Posted on 11/15/2013 12:14:17 PM PST by greeneyes
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Have you considered digging it up, and putting it in a pot?
I have done that before a hard freeze, and had some success.
Course, I have also picked the green fruit, washed and dried it, then wrapped in newspaper. It gradually ripened over a couple of months or so, and the taste was far superior to grocery produce around here.
I have it in a large pot now, and it is just a few feet from my tool shed which I can heat with a small heater.
BTW, does anyone need mimosa tree seeds? I thrashed about 100 beans this week and have plenty of seeds to give away.
Darn! Our feral cat population is way down and the poodles are too slow. Netting actually worked out pretty well. I need to eliminate some of the local nests in the trees, yuck. I know day laborers are standing by, but.. This is getting personal. :-) Good luck!
We’re in Missouri, too. I’m hoping to clear a few more garden beds, load them with grass and leaf clippings and then plant some winter rye. Hoping the new beds will be ready for plants in the spring.
Nice egg plants! Wow.
That’s good. Wish I had a shed or better yet, a green house with a little heat. The best would be a sunroom/green house addition on the lower back patio. Right now, I grow stuff in front of the patio doors in the basement.
It gets lots of passive heat when the sun shines in the winter, so even tomatoes grow pretty well, and I usually get a nice crop of lemons over the winter. But if I had that sun room - I could grow so much more stuff.
Course, at my age, such a room would probably never pay for itself in actual money terms, but think of the satisfaction of being able to harvest a little something every day during the winter to eat.LOL
Your cabbage looks amazing! I have yet to successfully grow cabbage. I keep trying and I get sprouts but never anything that full and pretty.
/johnny
It will eventually frost here, sooner or later.
Wow. Look at that lovely produce. It’s a sight for sore eyes this time of the year for me. Thanks so much for posting the pictures.
I’m not Asian but, I bought some Asian stuff to try growing indoors. I really like crunchy stir fry veggies. I do need to reorganize to make room though, and haven’t really had time to do much.
My daughter makes 1 trip every other month or so to the Asian markets in St. Louis, and I stock up on tea and spices, because they are so much cheaper than stuff around here.
We had a chinese hot pot meal last New Year’s Eve that she prepared for us. My granddaughter ate more veggies that way than she ever had before. It was a great meal. Kinda reminded me of fondue. It gave everyone a chance to talk as the next bite was cooking.
I just keep reminding myself, that they could be some good eats, if I decide to put an end to their mischief.LOL
Beautiful!
Here in Massachusetts, it was 18 degrees one night earlier this week, but we had a high today of 69 degrees! This is New England. :)
Here is where I get most of my Asian vegetable seeds:
http://www.evergreenseeds.com/vegetableseeds.html
“...fall and winter months are a great time in Texas to plant the cool weather plants like carrots, in order to avoid the scorching heat of summer.”
I believe it since they are doing so well. I think I’d have to plant carrots/turnips in early March (if we have a freeze, it usually happens in Feb. here), in order to get any carrots/turnips by the middle of June at the latest. Don’t think they would make it through June when the heat really starts in June.
Story about June: When my husband was the Republican County Chair, we had to go to every state convention. The convention is always in June. In May, I would think this isn’t so bad, June will surely be okay. Every single time, I would nearly melt at the convention because you have to walk so much and a lot of it is outside to go from place to place. After about five years of trying to talk myself into thinking June won’t be so bad, the next five years I faced facts and knew I was going to burn up.
Those of us who had been going to convention for several years would be able to pick out the ones being there the first time. They wore nice clothes, dressed up, some women would even wear heels. At their next convention, they would be like us, wearing the coolest garb one had and flat comfortable shoes. That is a work convention, not a “look at me” convention.
Another story about convention: One presidential election year, the first time Hussein won, Ron Paul had pushed to get his young college men as delegates to our state convention so they could try to go to national convention and try to get Paul nominated or just cause trouble. We knew that so we tried to identify the Paul young men. After I had been at convention a few hours, I told one of our state officers it is easy to find them. They all wore suits - young men dressed to the teeth in a suit. She spread the word and we kept these Paul people, or most of them, from being delegates. I don’t know if any were selected but I don’t think any were in my congressional district. No man wears a suit to this hot convention, but the Paul men did. They looked out of place.
Also, every one I saw, carried a brief case. I sat by three of them in my district and it was a blast. They didn’t know how conventions worked so they didn’t know what was coming next. I was helpful and explained what was happening, explained how we voted individually, knowing all the time these guys were not going to be selected as delegates.
If you are going to infiltrate the “enemy”, you need to look like the enemies.
So, I know for sure, June is HOT in Texas.
I have two citrus trees that are in large pots. I just cover them and put a 100w light bulb under the blankets when the temps get close to freezing. I like to keep the tomato plants outside so they can ripen naturally.
“Next year I think I will be putting all my tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and eggplants in pots.”
It certainly does give you more control over the plants. I found out Texas sun here will literally cook the plants if they stay in that sun all day. With the containers, I can give them some shade time to cool off.
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