It was a beautiful fall day, and the leaves are starting to turn. The harvest is pretty much over. We still have the 2cnd patch of corn - it may not make it before the cold weather.
Next weekend is our trip to Florida for my surgery, so we are focused on getting ready for that. It's a minimally invasive surgery, for a rare condition. The place I'm going has the best cure rate and least complications of anywhere else.
They perform 15 or 20 times more than anywhere else in the USA. People come from all over the world for this particular surgery. All should go well, but prayers for a safe trip and benign results would be awesome.
Whatever we get done on gardening is likely to be clean up patio clean up areas, and composting leftover plants etc.
Prayers up for Johnny and Arrowhead. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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Hope your surgery goes well. Happy gardening to all. I had to cut off the flowers on my cedums because there were too many bees, they were flying past my neighbor’s patio.
You have my prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.
Will keep you in prayer for a completely successful surgery.
Prayers up for Johnny and Arrowhead, too.
In my garden, I picked two whole cucumbers. They were diva, same as tubebender’s cukes. Oh well, they tasted good. I have lots of little tomatoes, and one arm sized cucuzza which I hope to let mature, and dry on the vine for seeds.
Sow bugs ate half my wa wa tsai, so I replanted. Lots of tiny little Caesar and little gem lettuce plants which the sow bugs ignored. Lots of little peppers,and eight asparagus bean plants which I have on a cattle panel. I need to clean up the greenhouse so I can move some tomatoes, peppers, and cold sensitive things in there to extend the season.
The cool mornings feel so much nicer than those 80+ ones not even a few weeks ago.
Prayers for a speedy recovery and great results!
When I had eye surgery last year, I went to the guy that ‘wrote the book’. He does nothing but the type of surgery I had. It was 100% successful! And in was completely at peace before and after! So you are making a wise choice!
nothing is growing but tomatoes, Swiss chard, basil, bell peppers, and a few green beans.
And I just noticed the most disgusting and huge worms on my tomatoes plants! yuck! not quite sure what to do about them.
I feel really lucky though- these worms didn’t show up until now and the blight doesn’t seem to be ruining tomato production much.
It’s been a great season here in our little NW Iowa town.
Picked all of the rest of the squash today, and most of the rest of the melons. Filled the van completely up. There are still dozens of watermelons that just don’t seem to want to ripen though.
Hitting the end of the tomato crop, but I did get three and a half five gallon buckets full this week. Lots up green and sweet peppers still to pick, probably tomorrow.
Picked a whole five gallon bucket of habaneros today. LOL...that’s way more than we can possibly use. Shoot, one of those little babies is enough spice for a whole canner full of salsa. But we do make a smoking hot habanero sauce that’s real good, if you go for that sort of thing. I plan on giving most of it to my son in law.
Way behind on pulling my onions. Hope to finish that tomorrow too.
My potato crop is the best ever. Still about twenty rows to dig. Based on what I’ve dug so far, I’d say we still have at least ten or twelve bushels out there.
Never seen a better apple crop than this year. The trees are loaded. We only picked off four different trees this year, and we’re overflowing with fruit. We’ve put the best ones in boxes between paper and into cold storage in the basement, and made sauce and filling out of the rest. And we still have apples everywhere.
Apple picking did get a bit expensive this year, though. Last week I took a tumble off a step ladder and broke my wrist. Had to have surgery to put in a plate. The splint is off and the sutures are out, but it’s going to take awhile before I have full use of my right arm again. But thank the Lord, I am healing.
Prayers for a safe trip and full successful surgery from the land of Big Foot. Our unusually lovely weather continues to dazzle all of us and the tourist driving through. Still picking strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes and thinking about planting the garlic crop for next year. Lady Bender had a sudden and painful condition show up in her left foot a couple of days ago and while it is getting better she has a appointment with a foot specialist. Me… I have just run out of gas. If I’m not on the puter I’m out in the garden napping. I’ll look for a couple of photos to post tomorrow...
Prayers for a safe trip and a speedy recovery.
I gave up on my garden by 1 August. Despite a fence, deep off, deer spray, and deer repellent canisters, the deer destroyed everything. Most of it in one afternoon while I was at work. I live in a forested area, and my garden was a semi cleared area. Only an 8’ fence would do it, and I am not going that far.
well, fall planting well underway. got some modifications for the aquaponics system to install today.
Took a trailer load of yard waste—not compostable— in today, and brought home 3 over ripe melons, and about 20 pounds of huge, 12-15” x 3-4” cucumbers for the chickens. The cukes would have been fine for sour dills, but somebody just tossed them, several melons, and bunches of tomato plants with lots green tomatoes on them. Burns me to see people throw God’s bounty in the trash.
We MIGHT get a shower or two tonight & this coming week. No danger of frost through next Sunday, which will be 2 weeks past average 1st frost date. Unfortunately, we had the bean & squash killer at the end of August; they has been some recovery, but it really did a job on them.
Have about 3/4 of the spuds dug, and they look good, and are mostly usable sizes; very few tiny ones, though not a lot of really large ones, either.
The day lily we salvaged last time we took a load to the landfill has 4 large, independent stems with buds, one almost open; and a couple of smaller new plants. When I transplanted it, the bulb was shedding new bulblets, and it must have liked its new home.
Trying to get other projects finished before winter, si what’s left of the garden is pretty much on its own.
Good luck with, and prayers for, the surgery.
Not much in the way of gardening happened at my place last week. Mostly enjoying the tomatoes and keeping the patch of late greens watered.
We bailed off to Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, MO on Friday for the last two nights of sprint car racing for this season. I had some trouble with the awning on the WhinnyBago and trashed one of the struts, so I’ve got a trip to Camping World in the near future to have that replaced.
I got a good bit of work done in the pond in the evenings last week, and another four hours or so after we got home yesterday. I’m so very close to being finished with the cleanout. I expect to have that wrapped up this week if the weather holds, then get the posts set and stringers hung for the fishing dock. Once that is done I’ll spread a bit of rock in the bottom and will be ready to re-core the dam. That is going to be a happy day.
Help! I had a garden emergency
While watering, I my hose bent a squash vine...Not completely crushed, but I can see where it bent.
Anyone know if I could splint the vine with Popsicle sticks and painter tape to repair it?
Other ideas?