Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 08/26/2011 10:14:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good afternoon gardeners. I hope all of you in the path of Irene heed the warnings and please stay safe! Not much gong on garden wise here in East Central Mississippi. I am just waiting to see how a few paste tomatoes do. And while I am waiting I decided to use some of my pears to make preserves. I am using the recipe I posted on last weeks thread, which calls for a little activity and a lot of waiting. I will be doing the final canning step this morning. This recipe may be way to sweet for my taste. So with all this waiting time I had, I needed to fill the time some how so I ordered a Beer making kit, which I understand includes a lot of waiting also. Now I am just waiting for FR to come back up so I can post this week’s thread. I have been doing a lot of waiting and it is tiring.
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Weekly Gardening Thread
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In central NJ we are battening down the hatches, so to speak.
Zucchini and yellow squash are really producing. Tomatoes have produced nothing yet. Ready to start digging up some potatoes too.
I ordered some Datil pepper seeds. Hopefully they will show up soon enough for me to germinate a couple and keep them indoors over the winter so they will have a healthy start for next spring when the warm weather returns. We are in Gerogia, which never gets hit by hurricanes, so good look to those not as lucky as we are. My sister lives in Virginia Beach and they are preparing for the worst.
Harvested eggplant a Pablanos this week. Getting beds ready for fall/winter crops. Need rain.
My Brussels sprouts are finally forming up. Thanks to those who answered ny question about them a few weeks ago.
Of course, now they’ll have to deal with Irene passing over!!
Off to pick as much as I can. I planted purple green beans and they sure do produce!! Too bad most of my harvest has been blanched and frozen. Have all coolers ready to go & will be getting ice tomorrow, just in case we lose power.
My 5.5 lbs of fruit became 2 lbs of fruit after pealing and coring and cutting and a few of the pears were just to ripe to can and were eaten.
Thanks for the thread RD. I have been checking in all morning to see if we were back up and running. Not a lot going on here either.
With the break from the heat the tomatoes and melons have new flowers and some fruit starting. Green beans are flowering again.
Hubby’s grapes have been ripening. Yesterday morning the boards laying on the netting was disturbed, and all the grapes halfway up were gone. So he picked the rest. Got about 3 gallons. He has baited a trap hoping to catch the critter.
About 2 months ago, I had ordered some seeds and plants that were on sale, and they sent me a card saying it would all ship next spring. Most of it arrived yesterday instead.
It included some red potato starts. Will just barely have time to mature before first frost. Guess I’ll try it, and may be put some in containers that I can drag into the house if I need to.
Other stuff was stevia, and hardy kiwi. Seeds will be great for my winter garden, and next springs indoor seedlings.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Eye of Irene passing close by on Sunday night...hoping it spends a lot of time over land before it gets here, or my 12-foot corn is doomed. My tomatoes are tied up on cattle panels, so they MAY make it...
Waiting for FR to come back up was VERY tiring......especially while also awaiting a visit from that huge witch in the Atlantic.
Are you planning on Evac?
Our tomatoes have suddenly taken off here in north Idaho. We planted some heirlooms and they are all chock full...
Here in coastal VA, we’re doing the same thing.
Wow the whole state of Texas is experiencing sever drought!
It’s a good thing I have “Remember in Benderville when”... on Face Book to occupy my mind when when FR is down...
I noticed Costco had Pears $5.00 per flat for those that don’t access to Red’s orchard...
There were a few showers in N & E Texas this week on Wed & yesterday, so it may not be quite that bad. The map reflects the conditions on Aug 23, but with the heat this weekend, that moisture will be gone.
No, we’re staying put. We were supposed to spend the weekend in Delaware, but the visitor is going there as well.
We can’t even go to the Hurricane party being held on Chincoteague right now because they are only letting residents onto the Island and all visitors have to be off Island by 6pm.
The Chesapeake Bay coastal evacuation zone ends 1/10 of a mile west of my property. Unlike my friends to the north of me, we have had no rain and so I’m not worried about over saturated ground.
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