Posted on 10/09/2009 5:31:49 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. Running a little late with the post this morning. My garden area is now clear of plants. If the daily rain showers will just by pass me for a few days I will do a final tilling and remove a few more of the roots left behind. To all of you with Fall/Winter gardens I wish you the best.
what a beautiful garden!!!!
Mmmmmmmm ... backstrap steaks with broccoli and cheese sauce. Go get ‘em Opa.
Somebody promised to ping you over here today and, as any good stalker would, I’m making sure that you got the invite. ;-)
It looks like the Humboldt Bay region may receive some needed rain next week. Our garden chores are at a stand still as my wife’s sister is visiting from Golden Co and we are having a grand time showing her the places of her youth. We went the farmers market yesterday morning to buy Cherokee Purple tomatoes and some Delicata Squash plus the farmers are still harvesting many crops.
Wednesday we visited a former inlaw at her Fieldbrook Valley Apple Farm in Fieldbrook Calif where she grows 50 varieties on 700 trees planted 8’X10’ spacing. The rootstock is semi-dwarf and pruned to Loper high with no ladders used. It is a sight to see and it’s just the 2 of them and one part time helper. They sell at the farm, market, local stores and the school lunch program. The trees are enormous producers!
I couldn’t remember his handle but I should have known not to worry...
I might have to try those here in the Coachella Valley.....in the past, we've gotten starter sets in late January and they're done by mid-April.
In September we started experimenting with winter container gardening.......peppers and cabbage are definitely proceeding better than they did during our summer.
Kennebec is what our legendary In-N-Out Burger chain uses for their fries....fresh daily; beyond delicious.
Dang... I forgot to ad that those 700 trees are planted on 2.5 acres. The farm shows up on Google Dirt really good. On G/E type in Fieldbrook Ca Fieldbrook Valley Apple farm. The pointer is off a little so scroll down and to the right...
Kennebec was the best producer of all the varieties. I also got two red potatos my wife found sprouting in the back of the pantry. I cut them up, let them dry a few days and planted them in an unplanted area of a front flower bed. They produced pretty well too.
Wish I had a quick pic of the frozen remains of my tomato and pepper plants and leafless trees, to stand in stark contrast to your idyllic photo. Western South Dakota is done for the season. We did get 12 quarts of sliced apples from our tree put up.
The freeze was not inordinately early, but still a bit early. Might have saved the plants for a day or two by covering, but the freezes kept coming nightly, and tomorrow is supposed to be the worst of it before warming up next week.
Is Nervous Tick supposed to be added the ping list?
That’s what he said on the Stalking Thread. I’ll look for his post...
Nummies! I was thinking country fried deer and gravy/maybe some jerky! Only prob with jerky is you can eat a 5# roast all by yoursel in about 5 minutes! LOL Have to make it and hide it or the kids will disappear it all in a blink. :)
Sounds like you’re having a geat time! Wish I could send you some rain! sposed to rain again this aft and tom. Sigh
>> Hopefully Tick will request a permanent spot on the ping list.
Sure, why not! I can use all the vitamins I can get.
Please put me on the ping list; Just don’t *post* to me or I’ll tell Admin Mod*. ;-)
Plus, work *sometimes* gets in the way. Like today. :-(
* inside joke for some of y’all
Ditto, except make that snow showers; and pull the last of the beets.
Several hard freezes, down tas low as 20F in the last two weeks, freezing the unripe late corn in its tracks--a total bust.
This hit 3-4 weeks earlier than normal, so we aren't nearly done with our Fall preparations. At least the flower beds & bulbs got mulched.
The new steam juicer did arrive in time to run two batches of apples through it.
Several record lows have been set around the area; and two of the highways that do not recieve "winter maintenance" were already closed for the season last weekend--much earlier than normal. Wet snow + high winds (up to 70 MPH gusts) + leaves still on the trees = a HUGE number of broken limbs * downed or snapped off trees throught the Black Hills. The wildlife wasn't ready for this either.
Done!
How did your potato tires do?
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