Weekly Gardening Thread
Weekly Gardening Thread
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When to plant turnips and root crops?.................
The kids and I will be grabbing the rest of the tomatoes today. I have gobs of Romas still out there. I will be stewing and canning them - easy peasy. The remaining peppers are small, and the rest of the beans need picked. We are supposed to get below 32* tonight, so it’s a “must do today” thing.
We harvested the Sugar Pie pumpkins and spaghetti squash a week or two ago. My vines got powdery mildew, so they were dying off pretty quickly. The squash is curing nicely. :) The spaghetti squash was so good buttered, it tasted so sweet to me! I love it. And I can’t wait to make FRESH pumpkin pie. Yum.
You all inspired me this year, and this is probably the best harvest year we’ve ever had. We normally lose out to weeds and pests. Many good ideas are posted, and I can’t wait until late winter/early spring to start over.
It is supposed to get down to 45 tonight here in the Dallas area, does that mean an end to tomatoes and peppers?
Thanks for the ping, R/D.
After our 7” of snow last weekend here in Central Oregon we are in a “clean-up” mode. We did get the garlic planted and will now focus on flowering blubs this weekend.
Liberty Thug - our forecast low for tomorrow is single digits due to that artic blast coming down from the ‘pole.
Count your blessings. We hope that after breaking thru the frozen layer we can plant blubs.
Weekly visit to the nursery last weekend discovered “winter tomatoes” so bought two and planted them. Never heard of them before, but we’ll give them a try and see how they do here in So.CA.
Six nice sized pumpkins are going to be ready for carving for Halloween. Still have a nice harvest of egg plant going, one Japanese and one regular.
Morning all.
Our transplant lettuces and chard are looking good. Our seeds of lettuce, leeks, mustard greens, spinach and radishes are going to town. We had some heavy rains this past week that did not help, but the sun is supposed to appear more just in time.
Last week, I finally cleared my tiny garden space, mixed in some compost and planted fall/winter stuff.
I have no idea if anything will actually come up.
I’m just hoping for the best.
Mornin’ all! :)
The sun is shining and I finally got out in the garden last evening! Lost one broccoli and two collards, only found one carrot sprout, and the onions look great! Found lots of deer prints. I showed them to the gbaby. Told him, “You know what those are? Deer prints! You know what? Opa’s gonna have to get his gun and shoot them.” He told me, 2 1/2 yo, totally serious—”I’ll get my gun and shoot them.” He went back in and ran to his gpa. “Opa, Opa, deer prints in garden! Shoot them! LOL
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!
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.