Taken a couple of hours ago:
doesn't look like much, but we're in a protected hollow; quite a bit more surrouonding us; and it's still coming until nearly noon tomorrow. No more gardening here this year!
Taken a couple of hours ago:
doesn't look like much, but we're in a protected hollow; quite a bit more surrouonding us; and it's still coming until nearly noon tomorrow. No more gardening here this year!
/johnny
Garden thread ping
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Who has more of the list & can ping them?
Wow!
That is an incredible (and beautiful) photograph, but wow, no more gardening for sure.
OMG .... even the Garden Thread is a victim of the government shutdown .... who knew? /s/
We’re going to be running near 90 tomorrow .... very humid tonight ... tropical storm Karen coming in Monday with several inches of rain in the forecast.
I am going to the State Fair tomorrow ..... looking forward to it!
Looking for tips on South Florida upside down tomato growing - if anyone knows any. I don’t have the cheap topsy-turvy things, but some good canvas ones w/trays and a wick waterer.
I tried doing it two seasons ago with homemade buckets, but the humidity and rain got to them. I hope that the tray (keeping out all the rain) and the wick will solve this.
Not looking for little tomatoes, but realize the real big ones aren’t easy to pull off.
Anyone w/ any hints on which plants to purchase and where to purchase them - I’d be greatly appreciative.
Everyone have a great weekend!
That’s some nice global warming there!
Weather is still nice here in the Chicagoland area (was 75 or so today); and we are still working to find an easy, inexpensive way to cover our tomatoes as they are growing very well and look great; they seem to like our new place [their location] which we moved into Sept. 1&2.Thanks, Johnny for the ping.
Ditto Johnny’s WOW! on your snow in contrast to us dripping with sweat here. It’s been in the 90s but did get some sprinkles this week. Maybe Karen will bring some rain and lower temps.
Woohoo! Finally getting the first bell pepper of the year. About time. Still waiting on the “other” maters.
We have no rain since Monday. Finished Sept of with 13 3/4 inches for the month, usually an average of 4.46”
The main veggie patch gets yanked up and cleared out for preparations for next spring’ tomato garden.
The ghost peppers are really making peppers now. That stuff is seriously hot.
My Meyers lemon has one lemon that is about large enough to ripen.
Gunna get final pictures of the ornamental beds and containers for my wife’s blog and Youtube channel.
I get to start cleaning up the attached garage so the I can make it into a woodworking shop. That’s a bigger task than it may sound.
Thanks for the pings and sorry I’m late. The weather has been fabulous here and am making slow progress in the garden with cleanup which involves many things like adding to the compost piles moving ahead on the Garlic bed and am ready to spade that soon. I don’t mind being 80 but the BP meds slow me down especially the Statin drug. I’ll have a couple of photos of some things to post later...
After critters ate about 3/4 of my chickpeas, I still harvested almost enough to replace what I’d planted.
Yeah, fences going up next year. Definitely.
I have piles and piles of seeds drying now. Tomatoes, squash, beans, chickpeas, etc. And my tomatoes keep ripening! They need caged better next time, they’re folding in on themselves so much it’s hard to see if there are tomatoes under all that vine.
Not much to report this week, I won’t be getting out to my land because of the rain expected, and everything is kind of finishing up. I do have 3 tupperware full of squash and a slow cooker full of tomatoe sauce in the fridge that I need to do something with.
Mainly I’m just tired.
Hi Gardening Friends, I hope y’all don’t mind a little non-gardening vanity post? I thought I would let y’all in on a little good news affecting Mrs. Red Devil and me. Many of you know we moved from Marshall, Tx back to our home in Meridian, Ms around the first of July. Mrs. RD has worked at WalMart for a little over ten years and had applied for an open position at a Walmart in Meridian that would bring us back to our Home in Meridian. Her request for a transfer was approved. We made the move (at our expense), which really put us in a bind finically. But we would work through it. I am retired and collecting SS and she has been an assistant manager at WalMart for years.
She was promoted to Store Manager of the WalMart she transferred to this past Monday. This is a big promotion within the WalMart Company. She thinks it may only be temporary and a test of her ability. I am being very positive and optimistic about her promotion! She has been working toward this position for years and finally made her goal. I am very, very proud of her accomplishment!
I hope y’all will wish her success in her new position.
I will be back gardening full tilt this coming Spring and contributing to this thread as much as I can.
Beautiful! Thank you for posting. Also, the pinglist is on greeneyes’ profile page and thanks for that, too!
That is so pretty. Stay warm. How are the fowl doing?
Not much left but a few tomatoes, some herbs & collard greens.
Started some cilantro(seems to do well near grapes), lettuce, brussells sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, celery, cumin & onions.
Thanks for the encouraging words re: asparagus seedlings. They are now over a foot high and even made a few tiny spears. Wonder if we’ll be able to eat off them next spring?
Snow is nearly all gone, (did I ever mention that I hate mud?) and the bent to the ground trees are straightening back up. Most of the pumpkins are still more than half buried in snow, as are the carrots & leeks.
The two largest Brussels sprouts got laid over, but not broken, by the combined wind & snow, but should be fine.
I THINK this finally did in the potato vines once and for all, but I won’t bet the rent on it; these have more lives than a cat.
Found and disposed of a packrat inside the rabbit pellet bin yesterday; it had forced the lid open to get in, then couldn’t get back out. Not sure which of was more surprised.
When I came back down from feeding & watering critters today, I had to bribe a flock of turkeys with scratch grain, well away from the house, to get them out of yard. They were scratching up the flower beds, and breaking some of the taller plants. Yes, I have turkey tags, and counting down....
Yesterday, it was seven deer chomping on my 5 YO plum tree, as well was trying to get remaining apples out of the apple trees. 30 days to deer season....
That poor plum has had loose cows mangle the chicken wire fence around it to chew on it; a large pine blew down on top of it; now the deer are attacking it. It has a strong will to live, as it keeps on growing. It flowered this year, and should fruit next year.
Today, I took my baggie of cherry seeds out of the fridge drawer to see if any had sprouted yet: not a single seed out of the 20+ in it were there: they had all totally composted themselves. :-(
That picture reminds me of my year in Vermillion S. Dakota. It snowed 21 inches in October-lst snowfall of the year. It didn’t disappear till June of the next year.
All you who live in Northern Climates have my sympathy, and admiration-I just don’t think I could live there year round for very long.