[AT] Off topic but tractor related

[charlie hill]

Thanks David.  I'm not fond of turnips (at least the greens) or mustard so 
I'll probably pass on those.   Of course I could plant them just for the 
heck of it.   I am tempted to try some fall potatoes.  I'll look for one 
with some eyes and give it a try.  I don't have any certified potato sets 
but I have some I grew and I have some sulfur to coat them with.   I planted 
my onions late and with the dry weather they didn't do well.   The tops were 
big but limp.  They wouldn't stand up like they should.  The onions (bulb) 
didn't grow well and none of them ever reached a size bigger than a golf 
ball.  Then the strangest thing happened.  I noticed the tops were dying 
back so I decided to go ahead and dig them.  The next day I went out and 
almost all the tops were gone,  completely gone.    I dug up the onions I 
could find where there were some tops and dug up about half of the rest of 
the row and never found a thing beyond the few tops I could see.  STRANGE. 
I would say critters  got them but the row wasn't disturbed and there were 
no mole trails near the row.  I'm going to dig some more.

I hadn't thought about winter squash.  I don't really have a good spot for a 
garden here at the house.  Plenty of land but too many trees and it's 
terribly sandy and dry here.  The farm is too far away for me to really tend 
to a garden there so I'm just experimenting here and trying to hone my 
skills.

Does anyone know about Jerusalem Artichokes (different than regular 
artichokes)?  It's kind of a sunflower type plant with a tuber root that is 
edible.  It's not a fall crop. Just interested if anyone knows about them. 
Yes, late January is the time to plant onions here but I didn't get them in. 
In March when I went to buy my seed potatoes they still had some onion sets 
and they were cheap so I decided to try them.

Charlie

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From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:26 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic but tractor related

> Charlie,
>
> My choices would be beans, squash (both summer and winter squash),
> cucumbers and later on (maybe late August) turnips and other greens like
> mustard.  Not sure about potatoes either but if you have room why not?
>
> Lots of people here plant potatoes and onions in February so maybe even
> in January for you.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 7/8/2010 12:41 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have a question for the gardeners and farmers in the group, 
>> particularly
>> those familiar with the growing season and conditions of coastal NC.
>>
>> I've been growing a small garden this year.  It's really an experiment to
>> see what I remember from my youth.  I haven't grown a garden beyond a 
>> couple
>> of tomato plants in 30 years or more.
>> So far my experiment has done ok.  My potatoes were a disappointment but
>> that was the result of a very dry spring.  The potatoes I got were nice 
>> and
>> healthy but there just weren't many of them.
>> Only 2 or 3 per hill.  They have been dug now as have my onions that 
>> didn't
>> do well at all.
>>
>> My question is what plants can I plant now and into the late summer to 
>> get a
>> late summer or fall crop?   I've got lots of tomatoes growing now and 
>> they
>> are starting to ripen nicely.  I've got squash and sweet potatoes coming
>> along and some beans I planted late just to see what they would do.  They
>> are starting to flower now.   But I want to use the potato and onion plot
>> for some sort of fall crop.  Preferably something that cans well.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I considered trying another potato crop.  I think there 
>> is
>> enough growing season left but I can't find any reference online to fall
>> potato crops.  I'm thinking some cucumbers would work.   When I was a kid 
>> we
>> planted two cucumber crops a year.  Who has an idea?  It doesn't usually
>> frost here until at least mid October.  I'm on high sandy loam so soil
>> moisture is my biggest concern.
>>
>>
>>
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