Favorite garden vegetable

[ironglow]

We usually have so much foxtail growing with the carrots, when it comes time to pull 'em, by the time we get the foxtail pulled, the carrots are loose.

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   See if you can find a fertilizer or other technique you can do that hurts foxtail and either encourages or at least doesn't inhibit carrots.  I read once where 2" of mulch will cut the foxtail..    Here's another suggestion:
   http://www.ehow.com/how_7673385_use-vinegar-kill-foxtail-weeds.html

[cjclemens]

SelectMax or Fusilade DX work if you're not afraid of herbicides.  Aside from that, it takes a good hot fire to destroy mature foxtail seed.  I've had some success controlling weeds by torching my garden at the end of the season, but I'm out in the country and away from buildings, etc.  I know that might not be an option for some.

[ironglow]

  Another technique I have used where weeds were a real problem...  A couple weeks prior to planting, I have covered the area with black construction plastic.  If you get some decent sun, the heat generated will kill many of the dormant seeds.  Worms will leave..but they will be back..

[AtlLaw]

Favorite garden veggie huh.... 
 
All of 'em ... since I can't grow anything any more!   
 
Back in my "the Mother Earth News is my homesteading life's guide" days I had a garden area 30 feet x 300 feet.  I grew everything and loved 'speramentin with different varieties and methods.  But I guess my staples were tomatoes, green beans, summer squash and turnip greens... 
 
Where we live now the only place that would get anywhere near enough sun is in the middle of the back yard...    Right where Kathie wants a pool... 
 
Oh well, the covenants don't allow vegetable gardens anyway... 

[bilmac]

Carrots take so long to germinate that weeds are always a problem. What I do is put a wide board over the row after after I plant it and leave it until a few carrot plants start showing up and then take them off. That way the weeds don't get such a head start.

[keith44]

I do the same thing with beets

[scratcherky]

Favorites are okra and beets.

[Buckskin]

Favorites are okra and beets.

I didn't see okra coming as a favorite...

[longwinters]

I tried it once.....I think I live to far north to appreciate it adequately.
 
Long

[AtlLaw]

Favorites are okra ...

I can't believe I forgot okra! 
 
Always liked it and had a good sized patch in my garden, but a good bit went to the elderly widder woman next door.  The garden was across a church parling lot from her house and I told her to treat the garden like it was her own.
 
I can see her now, long dress, bonnet and a basket on her arm.  First part of the garden she went to was the okra.   

[scootrd]

Okra  -  one of the very few veggies I just cannot eat . I have tried it so many ways cause I really wanted to give it a good try. Wife loves 'em.

[keith44]

I like it fried, or added to burgoo

[Drilling Man]

  I grow quite a few different things in my gardens, but my fav by far is tomatoes and sweet corn.
 
  LOT'S of veggies are grown around here, so i no longer plant the things i can buy cheeeeeep here.  Like carrots, i can buy a 20 pound bags of washed carrots for $2.50 each.  My potato growing farmer neighbor sells 40 to 50 pound bags (depending on variety) of "field run" potatoes for $5.00 per bag.
 
  Although i grow apples/peaches/pears/cherries and have nut tree's too, some of those can be had here cheeeep too, so i look around for deals...
 
  DM

[hillbill]

  I grow quite a few different things in my gardens, but my fav by far is tomatoes and sweet corn.
 
  LOT'S of veggies are grown around here, so i no longer plant the things i can buy cheeeeeep here.  Like carrots, i can buy a 20 pound bags of washed carrots for $2.50 each.  My potato growing farmer neighbor sells 40 to 50 pound bags (depending on variety) of "field run" potatoes for $5.00 per bag.
 
  Although i grow apples/peaches/pears/cherries and have nut tree's too, some of those can be had here cheeeep too, so i look around for deals...
 
  DM

your lucky yu can get stuff so cheap. most of us cant. id like to have a 20lb bag of carrots.beef stew, deer stew, roast rabbit. boiled taters and carrots etc

[keith44]

  I grow quite a few different things in my gardens, but my fav by far is tomatoes and sweet corn.
 
  LOT'S of veggies are grown around here, so i no longer plant the things i can buy cheeeeeep here.  Like carrots, i can buy a 20 pound bags of washed carrots for $2.50 each.  My potato growing farmer neighbor sells 40 to 50 pound bags (depending on variety) of "field run" potatoes for $5.00 per bag.
 
  Although i grow apples/peaches/pears/cherries and have nut tree's too, some of those can be had here cheeeep too, so i look around for deals...
 
  DM

your lucky yu can get stuff so cheap. most of us cant. id like to have a 20lb bag of carrots.beef stew, deer stew, roast rabbit. boiled taters and carrots etc

+1

[Drilling Man]

  That was a big part of why i live where i live.  All the clean water i could ever dream of, cheap food, good climate to grow what ever i wanted, excellent hunting/fishing ect...  If i didn't have all of these things, i wouldn't be here, life is too short to live where you don't want to be!!
 
  No place is "perfect", but i'm happy with where i live...
 
  DM