Comments on: The best low-maintenance edibles: food growing for the time crunched http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/ Gardening: from a West Coast, urban, organic perspective. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Denis http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-346498 Denis Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:16:29 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-346498 Such a delight to find your site,
Heavy Petal is now reaching across the atlantic ocean and arriving at Middle Earth
HOGSBACK South Africa.
If you would like to visit us “Google” (What are they up to.Middle Earth. Hogsback)
That will be me and where I live,
busy making a seedball machine at the moment, should be making lots of fertile bombs soon.
Forward new zeland spinach, forward!
Blessings and appreciation,
Denis

]]> By: Andrea Bellamy http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-288712 Andrea Bellamy Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:04:44 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-288712 Blackswamp Kim – Ha ha! Good point.

Meemsnyc – Apparently it actually enjoys the salt!

Joseph – You’re right. I was thinking just of beets when I wrote that. Chard only bolts when you let it overwinter.

Laura – It’d be great, even in your ornamental garden. I love rhubarb’s bold leaves.

Kevin – Mizuna! Yes! Love that stuff. Actually, I just sowed a whole bunch for my fall and winter harvests. :)

WanderChow – You got it! That photo was taken at Sooke Harbour House on Vancouver Island.

]]> By: WanderChow http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-288183 WanderChow Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:28:40 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-288183 What a great list! Thank you. I love that shot of the rhubarb on a clearly Northwestern beach. Too funny.

]]> By: Kevin http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-288008 Kevin Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:45:23 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-288008 I would maybe add mizuna to the cool-season greens list… my garden was quite lame this year except for the mizuna which was undeterred by the rainy June or the July heat. It just kept going and going. Plus it tastes like spring in veggie form!

]]> By: Laura http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-287545 Laura Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:10:29 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-287545 Great article. Rhubarb is one that I need in my garden. I’ve been keeping my eyes out at th plant store, but I haven’t seen them. I’ll keep looking!

]]> By: Joseph Tychonievich http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-287517 Joseph Tychonievich Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:07:14 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-287517 Chard bolting? I’ve never, ever had it bolt. In fact, chard is a true biennials that require a long period of cold weather (aka, winter) to trigger them to flower, so the only way you could get them to bolt is to plant them really, really early (I guess? Not sure if this would be possible, even) so they get a big dose of cold at the beginning, or let the live over the winter. I plant mine when I get around to it in the spring, and harvest leaves all summer — even when it gets hot and sweltering.

]]> By: meemsnyc http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-287476 meemsnyc Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:43:43 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-287476 Wow, rhubarb growing on the beach! That’s amazing!

]]> By: Blackswampgirl Kim http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2010/08/the-best-low-maintenance-edibles-food-growing-for-the-time-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-287443 Blackswampgirl Kim Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:10 +0000 http://heavypetal.ca/?p=2375#comment-287443 Great list! Although I have to add: The acidity requirement of blueberries isn’t really that hard to deal with if you (like me) are a coffee addict… :)

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