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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 08:07:03 AM
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I just went out this morning and saw that my Brussels sprouts are ready to harvest. And because the leaves were so frozen, they just came right off! I have also dicovered that pigs like the leaves. So they got most of them. The rest are in a tote for the calves if they like them, too.
So I got maybe 3 gallons of sprouts from 2 flats. I lost about half to some kind of varment, so that's not much at all. But I also grew some this summer.
I still have a row of cabbage and some turnips. If anyone close by likes turnips, come on over. I do not like them. I guess I could put some in the freezer for my hubby and mom. Then take some to church Sunday.
So now I have to wash all those sprouts and get them in the freezer.
Is anyone else still getting garden stuff?
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owwlady
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Jan
Tomahawk
WI
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 08:29:43 AM
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| Wow! That's so hard to imagine...fresh veggies from the garden in December. The only thing I'm harvesting from here is snow and ice. We have a heat wave today...in the 30's but it's going back to single digits. Lucky you being able to have your hands in dirt yet! |
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wild daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Madelynne
Billings
Montana
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 08:32:21 AM
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Harvest for me was months ago. Today it is snowing and a blowing. I am envious, I wish I had some fresh Brussels Sprouts. When my kids were small I even got them to eat them. I tricked them in to thinking that they were little cabbage heads. Now that they are grown they wouldn't even look at them. It's their loss but more for me and my husband. Enjoy.
Madelynne
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 08:37:47 AM
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I was up to my ankels in mud, though. Not good for the soil. I also had picked all the green tomatoes I could a few months ago and we've been eating those while they ripen. Oh so good now to have ripe homegrown tomatoes in Dec, too!
I hope I have enuf cabbage to do sourcraut. I borrowed a friends old crock to make it in.
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 11:15:20 AM
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| Harvest here was over quite a while ago. However, we just finished off the tomatoes and I have one onion in the fridge and a bucket of apples in the celler. Thats OK, I am already making out my order from the seed catalogs. We plant potatoes first, March 17. Followed the next week by onions. My greenhouse is blowing away, (as we speek) (or type) so I don't know if I'll get my seeds started when they should. We start our pepper seeds in Feb. |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 4:46:22 PM
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I just got 7 qt. bags full of the Brussel sprouts. Lots of work for not much. But I had planted some back in the spring and got several bags then. But I love the fall ones. There was not a single bug or bite mark on any of them.
I also pulled up the rest of the little carrots that were still growing. I got a big handful!
I hope you don't lose your greenhouse, Belle. Sounds pretty bad up there.
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
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Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 9:16:24 PM
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Thats a shame that you lost so many, but I can see how it wouldnt be a loveloss seeing as how you dont like them. Brussell sprouts sounds yummy to me!! lol But hubby cant stand them. all the more for me I say!!
Jessie
Farmgirl Sister #235
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.
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