failed.. An Egyptian spinach called molokhia failed. Did get a few peppers from purchased plants.
I'm most proud of our potatoes, which we cloned from store bought by cutting off slivers with eyes from them when prepping lunch. They grew superbly, had one that came up at 1lb. 12oz. Not too shabby for a Yukon gold.
We got 15 spaghetti squash from s volunteer plant that came up from last year's compost pile.. I Always love the volunteers.
Only half of what we started as seeds grew big enough for transplant.. Of that though, everything did really well.
I bought seeds for a southwest Asian zucchini, in Arabic it's called kousa, but that basically translates to zucchini - it grew well in Michigan.
Okra also did well, again, another southwest Asian variety.. It starts off green and becomes reddish
Our best crop was these miniature cucumbers.. I lacto-ferment them.
...corn, well, we planted a Hopi blue meant for flour that I was planning to nixtamalize for tamales, but raccoons apparently had other plans. Completely destroyed our crop. Next year they get to feel the excitement of climbing over electrified wire mesh.
Beets, red and golden did ok, not enough to do much with - we'll eat the reds but the golden get fermented.
Carrots, onions, spinach, most tomatoes and hot peppers failed.. An Egyptian spinach called molokhia failed. Did get a few peppers from purchased plants.
I'm most proud of our potatoes, which we cloned from store bought by cutting off slivers with eyes from them when prepping lunch. They grew superbly, had one that came up at 1lb. 12oz. Not too shabby for a Yukon gold.
We got 15 spaghetti squash from s volunteer plant that came up from last year's compost pile.. I Always love the volunteers.