Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

First pepper blossom

KIng of the North bell pepper

 

[R2elk]

Cabbage

 

[Sally PB]

Saw our first daffodil blossoms today.

 

[jxp]

Slow.. Need a few more days of rest and light duty.

Yes, sometimes we are reminded that we don't heal as quickly. OTOH, any day above ground is a good day. Prayers for your continued recovery.

 

[jxp]

Cabbage
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I bought a cabbage for St Patty's with lots of extra dark leaves on the outside to give the birds a treat as well. When I pulled the outer leaves, I noticed 2 itty bitty baby cabbages hiding at the base of the stem. I mean they were tinier than new spring peas.
I got the bright idea from all the pineapples, yams, and spuds we start how I wanted to try giving them babies a chance at life.
I grabbed the veg peeler and carefully so as not to injure the new little ones trimmed a clean surface between the scab and the starts so they could drink. Once I was satisfied with that, I cut about 1/2" above them creating a cabbage coin which I placed about a quarter inch deep in a mix of coir and potting soil in a pint starter pot. Then placed that in turn in a mushroom tray with an inch of water.
Within a couple of days both baby cabbages were poking out of the soil. I can hardly wait to see how they're doing when I get back home in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, they'll have grown enough roots I can cut the coin in half and plant them both separately right in the garden. If not, so be it - it's a fun experiment anyways.

 

[R2elk]

I bought a cabbage for St Patty's with lots of extra dark leaves on the outside to give the birds a treat as well. When I pulled the outer leaves, I noticed 2 itty bitty baby cabbages hiding at the base of the stem. I mean they were tinier than new spring peas.
I got the bright idea from all the pineapples, yams, and spuds we start how I wanted to try giving them babies a chance at life.
I grabbed the veg peeler and carefully so as not to injure the new little ones trimmed a clean surface between the scab and the starts so they could drink. Once I was satisfied with that, I cut about 1/2" above them creating a cabbage coin which I placed about a quarter inch deep in a mix of coir and potting soil in a pint starter pot. Then placed that in turn in a mushroom tray with an inch of water.
Within a couple of days both baby cabbages were poking out of the soil. I can hardly wait to see how they're doing when I get back home in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, they'll have grown enough roots I can cut the coin in half and plant them both separately right in the garden. If not, so be it - it's a fun experiment anyways.

I just cook the little ones like I would Brussels Sprouts.

When I was sorting through the cabbages and cauliflowers to give some away, I accidentally broke off one of the cabbages.

It looked like it had a tiny start of a root so I made a hole in the same pot and shoved it down in there. Until yesterday it only showed wilted leaves. I kept trimming back the bigger ones so it wouldn't need so much water to stay alive.

Yesterday it perked up and the wilted leaves that were left finally stood up. It is going to survive.

 

[jxp]

I just cook the little ones like I would Brussels Sprouts.

When I was sorting through the cabbages and cauliflowers to give some away, I accidentally broke off one of the cabbages.

It looked like it had a tiny start of a root so I made a hole in the same pot and shoved it down in there. Until yesterday it only showed wilted leaves. I kept trimming back the bigger ones so it wouldn't need so much water to stay alive.

Yesterday it perked up and the wilted leaves that were left finally stood up. It is going to survive.
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To borrow a baseball term, "what a save!"

 

[Nomadicus]

The collards we put in last fall are done. More seed started now to plant as soon as the plants are large enough.

 

[Nomadicus]

We have 4 days coming up this soon to be the first week of May where the temps will be closed to 90°. I guess that means the beans and summer peas can safely be planted.

 

[jxp]

I haven't grown any brassica since moving to hot dry flat brown central Oklahoma 20-some years ago. We don't get any frost to kiss it into sweetness until WAY late in the year.
Different crops grow there so I had to learn to garden practically from the beginning. I think okra is such a pretty plant, I'll grow a couple out front just for the decoration. I've got a neighbor who keeps it picked. What's called a win-win situation.
One thing I will not do without is sweet corn. Up in NY the saying it's "knee high by the 4th of July." Central Okieland you're already picking and eating it by then.