I started some seed outdoors in milk jugs already with the winter sowing method and using soil blocking: 3 kinds of onions and chamomile. I just completed 2 large blueprints that I mapped out with index cards so that I can have the correct spacing and not forget to succession sow and undersow with the green manures. I added so many new vegetables this year! Many cold hardy veggies to winter sow Feb-Mar. My husband calls my work space "the war room" hahahaha
@Reid: I freeze my peppers in slices too! I would be lost without them. Some I cut in half to use for stuffed peppers throughout the winter. Beets are a staple for us here, and I think you will find that they are one of the easiest, least pest/disease prone veggie of them all. I am trying "Bull's Blood" this year for the greens in salads as well as the root. I'm trying carrots for the first time too.
@cybrczch: Were you able to eat all of your pole beans? I have so many bags in the freezer that I won't need them this coming year. I'm going to try eggplant this year too. You start peppers inside now? My first year for trying them from seed so that I can taste Rita's Shisito. Rita starts them Mar. 1st. Maybe I should split the difference...
@Rita: I wish you were my neighbor!
