Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 10/23/2009 10:55:17 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good afternoon to all of you gardeners. I apologize for the late post today. Well the last days of October are upon us and the garden is finally tilled for the last time this year. I seeded it with an annual rye grass. I also started rebuilding my compost pile. The oak and pecan trees have yet to drop their leaves so I will have to wait for their contribution to the compost pile until November.
Weekly Gardening Thread
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I still have tomatoes and carrots.
Hopefully the winter stuff I planted will do okay.
Anyone picking collards yet?
10 inches of rain in October, an early frost, and what is left—mud pit and no chance to fall till. 51 quarts of the best salsa ever, canned tomatoes, frozen corn, and more apples now than we can even give away.
We had a freak (as in unexpected) frost earlier this week, the frost warning maps has us very much in the clear, so I didn’t do anything to protect the last of the tomatoes.........SIGH.
Pickled Collards?.................
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noooo.... Collard greens. I always make a mess of greens a few weeks before Thanksgiving. Then freeze them in vacum bags.
I got the collards myself. My neighbor has room for mustard and turnup greens. I always make at least one batch with all three combined.
My daughter calls it the “good pooping food”
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Now.........that's just danged funny :)
In before 10? Woohoo!
Weather has been gorgeous but raining now.
No collards picked yet but they are growing beautifully.
Wow! 51 quarts of salsa!
Didn’t make it before 10. :(
Fat, slow fingers. LOL
We didn’t get frost but it got really cool/close.
Funny but oh so true! LOL
Thank you, thank you very much!
Now that I’m “in” may I make a suggestion? It would be ever so helpful if other folks on this board would add the name of their State when making comments about their weather, or whichever task they are planning. That would not be necessary when you are congratulating someone about thheir beautiful flowers, or their great crop. But, when you are adding something about your neck of the woods, it would be helpful to know where you are gardening.
Not every freeper has their state attached to their name.
Sign me: “Gardening in Wisconsin”.
And it’s cold and raining like the dickens here todoay.
Close enough :)
I was not a happy camper when I got up in the morning and found all those blackened vines and transparent yellow maters.
If you don’t want to reveal your State, how about just your Zone?
Pshaw, that’s nothing. We had over 9” of rain two nights ago. And most of that came through the ceiling. One guess what we’re doing this weekend.
Oooh, salsa on a piece of toast...
I had a really stinky gardening season this year. I tore a major muscle in my leg right after I got some of my stuff in the ground this spring. Then we had a really wet spring with my strawberries underwater for the most part and me in a cast unable to reach them. After it dried out, everything sprouting baked to a crisp in an early June heatwave. I have had tomatoes and need to get out and start cleaning up after last week's frost.
I've been collecting milk jugs and 2L soda bottles to get ready for my Winter Sowing. I need to prep the containers (burn drainage holes and cut the tops). Maybe look for some end of season potting soil sales. I don't normally plant in my containers until January but I know some who start as early as Dec.
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