One of the cherry tomatoes had a bent stem, so I maneuvered it into a pot so that it could form some roots, and that will be one of the indoor plants this winter.
Will have to bring the lemon tree back in tonight - heading to the forties. Next 5 days will be daytime temps in the 60s and 70s. The night time temps will be in the 40s and 50s. So we are beyond the usual first frost date of OCT. 15. Yippee - Hope it last till after Thanksgiving - NOT LIKELY! LOL
Hope all is well with you and yours. Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Here we are, almost November, and I am still getting a few tomatoes on the most pitiful vines left. I have 3 or 4 lbs of ripe jalapenos and habaneros in the refrigerator, more on the plants (I’m peppered out), and this is the crazy part...I’ve even got a few little blackberries here and there on the blackberry bushes! This has been a long growing season. I didn’t get my fall garden in, but that’s ok. I canned and froze more than I can use. I need to get the rabbit poo and leaves tilled into the garden, and put it to bed. I look forward to winter nights when I can sit by the fireplace and plan next spring’s garden.
All is nice in Maine...we are finally getting some slow rain for our water table...temperatures are mild ...winter will come and as I age I see that the farmers almanac is just just reading material while one defecates. We are in a nice cycle and I will enjoy it as i do the cold spells...never stop appreciating this big blue marble we are on....it is amazing in every aspect...every single aspect ,not just the ones we prefer.
My gardening friends it’s our 38th anniversary today! Still have one pepper plant and one zucchini plant hanging on. I started romaine the middle of September in a large pot covered. It’s doing well. The colors are beautiful now in west Michigan.
Here in Delaware, weather is just turning cold. Taking down fencing on the old garden, bed by bed. Tomatoes are done. String beans are down to to 1 or 2 a day. Lots of bell peppers this year. Amazed at the row of asparagus!
The new garden is a mess, except for the wife’s herbs. Learned a lot, though. There are more deer around our subdivision than I thought. And they love eggplants. Know what cabbage worms are; saw them eating my broccoli plants. I can’t grow squash for love nor money. Lots of work to do before winter and again before spring planting.
Question: I’ve got some bags of fertilizer with same ratios (6-6-6, 10-10-10, 4-4-4). Okay to mix?
I still have about 15-18 tomatoes going. About 4 new baby ones that just started - even in the cooler weather - real cool.
Hope the frost holds off. I have a brown pepper(?) out there with my purple and green (one green is now 40% yellow).
Transplanted some carrots - some little tiny ones and a few that were trying. I’m giving them a few more weeks. Maybe can harvest some for Thanksgiving and freeze some for Christmas. Still, I think I’ll be chopping some very small carrots but a lot of them.
Also have 5 tomatoes almost ripe or ripe plus one green one that will be sitting indoors for awhile. He fell off the Better Boy I think so we’ll see.
Not much happening here garden wise. Keeping a close eye on weather reports in case I have to cover the plants because of temperatures.
My tomato plants are so full of green tomatoes that I’m hoping for one of our rare December first frosts. Probably not realistic but nothing below 47 on my 15 day forecast. The 47 degree prediction was actually for this morning and I brought my lemon tree in last night for the first time. I think they do those forecasts for the cities and towns. We tend to get a little chillier out in the country on a hilltop and I don’t want to lose my first lemon crop to that. LOL
Anybody here who can tell me about what temp I ought to bring in a bouganvilla?
I got busy over the weekend and built some more board fence around the barn lot. It doesn't look like all that much, but I'm fairly well whooped today.
The thing I got so excited about to take a picture is that my lemon tree had two more blooms on it.
When I read up on it after I got it, I got the message not to expect blooms or fruit for a couple of years. It must be a little older tree but it is supposed to be dwarf and is about a foot tall. Fall blooms may not set but I am tickled. They smell heavenly!