Posted on 09/30/2016 7:42:32 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks. It’s a bear, and each year a little worse. About done with it, this time around.
Chuckle. No. Our syrup pots used to hold molasses that we
put in the field for the cows. It is a healthy way to help them gain weight and it was full of good vitamins etc.
The pots are about 2 feet deep and 2 feet wide. When they become empty they make good planting vessels. We have “black land” (clay) and hard as concrete, so I use the pots, I paint them white to deflect the heat.
I love my spicy banana peppers. I fry they with lots of
sweet onions when I do steaks..tasty.
You are such a great gardener. Did you handle the sweet
potatoes like the whites? Harden the cut side before planting?
Racoons?
LoL I just planted the whole sprouted tubers. I can remember my father buying bundles of starts and planting them in hot hot hot western Fresno county. I live and garden on the Calif coast near Oregon where the summers are 30 to 40 degrees cooler...
If so it would be first. Never seen one within 4 miles of the ranch; not even roadkill. Over the hill, in town, though.... Maybe moving in. :-(
Down to the last 18 tomatoes going. 3 picked today from that.
Some Basil plants slightly produce - they are near their end.
Sweet snacking peppers - 4 going but only 1 turning orange (finally).
Still about 11-13 peppers going - at least 6 are purple.
Carrots I ain’t digging up until late October or early November. Will report how those went. Best 50 cent package of seeds I’ve seen yet (Walmart close-out).
Wish I could have found more.
I’ve got lots of healthy pepper plants - probably 75 - but no greenhouse way to keep them going. A shame, really.
In a greenhouse I’m sure they’d produce quite well.
I have strong Tomato plants as well - probably 3-6 dozen or more growing. Running out of time - I doubt they’ll have time to produce.
We spent 2 1/2 weeks in Sept visiting a new grandson at Wahiawa, HI. What a change in vegetation from the Bluegrass State. Fresh mangos, star fruit, pineapples several others and the Kona coffee is hard to beat.
Country rats? They are kind of clean looking. I found one in our old garage once in south Chicago - years ago, was as big as a cat. Also saw a live one at my sisters in Chicago again on the near north side, walked right past me, unafraid, about 10 week old kitten size. Chicago has a lot of rats!
I still have 3 pepper plants going strong with lots of peppers. We like them red so this time of year I’ll prune off any branches that don’t have fruit. Seems to help the rest of the plant last longer and the fruit mature a little quicker.
Nice. I’m kinda bummed that I’m gonna have 50-70 pepper plants that simply are not going to have the time to mature. Unless we get a slight uptick in temperature. Friday night is heading for 43 degrees and that’s getting too close, too soon for me.
They were mostly an experiment of harvesting seeds out of peppers I cut up - mostly from the store. They all took off but took a little longer than I expected. Still, I learned I can use them. I have hundreds of seeds I dried out for next year hopefully.
If you have a big enough pot you might want to dig up one or 2 and bring them indoors if you have the sun exposure.
Yeah, been thinking about this. It’s a friend’s garden - don’t know if I’ll be allowed to do that. It could buy several weeks. The pots are big enough; wouldn’t have to transplant. I could water outside but they’d still drain for awhile. That might be a problem.
Otherwise, there’s plenty of Sun coming in the back that would work. So, we’ll see.
The case of the Mystery Marauder is solved.
I walked around this afternoon to check the asparagus patch, and that’s where I found the large pile of not so fresh elk manure.
No wonder the top of the anti-deer fence was torn loose in a few spots, which did later allow a couple of deer get in...since repaired.
Hope your strength training is going well. Keep us posted.
If you have a window, you can continue some stuff indoors.
I dug up a pepper plant that hubby had, dumped it into a pot and brought it indoors. It produced pepper plants all winter. I was in front of a Western facing patio door, and I turned on the grow light for 2 hrs after the sun went down.
Same for the tomatoes. I sliced off the branches of every tomato plant that had tomatoes or flowers. Stripped off the bottom leaves, and stuck them into a pot about the height of a 5 gallon bucket. Most of them developed roots, and some even reflowered and grew tomatoes all winter.
I kept a basil plant alive in a 6 inch pot for a little over 5 years, before pitching it - it looked a bit like a bonsai. LOL
We’ve had some wonderful lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, basil and cilantro. We just don’t get enough light or heat to overwinter sucessfully here in Massachusetts, so I am going to put everything to bed for the season. I will miss our gardens, but look forward to next spring. :)
I hope that some of our friends in southern states share some of their pictures and experiences with us during these cold new england months.
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