Posted on 09/19/2014 12:39:42 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Computer is giving me fits. It took 25 minutes just to get logged in, and it has been freezing up fairly often, requiring a total shut down and reboot. Just a fair warning in case it crashes.
I finished digging some potatoes this week, and our storage bin is full. I have one small patch left, but will wait a while longer, as they keep better in the ground than in the bin. I have also started prepping the beds for the winter season. Will start with planting garlic from the best of last year's harvest.
All of my potatoes this year were grown from last years stock or sprouted supermarket potatoes. Good eats for zero bucks.
I will be digging out some of my clear plastic containers to start my winter seedlings of carrots, peppers, and tomatoes. That will be easier to cover up when the night temps fall. And can be quickly hauled indoors if needed.
From the Almanac:
Ninety percent of gardeners grow tomatoes, which have a lot of nutrition: lycopene, potassium, iron, Vitamins A,C,K,beta carotene, and fiber@just 32 calories per cup.
Vine ripened tomatoes have more lycopene than tomatoes ripened off the vine. Add that to the fact that they taste better, to me that's a good reason to grow your own, among others.
Pumpking harvest - A firm deep orange is the time. Cut from the stem with a knife, leaving a few inches. Allow them to cure outdoors in the sun, or a sunny spot indoors for 10 days.
Hope you all are doing well, and that the Garden Thread has entertained and helped you with your green thumb endeavors. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Season’s winding down slowly...working on plans to rework my limited container space for next year!
The weather is beautiful here in Massachusetts, but at 56 degrees, it is cool. We may have a frost tonight.
Black Agnes has requested any information you have on great peanuts, including sources. (Surprised that I remembered!)
Looking for sources of peanut seeds. I know about southern exposure, baker creek, parks, burpee, gurney/henry fields. I’d love love love any different sources if anyone knows of any!
weather here in south central Va is cooling down fast! tomatoes and cucumbers winding down(never did really good like usual this year) jalapeno and bell peppers are steady coming now!
Mike
My thanx to those who responded previously...apparent no actual bamboo enthusiasts this thread...yet...
here’s a re-run I’ve already posted as a better explanation than I expressed as to why anyone would want to do boo, in the first place...
Here is a page I linked to that will explain far better than I have done the misinformation and misconceptions that generally abound regarding the subject of bamboo.
Dick Gaines
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Happy Trails, I’ll be checking in again!
Dick Gaines
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Hubby grew tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets this year. Since he made a new garden patch for tomatoes for next year, I should be able to put those in some existing space I have (unless he decides to use them for something else).
I like using containers, portable and use up space that is just gathering dust otherwise.LOL
Our typical first frost is October 15, but I will not be surprised if we get it sooner. Last year it was so late that I didn’t plant the winter wheat I usually do and instead planted a lot of winter rye.
That turned out to be a good thing, as it gave me several cuttings to use in compost.
the wife wants me to pull up everything now and start a salad patch(greens)...never tried to grow creasy salad before, anyone have any input??
Mike
This has been the coolest growing season that I can ever remember, and not in a good way.
Love those peppers - they are great little producers. My tomato plants just went kabam practically overnight. Temps along with some sort of disease, I think.
The leaves are almost all dead on them, but most of the fruit is orange, so they are still going to taste good ripened on the shelf.
My gardening season is over for this year. Have pulled all plants and removed all the ground cover I put down. I did get a very late start to my garden this year and my crops suffered because of my laziness aided by a lot of help from the weather. Although my fig trees died back because of the very cold winter they revived and are healthy. I will be sure to protect them this coming winter.
I am hoping to find some wheat straw to use as my ground cover next spring. I have had great success using it in years past.
Thanks for the post. Maybe you will get some kindred spirits. We do tend to focus here on our tummy food.LOL
I hear that. Still, for us, it was so much better than last year’s really hot drought ridden season, and the previous year’s wet and moldy spring.
Well, there’s always next year!
I will be digging out some of my clear plastic containers to start my winter seedlings of carrots, peppers, and tomatoes. That will be easier to cover up when the night temps fall. And can be quickly hauled indoors if needed.
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I don’t know how I missed the gardening thread this past year. I am a novice container gardener (peppers, tomatoes and scraggly broccoli . . .I have to admit when I was a kid we had to take our neighbor’s tomatoes to the fair because ours weren’t ripe yet. We did all the work, however and the tomatoes eventually ripened!
My question is this. . .are you saying you are planting your seeds now? Where do you keep them during the winter? And under what conditions. How long until you plant them in the ground? I have two patio tomatoes I found on sale and they don’t look the best but are bearing small tomatoes. I guess they won’t grow back again, right?
I know this is a duh question but it is legit.
I like cool weather, but it’s difficult to grow tomatoes when it’s down in the 40s at night..
creasy salad ?????
Not sure what that is or where you are located.
I have used mushroom compost with good results, and have even grown lettuce and spinach during the winter under row covers and straw.
Consult the catalogs for winter greens. If you happen across seeds with words like Artic etc. that’s usually a good bet too.
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