Posted on 10/10/2014 6:01:53 PM PDT by greeneyes
The weekly gardening thread........
I heard we got some rain at home, so I will likely be able to skip that chore when I get back. Happy Happy
We’re still awash in vegetables. Potatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, summer squash, butternut squash, watermelons, cantaloupes, onions, peppers...
It’s been a really good year here in NW Iowa. Cool, but with very timely and sufficient rains.
:-)
We are closing in on three inches of rain at lake of the Ozarks. Lake water is up suddenly. That’s OK.
I am continuing to dry and grind paprika peppers. Son and his wife have a supply, sent by mail. I’ve given away 1/2 a pound to others. More peppers still green but in range.
We have a couple dozen Roma tomatoes still coming. If we get close to a frost, I’ll pick them green. Otherwise, more pasta putaneska...
Pointy side up !
I have a bunch of pimento peppers that are green. Wonder if they would be ok to eat green? I doubt they’ll mature before it gets too cold.
You have to work at it as our teachers taught us. Write or lose the ability. I noticed the other day my penmanship is a disaster. A whole different era.
I got started planting next years Garlic crop with three 12’ rows of Chinese pink early and one 12’ row of Inchellium. I have more to plant but I had to find new seed as my entire crop had garlic Rust this year. I have one more picking of tomatoes from the sickly plants and have been giving pumpkins to family and Church. We may get rain early next week so I need to hustle on the Garlic...
You are the man, Or maybe your wife, haha,
Yum.
My irritating computer with Windows 8.1 on it got changed to touch mode by the cat. I haven’t been able to figure out how to change it back. The darned thing won’t obey my commands. I can’t get to your profile page. Grrrr....
Butternut squash-—*lovesick looong sigh*
I cut my tomatoes back to the ground. Their stocks were quite large, so hopefully when they regrow in the spring, we’ll have early tomatoes. I’m leaving my sweet peppers in the front raised garden, and my jalapeno in it’s pot, it’s still putting out peppers. I’m getting ready to put in some carrots and see what happens, plus all sorts of Swiss chard, beets and I don’t know what else. We’ll see. I may try some potatoes ??? Have to order some garlic. I had good luck with the 4 garlic buds I planted last fall. I have some really good garlic on the counter.
We are getting some nice steady rain at this time. How are you doing in the rest of Texas?
Oh, yum!!!
What did you plant?
What did you plant?
God Bless you too Greeneyes, your weekly thread is one of my favorites! Now that I live in the City with no garden it brings me great comfort to read about how all the hands on gardeners are doing...
OH YUM
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