Posted on 10/26/2018 8:10:26 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I have planted some garlic. Will need to finish planting garlic and then will plant winter wheat and rye. All the "tender" plants are in the green house.
Hubby went a head and dug up some sweet potatoes today-what a muddy mess. LOL
Hope you are all having a good weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
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IS IT FRIDAY ALREADY?????? I planted 72 feet of Garlic yesterday and today. That’s 3 12 foot rows of German Red and 3 12 foot rows of Chinese early pink. The weather has been lovely and warm and we have a little more cleanup to do.
BTW our tomatoes in the greenhouse have been a disappointment this year. No rain here since late May but we may get some next week...
I know, I had to double check to make sure it was FRiday. Time flies too fast. I’m planting all my garlic this year. I usually save some for planting and some for using, but I wanted to increase the yield.
I can’t remember what kind of garlic I had, but I really like it, and that’s the only way I know to increase the amounts, is to plant it all for a few years.
I’ve gone strictly to elephant garlic, which is not technically garlic but I like it anyway and its easier to plant....lol.....I’m using only bulbs from my small harvest because the garden stores want several dollars a pound otherwise..
I just used some really big garlic I got from the grocery store last year.
It worked out just fine.
I got quite a few tennis ball sized heads out of it and I’m saving the fist sized ones to plant this year.
Hubs and I were under the weather so still didn’t get it done maybe this weekend.
Yes, garlic is somewhat expensive. However, I bought 4 bulbs in 2010 and haven’t had to buy any more since then. I save some and use some. This year I’ll have 52 cloves to plant.
I have always had good luck with the grocery store garlic too. However, one year I ordered some and the clove are so nice and big and taste better than what we usually have available.
Tomato in the greenhouse need magnesium Plant growth and chlorophyll production depend on nitrogen, and phosphorus helps tomatoes grow and cope with stress while aiding in energy production.
The heat makes them work harder and a well placed fan makes the plant move so it can grow strong
Epsom salts really give the maters a boost they turn greener and stronger used as a foliar spray or soil additive will help tomato and pepper plants grow and produce larger, tastier fruit
Limestone or gypsum supply your garden or bucket soil with calcium. If your soil is acidic, adding limestone helps boost most vegetable crops by increasing alkalinity just a couple cups of limestone to five gallons of water stir it up real good and give them a cup or 2 full right at the root once every 2 months they love it
i grow my maters in buckets in and out of a greenhouse the greenhouse heat really make them thrive but they work harder and need more nutrients to stay healthy my outside maters do great but they grow slower because they don’t have the heat to kick them around !
We have a few Elephant garlic plants that comes up from the little seed pods from around the root. We roast it and eat it like butter.
Today !
Weather for my area Ohio, USA (12:36 AM EDT on October 27, 2018) | Temp: 48.2F (9C) / Feels Like: 48F (8.9C) | 98% humidity | Conditions: Fog
Getting cold here brought in all my potted flowers for the winter got more spider plants than i know where to hang and my spearmint and peppermint are doing gangbusters jade plants are strong and eating lots of soil {boy do they like rich soil it disappears quick} i have a banana tree i didnt get in the ground its got new leaves so it will be in the kitchen all winter
Maters died off already got bumper crop this year and 75 pounds of red potato froze and canned green beans planted 2 peach trees they already are going to sleep for the winter praise the Lord thank you God for the bountiful harvest !
Next year i think i’m gonna try Bees we eat a lot of honey mmm mm good stuff !
My lemon tree is pretty sick. I’ll be surprised if it makes it through the winter.
I’ve heard that sometimes when you use grocery store garlic you don’t really know what you’re getting-as far as disease, breed, etc but the stuff they are selling in the garden dept at the Home Despot or Lowes is just way too expensive for me.
If I was any good at gardening it might be worth the money but right now, as a renter, I’m not wanting to do anything too drastic or expensive.
If I had my way I’d till up the whole yard, install an irrigation system using gray water and rain barrels and even get a guerilla operation going on out front.
Sadly, I cannot. I live amongst lefty virtue signallers who are just dying to be HOA board members. They want fine dining, bicycle paths, microbreweries, coffee rooms and little artsy fartsy boutiques here instead of any kind of industry.
They complain because the police don’t show up when they call and say someone is sitting in front of their house or stealing their newspaper.
We have a shortage of police and a population over 100K with all the usual problems. If someone has their newspaper stolen, they are not going to get a response if some poor woman across town is being beaten senseless by her spouse or someone got shot.
How to afford police with no industry? No growth?
Oops. Went off on a tangent there, didn’t I?
Sorry.
We’re getting a few more days of semi-decent weather. So I’m letting the peppers and tomatoes roll.
I need to get busy and chop all the peppers in the kitchen. I’ve already had to toss 3-4 small ones.
Maybe Saturday.
LOL. That’s ok. We don’t have an HOA, and the original sale docs had very little restrictions.
Dogs must be on a leash or in a pen. Set back of at least 30 feet. Only one shed per lot. No obnoxious animals.
I asked what are obnoxious animals - he said pigs. So I maintain that goats, chickens, or rabbits are ok.
No one is paying any attention to the leash/pen. They all let their dogs out and they wander into our yard and do their business.
There’s only 1 other family living here that’s been here from the beginning. I doubt if anyone else even knows the rules.
I plan on doing some work Saturday too.
I always pictured you in a manufactured home on at least 5 acres.
LOL. Well, I wish I had the acres. No - we designed our home. Hubby went to the college book store and bought all the architecture books etc. and studied them. I put up the wall paper, and helped hold stuff now and then.
The planning took 3 years. We finished the inside first, moved in, and hubby laid brick outside for 2 years-oldest daughter carried hod. We bought 2 half acre lots.
Twenty years ago, we bought 25 acres north of town bounded on one side by a creek. Highway department confiscated 3 acres and ruined the road frontage on another side.
We had planned to sell this house and build another there. However, there was uncertainty with bank mergers etc. so we decided to just stay put. I hope to convince the owner of the lot adjacent to our back yard to sell me another half acre.
We are planning to build a room addition that will have almost floor to ceiling windows, and a skylight - for 4 season fresh food - will have better insulation. Green house is ok for extended season, but not enough for winter weather.
We also want to build a storage shed/basement. About 2 car garage size. The shed will have plumbing stuff to make an apartment if we need to later on. The basement will have a place for root cellar, storm shelter etc. Also want to build it to with stand earthquake - we are closer to New Madrid than I would like.
About a year ago, Tubebender posted a couple of pictures of the greenhouse/back of part of the house for me.
Yesterday (Friday) I shutoff and drained the backyard and garden watering lines. They are PVC, and not buried deeply. After all of the work I did, installing the stuff, I don’t want to spend any quality time digging up and repairing it, next spring!
I am going to be planting garlic on Sunday. We have snow, changing to heavy rain, forecast for today.
Next week, I am hoping to pull all of the plants and weeds from the raised beds, till and rake them and sow them with winter rye as a cover crop and then till it in next spring. Somehow, I am gonna amend this soil to where I have a decent garden!
I cleared a space for the small shelter I picked up at a hardware store closing. I hope to use it to house my garden tractor with its snow thrower during the winter. Better than the cover I have used for the past few years!
Oh, yes! We started dabbling in hydroponics! I took a dozen empty cat treat jars, drilled holes for 2” net pots, and started some lettuce seeds in rock wool. If things look promising, we will expand.
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