Posted on 12/21/2012 1:22:01 PM PST by greeneyes
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Sorry to be so late posting; I had an appointment that lasted way longer than I thought it would. May I just brag that I am still eating tomatoes from the fall harvest?
Looks like the final salad of the season will be Christmas dinner. Then my lettuce will be gone, and probably the tomatoes too. The lettuce in the winter garden didn't germinate too well, and the later plantings aren't ready for picking as they are still just a little beyond seedling size.
Lemons and bell peppers are still growing indoors like gangbusters. Hope all is well with my fellow gardners. Have a great weekend, and great great great Christmas. God Bless.
Pinging the Garden List.
Pinging the Garden List.
Pinging the Garden List.
The last of the lettuce will be gone with dinner tonight. There are three trays and a couple buckets of tomatoes in the kitchen but they’re starting to look sad so need to finish freezing them this weekend. I’ve been putting ripe ones in the freezer every couple days and saving a few seeds. Had a tomato sandwich for lunch, yum. Need to quit procrastinating and string the hot peppers this weekend, too. Then there will be space to start new tomatoes and peppers next week.
Hope you all have a very Christmas!
Envy all of you who can keep gardening this time of year.
We had 12 inches of snow Wednesday night and then 40 degrees today (typical for the northwest)
God bless you all and Merry Christmas!!
The garden has been gone for quite a while around here and it is downright chilly and very windy today. This past weekend, we did receive a basket of homemade jelly/preserves: basil jelly, hot pepper jelly, chocolate mint jelly, apple butter and fig preserves. Oh boy! :-)
I'm trying to choose broccoli seed from Stokes seeds for next spring. I'm in the NE. Anyone have any suggestions?
Yeh I am ready to start some seeds too, except, I haven’t received my catalogs yet, and haven’t ordered some of the seeds I need yet.
Merry Christmas everybody.
My spinach was put in in the fall. Surviving quite nicely and will be huge come April.
Where we live our morning low was minus 7 F. We got our first seed catalog. Love vegetable gardening, one of our summer joys.
I haven’t received any catatlogs, either. Maybe they aren’t sending them out anymore since they have online catalogs.
Me too. I always plant spinach in the fall. It survives the winter and come Spring it rockets into growth. Early spinach rocks!
We sometimes get deep snow, but not too often. We had weather below freezing here this week, but I cheat. I built raised beds with the back against a concrete retaining wall, facing southwest.
Then I put straw or milk jugs of water along the sides, cover all with a double layer of row cover, and add straw, and styrofoam as needed. The sun heats up the concrete and water, then releases it at night on sunny days.
Then the cool weather crops do pretty well, the peppers and lemons etc, I grow indoors in front of the patio window which faces south west.
Oh man, I would gain 20 pounds with bounty like that.
You are welcome. I am not a broccoli person, so I don’t know anything about that. I did read that it can help prevent and/or cure H Pylori which causes ulcers.
We are going to open only one jar at a time ... maybe that will help? :-)
I like the sounds of that 62 degrees! LOL.
I really like spinach and lettuce planted in the fall. Usually lasts till June around here, so I don’t have to fight with the rainy, muddy spring planting of the greens.LOL.
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