Posted on 10/30/2015 1:52:08 PM PDT by greeneyes
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The yard is full of leaves, and we get a few persimmons each day. Several lemons are ripe - makes fine lemonade. They have more juice, thinner skins, and are sweeter than lemons from the grocery.
Branson was beautiful and the weather outstanding. I got my exercise daily/faithfully walking up and down the landing and window shopping. The food at the conference was outstanding every day and I was able to stick very close to my lower carb eating plan. Not a single rubber chicken anywhere on the menus.
Such a difference this year over last for me personally too. I was able to attend every single session without needing caffeine galore to keep me going. Even the luncheon speaker - a Doctor was as entertaining as all get out.
Hope all is well with you and yours. Prayers up for all. Have a great Halloween weekend.
my garden is asleep but the good news is somebody had concord grapes for free and I scored!...grapes slowly cooking on the stove as we speak....more juice for the pantry....
Getting much-needed rain again here in N. Central Texas (after last week’s flooding :)) We went from the wettest May on record, to a “flash drought” over the summer, to wet again this fall. Crazy.
The people smarter than us are calling for a wetter, colder winter. Anyone know what the Farmers Almanac says?
Pinging the List.
Almost November, and we have not had a freeze yet in eastern Nebraska. I have a couple pots on the porch with variety plants. The marigolds apparently dropped some seeds into the river rock (landscape) below the pots, and I now have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, huge marigolds growing there. I need to remember to save the seeds. When people ask me why they are so big and full, I give credit to God, as the only thing I have done is dump a little water on them every few days.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween and weekend. They are saying we’ll see 70+ degrees again, early next week.
Oh, Yeah, and GO ROYALS!
/johnny
That’s great. We have been trying to grow grapes for 4 years now. The first year was a good crop, but the coons got there first. Then there was the summer of the drought, and berries and grapes have been way less than prolific since then.
I lost track of mine - let you know if I find it sometime this weekend. I think Joe Bastardi is a smart one, so I pay attention, when I know what he’s saying.
Someone used to post an update now and then along with the link. Haven’t seen it in a while.
You are doing good. IIRC, we have already had our first frost, some temps in the 30s. Might be an early winter - gonna have to check the long range forecast.
Welcome. So glad to hear from you. We miss your astute observations, and humor when you are not posting. Glad to hear you gained some weight.
I am focusing on sending my extra lbs. to you. LOL
We’ve gotten some badly-needed rain in Central Missouri over the past week and every drop has soaked in. There’s not a puddle left anywhere in the pond. I’m hoping it will dig a bit easier now.
We got a very heavy frost last night. Probably will be the end of the tomatoes for this year.
Immoderate rain in my patch of Central Tx. with 4.6 inches falling in 4 hours and a little shy of 6 inches total. As usual with this much rain we're flooded in with roads in all directions impassable. It happens about once a year here, sometimes more, sometimes less and as long as we don't lose electricity it's not bad.
Lots of erosion and mulch moving in the yard but nothing that hasn't happened before and will happen again.
We did have an Eggplant feast earlier this week with five nice sized fruit off of one plant and four still on the other.
Lemons are really getting yellow. A bumper crop this year.
Fall tomatoes are still green, think it might be close for vine ripe.
Glug, glug.
Spent the entire day taking everything out of the greenhouse, sterilizing the greenhouse with bleach, sterilizing everything I took out of the greenhouse and moving it back in. Just two short months and it will be time to begin starting seedlings for the 2016 season. It’s going to be a very busy winter as I have contracted to grow several thousand transplants for a fellow farmer, on top of the thousands I grow for myself.
My next big project is to get about 500 tomato cages that I grow heirloom tomatoes in, out of the field and get them sterilized and stacked.
We had a couple of days of rain too. Finally got to burn some trash.
You know what they say, “When it rains, it pours!”
Wow. You are talking major transplants! We are behind on our fall projects. Haven’t even ordered the green house, and hubby is just now cleaning out the garage. He plans to build some more storage shelves - hoping to have room for at least one of the cars. LOL
Rainy and cool in west Michigan, one more day like this and then next week we have 3 or 4 days of sunny and warmer. No potato update this week but next week looks promising. Hubby just finished up 3 days of chemo and it’s going well. Johnny I looked at a diabetic food magazine at the treatment center. Sometimes they have pretty good recipes. This one was for a pizza with a crust with no flour at all. It called for frozen cauliflower florets. Put in food processor and pulverize, put in a linen towel and squeeze out the water, add an egg, some chevre (optional) and herbs plus some baking soda. Shape like dough into a circle and bake, flipping once and then put the toppings on. It looked fabulous but then again lots of food photographs do. Great to read all the posts here as usual.
The secret is in late winter pruning, with snow on the ground.
Around here, grapes are grown in full sun on horizontal wires attatched to heavy stakes, especiallyon the ends (with dead-man ties).
Due to topography and glacial debris , most advantageous is a North-south orientation so that the entire grape plant receives maximum sunlight
as lower growing branches will mature later since they are somewhat shaded by the upper arms of the kniffin system .
The recommended technique here is called " Four Cane Kniffin" system .
Resources and recommended readings:
How to Prune Grapes With the Kniffen System ( Includes both text & video)
www.//homeguides.sfgate.com/prune-grapes-kniffen-system-21824.html
How to Prune Grapes With the Kniffen System ( Includes both text & video)
http://extension.psu.edu/plants/gardening/fphg/grapes/pruning/four-cane-kniffin
Also , there are several Youtube videos that address the use and practicality of the Kniffin system.
Thanks. I’ll pass the info along to hubby.
What size greenhouse do you maintain ?
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