Green acres

cauliflower hmm it's a bit late for them, at least here, season started couple months ago

30 cucumber plants? lol you need half a soccer field for those

Amazing, well-organized, dearest @deirdyweirdy! Looking at yours makes me feel like I’ve been slacking and need to hurry up. The weather has been great the last few days, and it looks like we’re going to have a lovely summer. Wishing you a bountiful harvest, please show it off to us! x

I am always stunned by how much you've got going on in your dome, as well as the rest of your property. It sounds like you are trying to grow enough food for fifty mouths to me. I'd like to see your brother pay you for that cauliflower.

Peppers are very easy to preserve, just cut them up, spread them out, and freeze them. So nice to have a handful to use now and then, in an omelet, or stir fry, or sauce. I only need a quart or two of sweet peppers for the winter months. This year I will try shishito. I'm hoping I can freeze them whole, and sear them quickly in some hot oil in the dead of winter.

I'm going to try, once again, sweet peas. My favorite!!! I never get many, certainly not enough to freeze for winter. This year I am planning on a ten foot row, which probably sounds like a laughable amount to you. Onions I plant hundreds of, but I eat them green all summer, and only leave forty or fifty to cure for winter, red, yellow, sweet and shalloty.

You really wanna spend your time on a youtube channel? So no, I don't think that's a runner.

All those Mexican bandits running around were the highlight of my trip!

Very impressive operation. 500 onions seems like a lot 😅

oh man, I've tried cucamelons so many times and even if I've got them going, they havent' done much. Perhaps starting them earlier in the greenhouse would help. Now I have to talk Jamie into making me a greenhouse. Just gotta find more free windows.

I loved this post - I might not pay to watch your youtube but i'll always upvote your efforts on Hive! I've gone for quite a few dwarf varieties too. I'm a fan of purple sprouting broccoli as it's kinda cut and come again, plus you don't have to coax a big head only to get it eaten by slugs.

Cucumbers, absolutely loved em, but you gotta get them up a trellis to save space. I could eat bowls and bowls of cucumber salad like my german nana used to make - vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper, and leave to wilt for a few hours if not overnight. If you're fancy add chopped garlic chives or parsley. IN fact, it's one of our Christmas staples in honour of Nana, even served in one of her old blue pyrex bowls - my sister's in charge of it.

so I’m hoping to make a few quid by growing it and selling it to him.

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I like cauliflower. Certainly a lot better than broccoli.

I am awestruck by the energy and skill evident in your garden. Quite impressive and beautiful (Maybe not the onions?)

so I’m hoping to make a few quid by growing it and selling it to him

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Were you able to grow a few herbs and vegetables all winter in your dome? I understand some people do that in my area, but only certain varieties will make it through the winter.

I went a bit wild with onions last year and planted 500 — but I’ve learned my lesson. I still have hundreds hanging around.

It's been about 5min since I finished reading and this is still cracking me up XD Guess you're good for onions for the next few years unless you also have people who need onions? :D

Love, Love, Love your hoop house! I can see how you can continue growing throughout the season as the plants can tolerate the cold in there. I found that the cucamelons were too tough for my liking. I only grew them once. Oh my, 500 onions is a lot! lol

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cauliflower battle 😂