What's new in the garden in 2010?
One of my favorite
bloggers posted about the new plants she'll be trying out in her garden
this year, and I thought it was an interesting meme. So, without
further ado, 2010's experiments and additions:
- New mushrooms: Winecap
(aka King
Stropharia), White Morel (reported to be a crapshoot, but I feel
lucky), and a summer fruiting Oyster
Mushroom --- just ordered the spawn from Field and Forest Products!
- New woodies in the forest garden: Osage-orange (for hedges), honey locust (for forest pasturing), and Korean stone pine (for pine nuts). I'm starting them all from seed, the first two from seeds collected in the wild and the last from seeds I bought on ebay. All are experiments!
- New fruits and veggies: Alpine strawberries, hulless oats, soybeans (labeled as edamame for fresh eating), garbanzo and urd beans (the latter for sprouting), Afghan sesame, Hungarian breadseed poppy, manna de montana amaranth, and temuco quinoa. All are from Seeds of Change except the strawberries, soybeans, and poppies from Renee's Garden.
And, of course, there's the usual trial of new
varieties of common fruits and vegetables (most of which I buy from
Jung.) What's new in your garden this year?
(This image, by the way,
shows the
osage-oranges I collected slowly rotting down to seed
pulp for the spring. They're already quite mushy and stinky.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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