Lemony Coleslaw - Jeanne cabbage and beet cultivars

[Guest guest]

> solid reason to plant another cultivar of cabbage in the garden.

>  

 

Which cabbage cultivar are you planting now? I am in zone 9b, yours is 8 right?

 

 

>beets and Carl added yet ANOTHER cultivar of beets to the garden last night.

 

Which beets? I have planted the golden and love it. Got bulls blood, Detroit

red and ruby queen right now. Bull's blood, not a name that would appeal to a

vegetarian, has delicious greens, which are the darkest deepest purple. I chop

them fine and add to salads, as well as beet roots, grated or sliced and

marinated in balsamic vinegar, with salt and pepper. I did not even use to like

beets before growing them, I love them now. I discovered I like the beet

greens, and it went from there.

[Guest guest]

We're in 8-A, Southwestern GA. This was the hardest winter either of us can

recall. Four months of $400 electric bills is killing us. Oh for some

insullation and windows that kept the air out!

 

You want this catalog and this company - they know Southern gardens. Seeds for

Southern gardens and a GORGEOUS, free catalog.

http://www.southernexposure.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD & Product_Code=\

99006 & Category_Code=CAT

 

For storage, we're going with Dynamo F-1, from Holmes Seed Company. (free

catalog mostly for commercial growers, but we plant for year round veggies for

our extended large family and church donations. Going with two heirloom

cultivars so we can let a couple of the cabbages go to seed and save it for next

year or the next generation, whichever comes first, lol.

 

ALL of you who garden want the catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

www.rareseeds.com  Those of you near Petaluma, CA or other Baker Creek stores

are RATS. Good thing I adore all of you or I'd be horribly envious. All of their

stuff is heirloom, rare and just wonderful. At first the glossy catalog with the

exquisite photographs made me hope it wasn't just more garden porn but the

company, seeds and people are the real deal. Good prices too. We're planting

Couer De Boeuf Des Vertus. It's more suited for a small garden but it is just

the right size for the two of us for dinner. A gorgeous head - pointed, nice

wrapper leaves. The other one is Henderson's Charleston Wakefield, which is

highly rated for our Southern gardens. It is a bit bigger than what we need for

a dinner, but I like cooking half and turning the other half into cole slaw. (I

adore cole slaw sandwiches. Nuts, isn't it?)

 

We adore beets. Carl had his first taste of beets right after we got married and

it's been love ever since. He was fine with canned until I found some beets in

the produce section and bought some home (about 35 years ago) He couldn't

believe I hadn't added sugar to them.

 

I kind of sort of um....ate the better part of a flat of beet seedlings in a

salad last week. LOVE those things. Lutz is a so so beet but makes good greens

and I'm with you, Bull's Blood is an awesome green (red???) but that

name....ewwwww! Cultivars (so far, lol) Cylindra for canning, Golden, Detroit,

and Merlin. If Carl gets his way we'll be planting a couple more, but I'm hoping

to talk him into just going with what is already on the list. We're planting 100

feet of each cultivar. (That's what HE thinks. My fingers are bleeding from

making all the vermin cages to go around those precious red and gold nuggets of

yumminess. Dratted moles.)

 

The man just cannot understand why I think I need more than one cultivar of

Brussels Sprouts! (Territorial Seed has Roodnerf, one of the last of the open

pollinated Brussels Sprout cultivars, so I'm growing them solely for the seed.

Isn't that a great name?)

 

Burpee has a good assortment of seeds but the prices are a bit over my limit. If

we were just planting a small garden, maybe 25 feet, their prices wouldn't be so

bad but our garden is 2 acres and about 1 acre will be replanted after harvest.

That planting will be more cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, broccoli, rutabaga,

collards and turnip greens. Health willing, I'll probably have to borrow a

couple of acres from Carl's boss and plant just corn, potatoes and sweet

potatoes. I found a great sweet potato slip seller. Remind me and I'll dig out

his mail to me. (Snail mail price list, jaw droppingly cheap!)

 

The Maine Potato Lady has good prices on taters and a good assortment but I'm

not sure Main grown potato plants will transplant happily down here. If I get

them in before the soil starts boiling and mulch like mad, maybe it will work.

(You know how it is down here in the South. If we plant Russet potatoes they'll

be baked by the time harvest rolls around so all we have to do is rinse the

taters, slather with butter, get a couple of snips of onion tops and dig in.)

 

I decided against planting onions this time since we're so close to Vidallia and

after they're out, Sam's Club has the 50 pound sacks for less than I'd pay for

comparable number of sets. (Just no time left to start onion seedlings here but

I might get a flat of Candy or Candy Reds.

 

OH, I found a couple of heirloom tomatos comparable to Mr. Ugly considerably

cheaper than Mr. Ugly seeds.  One is Mortgage Lifter, of course. Not the

prettiest tomato on the block but good flavor and the other is in a catalog that

walked to work with the husband. He'd better remember to bring it home or Mamma

isn't planting beets.

 

Another oh, Burpee has run out of the Lakota Sioux winter squash but I've found

it on several other sites. Look up the Speckled Hound winter squash - I think

that one will need to be planted here too. It is a beautiful thing.

 

Am back off to play in the garden! Carl is supposed to come home with the

borrowed tractor  so I've got to finish marking off where I want him to till.

Hugs, Jeanne in GA

 

PS: We've planted a couple of trees to offset the 20 plus pounds of seed

catalogs which have been delivered here. I'll post the URL's of the ones we got

which are worth asking for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

> You want this catalog and this company - they know Southern gardens. Seeds for

Southern gardens and a GORGEOUS, free catalog.

>

http://www.southernexposure.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD & Product_Code=\

99006 & Category_Code=CAT

 

I have purchased these from southern exposure just this winter! (not really a

winter). The collards are looking great so far!

 

PEA, SOUTHERN, Pinkeye Purple Hull

COLLARDS, Green Glaze

COLLARDS, White Mountain Cabbage Collard

COLLARDS, Even' Star Land Race Collards

EGGPLANT, White Beauty

SQUASH, WINTER, Buttercup, Burgess

 

I have grown white beauty in the past (V good) but don't know how to save

eggplant seeds. I also love rosa biancha eggplants.

[Guest guest]

, Jeanne B <treazured wrote:

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> We're in 8-A, Southwestern GA.

 

Jeanne, thanks for all this great information on varieties! I will put several

on the list for next year. Too late to plant cabbage and I have enough beet

seeds, just planted.

 

You could always plant other alliums (not vidalias) but garlics, bunching

onions....shallots look really nice. I love onions flowers and have onions for

pest control purposes as well as to eat. Very jealous of all the acreage!

roseta in 9b