Posted on 11/07/2014 12:43:48 PM PST by greeneyes
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Eventually we all have to slow down a bit. So take it easy. Thanks for the link.
Super looking crop you have going there. Thanks for the picture.
Me too. Looks like we are going to be right in the middle of the core of cold.
I pulled the rest of my Yukon Chief corn today for seed. When I get it completely dried and shelled I’ll update on how much I got, total.
Most of it was the cutest little 4”-6” ears you ever did see. Some pollination issues at the Westernmost edge of the plot probably because prevailing winds took all the pollen downwind.
I was totally pleased with the yield. I planted out 67 seeds total and the crows got about 25% as it came up because I didn’t think to put row cover over it while it got established. I’ll be covering the next planting for sure.
This was the corn I planted Labor Day weekend. We had to cover it for a couple of nights due to frost/freeze. BUT, since it’s so short that wasn’t an issue. We just draped the plastic over its t-post enclosure and it was happy with that. The t-posts were still about a foot taller than any of the corn tassels.
Congrats. That’s super fast. Well worth the effort.
I was very pleased with this variety for the earliness and yield. It wasn’t as much as a ‘regular’ sweet corn would have yielded but a regular variety wouldn’t have been ready to pull before it got too cold. Plus a regular variety would have been taller and more difficult to cover when letting it go to seed.
I’ve found a source for the Gaspe flint corn I want to start super early in a tunnel next spring so I’m a happy camper. That corn variety only gets like 18” or 2’ tall. It was an ancestor of the Yukon Chief variety. I’m hoping to get that one planted in a covered raised bed sometime the end of Feb here.
oh ME! Prayers up for Arrowhead 1952.
Personally, I’d be canning the fruit up in a simple syrup, that way I could decide later what to make with them. And, it’s less work than cooking things down.
When dealing with a glut, simple is faster.
Glad you found it!
I appreciate any and all recipes I can get and will try them out to the best of my ability. I may make a horrendous mess in the kitchen, but I always clean it up.
Mrs. Augie and I are recently home from a badly-needed week on the beach in Sunny Florida. The weather was a bit on the cool side but it was better than a sharp stick in the eye.
I got my garlic planted the day before we left. Last fall I only planted 75 cloves, which was a bad idea. I’ve got a feeling that we’re going to run out before this batch is ready to harvest. I forgot to count how many I planted this time, but I basically doubled the row-feet from last year so I should be good to go.
My green beans were freeze-killed while we were on vacation. Still have lettuce, radishes and carrots looking good.
The old smokehouse soon-to-be potting shed still hasn’t arrived. Maybe this week.
Ohhh yeah we will. I am pretty sure it’s going to be a rough one. Getting ready to set up the water heater for the chicken coop, and I think we’ll take the Trinidad Scorpion pepper down to the cellar. We have some grow lights, and the temps will be better there.
I don’t know how much longer that pepper will need, I think my husband expected it to be maturing by now but it looks the same as it did three weeks ago when we brought it in from the garden to the garage.
Maybe the steady temps and the grow light in the basement will encourage it. It still looks really nice and is loaded with peppers.
Good planning! We brought in a tomato plant and a jalapeno pepper plant. Both are in the kitchen. The tomato plant has set two flowers since we brought it in, but it was sitting on one of our dog crates, and not getting enough light, so I moved it to the table and watered it. Thank goodness I went back to check on it, because the saucer was leaking. Water was pouring onto the table and from there to the rug. I moved it onto the tile floor and dumped the saucer for a new one. Soon we will be bringing in one of our large, wheeled planters and seeding some lettuce.
There is nothing like fresh produce in winter.
You got back just in time for the big chill. LOL I use garlic every day, but we don’t go through it very often. I was going to plant some more, but never got around to it.
I raked some leaves today to put on top of some of the garden areas. Planted some more rye. May take forever to sprout. Lettuce and spinach growing pretty well. Need more row covers, but they haven’t been delivered yet.
May have to buy some straw and cover the cold hardy plants with straw and leaves.
Yes, welcome to the freezer!
We will have our first freeze here in Central TX tonight, or tomorrow night. My cattle panel arch with the cucuzzi on it is just loaded with little squashlings..so.., since the vines originate in two smart pots on the left side of the arch, and climb from left to right, I pulled up the right side of the cattle panel, and laid it on the ground, and then covered it with plankets...
I couldn’t think of a practical way to cover it as a six foot tall arch, so, I hope this “experiment” works...After the polar air leaves, if the cucuzza plants don’t freeze, I will push the right side back over, and make it an arch again..
This spring we covered our 6 foot fruit trees with plastic and hung a shop light with 100 watt bulb inside. It worked.
Hope your experiment works. Squash is probably more sensitive than my trees. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
And the wind chill ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at either.LOL
Hope you aren’t frozen, without power, etc. I was looking for the Gardening thread for this week, and noticed you are missing..
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