Seasonal Veg

 How do people cope with growing veg throughout the season?  Do people
generally fall back on their experience and just _know_ when to plant,
what to plant where etc. or does anyone have a fantastic
planning/notation method for getting it all down on paper?

Just curious - as a beginner and a sieve head I'm thiking I could do
with some careful planning on paper and lots of reading through veg
books and then a dedicated calendar or something to remind me when I
need to do things.

I've only got a couple of years experience under my belt - but they
were pretty successful, although fairly limited in variety and most
stuff was all ready at the same time. Next year... sorry THIS year I'd
rather avoid having to freeze 8 kilos of green beans in one go!
thanks in advance for any help.

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Steve F

 wrote:


Having learned that lesson, you're halfway there. With crops that
don't hold in good condition for very long - you've mostly sussed them
out, you do regular *small* successional sowings through the span of
the sowing period you're given on the packet. For remembering sowing
dates I have a box, usually the one Marshalls sent the seeds in and
make a dozen cardboard dividers - one for each month and 'file' the
packets by approximate sowing date. Sown some radishes, want some a
couple of weeks later? - put the packet back about halfway through
this month's seeds. All you need to remember is to look at your seed
box from time to time. Also - keep a diary, note what worked and what
didn't and when. But remember when you come to next year, use the
diary as a rough guide only because next year is not going to be the
same as this year or any other year.



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I too have a similar problem. When I plant I traditionally want it all done
NOW! This of course means that everything will be ready at the same time. I
have had to force myself to plant half or a third of a row at a time,
planting every two weeks or so.
At the same time I like to grow lots and freeze the extra so that I can
enjoy the great taste all winter long.
In the case of your beans or when a vegetable is ready all at the same time
and the excess has to be frozen, I use a one litre + - size bag. As the
beans freeze I disturb the veggies in the bag so that they don't freeze in a
'clump'. The one litre size bag, in my case, will be enough for about two
meals.
Where do you live? I know of a local seed company that has planting time
info in their catalogue. It may not be applicable in your neck of the woods.
Gary

 

We tend to eat as we go with ours but I always thought that you had to
'blanch' vegetables before freezing? If not it would save an awful lot
of time if I could just bung them in the freezer. What was the point of
blanching them? Does it really matter?

janet
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

 
We don't blanch any of our own produce. We pick the beans young then
deal with them immediately and they are delicious.

Commercial packers are obliged by law to blanch them, hardly surprising
when you know how they are grown.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.