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We are having a great sunny day, but it is a little cool at 39 degrees with a low of 21. So much better than the cold gloomy, windy, and rainy day we had yesterday.

Sorry to be so late posting; I had an appointment that lasted way longer than I thought it would. May I just brag that I am still eating tomatoes from the fall harvest?

Looks like the final salad of the season will be Christmas dinner. Then my lettuce will be gone, and probably the tomatoes too. The lettuce in the winter garden didn't germinate too well, and the later plantings aren't ready for picking as they are still just a little beyond seedling size.

Lemons and bell peppers are still growing indoors like gangbusters. Hope all is well with my fellow gardners. Have a great weekend, and great great great Christmas. God Bless.

1 posted on 12/21/2012 1:22:10 PM PST by greeneyes
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Pinging the Garden List.


2 posted on 12/21/2012 1:28:17 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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Pinging the Garden List.


3 posted on 12/21/2012 1:29:07 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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4 posted on 12/21/2012 1:30:10 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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The last of the lettuce will be gone with dinner tonight. There are three trays and a couple buckets of tomatoes in the kitchen but they’re starting to look sad so need to finish freezing them this weekend. I’ve been putting ripe ones in the freezer every couple days and saving a few seeds. Had a tomato sandwich for lunch, yum. Need to quit procrastinating and string the hot peppers this weekend, too. Then there will be space to start new tomatoes and peppers next week.

Hope you all have a very Christmas!


5 posted on 12/21/2012 1:34:04 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: greeneyes

Envy all of you who can keep gardening this time of year.

We had 12 inches of snow Wednesday night and then 40 degrees today (typical for the northwest)

God bless you all and Merry Christmas!!


6 posted on 12/21/2012 1:40:16 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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The garden has been gone for quite a while around here and it is downright chilly and very windy today. This past weekend, we did receive a basket of homemade jelly/preserves: basil jelly, hot pepper jelly, chocolate mint jelly, apple butter and fig preserves. Oh boy! :-)


7 posted on 12/21/2012 1:45:43 PM PST by MissMagnolia
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Nothing new here, so just a weather report. Low last night 24, high today 62, currently sunny skies. Low tonight 33* sunny tomorrow.

Merry Christmas everybody.

10 posted on 12/21/2012 2:02:25 PM PST by rightly_dividing (Left behind; 4 Americans in Libya)
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To: greeneyes

My spinach was put in in the fall. Surviving quite nicely and will be huge come April.


11 posted on 12/21/2012 2:08:05 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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Collards are coming along fine; look like small trees. Kale and lettuce doing ok. Pulled the last of the turnips.

Will plant broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower next week.

23 posted on 12/21/2012 2:49:12 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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My area of western PA got socked with snow which will stay on the ground thru Christmas. Which makes for a white Christmas but will mean a slow and inevitable demise for my kohl plants. Oh well.


75 posted on 12/23/2012 8:18:21 PM PST by Ciexyz
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Well as usual I’m late to the party.

I picked a batch of collards and dug some carrots from the garden for our Christmas Eve dinner.

You can’t get it much fresher than that.


82 posted on 12/26/2012 9:40:05 AM PST by Augie
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OK, the PO box was stuffed with garden catalogs today.

Anyone know how to grow asparagus?

I’d like to try. How big do the mature plants get during the summer? What do I need in the way of garden space for them?


83 posted on 12/26/2012 12:19:23 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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