Posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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The persimmons are starting to ripen found a couple to eat. They are so delicious, and sooooooo rich-a little goes a long way. I am still learning how to tell the ripe ones. I don't put them up yet, because even 1 unripe persimmon can ruin the whole batch.
I just enjoy them as a seasonal fruit to go with my morning meal. The critters get the rest. My pepper plants are full of green peppers, but I am just leaving them for now, and harvesting them as I need one. Once they turn red, though I pick them and bring them in and dry some of them for winter use.
As long as the weather holds, I'll leave them in the garden. When the first frost is predicted, I'll dig up some and put them in pots to grow this winter indoors. I think my peanuts are ready to harvest. I got a late start on those.
Hope you are all doing well. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Good Afternoon. For those who plant by the moon’s phases, today and tomorrow are good for root bearing crops. I need to plant some more onions, and Daikon Minowase Radishes.
My grow light that is just like Marcella’s is supposed to arrive at Walmart today, so that should keep me entertained this weekend as I think of things to plant under it.
there's still a few tomatoes, and 2 zukes, and the squash, but the squash didn't get very big..not enough water?
I've planted elephant garlic and some regular garlic....the price around here is $9.99 a pound....sounds high to me but the bulbs were good size...
I've done some drying of parsley and peppers...put a bunch of anaheims and a few jalepenos in the freezer....and I've canned about 19 qts of tomatoes...
broke down and got a Mirror pressure canner, and for all reading this...the pressure knob does NOT jiggle, it spins and hisses...LOL...
I've planted 4 "heritage" raspberries...and I've ordered some flowers but they're not here yet and I hope I can get them in the ground...
garden was so-so this year....but there's always next year....
Thanks for the thread and ping. I just got cleaned up after picking around a bushel of green beans. Some Jade, French fillet, and Purple Queen pole beans, and some other kind of pole beans... the easy part done, now to the laborious task of snapping, cutting, washing, and canning...
I have nearly reached my wall in storing away food. It is really hard to even use my hands to describe it.
I am ready to plant my garlic, but it hasn’t arrived yet. Sigh.
Thank you for that info. I’ve got turnips & carrots to plant & been lollygaggin’.
Tomorrow is good!
I have upgraded my pyrolyzer to something larger, and now make charcoal about 2 gallons at a batch. Still running the bioreactor and making a new batch of compost tea every day.
Rain is forcast for this weekend, so that will help. My rain barrel is almost empty again.
/johnny
Maybe I will grow yellow squash and change its name to squish in honor of our gutless wonders in DC. On second thought there is more honor and godly purpose in a humble yellow squash compared to the destructive 2 legged insects crawling all over DC.
In other news my little North Texas garden is making a little rebound after surviving the late summer scorch of heat. Rain is on the way so some good news in this post at least.
Just simply beautiful and I did not have to move a muscle. Thanks. I did not have much time for flowers this year and I do love flowers.
Can you share some garlic planting tips? It will be my first time and I will use a 5 gal. bucket or two. Is it better to buy the bulbs from a nursery or can you use store bought garlic and just plant the individual cloves?
Yes, there is always next year. We are learning what we have the most success with, and which plants take the least effort in our area.
This year was our first for potatoes. That’s because we started with the stuff we like that is high priced. Potatoes are always very affordable, so we are just now getting around to them.
We only planted around 3 lbs, and got about 30 lbs of produce. The smaller ones we are going to try to use as seed potatoes next spring. There is a big difference between these potatoes and the store potatoes-they are very crisp.
I also like potato skins, but won’t eat the ones in the store, because I don’t know what kind of soil/pesticide contaminants they may have been grown in. So it’s a real treat to have these that we have grown.
Green beans have done well each year. Green peppers and tomatoes, Lettuce and spinach are all successes.
We’ll have all those next year. I am also going to have more containers than this year. I had almost none compared to previous years.
I use store-bought. The reason they say not to is by suggestion that certain chemicals are used in store-bought that inhibit your crop production. Since you are peeling the individual cloves I would think that is hardly a consideration. The goal is to find nice big bulbs so that you can plant nice big cloves. The other reason they say not to buy store-bought is to make money!
Yes, I have more desire to put up food, than my body can handle. Hubby helps, but I still would like to do so much more.
Course if I did, I’d have to build some more storage areas. My current shelves are very full.
;^)..........
My reminder to plant garlic is Halloween.
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