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Good Morning!
Planting Season is HERE in S. FL!
I have put in seedlings for Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Bok Choy, and Cabbage, and have made little seed beds for green onions, sweet peas, and green beans.
I am going to EAT well in the Spring! LOL!
I'll leave the Kale out there. I'll mulch it. A frost won't hurt it.
Also I am going to ask my next-door neighbor for stem cuttings from his fine "Sweet Millions" tomato plant--- before it's too late! I want to try to raise a little 'mater over the winter. Not because I think it'll bloom and bear (we won't have good enough light for that) but because I want to use it for vegetative cuttings for early "starts" next Spring.
Hope Springs eternal!
Woke up to frost on the ground this morning here in Central Missouri. Garden is just about finished for the year. I’ve got some onions, leeks and salad stuff that will stay, and a row of red russian kale for winter greens. A few leftover brassicas still in the ground that I’m pulling two at a time and feeding to my chickens. We’re supposed to have nice weather over the weekend so hopefully I’ll be able to get my garlic planted.
Still have some jalapenos in the garden but it’s mostly gone to weeds. Can’t wait until next spring. Goofy Texas weather going from 100+ to snow in a month’s time. Halloween night usually brings the first chill. Tax day, April 15th, is usually the last frost.
Garden is still thriving, believe it or not. It’s in a somewhat protected spot and managed to avoid the frost last week. We’ll see how it survives this coming weekend though. Just to be sure hubby dug up all three of the ghost peppers, and one of each of other stuff to see how well we can keep them overwinter in a garage with grow lights.
I’ve taken some cuttings from various tomatoes. Thanks Ellendra (IIRC) for that idea. My daughter loves sungold tomatoes and I hate to have to buy seeds for that every year.
Hubby’s built little tents for the remaining squash still ripening. He took some fencing, cut about a 4ft section, bent it into an arch and we’ve wrapped plastic around it for a little tunnel. We put two of those over the squash and along 6-7ft of the vine itself. We’ve had amazing growth even though we’ve had somewhat coolish nights lately. We’ll definitely do that again, probably next spring to get a head start on stuff. Also keeps the deer away.
Onions (vidalia type) sprouting nicely in their little flats and broccoli in. Have plans to plant more lettuce for the raised beds today as well.
It’s all good right now.
Algoflash, late season sun, and artificial light. Holiday tomatoes and hot peppers? We'll see...
For anyone who has black walnuts and needs a better way to crack them, this looks promising: http://www.durgan.org/2011/October%202011/24%20October%202011%20Cracking%20Black%20Walnuts%20(Juglans%20nigra)/HTML/index.htm
My garden can’t seem to decide what it wants to do next. There have been enough frosts to kill the zucchini, but it hasn’t touched the tomatoes or strawberries. And I had already picked all the green tomatoes ahead of one of those frosts :/
The pile of rolled-up paper towels with dried seeds stuck to them is getting bigger! I’ve got pumpkin, watermelon, cucumber, and tomato seeds in the paper towels. I figure it simplifies cleaning them, just smear the seeds onto the towel, let dry, roll up for storage, then at planting time all I have to do is tear off the bit of towel the seed is stuck to.
I also have almost a cup and a half of bean seeds, and one spike of amaranth seeds.