November is the time for Missouri gardeners to spread manure, sawdust, and leaves. Good time to lime if that is needed. Everyone is busy burning leaves in this neighborhood except for us. We compost as you know.
Planning for next year has begun and will finalize in December and last orders in January.
The weekend is shaping up for good gardening weather with temperature tomorrow of 67 and low of 61. Sunday will be 72 and back to 39 for the lows.
I continued cleaning up my beds on the nice days and planted some cover crops. Hope to finish up the rest of the raised beds this weekend. Also will put a row cover on the perennial herbs.
We are still collecting and eating a few persimmons daily off the tree. Hubby is busy processing the nuts we collected.
Hope you are all doing well. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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Well last weekend I managed to get absolutely nothing done in the garden. Maybe this weekend will be different. But it’s probably going to rain...
Yep—roller coaster too here in N. Tx Had to cover the plants out back. Now we have a few warm days ahead and want to get some bang for the buck and get the last few peppers to mature before it gets serious cold and ends the fun.
Any chance you would have an arguably edible persimmon pudding recipe you could pass along?
The freeze in N. Texas killed off just about all of my garden plants but fortunately I had some peppers in pots that I brought into the garage. I also picked my last 2 eggplants before the frost. Next year I think I will be putting all my tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and eggplants in pots.
I put in a new raised bed for flowers in my front yard and it just about killed me. Trying to dig up Texas clay is not for the faint of heart. With the help of Ibuprofen I finished it with a nice stone boarder.
My fall tomato plant is loaded. I just hope the fruit get ripe before we get a hard freeze here in central Texas. Lettuce and turnips are doing well.
Nothing to report here. We’re on winter shutdown here. We had out first near freeze twice earlier this week, just a false alarm, but did have some frost on the windshield Wed, and a little bit of light frost on the ground in some open areas a couple of miles away. Lowest temp here at the house was 34. All the plants were brought in to the back porch last weekend. Just playing around in the shop waiting till mid- Jan to start some seeds that I ordered this week.
Picked 8 more hot peppers that will be dried and ground to powder.
Hubby is busy processing the nuts we collected.
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Please let me know if you need any squirrels to help with the nut processing.
They gave me a break this year, not so sure about next year tho, neighbor cut a hugh persimmon tree way way back.. so the squirrels may get busier here.. oh vell..
We’re in Missouri, too. I’m hoping to clear a few more garden beds, load them with grass and leaf clippings and then plant some winter rye. Hoping the new beds will be ready for plants in the spring.
Here in Massachusetts, it was 18 degrees one night earlier this week, but we had a high today of 69 degrees! This is New England. :)
Ungh! we are having a “white fly” problem here in S. Fl.
My herbs are ruined.
Here’s a question that might sound stupid. This last spring I planted lots of tomato and bell pepper plants, like I do every spring. I buy heirloom seeds from J.L. Hudson, seedsman .com. And this year, all the little flowers on the plants shriveled up and fell off. I got big, bushy, healthy plants, and not one single tomato or pepper out of the whole lot. That has never happened before. And I’ve always enjoyed giving my surplus garden vegetables to friends , neighbors and relatives. But it didn’t happen this year. At first I thought it was a lack of pollinators. But that can’t be it because I’ve got this ugly weed tree in the corner of my back yard that attracts bees. Hundreds of them.
I’m not directing you to the article at the link but to the chart about 2/3rds down the page (click to enlarge it). It’s the Who’s Who in the US government who has ties to Monsanto. I’ve read elsewhere that MANY top EPA officials came over from Monsanto. Remember back in the summer that Monsanto was going to sue Vermont over nutritional labeling.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/28/neotame-more-toxic-than-aspartame.aspx
I can’t find specific seed companies but here’s a list of the Seminis (Monsanto) vegetable varieties -
http://www.seminis.com/global/us/products/Pages/default.aspx
Garden chores are winding down here except for one bed I still have to plant with Vetch and a couple of spots to reseed. Lady Bender has about 20 more Dahlia plants to cut back and compost plus we have 50 flower pots to empty on the deck. About 75% of the Garlic crop is up and looking good and that makes me Happy Happy Happy but Time will tell if the Garlic Rust returns this year.