How do you cope?

[Labradors2]

Yeah Marsha!

I'm still in love with that Little Lucky that you so kindly sent me. It was so good that I may have to grow it again in 2015!

Linda

[NarnianGarden]

Those are beautiful, Fiishergurl..!
Is that a Black & Red Boar on the right?

[ddsack]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

Here's what I say to all you Scrooge McCamelflea people. Don't forget, all those interesting varieties I am growing, and enjoying every fresh, succulent, juicy, delicious, overabundant bite of, means I will have interesting seeds to do an SASE offer for in January, so that you northern nattering naysayers can have some uncommon very fresh seeds! So there!!! Muahahaha.

Ok, Ginger -- now it's on record, we're going to hold you to that!

[jmsieglaff]

I know what you mean. I've got the garden plans finalized for next year. One batch of seeds ordered and the rest figured out. I started doing onions and leeks from seed, which for me I start in mid January, so that helps. Last year I started one pepper plant early and pinched the stem back, which turned out to be a very prolific plant and producer. I'm going to try it with all my peppers this year. I don't know the optimal starting point with pinching so I'll sow half in late January and others early or mid February and see which is better.

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by NarnianGarden

Those are beautiful, Fiishergurl..!
Is that a Black & Red Boar on the right?

Narnia,

Left to right (from smallest to largest) are

1. Black Cherry
2. Purple Bumblebee
3. Black and Brown Boar
4. Indian Stripe
5. Cherokee Purple
6. the one you asked about is Girl Girl's Weird Thing which the post I found about it says it was a mutant found from Green Zebra. I traded seeds for it so dont know much about it except so far it is my favorite for fresh eating. I have not tried many different types though.... maybe only about 15-20 so far.

I just looked up Black & Red Boar... looks very similar to GGWT... :-)

Ginny

[Fiishergurl]

Making sauce today!!

Ginny

[Salsacharley]

Oh yeah!!! Looks like piles of precious gems and jewels!

[NarnianGarden]

Oh I am battling envy here..! stuck with supermarket tomatoes, not fun.

Thanks for the listings - yes, the GGWT looks a lot like the Boar I grew this past summer.

[jmsieglaff]

Simply beautiful Ginny!

[Fiishergurl]

Thanks everyone... :-) Narnian how did the Black and Red Boar taste? GGWT tasted similar to Indian Stripe and Cherokee Purple but with more zing or twang at the end. Not sure if that makes sense. I love it!

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by Fiishergurl

Thanks everyone... :-) Narnian how did the Black and Red Boar taste? GGWT tasted similar to Indian Stripe and Cherokee Purple but with more zing or twang at the end. Not sure if that makes sense. I love it!

As far as I can remember, it was one of the tastier ones - with a sweet-ish and earth kind of flavor - and of course striking to look at :-)

[PaulF]

Just remember, those southerners gardens are burning up and dried out just as our are looking good. So remember to gloat in July and August. For every season there is a time.

Right now I am narrowing down the 100 or so varieties I want to grow to the 35 I will grow. Then deciding how to split up the seed orders so that all my seed selling friends get some of my money. The orders will go out in January. By February we will be flying to Florida to eat some ripe tomatoes and lay on the beach and do a little surf casting for whiting or bonito for lunch.

Mid-February the growing area gets cleaned up and ready for peppers to start and a week or so later begin everything else. My life is planned out for the next several months. To fill in the spaces I plan on reading, napping, eating, napping, writing a couple of short stories, dreaming and eating. Did I mention napping? In my 10th year of retirement and still loving it.

[crazyoldgooseman]

Thanks for all the inspiration.

I need to come to Florida to make a gosh darnoodley sandwich!

I do have about 20 gallon bags of sauce ( or gravy) in the freezer!

No room for a deer! LOL

Slicerless in Zone 7A Md

[Ken B]

Man, I really miss fresh tomatoes. I refuse to eat supermarket tomatoes. (Well, if there's a free one up for grabs, I'll put one in a sandwich where it'll blend in/bland in.)

Really looking forward to the new season... one thing with working for a seed company: winter zooms by, there's never enough time, and in a month we'll be fighting to make the time to start the new tomato crops, and then it'll be June before we know it!!

[camochef]

I was fortunate enough to get my gardens tilled for next season (2015) in the fall. Then able to cover them with mulched leaves. Now they are covered with snow and ice as I sit at the kitchen table staring at them through the windows.
This is the time of year, that I get to spend my time cooking and baking and reading my latest cook-books in search of inspiration. It seems I always have a roast going in my Ninja's or something in the pressure cookers. I acquired a new cook-book on Dumplings by Lee Anne Wong that's simply fabulous. So I'm cranking out pot-stickers, won-tons, gyoza, and other dumplings regularly. Or making everything from ravioli to empanadas.
Then too, I love making stuffed cabbage and other delights in the slow cookers. While baking breads is my specialty, making homemade soups is right up there also.
So let the snow fall, the ice can coat things for now, If nothing else, I'll re-season my cast iron, knowing that eventually the weather will improve and gardening season will return and I'll be reaping fresh spinach, tomatoes and other veggies to enjoy once more.
Remain patient!
Enjoy!
Camo