Can bring these in the house at night and outside during the day when the wheather is nice. Got some parsley harvested and hanging to dry. Got the first batch of green beans-making a big pot to eat today.
Have a great weekend everyone. God Bless.
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Dipping into the lower 90s and upper 80s in Texas. Brrr, chilly! I thought the tomatoes would be producting more in the cooler weather but they’re not. Something ate my peas and most of the various greens. The squash have blossoms so maybe I finally get some this year - knock on wood.
Greetings from Michigan! Our temps are starting to dip here, but no frost yet where I live. I’ve been picking leeks, onions, carrots, chicory/greens, herbs, squash, last of the peppers and tomoatoes here.
Gotta tout the virtues of delicata squash...my first time planting it this year after picking some up last fall at a local farmers market. Very easy to grow, prolific—more fruits per square foot than either my acorn or spaghetti squash plants. Delicious, ‘creamy’ flavor without the stinginess of other squashes...will be curious to see how it stores.
Ghost peppers still growing fast, squash, tomatos are blooming, and both sweet and hot banana peppers still producing.
Time for us to get away for some R & R in Co. starting tomorrow. Looking forward to a change of scenery and de-stressing.
Yesterday was 78 degrees, today is 45. So yesterday I picked most of the green peppers and today’s task is to dice 1/3 bushel of peppers & freeze them for cooking.
Also harvested the last 4 Kohlrabi. I learned something this year, Instead of pulling up the whole kohlrabi, if you cut the kohlrabi from the stem and leave the root in place a second bulb can develop on the stem.
I should have gotten out and taken these when the blossoms were open this morning.
Fortunately, the Excalibur came in last week.
Let's see what we can get out of a zucchini.
Cool and wet here in Central Missouri today. I dug several pounds of horseradish root a couple days ago that needs to be cleaned and processed. Aside from that all the gardening I’ve done lately is stare at the mess that needs to be cleaned up.
Snowing. First freezes this week, with harder ones expected this weekend. Picked everything (not very much!) that was even half way pickable.
Emptied the storage tank by deep-watering the trees & perennials; and drained the irritation pump & lines.
Pulled the yellow wax beans, and fed them to the chickens. After languishing in the heat all summer, they had finally started to bloom. We got one scant meal’s worth from 40 feet of them.
Worst garden ever.
It appeared in an area of the garden where some spaghetti squash plants were growing on a trellis. All the other squashes in this area looked like one of the type types in the foreground here:
Nearby on the same trellis were some cucumber plants. At the beginning of the season I was worried that different types of squash plants might cross but when I looked this up I read that any crosses would only affect the seeds and not the fruit. But perhaps this is not accurate. Or maybe it's accurate for two squash varieties, but perhaps cucumber can sometimes cross with squash and affect the fruit.
I have some other types of squash and zucchini plants elsewhere in the garden.
Does anyone have any info on this?
Temps coming down in Ohio. Getting the cold frames build this week for the winter’s crops.
On a separate note, carrots, onion, cabbage, lettuce, and radish are growing real nice since we had a good rain last week.
At a reunion in the Shenandoah Valley this weekend and this is the view ...... To make this Garden Thread related, the trees within the fenced area on the right are an old apple orchard. The leaves aren't turning around here quite yet, just a few trees showing color, with maples showing the most.