Farming frenzy

[dageir]

I will certainly sow peas and salad. Salad was a huge success and replaced any salad needed to be bought for 1-2 months. It just kept on growing even if much of its leaves were removed. Peas are always a hit and grows easily. The peas do obstruct much light so I must be more careful this year on where to place them. (Most light fall in from the right on that picture.) I think I will go for carrots this year aswell, but place them away from the peas. (Carrots got a bit stunted) Last year the third big hit was raddishes that sprung up like crazy. They are ok in salads, but not very tasty. I tried to sow some herbs aswell, but they vansihed in the other stuff and never saw the light of day. (I never recognized them at least.)

On the clovers: I planned on sowing them early to let them get time to start growing and take in some nitro and then work them into the soil before I sow the other crops. So the clovers would act as a fertilizer. I will also add cow dung fertilizer aswell.

[Potjeh]

What kind of salad? Lettuce? You should look into onions too, they're quite hardy and spring onions go great in any salad.

[dageir]

Yeah, it was some kind of lettuce, dont remember its name. Onions is a great tip. I will look into that. I tried leek (allium porrum) in 2012, but it never came up. I should perhaps have sowed it in a pot before putting it out in the "field".

[Potjeh]

Yeah, leek is a bit fiddly. Anyway, other crops I recommend are corn (just don't it ripen all the way or it's only good for flour) and chard (spinach tastes a bit better, but you get a lot more meals out of chard).

[staxjax]

If pumpkins grew well I would imagine that you could grow some other squash like butternut or acorn squash, yellow squash, or zuchini. I love fresh yellow squash and zuchini fried in butter and brown sugar.

[Potjeh]

Hm, anyone knows if tomatoes and bell peppers grow so far north?

[dageir]

Actually we tried tomatoes and they can be grown outside if they can be in a place that is sheltered from wind and get sufficient amounts of water.
I did wrong on both those accounts since the place with most sun was the place with most wind. It was also placed on a spot where it was easy to forget, so it wasnt watered as often as it should. They ripened, but were very small and actually the tomatoes and the pots blew away!

Ill do some research on the other crops you mentioned.

[Dallane]

Hm, anyone knows if tomatoes and bell peppers grow so far north?

how far north we talking?

They grew great in kentucky but thats in the middle of north and south US

[dageir]

I actually grew pumpkins last year to see if they would even grow at about 65 degrees northern latitude. They grew pretty well, and I got 4 pumpkins, the biggest perhaps 3 kgs. I didnt use them to make anything though. Should have made a pie I guess. Ate some raw, but that was not a particularily great culinary experience.

Latitude wise it would be like northern part of Canada.

[robert]

tomatos can and do grow in canada. unless you are way up country where it gets like -70* outside then you might have trouble do to temps..
but general area they grow fine. just need to be tender with them :/