Good morning! The garden has been abandoned, but we have 4 acres of pumpkins. It was fun being decorative with some of our harvest!
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My onions are doing well.
Good morning!!!!
I’m going to start the garden clean out this weekend.
I have lots and lots of tiny green maters, so I’m going to be making lots of pickles on Monday!
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Outside clean-up continues by much has been done. Garlic planted, still more lilacs to trim but most are done, need to set a date to blow out the sprinkers & contemplate that final short-cut mowing.
Falling leaves are nice & pretty. Just once though I’d like to see the trees do a Charlie Brown type fall. One moment all there, then “thump” all on the ground.
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First time gardening in the South for me and I lost everything I planted. Too much sand down here. I planted a trial garden so I didn’t plant a lot but hopefully I learned a lot. I need dirt and lots of it.
I planted 50 sweet white onions last weekend and they are doing great. The entire garden is doing well, since we had over 7 inches of rain in Sep. That was our wettest month since Jul 07.
We are still way behind in moisture, but expect around 4 inches this weekend. Hopefully it will be heavy enough to add a few feet to the lake levels and aquifers.
GOt the foundation of my greenhouse poured just before the rain yesterday.....First time I’ve done concrete work by myself....My son is going to teach me to lay the cement blocks.......If it all goes well I thought of a half dozen little project to add to the hardscape.
Planted garlic this week. Havested some potatoes and carrots. Used the lasagna method for pototoes....A thick layer of newspapers, seed potatoes and cover with thick layer of straw...TO harvest just lift the straw.
Nice new red potatoes....
Planted my carrots in a raised sand bed. THe ones I picked yesterday were 8-10 inches long....Beautiful.
A question for you all,
Looking for suggestions for plant materials for a cottage-garden type garden for a space that is right above the ocean in central California. Can get gale force winds,and plenty of salt in the air at times so the plants must be very hardy.
Rosemary,lavender and Myoporum can grow there.
Also looking for roses that would be hardy enough for this environment. repeat bloom and fragrance would be appreciated.
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I still have the leeks to pull. And I planted radish and Mescaline lettuce seed where I dug up my potatoes...
I still am getting the volunteer yellow pear shaped tomatoes. I say volunteer because 4 years back I planted 6 plants in my raised snow pea bed after the peas were done producing. And every year since I have had these volunteer plants show up in the same bed.
IF the frost will hold off one week plus I will have another huge picking of French green beans, purple and pole beans. I found of all the varieties of beans I planted this year I like the French green beans the best. This is the first year I have planted the French green bean variety and they are wonderful stir fried.
Although the ‘growing’ season is almost at end, I still have a lot of work, cleaning up and out before the earth freezes. And then start the action all over again.
Good morning! The garden has been abandoned, but we have 4 acres of pumpkins. It was fun being decorative with some of our harvest!
The utility room is cluttered with 6 fully loaded, pulled up tomato plants waiting to be hung; 30+ ripe pumpkins & a couple of dozen winter squash are scattered around curing before final storage.
Last 10’ of potatoes will be dug right after I finish posting this.
The big surprise was the 6 or 8 bush lima bean plants that survived the hail, cool summer, and grasshoppers. I had planned to just turn them under, so let them grow. We pulled them out, and they were LOADED! The pods almost filled a plastic produce bag, and took the two of us a good half hour or more to shell!
The pimientos are finally turning red...on the kitchen table.
The Hickory King corn is pretty much a bust. Not hot enough for it this year; and the grasshoppers ate so much of the silks that the ears mostly only set scattered kernels.
We're leaving the last few beets & the Swiss chard in the ground for a while longer.
The fridge & counters are covered with squash, peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes; and several sacks of potatoes are ready for storage. Twentyfour quarts of stewed tomatoes are already canned.
All in all, despite the terrible challenges of going from spring to fall without much of a summer & the grasshopper plague, it was a productive year.
Winter project: restore the apple grinder in the barn; and build (I have the plans) a cider press. IF my gift certificarte is in today's mail, I'm also ordering the steam juicer we want, from Amazon, tonight.
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