Posted on 09/10/2010 5:09:56 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. This is the first year that I will have a fall garden. I have decided to try few broccoli and cabbage plants. I decided to visit our local County Co-Op a couple of days ago and they had starts of both and I bought a nine-pack cell of each. I hope they do well because we are still having 90 degree days with overnights in the mid to high 60’s. They also had starts for various types of tomato plants which kind of surprised me.
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Good that your area got some rain. My daughter lives and teaches in the Katy ISD. She says they got quite a bit of rain too. Not near as much as we did, but enough to make everything nice and green.
Gulfport.
Seriously, you have to try these. They would be about the same planting time throughout the state, they like the cooler weather by far so they’ll grow all winter down here. Right now is the time to plant them. Lettuce, kale, collards, winter radish (we eat the roots as well as the greens), turnip, rutabaga, mustard, beets, all the salad goodies, plant them now and throughout the winter. I’ll gladly send you some seeds if you’d like.
The fires are about 10 miles north. Forest in between, but fortunately the wind is not blowing it in this direction.
That is good to hear. Heard a report earlier that the winds were kicking up to 20mph in the fire area. You must be able to see the haze from all that smoke/
Diatomacious earth doesn't cut it..
I need sevin.
What kind of tomato was that in the photo of you holding a tomato on your website?
We planted black beans straight out of the grocery this year.
Let the beans dry on the vine..Will take a few weeks.
Let them air dry for a few days after you have picked and shelled them.
Put them in a jar with powdered milk and store in the fridge or in the coolest/non frozen part of your house.
I also use DE.
I can see the fire area from here. Mt Thorodin is the highest of the front range peaks around here. Looking north I am looking down on the fire area.
Core your tomatoes and stick them in the freezer.
When you want to use them.. slip them into water for a few minutes..The skin slides off easier than if you blanch them.
When my wife moved to Tennessee (first time in the south for the poor Yankee girl); she just couldn't understand what all the fuss about 'bald peanuts' was...
I was spraying DE the other day.. The moth mother just kept flying into the cloud.
She was hell bound and determined to lay her brood on my kale.
Now I am wanting boiled p-nuts!
Oh and thems “bald” peanuts do be good! Salty and juicy and great with a beer or two! I may have to get me some more green peanuts.
That is a Goldman’s Italian Heirloom tomato. It was my ‘prized’ tomato. There were many more than that but that one was the biggest. The vines were about 10 feet tall. I saved seeds if you’d like some, and other tomatoes as well. I originally got the seeds from Baker Creek.
Thanks for the info. Did you have trouble with diseases on them in Gulfport?
We went on a 'hot wing road trip' to South Carolina shortly after we moved... I saw a produce stand on the roadside advertising 'boiled peanuts'...told my wife that it appeared they were selling those 'bald peanuts' she was hearing about...LOL!
Not until it started getting really hot. I kept the bugs (and I suppose diseases) and everything off with a mix of Ivory soap and water, and the vines were huge.
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