Andie Carter

John F Dean wrote:I am trying to setup a winter salad garden in pots.   I have already planted seven 1x2’ pots with lettuce, carrots, cherry tomatoes, radish, and beets.  Any further ideas or suggestions?  

Why cherry tomatoes? I'll admit I'm confused, because if you have frost free winters, you have many more options, and if you don't, those tomatoes will die.

I'm focusing on greens this year- lettuce, spinach, chard, kale, etc. I was thinking of doing indoor dwarf tomatoes though.

Just what the title says, I'd like to find a corn that's good for eating on the cob (it does not have to be super sweet), but also for grinding into flour for tortillas, etc. Bonus points if it's short season! Thanks! If any one is curious why, it's because my husband loves sweet corn, and I want to grow my own flour corn, and the season is short enough that I don't think I can separate them by the 3 weeks to prevent cross pollination.  

I found it useful to check out the Köppen climate zones on Wikipedia, go to the zone I'm interested in, check that list, and then look at the native plants of all the areas of the world that had my same climate.

Ok, 7 acres of salal is a lot!

Salal is such a tasty berry it seems like a waste to me to use it as a mulch. I've not tried, but the wood is pretty hard so unless it's new growth that hasn't hardened yet I suspect it would take a long while to break down and would remain brushy for a while. You might consider using it in a dead hedge though.

It also uses the same species of soil fungi as blueberries.

In the past, I've regrown green onions here and there, and get them to survive for a few years outside, though I tend to forget and over harvest and exhaust the bulbs... This year I'm throwing every green onion root out into the yard, so hopefully I'll have enough that I'll get a self-sustaining population going and I won't have to buy green onions any more.

I also regrow herbs after picking all but the apical bud. I've got thai basil going right now; in the past I've also done sweet basil, mint, rosemary, perilla, and others. I keep being temped by the tiny buds on ginger, but honestly I just don't have the climate for it- outside of a hoop house. We'll see what this year brings.

John Algar wrote:In Australis Sorrel is called curly leaf dock. It is usually regarded as a week but I eat it around once a week. I collected many seeds from one plant but I havent planted any yet.

That's really interesting, because up here curly leaf dock refers to Rumex crispus, while garden sorrel is Rumex acetosa. I've eaten both, and they're both tasty! Though one is much harder to get established in your garden, lol.

Denise Cares wrote:

Andie Carter wrote:

Denise Cares wrote:Jen, here's some good information here   https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-grow-sorrel-4121351  with just what you need to know for dividing your plant. I would love to have some in my yard. How near are you to Grass Valley?  

That's an article talking about a very different sorrel, Oxalis vs this garden sorrel, which is in the Rumex genus. Very different growth habit, not related at all, though they do both taste sour due to the oxalic acid in them.

Andie, don't ask me how it happens that when one clicks on the link I posted above it opens to a very different page about "How to Get Rid of Wood Sorrel" which is an invasive grass with a small yellow flower!  That is NOT what I linked to. Even the web page url//and number of the article are different. I can't figure out or explain how it can cross-over by just clicking on the link! Very strange electronic voodoo...dooodoo..doodoo!! :)  Try to copy and paste the link in a new window and see if it works correctly.

It is very weird because when I copy paste, it still switches. I even tried googling the phrase, and clicking a link that looks like what you were trying to link, and it also went to the getting rid of wood sorrel page. So that is in fact some very strange electronic weirdness going on.

Denise Cares wrote:Jen, here's some good information here   https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-grow-sorrel-4121351  with just what you need to know for dividing your plant. I would love to have some in my yard. How near are you to Grass Valley?  

That's an article talking about a very different sorrel, Oxalis vs this garden sorrel, which is in the Rumex genus. Very different growth habit, not related at all, though they do both taste sour due to the oxalic acid in them.

Either way would work. The benefit of leaving most of it while breaking off a section is that if you're nervous about the survival of the transplanted portion, you'll still have the mother plant. But you can totally also just dig out the whole thing, trying to keep the rootball as intact as possible (until you break it)