Every year we try to improve our garden experience and add new items. So, what do we have planned for 2015?
**Improve the curing of the Sweet Potatoes! Hoping to sell enough extra shares (30 on top of 30) to build a large root cellar and add a sea container that is temperature controlled to get the Sweet Potatoes cured RIGHT! Fall 2013 was perfect and the potatoes cured in the hoophouse with no problem, but not so last year. 2014 Fall was much warmer and the sweet potatoes got too hot and started to grow again. We are also trying new varieties to see if some may be better than others for our region.
**Tendersweet and Alcosa cabbage–the Tendersweet has…
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Posted by Susan Igleheart on April 14, 2015 at 6:09 pm
I’m hoping you will add the veggie that is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower. It’s head is a bunch of spirals. The flavor is fantastic without salt or butter so just imagine with it. . . . Yum. What do you think Farmer’s Wife?
Posted by Lloyd Craft Farms-- CSA and Fresh Produce on April 14, 2015 at 7:11 pm
You are talking about Romanesco and it just so happens we are trying some this spring! The problem with it is too cold makes it bolt in the early spring and too hot makes the color fade to pick. Might be one that can grow in a controlled environment like a green house–but we’ll see what we can do this year! thanks for the input Susan!