Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Gardening in Patzcuaro

This is an area where I could use some help and comments. What grows well, when and how?

Edible plants...

We've had great luck with kale and rhubarb plants that we bought form Lisa and Ian's farm last fall. They've been growing and producing for almost a full year now. Our strawberry plants (planted in August) have been hanging in there, fruiting now and then but barely. I think we'll get some this summer? I've also heard that year 2 the strawberries go nuts...

We also planted chard (acelga), roma tomatoes, peas, sunflowers, pumpkin, cherry tomatoes, broccoli and eggplant and got peas and sunflowers year round and tomatoes and broccoli in the spring. We're still waiting to see if we get eggplant and cherry tomatoes as we just planted them. Our pumpkin plant became HUGE and we had to rip it out before it took over the entire garden. It flowered a few times, but we really didn't have the space for it.

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