Susan Mené wrote:
Ra Kenworth wrote:
Do you sprout the turnips, rutabagas, and beets in water?
No directly into the
compost hill.
Edit: I don't have much luck with water sprouting even with my well water and no additives. Ditto for sprouting -- other than soaked then drained peas in a Ziploc bag, I plant buckwheat seeds in peat moss and give them a scissor trim after 2 days and I'm not bothering with anything else but dried herbs, my garden squash, and typical carrots etc from the stores.
Root vegetables are excellent at holding up a slope, so I plant turnips etc., usually on the north side of a hill because they can take it, and they produce greens early spring.
Right now, the carrots are in a veggie friendly Ziploc bag sitting a couple of thick cardboard layers above the basement slab, inside a paper potato bag, and I will keep them there until they get planted. I will root around, accidental pun, for soil or peat moss plus coffee grounds, and get those planted indoors so I can have greens mid winter,
to be relocated in spring onto a compost slope.
My next roots to be planted but I will wait a few weeks. I will time them so they can wait inside paper bags same place as carrots are now, and dry out a bit where injured, about 2-3 weeks, then they can start getting planted outdoors on compost with insulation at night, which will be a good time to do another stew in the oven with the side chunks. At that point it's trial and error what will survive mild frost. I start planting the desperate ones first!
If this reply stays open for editing for a few weeks I will add pics of my various successes and failures!
