I’m headed down town to babysit a bunch of really old guys. (I’m only 86)
Scattered wild flower seeds two weeks ago, seedlings are up. Planted daffodils and hyacinth and filled most of my flower pots. Fall is a busy time for gardeners here in the greater Phoenix area. I love to crochet, will try that stitch.
How do I save my marigold seeds for next year? My French marigolds were spectacular this year. Would like to see a repeat.
Some of the last garden tomatos are now cooking into a beautiful red sauce on the stove. More of them are chopped up in a salsa in the fridge. Hubby is cleaning out the garden this afternoon. Packers are playing. Perfect fall Sunday!
Finally felt up to working in the garden a little today. Hubby has partially redeemed his mixing up my beds with a bunch of clay dirt containing rocks.
He got half of my garlic patch sifted, and helped me lift the compost bags and spread those around. Got the Siberian garlic planted Saturday.
I was supposed to have 12 bulbs, but more than half are not the Siberian. They look like soft neck—so I ordered some more Siberian from another source. I’ll go ahead and plant the “not Siberian” to see if they will survive winter here.
Have a 3 x 6 raised bed cleared and ready for winter Rye. Got about half of the greenhouse reorganized. We are going to try growing lettuce and herbs by putting them in the Small plastic covered greenhouse—They look like the same ones that Eric has posted pics of.
With that unit inside the big greenhouse, and using a heating mat - maybe that will be enough heat for Jan and Feb—electric space heater was too costly.
I’ll have to bring in the lemon trees and aloe vera - don’t think they will fit on the shelves, and don’t want to risk losing them. Both are starting to bud now and should start blooming soon.
Hey folks. My skimpy winter garden is doing fine. Didn’t plant any root veggies like ai planned except for my beets which I am still nursing along.
The Seattle area has not yet had a great and should not.get a hard frost for at least another month barring any odd circumstances.
My greehouse tomatoes are still going strong. I had to put a space heater in it however....I would have closed up shop in there but ai took some heirloom tomatoes from.the grocery store and harvested the seeds late in the season.
I sprouted them, planted them when still teeny tiny, and they are going great. I have some good sized (think k 3” x 4”) tomatoes almost ready to ripen.
I want to harvest a few for seeds and eat a couple dozen of the others.
My sister gave me a Meyer lwmon tree and an orange tree in the May, for my bday. They were shipped to me and I forgot about them in the back side of house for 2 weeks.
The Meyer lemon tree survived fine as the plastic wrap around it collected moisture/condensation each night and essentially watered itself just enuf to stay alive.
The orange tree looked deader than a door nail.
I put them both in large pots and kept watering them....even the orange tree....for 3 weeks.
Just when I was going to give up in the orange tree ..bam....a new tiny branch sprouted down low by the ground with nice green leaves.
I clipped off all dead branches and new green sprouts popped countdown blown
The orange tree is a survivor now....still only about 18 inches tall but should be fine.
I wheeled them both into the greehouse for the winter and have gotten 4 or 5 nice sized lemons so far.
The lemon tree has about 80-100 tiny lemons growing and should carry is through the winter when they start ripening the 3nd if next month.
That is you update from Seattle’ish area..
