Our vegetable beds are rotated to a new type of family crop each time we plant. Since we can grow year round, we try to at least try to plant something else 3 times in that bed before we plant the same family group.

We’d love to hear about your garden, please contact us:

Kandice & Rodney Crusat

P.O. Box 6932

Ocean View HI 96737

(808) 929 8198

Email: kandicecrusat@gmail.com

or rodzukes@gmail,com

Caraflex Cabbage - So tender and sweet. The head is pointed on both the green and purple.

Broccoli - After the first head grows out and is harvested, we continue to get smaller and smaller heads. The plant eventually turns into a broccoli bush and has to be cut down as the worms get into the dense growth and the Neem Oil doesn’t get to them.

Green and Red Bok Choi - These are really pretty and colorful when grown together.

Red, Yellow and White Onions - These are short day onions for gardens closer to the equator with shorter daylight hours. Johnny’s has several varieties of this type of onion. We can grow them year round, but the ones started after June do not do as well when the days get shorter before they are ready to harvest. We hang them for about a week after harvest where they get morning sun, then we put them in storage.

Blue Adirondack Potatoes - These are really pretty and colorful potatoes. The flesh is a beautiful purple/blue when cooked and they are high in anti-oxidants too! We dry them on a little table frame with a netting bottom for aeration for a few days where they get morning sun. Then store them in a dark cupboard.

Rainbow Chard - These make a pretty and colorful display in the garden beds, as if they are flowers. It is so soft and tender when cooked.

Beans and Peas - Above are a trellis type green bean called Fortex. Very tender when cooked. Right: Fava beans are so easy to shell and the beans are huge!

In 2019 we gave up growing pole beans, as they were hard to contain in the netting frames over the beds. We have since grown shelled bush beans like the fire beans and dragons tongue below.

In 2019 we also had to stop growing snow and snap peas because of fungus problems with all the rain we have been getting.

Snow Peas and Snap Peas - So sweet and crunchy when added to salads and tender when added to a stir fry.

Dwarf Green and Red Romaine -  These are so colorful and wonderful in a salad.

Male and Female Carrots? We didn’t know that carrots are male and female. Did you?

Just a silly joke of mother nature, but we get some hilarious carrots. We discovered direct seeding them right into the beds is better than transplanting from the seedling flats. Even still we get funny ones sometimes.

 

Download my free PDF recipe book which has lots of healthy home grown product recipes.

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Micro Greens  These add a nice texture to a salad and are so easy to grow.

There are lots of different mixes available and it is fun to try them all.

Golden Frill - This also comes in a red variety called Scarlet Frill. They are a cross between mustard and wasabi that originated in Japan. The spicy taste makes a salad more interesting and gives it a nutritional boost..

Chinese Cabbage - This is as pretty as it is versatile. You can eat Chinese cabbage in salads, cooked and juiced. It’s one of the top super foods.

Turnip - This spicy little guy tastes like a radish and you can eat the greens as well. Slugs love it too unfortunately.

Beets - What’s not to love about beets. They are so good for you and you can eat them so many ways; raw, cooked or juiced. The leaves and stems are good too.

Fennel - It’s one of the top super foods too. If you’ve never tried the bulb raw, you are missing out. It’s like eating licorice flavored celery. The tops are even more healthy than the bulb, but not too tasty cooked. We love them in our salad or added to our vegetable juice. It’s easy to grow and most insects don’t bother it.

Cherry Tomato - We like the sweet yellow one from a mix called jelly bean. 

Above: Fire Beans from Peru. A yummy bush bean that does not need trellising. They are mature when the pods are bright. The taste is almost like a boiled peanut when eaten cold.

 

Below: Dragon’s Tongue. Similar to the Fire Bean, but it does not get quite as plump.