I saw one that was all golden brown and NO black the other day. Wonder what THAT means? But, then, it is 2020 - anything goes!
Posted on 10/10/2020 7:36:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Blessed Diana!
My garden update.
Still a few heirloom tomatoes hanging on.....big rain and wind last night and nighttime low temps are in low 50s now so tomato plants are starting to brown.
This week I am going to clip off everything I want to save and finish ripening them in my greenhouse.
The broccoli I tried to grow in late spring and did nothing but go to seed.....I am glad I didn’t rip them out.
They are now producing heads of broccoli with the cooler weather.
Fall crops going gangbusters. Mostly greens and squash. Red Russian kale, 8talian kale, mache, pak choy.....all very full and I have been enjoying them for a few weeks now in all my meals. I pack raw greens in my lunch and just nosh on them at work.
My pepper plants are doing much better than the tomato plants. I have to put a hoop house cover in them this week because they are still putting out tins of flowers.
The soybeans I planted late summer are doing nothing. It was an experiment with a new raised bed under pine and cedar trees. The greens in that bed are doing great but the soybeans which supposedly don’t need a lot of sun are just hating that spot.
And I am really enjoying the eggplants iny breakfast. One variety I grew are softball sized and suuuupwr sweet (I had a month where I was a bad gardener and forgot to label or take notes on what I planted so I don’t remember what variety they are.)
I have another variety “Rosa Bianca” which have been putting out baseball and golf ball sized fruit that are tasty but not as delicious as the other variety.
The unknown variety are 95% white with purple streaks and have some crazy pointy thorns on the leaves which are near the stem. Rosa Bianca are deep purple in color and don’t injure me when I harvest them.
The wet cool weather has begun the slug season.....a constant battle here in the PNW between October and April.
Daytime I enjoy my garden. Evenings and nights.....I dream about the garden I will be creating in Texas when I move there in a few years. I should be closing on the property this coming week. 12.5 acres, 11.5 usable after accounting for setbacks and easements.
And I would be remiss of I did not mention freeper Oshkalaboomboom who gifted me several packets of pepper seeds and mailed them all the way from Spain....gratis.
Many blessings upon him (I think he is a “hum”) and I hope to one day return the favor.
Tonite I have a photo shoot (photography is one of my other hobbies) with a lovely young lady and yesterday I took some Sr class photos of the son of a friend.
The young man is well behaved with me and it is hard to imagine him being the problem child she describes.....if I did know teenagers so well I would think she was making it up.
Alas it is probably true and I attribute it mostly to the parents being divorced and the dad being a child in maturity and irresponsible even in his own life.
A young man definitely needs both halves of the male female parenting “whole.”
You can pick your nose but you cannot pick your parents.
The mom has and does pose for me and ai am returning the favor by taking the Sr photos but I cannot take on the mentoring of her son look she wishes. I just don’t have the energy for it.
Those are beautiful! Sounds similar to ‘Bread and Butter’ pickles, if you know what those are.
No problemo. Wifes flower beds are overflowing with mulch. I’ve just never seen so many needles on the ground and was curious. They look like Coulter pines according to this...
https://leafyplace.com/types-of-pine-trees-identification-and-pictures/
Thanks for replying. Appreciated.
White Pine shed like crazy. I have one area of my lawn that gets covered - but I just waited for a windy day and MAGICALLY they were gone! ;)
Makes good mulch for a garden bed, or to add as a ‘brown’ ingredient to your compost pile.
You did pretty good for a Newbie!
Take what you learned this year and apply it to the next, and so on, and so on, and so on. :)
“Leaf colors nearing or at peak. Just gorgeous.”
I’m over near Dodgeville (if you remember) and we’re pretty much at peak color now, too. I’ll load up some shots I took of our woods to post later. Very, VERY pretty this season!
Thanks! Will check it out! :)
I am all for Critter Control. I had to keep Oneida on the porch a few nights in a row to scare away some young raccoons that were messing with things inside my greenhouse earlier this season.
I do not care for destructive ruffians and roustabouts! ;)
“I should be closing on the property this coming week. 12.5 acres, 11.5 usable after accounting for setbacks and easements.”
So happy for you!! :)
Thanks...circling back to that “girl power” thingy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVZOLV9SPo
Right? I guess I’m just an originalist on hazy and the Constitution. : )
LOL!
I had honestly forgotten the S & G version of that song. (I’m assuming they wrote the song, right?)
It sounds so unlike all of their other music.
I should have posted this:
Kiss the Ground (Official Movie Trailer 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iknWWKZOUs
Crazy eh? I remember where I was when I first heard in my dad’s BIG Mercury Monterrey going to the Edsel Ford HS (Dearborn) with dad (R.I.P.). It was a beautiful fall day. The leaves were turning. I must’ve been 15 or 16 so that would be about ‘65 or ‘66. I was at Lincoln Park HS.
My good buddy Danny, went to U of Michigan some years later. He ran his music through an oscilloscope in his dorm room as a freshman. The harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel made a perfect ellipse on his scope screen. Quite impressive this guy was. IIRC he was the class valedictorian our senior year in ‘68.
We were going to watch 2 local powerhouses play football. LPHS lost the away game 6-0.
It’s been a while since we had this colorful of a fall. I think the cool weather we had in September helped. Yesterday, I saw a woolly caterpillar. More brown than black, and most of the black is at the head. He indicates a harsh beginning of winter, but milder later :-).
I saw one that was all golden brown and NO black the other day. Wonder what THAT means? But, then, it is 2020 - anything goes!
I LOVE Peonies and miss the dozens I had at my other house. I used large (4’?) tomato cages around mine for extra support. Once they’ve matured, you can’t see the supports. They can grow 2-3 years before they’re big enough to need support. And, yes, they will look floppy until then, and in my area, we almost always get a huge down poor right when they’re blooming, so I just cut dozens and fill the house with color and fragrance! :) (But the tomato cage supports really help!)
When they are brown and crispy in the fall, I cut them down and start all over again in the spring. Or if I’m lazy that fall, I cut them down in the spring. No matter.
My favorites are: Festiva Maxima (white), Sarah Bernhardt (pink), Bowl of Beauty (pink) and if you can find a yellow peony anywhere, grab it - but they’re expensive and kind of rare. I like ‘Kansas’ for a pink-red.
This lady in Iowa takes it over the top - she has 1,000 and the perennials she adds with them are just spectacular!
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/perennials/peony-garden-tour/
This will have you drooling and wanting more:
https://www.sunset.com/garden/flowers-plants/great-peony-varieties#julia-rose-peony
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