Oh, guess it’s too late in the season for them to mature. I’ll keep them on plant to see if that will happen, saying hopefully.
It is still too hot here to deal with plants. October will be cooler and I’ll get a 4x4 planter, fill it with potting soil mix and put the Walking Onions in it. Will need to buy some net and row cover to keep birds/squirrels off plus enough cover so they won’t freeze.
When the first cold hits, the orange tree will come in the house in a sunny area in the kitchen behind the breakfast table.
Think I will shortly put the stand and grow lamp for it in a bathtub that is not used, to grow a few Cherry Punch tomato seed to try to grow one or two in the house.
We finally got another SUV- Hyundai Santa Fe SUV. These days, you had better know how to use a computer in order to be able to get in your car and be able to start it. The
“key” to this car doesn’t have a key end on it. Don’t need a regular key to get in the car and there is no key hole on the door. Once in the car, the ignition is a button, punch it and the car starts without a regular key. I’m glad the car look and buy is over.
Cover with row covers or make a mini green house, and you might get enough extra mileage to get some mature plants. I am hoping to do that with some of my stuff that should have been planted a few weeks ago.
Of course Bastardi’s weather and the Farmer’s Almanac are saying kinda repeat of last year’s weather, so we may have early frost and snow here.
tob2 ; I don't know what climate zone you are in, nor your geographic location, anyways ,.. here goes ..
The DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A "COLD FRAME" versus a "HOT FRAME"
A Cold Frame is a surface mounted box, basicly aimed to the south to collect maximum sunlight, and covered with Glass, or a translucent material to increase sunlight and warmth.
A Cold frame will extend your growing season by 30 - 40 days, and uses the sun as a heat source.
A HOT FRAME is generally a sunken insulated mounted box, aimed to the South for maximum sunlight,covered with glass,
whereby heat is generated by "HOT MANURE" and sunlight.
HOT MANURE is FRESH HORSE , or FRESH CHICKEN MANURE which is high in Nitrogen, and gives off heat as it oxydizes and breaks down(like compost); cow manure is not hot (nitrogen) enough.
Due to cold snaps, frequently it requires a blanket/ comforter placed over the glass on cold nights to keep the warmth inside (ie: additional insulation).
With the HOT FRAME you can extend your growing season by 40-80 days, depending on nightime temperatures,insultion, and willingness to put the extra effort of blankets at night.
This is how the early colonialists extended their growing season, as at that time horses were used as draft annimals and for personal transportation.
The invention of the gasoline /diesel tractor, and the automobile, has eliminated the need for horses, and much of history has already been forgotten .