New Crops.

I just have to try something new every year. I think of my garden as a work in progress. I am always trying to perfect it. The aim is always to grow the veggies that grow best around here, store well, are hopefully prolific and that we use the most of. The main goal is constant food production, so some fine tuning along the way is bound to happen. Our garden will probably always be dynamic, as our tastes and needs change. This year we are going to test run the following new additions we have yet to grow:

Kohlrabi

Cabbage.

 If you have not the room to grow cabbage you can usually buy it quite easily in the fall. I just have to try my own.

Celeriac

Pole Beans

Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce

and a variety of Tomato known as Siberian which is known to be early and handle cool conditions well.

Last year we did not get too adventurous. We tried celery for the first time, and our garden will never again be without. We were picking stalks of celery well into the fall and even from under little skiffs of snow. We grew shallots from seed instead of sets, another huge success, they will be joining the rest of the veg again this year. We tried artichokes, which we will be growing again. We also planted a bunch of asparagus from seed. As far as perennial fruit and veg goes we also planted haskap berries and cranberry bushes.

Green Beans planted around the newly planted Asparagus from seed bed to keep the weeds from taking over.  

Celery. The whole planted can be harvested in one go or you can take stalks as you need them.

An artichoke. I had given up on this new bed I had planted since the water table proved to be much too high in the area after all the rain we received last summer. This artichoke did not disappoint, battling the weeds it actually managed to produce a choke. Will give these guys some much needed extra TLC next year and will never plant anything in that area again.

Celery from above.

One of the cranberry bushes.