Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 11/13/2009 4:00:02 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida made land fall in Alabama went quickly degraded moving slowly northeast up through and Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia causing considerable flooding along its path. There are many Freeper gardeners this event may have affected. I know the two Freepers, Gardengirl and Gabz who started the original Gardening thread, live in the coastal areas of N.C. and Va. and I hope y’all are safe and well.
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Weekly Gardening Thread
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...just about time to get those broccoli seedlings rolling.
I am going to try growing lettuce and spinach in indoor containers while we are buried under snow all winter...might even try a tomato plant or two in the kitchen. I brought my hot pepper plants inside, and they are still producing. One is so big I am using for an attractive floor plant in my living room.
Top Ten! :)
Gabz is OK. ‘Puter problems, but she’s been through these types of storms before. She’ll button up her house tight and ride it out.
I froze some of my jalapeno fresh and oven roasted a huge bunch and then froze. More good stuff!
Headed to the garden later today to assess the storm damage. It was not near as bad as the Sept-Oct event we had here. I wrecked my car in that one, sniff.
We should have radishes, mustard, lettuce and maybe spinach today. Probably will need to fertilize again as those rains just wash our little raised beds.
Tomorrow the community gardeners are planting fruit trees all around our garden so we can share some fruit in season in a few years. At least, what the birds and bugs don’t get.
That sounds pretty good...I’ll pass that on to my wife, who is always looking for something to do with hot peppers. We had jerk chicken on the grill last week...marinated the chicken overnight in a jerk sauce made with chocolate habaneros.
Morning! Had the garden club meeting at my house last night.,Shared pictures of Just-a’ cukes on the trellis and the five gallon bucket potatoe garden as well as a walk though of my garden with brief exerpts of Lasagne Garden and Square foot Garden methods. Also comparison of compost pile and composing in the garden plot.
Taking a friend to Dr and then back to work to finish greenhouse, before beginning the Christmas season...Yes must start early as son will be going on tour with BIGDAMNBAND.com soon...Americana blues music with a punk R&R twist:
Mama’s Fried Potatoes, Walmart Killed the Country Store, Cornbread/Cornfed, Over in the Hollar(anti meth song)...etc.
Just good ol Red Neck Hoosier music!
My various pepper plants were the only plants to survive all the rain we had in early Oct. They were the last thing I finally cleared out. I bet they wouls still be producing but I did need to get the garden cleaned up for winter.
Around here it’s time to break out the snow tires and snow shovels.
We had a rare 2-3 inch snow fall last year lasted on the ground a few hours.
We had one light snowfall already this year.
Not so rare, unfortunately.
Although, so far so good. It’s not unusual for us to have significant amounts of snow in Nov, enough to open the ski resorts about Thanksgiving time.
I consider it a good year if a white Christmas is welcome instead of *Not snow again.....*.
Most of my radishes, turnips, and lettuce will have to be replanted. We had over 15” during Oct & Nov and they drowned.
There has not been enough heat and sun to dry out my garden to pull up the dead vegetation and those eternal weeds are starting new growth. I figure I will allow what weed seeds that can germinate until they get frozen will be that many fewer to deal with next year. Every time I hear a neighbors lawn mower humming I know they are broadcasting to my garden a new weed planting.
I have started inside my new ‘play house’ (6x8 greenhouse) some cucumbers that are just now starting to show signs of blossoms, and transplanted 8 Romaine lettuce plants into pots that are now about 6 inches tall. I had some of those hanging tomato planters that I brought inside that had been on the deck that had not died and am attempting to see if they will produce more tomatoes. One is showing signs it will produce. I am taking a very small paint brush to pollinate the blossoms myself. We shall see.
The posts about making wine from frozen juice concentrate may turn out to be the winners, but I’m still waiting for the first batch to be sure.
I'll try that next year - a couple in containers to stretch out the season. Did you start them in containers, or dig them up at the end of outdoor-season and transplant them?
How did you do yours?
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