2023 Mr Yan veg garden

[Mr_Yan]

OK I have started hardening off the real tough stuff like broccoli and onions. Today was the second day outside, overcast conditions, 50s F, 2 hours each day.

I have 13 standard 30"x96" raised beds and plan on :

1. Bell Peppers
2. Lunch-Box Peppers & Poblano Peppers & almost-hot peppers
3. Broccoli
4. Turnip & Rutabaga & Onions
5. Onions
6. Onions
7. Pea pods & carrots
8. Pea pods & carrots
9. Potatoes
10. Potatoes
11. Pea pods and cabbage
12. Pea pods and beets
13. Green beans

Scattered around the garden outside of the raised beds will be

• Tomatoes
• Pole beans
• pumpkin
• butternut squash
• summer squash
• cucumber
• Containers of herbs

Plan for this week:

• Get 6 beds prepped
• Pea pods seeded
• Potatoes in the ground
• Continue hardening off seedlings

 

[Meadowlark]

Ummm...2023 or 2024?

That sounds like a lot of pea pods Maybe you are companion planting. I love to companion plant sugar peas with potatoes.

Should make for an interesting garden with good variety.

 

[Mr_Yan]

Ummm...2023 or 2024?

Wait, it's not 2023??? Did I miss something. Maybe I need to change my last name to Van Winkle, that would fit in better in Dutch heritage West Michigan too. Well that's a bit embarrassing.

Lots of variety but not a huge quantity of any one thing. I haven't made the time to preserve or can things beyond blanch and freeze pea pods and broccoli. Our garden is more like a grocery store than a bulk goods store. Mrs Yan said a few years ago we don't save money on food in the summer but we eat much better.

Pea pods in each bed will be a single 8' row which is pseudo-companion planted with something to the south of it. The beds are almost due east-west on the long axis. Co-plant pea pods with potatoes? Sure. If any extra snap peas make it inside and past the three kids I'll blanch and freeze them for later.

 

[Meadowlark]

One of my all-time favorite foods...creamed peas and new potatoes.

They mature about the same time if companion planted.

The ingredients are simple but the results spectacular.

• 1 pound new red potatoes
• 1 cup shelled sugar snap peas
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 cup milk
• salt and pepper to taste

 

[Mr_Yan]

Few things done this weekend:

• Turned over and replenished two "HK" style beds.
• Planted 1 bed with a row of peas and direct seeded turnips and rutabaga
• Planted 1 bed with a row of peas and transplant broccoli, rapini, and napa cabbage
• Planted 1 bed with transplants of broccoli, rapini, and green cabbage
• Chitted seed Kennebec potatoes

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Next week need to:

• Get Beets going
• Plant out onions
• Start tomatoes
• Get potatoes in the ground next weekend