Posted on 12/01/2017 3:25:59 PM PST by greeneyes
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Got some rectangular pots to plant some herbs and lettuce. Need to clean some of the glass on the green house - down side of the green house - another housekeeping chore. LOL
Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
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bkmk
Hopefully next year is better...garden was very poor this year...too much rain I think.
Good Evening all!
Evergreen strawberries?
I impulsed brought a strawberry plant at home depot last spring and put in along side my house with some blueberry bushes.
It’s winter here in Ne Jersey and everything is either dead or lost it’s leaves, but the strawberry plant is still going strong, spreading out to vacant spots left by the winter freeze. It produced a late batch of Strawberries in October.
Will the strawberry plant stop growing or will it take over my whole garden this winter?
I have an update on my mid-autumn planting of root crops experiment.
FAIL. FAIL BIG!
Potatoes: rotted in the ground.
Kohlrabi: Grew for several weeks, went semi-dormant, then the blankety-blank deer got to them.
Radishes: grew to 1 1/2” tall, went dormant.
Turnips: same as above.
Peas: Nothing.
Carrots: Nothing.
It appears that something managed to remove the feral bunnies from my immediate area, I haven’t seen Joker or Cheeky for nearly a month. I did find some rabbit fur on the road in front of the house 2 weeks ago, though...
I suppose I will have to do my fall planting in August this coming year.
Our year was not the best, but not the worst either. Still next year should be better, now that hubby has a pump to use to water the garden with swimming pool water.
Depends on the variety, but I doubt if it will take over during winter. It should wind down. Some varieties are more cold hardy than others.
I usually try to get fall planting of those types of crops no later than the first week in September.
However, winter wheat and rye can be planted much later.
Being in the PNW, fall is usually quite mild and long. This year we have had only one hard frost to date, and that was only one night. We had a little (3/4”) snow earlier than normal, but it was gone within 12 hours. Right now it is 50*, and it hasn’t been below 40* in weeks. There are still leaves on one of my Spartan apple trees, and three roses are still blooming.
I have a rhododendron that insists on flowering in early January, too. I call it my retard rhodo, as it will bloom as often as three times in a year
I will admit, I was pretty late, but stuff and things got in the way, y’know what I mean?
Last year, my garden was great, herbs, tomatoes, cukes, lettuce, and zucchini.
This year was herbs and cherry tomatoes. Nothing else grew. I’m glad I didn’t have to rely on it to survive!
Indeed, I know what you mean. Missouri can sometimes have some bad winters, but we often have several days in a row break, so it’s better than the Dakotas.
One winter there was more than enough for me. Snowed in October 21 inches, never warmed up or melted, just got more and more snow.
Last snow didn’t disappear till the end of June.
Hubby and I have made that observation a lot. Truth is though, if we had to rely on what we grew to survive we would likely be more diligent.
Well...yes. that is true.
I finally got a cucumber to sprout—now about 6” long vine—in a huge pot in my Sonroom. I’m assuming I can pollinate it with a small artist’s brush??? I hate store bought cucumbers but love home grown ones.
BTW, it is a beautiful plant with a curious bloom spike closely affixed to the main stem.
Am probably going to have to engineer a huge wire cage 6.5’ tall around all my fruit, berry etc. plants. Something even ate all my lavender transplants. Sheesh. I think my main critters are coons and skunks.
Yes, you can pollinate them by hand. I’ve never actually tried to grow them indoors. Keep us posted on how it goes.
That’s what I have read too. I am growing one for the first time too.
Weather is typical for this time of year here behind the Redwood Curtain. Rain is 25% above normal and the weeds are growing like Jack’s Beanstalk but the garlic mulch is keeping the weeds under control. There are still tomatoes ripening in the tent greenhouse and I will pick those tomorrow. Lady Bender is scheduled for knee surgery after the first of the year so no annual flowers for 6 months at least and I’ve run out of gas at 84...
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