How does your garden grow?

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Lily Sawyer

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Are turnips what we call swede? I like them mashed/or puréed with a little butter, salt and pepper. I also like beetroot...
I don't know what rutabaga is.. so maybe this will be my one saving grace?
(an angel [lol: halo] eating the devil food...)
Swedes in NZ are rutabegas in the northern hemisphere - sometimes also called Swedish turnips. They're larger than turnips and have a purple-mauve irregular "stripe" that sometimes rings them.
Turnips are unto themselves and are called the same thing everywhere. There are white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed turnips.
Beetroot is the same thing as beets.

I am partial to celery root, Jerusalem artichokes (also known as sunchokes, the tuber of the sunflower), and parsnips. Those are fab-boo.
 

FlakeNoir

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Swedes in NZ are rutabegas in the northern hemisphere - sometimes also called Swedish turnips. They're larger than turnips and have a purple-mauve irregular "stripe" that sometimes rings them.
Turnips are unto themselves and are called the same thing everywhere. There are white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed turnips.
Beetroot is the same thing as beets.

I am partial to celery root, Jerusalem artichokes (also known as sunchokes, the tuber of the sunflower), and parsnips. Those are fab-boo.
Oh no... so, I like rutabeagas? Screwed then.... :(

:D
 

Lily Sawyer

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Are turnips what we call swede? I like them mashed/or puréed with a little butter, salt and pepper. I also like beetroot...
I don't know what rutabaga is.. so maybe this will be my one saving grace?
(an angel [lol: halo] eating the devil food...)
Okay, I'm partially right and partially wrong.
Here you go:
Turnip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (what I know as a turnip, a white-fleshed root vegetable)
Rutabaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (what I know as a, well, rutabaga....and now I know that when I had haggis, tatties, and neeps in Edinburgh, it was mashed rutabaga that I was eating. Didn't like them then and still don't like either one, actually.)
 

FlakeNoir

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Are turnips what we call swede? I like them mashed/or puréed with a little butter, salt and pepper. I also like beetroot...
I don't know what rutabaga is.. so maybe this will be my one saving grace?
(an angel [lol: halo] eating the devil food...)
Crap! I meant I like them (swede) mashed/puréed with carrots! I wouldn't eat them without... the carrot sweetens it all.
 

xkittyx

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I like growing things, though I'm not the greatest at it. Houseplants and outside plants.
For food plants, we have 3 raised boxes, made out of pallet wood my babe gets from work. They are 6ft long and 18in wide and 2ft tall. Probably should've made em a little wider, but this was the first year trying it. We have some yellow cherry tomatoes growing, and regular big red tomatoes, green beans, 2 different kinds of cucumbers (one regular kind, and the other was a lemon cucumber or something like that), purple and orange bell peppers, and some carrots. Looks like we might get 6 carrots out of the whole seed pack we planted, but hey. This year was for experimenting. I need more boxes though, because I wanted to do broccoli and cauliflower as well, I love that stuff. In the ground at the ends of the boxes we have three tiny watermelon plants. They should be a lot bigger than what they are, so must not be a good spot for them, next year we'll try somewhere that gets more sun. I wanted to do pumpkins too, but kept forgetting to start the seeds, and is a little late now.
For flowers, this house came with some perennials already planted around the house, we had some tulips and daffodils in the spring, and some funky spiky blue and purple flowers, and these (kind of ugly IMHO) yellow ball shaped things, and a big ol' rhododendron bush (and some other miscellaneous small unidentified bush/flower/tiny tree things), and some lilies, oh, and a bunch of tiny little strawberries, though I kept forgetting to go see if there was any on there, we found one, then forgot to check for more growing, lol. Then we made a flower bed island between some trees out front and filled it with prickly pear, and hens and chicks, and hostas, and ferns, and coral bells. Planted more hostas and ferns around and between the trees out back where we have our fire pit area. Have to say I'm rather fond of hostas and ferns, especially since our yard has a lot of shade :biggrin2:. We never did get all the mulch we needed, so it still looks a little rough, but we kind of ran out of fundage so... that'll have to wait as well. At least the plants are in the ground, it's a start.
In the house I have pothos vines and a tiny Tradescantia pallida (wandering jew) that I've been fighting to keep alive for a few years now, as well as a schefflera plant/tree thing, a couple planters of spider grass, some kind of dracaena that looks like a mini palm tree, and my newest addition to the bunch, a little purple and green oyster plant. I did have a 5 ft tall rubber tree in a big 24"x36" pot, but it didn't survive the move to the new house in a northeast Ohio winter, despite my best efforts to wrap it up and insulate it for the short trip between houses. I was very sad, that tree was as old as my kid :grey: I love houseplants though, I'd have it looking like a jungle in here if I could.
Oh, yea I forgot my pansies in the hanging baskets and the little allysiums in pots on the back porch table.
Ok, I'm done taking up thread space here! :D
 

stevegane

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I live in Italy for a few months of the year and Italians don't know what parsnips are that is why I try and grow them, all the other veg is so inexpensive here it is not worth growing them, I bought 6 large melons at the market yesterday for 2 euro.
 

HollyGolightly

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Resurrecting a very old thread to share what I'm doing and see what you're doing. We tilled two big garden patches in the backyard only to decide we didn't want to do it that way - no worries, the weeds are filling in nicely. We don't get our yard sprayed - it seemed to make the dog's feet itch years ago, so sometimes I do the vinegar/Epsom salt thing, but mostly not. We've settled on just 1 raised bed garden this year to see how it goes. We've planted tons of flowers. I had so many little pots in the garage, I have no idea why. So the Ogre built a shelf on the back of the fence and we planted flowers in every single one. Plus the flower bed, and many other pots of flowers scattered. I'm having so much fun planting, watering, pruning and I can't wait for tomato season. We planted 6 tomato plants, 6 broccoli, 6 Brussel sprouts, 3 onions, 2 squash, 1 banana pepper, and 2 romaine lettuce plants.

I've become a gardening nerd. I am only inside today because it's raining, and I miss seeing y'all. The rain is glorious. I'm going to grill steak in the rain in a couple of hours.

Here's how it looks at Chez Holly today.
 

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HollyGolightly

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Trying one more to show you my brave battle-scarred gargoyle and the eight blooms on the gerberas already.
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Yay - there he is

One more, looking out of my kitchen window
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