I have to argue with dad to borrow his big tiller (which he hasn’t used in years) so we recently bought a little Ryobi tiller attachment. Mr. b enjoyed using it for the fall garden so hopefully it’ll last a while. The garden is 900 sq ft so a little tiller works fine. YMMV.
I understood the freeze is going to be Sunday night and Monday night in Central Texas and I’m constantly checking the forcast hoping for better news. Crossing my fingers, toes and eyes that it doesn’t because the tomatoes are finally producing. It was just too hot this summer for anything. Watering well on Sunday might help a bit.
The peppers and greens are happy right now but may have to harvest Sunday and bring in the dried out green beans. This week, I put some Romas in the freezer and dehydrated a gallon of Yellow Pear tomatoes which made the house smell like baking bread, yummmm. There’s a few Husky Cherry tomato seeds in a jar of water on the kitchen window so they can be started in a couple weeks. None of the slicers did anything this summer.
The stores are saying they won’t get their seeds in until Feb/March and some won’t until April. What?!? Tomatoes, peppers and cabbage need to be started indoor at Christmas and most everything else but okra needs to be in the ground in March. So, I broke down and ordered heirloom tomato seeds at the Victory Seeds site. I’m not associated with them and haven’t ever used them before but my order arrived in 4 days so that’s a good sign. Their seed packages are $2 which is way cheaper than Burpee’s at $4-$6. I have been using seeds saved from previous years but it’s time to find something new that might be more heat tolerant.
My Neighbor planted some Heirloms from seed this year and they didn’t do much...
I decided to dig up that one mater and bring it in... I have a couple smaller bellpepper plants that I am going to dig up as well.
My Neighbor told me I could come get the tiller anytime I wanted but he is moving accross town.
My okra was pitiful this year. I didn’t get it in until late march I need to do better this year..
I have never had anyluck with lettuce or cabbage.. but I will try again and I was too late to get any onion sets so i am still looking. I would like to get them in the ground pretty quick.
I sure hope it don’t freeze for long maybe just one night. But a freeze may kill off some of the bugs too.