Weekly Gardening Thread
Weekly Gardening Thread
Thank you for everything you have done, Red Devil 232. I miss you already but Justadumbblonde is a wonderful person and can certainly take on a challenge! I hope your move is easy as pie and your wife loves her new job and location. The two of you will be in my thoughts and prayers. Bless you!
Once again, many thanks!!
Thanks for operating the garden thread all this time. This thread has motivated me and taught me a lot about gardening. I had all but given up on gardening fresh veggies till I discovered this thread. I hope you do well in your move and your wife’s job works out well for both of you. I also hope that you can find time to chime in here when time allows. Good luck!
Thanks for all you have done RD. Look forward to seeing you back on this thread when you get settled. And a big thanks to JDB for picking up the list. One of the best threads on FR. Good luck and God Bless. Merry Christmas everyone.
You’ve made a good choice for your replacement. She will do a good job.
Please keep me on the ping list, as I need all the help I can get.
You will sell your home lickety brindle and find a fine home with acreage. I know you’re the kind of people who make lemonaid when given lemons. We’ll be awaiting your new found home and how your preparing your new garden site.
Please keep us informed.
I hate wild turkeys. We have a group of about 20+ coming to our garden every day for the corn my spouse tosses out for them. With pickings getting slim in the wild, the ate off all the leaves and growing points off the plants in my big sedum bed and are scratching the heck out of my hen and chicken theme garden. I don’t know if they’re eating them yet. Now, with snow on the ground and more difficult foraging, they’re scratching through the snow to the lawn. They’re also attacking some planted pots I have set high. We finally covered those with netting in the hope to discourage them. I wish turkey season was open. I’d be tempted to get a tag and also encourage 20 or so of my friends to do likewise.
SOUTH FL PICTURE UPDATE:
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I’m gonna try this. Need more thermal mass in the greenhouse anyhow. ;-)
Good luck with the move RD.
Thanks RD for posting this thread. It’s a fun little stop on the FR road every week. Hope your new digs allow you to have a garden.
All - I swear you learn something new all the time gardening. We had a low of 7 degrees one morning last week. Some snow on the ground, but I still figured the greens would be dead. They aren’t. Beat down some but still kicking. Even got some lettuce still.
Looks like maybe salad for Christmas.
Thanks so much Red for all the threads, and thanks JADB for keeping the tradition going. I look forward all week to Friday because of this thread.
We have warmed up to 34 degrees today, so I’ll be harvesting some lettuce from the winter garden. I have a lemon indoors nearly ready to pick, and 5 buds starting. A new batch of spinach is coming along. Still eating end of season tomatoes wrapped in paper to ripen.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
While I am looking forwrad to hosting the thread, at the same time I am sad that you will not be doing so. This thread is the first thing I go to on Friday mornings with my first cup of coffee.
I wish you, your lovely wife and your furry children the very best of life in your new home!
I have thoroughly enjoyed these get togethers with you every week Red and you have never missed a deadline on posting them. I look at my life as a book with thousands of chapters and as this one ends so begins another with my favorite Farmer/Gardener/Hunter/Jane of all things JADB. I do hope you are not abandoning us or gardening and that you check in at least once a week when you get situated down yonder...
The NW is experiencing some most unusual weather with only one night of rain in several weeks and brilliant sunshine as the Redwood trees allow. I spend a couple of hours in the garden or yard most every day plus I cut up some pumpkins for Lady Bender to steam and freeze for pies and nut breads plus I did one for our daughter’s MiL. Today I cut back a bed of Bearded Iris, cleaned up 2 beds of Lucifer ________ and annual flower beds and we usually do that during the false spring we get in February. Attending a company Christmas dinner and 50th anniversary party tonight.
God Bless you and your wife on your next adventure in to this wonder life.
You have done a teriffic job.
Very appreciated.
On a side note, we still have cabbage, brocolli, mustard greens, and cauliflower producing in the hoophouse. The greenhouse is pretty much covered after the last freeze in an effort to save the remaining warm-weather plants.
New heirloom seeds have come in for next years' planting. The Mrs went hog-wild, so I'll probably need to extend or build a new hoophouse.
