Posted on 10/30/2015 1:52:08 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I just use low carb soft tortillas. LOL Sometimes I just put the pizza sauce on a plate, put on the toppings, and bake it or microwave it, and use a spork to eat it.
When the kids order pizza. I just eat the toppings and give the bread to the dogs.
Have you done a soil test in that area ?
When in doubt , fertilize with phospherus and potassium or plant vigor and heath .
Grapes can get quite demanding in their need for minerals and trace elements.
We had about 10 persimmons this year on our small tree. Just as they were ripe, most were consumed by pests. (Wife’s relatives.)
All I have left in my garden is Kale, which I am sick to DEATH of at this point, and some lettuces - which I never tire of. :)
My garden is all cleaned out and the raised beds are mulched with straw...if all goes well, I’ll sell my little farm quickly in the spring and it’s the next guys problem! Moving to Beau’s farm. Movin’ on up from 1.2 acres to 160!! Wa-Hooo!
This winter I will make salsa from the tomatoes I have in the freezer and a fresh batch of Hot Pepper Jelly is on the Things To Do List, too.
And that’s a wrap for 2015. :)
I get those low carb tortillas too. I make a pretty good pizza crust and I always make it as thin as possible.
Well, let me tell you about grapes! We bought two seedless varieties and planted on wires, pruned according to Sunset Western Gardener directions...did it for four years, grapes came and they had SEEDS!
I have 4 arbor gates into the garden, planted seedless grapes, three years later...you guessed it...they have SEEDS! All the varieties and labels (colorful) were for seedless. How can different growers sell me mislabeled plants? Anybody else have that problem?
Finally had our first hard frost last night. Can’t complain. It’s usually quite a bit earlier here in NW Iowa.
Garden’s done. Freezers and canning jars are all full.
Praise the Lord.
First rains since the spring floods. Yee haw!
Had planted some fall veggies by the front door. They were up about a foot until some never seen before old lesbians knocked on the door selling something. They stomped all over the plants with their crocs killing every last one. As if they couldn’t stay on the cement sidewalk and porch. What’s with people? And yes, I was pleasant to them. They were oblivious.
...mislabeled plants.
O yeah. I’ve had that problem. Bought 4 apple trees labeled Gala, my favorite. Took 4 years to establish and begin producing...bumper crops of Granny Smiths.
On the 6pm news, it looks like you guys are washing away. Glad you are on high ground.
Also, tonight ,they showed an 18 Wheeler on the roof of a Holiday Inn, IIRC, down in Floresville. I think a tornado must’ve dropped it there.
My greenhouse is 8X16 and is nothing but heat mats, once the plants sprout, I move them to a grow house. I maintain temps in the greenhouse at about 80 degrees average, I can sprout tomatoes in five days, squash in four. My grow house is size dependent based on what space I need, it is put up and taken down each year.
Drove me crazy. When you dedicate 4 years and end up with what you absolutely didn’t want...really made me po’d at the nursery/growers/labelers.
YAY! Just about any outing is a good outing. The eating season is upon us. We can pay in January (& pay. And pay.) but it will be fun while it lasted.
Mercy. I am up to my eyeballs in pumpkin decorated cookies. I. Never. Want to see them. Again. But oooo lemons! I made a lemon bread recipe last week that was just excellent.
The word here is Get a boat. But it’s fixin to cool off, which will make the dogs happy & the mommy, too. We needed the rain. We just didn’t need quite so much.
Hope everybody’s doing good- fat n happy. Happy Halloween to you, too, greeneyes. Where are those turnips big enough to make a jack-o-lantern out of? One of these years….
God Bless everyone.
We can do that via our beach house on Lake of the Ozarks. This building is into its 3rd year as our seed starter place.
Big SW windows, thermal floor and a good working plan that we’ve tested in past years.
BTW;
We’re still piking Roma tomatoes and Poblano peppers. The little guys—cherry tomatoes, are done.
Garden didn’t do diddly this year, hoping to get some fall stuff in though. Just got a little rain here in East Texas, 2 inches long and slow over a couple of days so every drop soaked in.
Just put a few garlic pods in the ground, I look for the ones at the store with green sprouts sticking out. Soon as I get them established, no more planting, just dig them up in fall.
Asparagus will be ready to pick this spring, can’t wait. It’s the only thing still green in the garden. I’ll be mulching everything before long, that’s all I have to do to have it ready for next year.
Mulch is great. I’ve been using it for 30 years. No tilling, very little weed pulling, and it makes good fertilizer. I chop up dead leaves with the mower and spread it on the garden, at least 4 inches thick, and make sure I get some earthworms underneath. I have a great spot for night crawlers a few feet from the garden, just catch a few and pout them in the garden. They do the tilling for me. Not to mention helping fertilize the place...
Mulch also acts as insulation, winter and summer. The garden stays cooler in summer, holds moisture better and stays warmer in winter. I spend maybe 20 minutes a week pulling weeds. Most of the neighbors spend 2 hours a day...and I Can’t convince them mulch is a better way to go...my back loves it though.
Good show ! You have a good system
I worked in a commercial greenhouse that had a sprout house of 25 X 60
and has 4 1/2 acres under glass (or more accurately , plastic sheeting)and six separate units as a grow houses. Good on ya ! (as the Aussies say)
I can not recall if he did a soil test before he planted the vines or not. My thought was that if it wasn’t a cow or horse pasture, he should do so and plan on some soil improvements - he does as he wishes - it’s his darn grapes - he thought he’d make some wine.
I’m still waiting for a sip. Good thing I like margaritas and Irish Coffee better than wine - LOL
Our tree is pretty prolific, but we don’t do any harvest for preservation, and there’s more than enough for us and whatever critters eat them.
Starting in September, I can get a few each day and they last well into November or December depending on the weather. Of course the later batch tends to me higher up and sometimes requires a ladder.
Thanks for the update and congratulations.
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