Posted on 12/02/2011 5:11:38 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I can’t believe it is already December, Brrrrrrrrr! It is 27 this morning in East Central Mississippi and is forecast to be in the mid 60s this afternoon. There are no plans to do any outside work for this gardener today. What needs to be done can wait until Saturday and Sunday when it is supposed to be in the high 60s and into the 70s. Just waiting for Spring now.
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It does look nice enough, but that is my back yard. I only have to lift my head enough to look over the monitor to see it. The garden is going in the area between the maples with the fallen branch and the brush row beyond it. The stuff of which white Christmases are made is 8 inches deep in the picture. We got another inch last night.
I’m gonna plant some of that lettuce next spring.
I think you have been the only one to beat me in posting the ping list - I had to go get another cup of coffee and forgot where I was in the posting process. LOL
I understand the need for another cup if coffee. I was eating my cereal when I saw your post.
Just got my Johnnys Seeds catalog. Can’t wait to sit down with a cup of coffee and start dreaming of next year’s garden! I hope to try wintersowing, so maybe I’ll order a pack or two of seeds for that.
We've got around 1,000 acres of wheat planted on the farm, and it looks really good at this point. Just enough rain has fallen to get it off to a good start. The fields are wet enough that we will not get any more planted though.
Installation of our solar system begins next week. By the end of December our home and all of the outbuildings, except the donkey barn, will be 100% solar. This is a very exciting step for us on the road to complete self-sufficiency. We had originally planned 2 windmills, but in the long run solar won out. We will install 1 small windmill to operate a well supplying water and power to the livestock areas.
Time to concentrate on some serious hunting and fishing before Christmas. My husband killed a little buck last night, but we had to take it to the processor because the weather was not cool enough to hang it here. I plan on canning a bunch of deer meat this year. I've been canning chicken for a few years now and it is so convenient to have meat that is already cooked and ready to put into a meal. That will make room for more fish in the freezer :)
All of my beehives have been winterized, although the bees still work on warm days like we are having now. I've really enjoyed my first year of beekeeping and would highly recommend it to anyone. They are fun, fascinating, and do the garden a world of good. The honey is a great reward as well.
My best regards to all of my gardening FRiends!
Good for you! I joined Weight Watchers in late Sept and have lost about 12. I don’t have the salad garden you have though! Up here in cold Pa there’s nothing growing in my garden!
That is lovely!
Very pretty lettuce! My raised bed of various lettuces and baby greens this past year was an attractive addition to the garden.
I had been told by my doctor that i am diabetic. So I cut all the carbs and anything WHITE from my diet, and the pounds just fell off!
Forgot to mention that these suckers got almost a foot in diameter. Could smack myself with a tire iron, these are volunteer because I let them go to seed, and when I picked the seed heads I was in a hurry and put them in a plastic bag in the hot barn.
Forgot about them for a couple of weeks because I was so behind on weeding and the heads promptly molded and went to waste. And of course I’m all out of that batch of seed. Hope I can find as good as strain as that again.
Lovely weather here in Benderville altho we did have a frost yesterday morning but I don’t see any damage yet. Still eating a few Raspberries every other day, Garlic is looking good and a few perennial flowers blooming. Lots of cleanup to do but we found time to go over to the Church and bring home a pickup load of Redwood needles for future compost material. They have a vacuum/shredder to clean the parking lot that reduces the volume. I got a new bigger iMac last night and will get it booted up today...
and you are now on my official ignore list!
I have to give the winter garden another row cover and straw sometime today or tomorrow. The indoor garden is sparse this year with out all the tomato pots I had planned.
The spinach is doing well, as are the herbs.
We are still eating tomatoes from the garden that we wrapped in paper while green. I am hoping the one pot of tomatoes takes off soon.
We have only received 2 seed catalogs so far. Have a great weekend everyone. God Bless.
About 1 1/2 feet of snow on the ground here in Colorado.
I am so impressed with all you have accomplished. Congratulations! I have books (now over 25 years old) about doing all that (solar, windmills) but met resistance from my husband who thought it wasn’t practical for us. He was probably right. There used to be a man who lived near me with 2 modern windmills on his farm. He offered to meet with us on all the ins and outs of establishing wind power as one of our sources of power. But, we never met, and he died. The heirs sold the farm.
A friend of mine purchased the buildings and land, but a pesky neighbor of hers kept cutting the wire between the windmills and the house! So, now the windmills have been removed. Can you imagine?
What did I do to tick you off? Whatever it was, I'm sorry.
HI Red Devil and the gardening list.
On my wish list this year... I would appreciate anyone that can tell me how to protect myself from wasp stings and how to naturally get rid of these wasps.
We have acreage and I was stung this summer twice by swarms — the first swarm was from the typical mud/dirt dweller type wasps and the the last set was the German Yellow Jackets.
I’ve done a lot of reading online and I’m going to order (if possible) Dragon Flies and Preying Mantis’. I was going to buy about a dozen Purple Martin bird houses, but I read recently that wasps like to take over bird houses.
Ideas and Suggestions most appreciated.
I was just teasing you over you patting yourself on the back for the first reply to this thread. It happens to me on the Nascar and FReepathon threads and it’s all in fun...
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