Prayers up for all in the path of Issac. God Bless.
Pinging the Garden Thread List.
I am SO GLAD y’all got rain! We got about 10” total. Power was out about 18hrs but other than that no damage. Feathered pets even produced an egg yesterday.
I thought you might get some ‘heavenly’ relief. Now so to NOT offend those that are suffering from Isaac’s landfall, you all are in my thoughts and prayers.
I’m going to try saving tomato seeds this year. How ripe should the tomato be? When is the best time to pick it?
And how does one process the seeds, so to speak?
Our tomatos are still producing a few small tomatos, our banana peppers are producing and my hot banana peppers are almost ready to pick. Okra has about had it.
Our ghost pepper sprouts are looking good. Thanks again, Oshkalaboomboom
Mrs Red Devil and I made a trip to Meridian, Ms to check on our house and property. The house was in good shape and just as we had left it. The yard needed mowing and it took me two days to mow it. We rented a Pensky Truck to empty a 10X30 storage unit we had 1/2 full of stuff. We moved it to the house and tossed out quite a bit of stuff we will never need. This well save us $100/month in rent on the storage unit. The truck only cost us $49 for a day rental. Worth the cost. We loaded up our little utility trailer with items we needed and missed in our first move to Marshall, Tx. We drove back Wed. which was two days earlier than we planned. Seems like we are magnets for paths of hurricanes and we left early to try to avoid the weather problems which worked out great. But it was a long drive back because the utility trailer became unstable over 55 mph. So it was 55 or slower for the 350 mile drive.
Cashmere enjoyed visiting her old home running all over the place. My pear tree was loaded with big ol’ pears and we picked all that were ready. The fig trees were thriving but I suspect the guy we hired to mow the yard picked them clean. So no figs to savor. Drats!
Hope everyone is safe and sound after Isaac.
Not a drop of rain here and temps back up to 100 today. Earlier in the week it had dropped down into the mid 90s so the tomatoes and peppers were happy. I just got in from loading and dumping 6 wheel barrows of dirt and weeds into the slobber buckets' holes so this evening, if it cools off, I can get back to getting the fall garden in. It was supposed to be all done by today but that ain't hap'nin'. The new beets and beans are popping up but the cole veggies haven't yet. Still need to put some more beans on another fence, put a little chicken wire for some peas and plant some mustard, spinach, kale and kohl rabi. I had an excuse for not getting it done - we went to the 2016 Obama movie yesterday.
Ok, so there are a ton of little orange and black bugs about a 1/4 inch long in the garden. The closest picture I could find online is (below) an asparagus beetle. But mine aren't beetles. They almost have fuzz rather than a hard shell and are easy to smoosh. Their markings are close to this picture and I don't seen them in the asaparagus. What do I have and should I be concerned?
We still haven't had a drop of rain in the central Texas Hill Country. It seems like all the weather systems track around us, leaving us high and dry.
Pumpkin, peppers, okra, and greenbeans are growing well. We also planted some new tomatoes, kale, carrot, cabbage, radish, and kohlrabi. I'm waiting for the peanut plants to dry out so we can harvest them and see what we got from that experiment.
Has anyone heard from "JustaDumbBlonde"? She's been away for a couple weeks now.
poobear has requested to be deleted from the garden list. Thanks.
We've had a bumper crop of Brown Turkey Figs this year .... enough to make Fig Butter for the very first time .... it turned out just delicious!
It appears that this would be an excellent weekend to fire up a batch of salsa incorporating a most tasty batch of my gorgeous ‘Clint Eastwood’s Rowdy Red’ tomatoes...