Dude I've picked so many greens in the last few weeks I am bout sick of them. The last week I have been pulling everything up, cutting the leaves off and tossing the stalks in the composter. Today I did my collards. I got 2 huge bags washed/stemmed and ready to cook. In all honesty, I could have let them keep growing, but I am like you I need to get ready for the spring planting
My cabbages are about ready to pick. Thats the only thing I still have growing. Also I cut my peppers back last week since we haven't had a winter. Now we are going to get a freeze. LMAO
We only planted one collard green plant in a raised bed. Wish we did more!!! Had some fence delivered the other day when the football player looking black man rounded the corner of my shed with the semi truck he slammed the brakes and said, DAMNNN SON THEM COLLARDS? I damn near chocked on my beer laughing. I was just too busy this winter to plant anything. One thing that's still growing great from last season is asparagus, if you have an area that's separate from the rest of the garden try planting some of that you cant kill it. Sweet potatoes also those are like damn weeds I'm still pilling them out of the ground.
I have a large area now cleared along my back fence, 6' x 100' but it's mostly in shade. think anything would grow there? what would you recomend? was gonna put grass seed but it would make a huge garden and have a well watered sprinkler there.
Dave I would try planting it if I were you. Amend the soil with some fertilizer, garden lime, a few bags of topsoil and cow manure, etc now and plant in a few weeks. You could grow a ton of stuff in a space that size. You could grow bush beans easily(they are green beans that grow in a bush, as opposed to growing like a vine), tomatoes, peppers, really anything. Get a roll of poultry wire and you can make your own little cages for stuff like cukes and squash. If you have filtered sunshine a few hours a day, I think you would be fine. Heck, do a test planting on part of it this spring and see how it does
wish I started composting years ago but since I don't cut my own grass I don't have much to compost with, used to use cut grass/straw and fallen leaves. compost is the foundation of a good healthy garden imo. now I mix peat humos and cow manure.weeds grow fine I suppose I could compost with them. green and brown 50-50 and alfalfa meal to help it along, best black/rich soil ever.my favs were beets, letuces,maters cukes,stringbeans,eggplants and brocolirabe a yankee kinda collard.
