Posted on 10/17/2020 7:02:29 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Looks professional to us!
Busy week in central CT - emptied old compost pile - 10 wheelbarrows full of black earth - from ground-up leaves, egg shells, chicken bedding and manure, banana peels, apple cores and coffee grounds - to beautiful soil in less than a year. Amazing.
Planted our garlic (36 huge cloves).
Picked the last of the tomatoes and hot peppers - cleared all of the gardens out.
Today the chicken run gets a brand new tarp and we enclose the sides with (see-through) plastic.
I have split all of the wood I have (a cord), now out hunting for more.
I planted a little bit of garlic earlier this year. I am Sicilian/Italian so I realistically speaking until I get on my acreage in Tx I won’t be able to grow enough garlic to make a dent in my usage.
I love my lemons - they are so much more tasty and juicy than the lemons in stores-which are picked on the green size and ripened off the tree-or so I’ve heard.
Well, it’s really awfully pretty. Gets quite tall with really big leaves. I have one in a 3 gallon pot, and the other is at the edge of my compost area.
I don’t really know how much I’ll get out of it. But it always looks like the best plant in the garden. The other thing is, I thought the one in the pot was dead. And a volunteer tomato plant came up in that pot, so I didn’t dump it out.
Well behold it sprouted up and out-so I don’t know what I’ll find when I dump it out. I really didn’t harvest it last year. Just had two pots in the green house that woke up this spring.
I titled this pix “The Last Roundup.” and it was.
Garden is over for 2020...
The big lake keeps us 10-12 degrees warmer just by being close. It was time to wrap things up for the year.
Mowed for three hours yesterday with a walk-behind (too many trees to accomodate a rider mower.) We are blessed with mostly hardwoods so the acorns were flying by like 70 mile per hour pachinko balls.
A friend in Emily, MN reports 3 inches of new snow on the ground
I finally heard that my garlic order is being shipped.
YEA!!!
Now that the rain has stopped and the ground dries out some, I can get it in.
They might be gardeners! They’re asking for the spent coffee grounds for their gardens, I’ll bet! *SMIRK*
“A friend in Emily, MN reports 3 inches of new snow on the ground...”
Beau headed for the UP of MI this morning - reports of 2” of fresh snow where they’re heading.
He’s excited to ‘track’ bear; he never gets to do that during the WI bear season.
Thats good. God loves a positive outlook. Me too.
That’s ‘Shorts & Sandals Weather’ in Wisconsin! ;)
95% finished with the hopp house cover to my 16”6 inch raised bed. I have to add some safety straps so it doesn’t catch the wind when open and snap the hinges (put in 6 hinges) & need to put 2 handles on it.
I may try to mount 2 or 3 auto temp vent pistons lime I have on my greenhouse roof vents.....I mean...if you can go 100% lazy....why not?
Balcony garden report from suburban Baltimore: Hostas’ leaves are starting to brown bigtime; heucheras still pretty intact; annuals in windowboxes are making much smaller flowers; geraniums are big and beautiful (wish I had a basement to store them in for the winter); verbenas are gone; lemon balm, mint, ageratum, and lavender are still going strong. But it’s obvious that things are in general, starting to shut down for the winter. There’s always spring, when most of them come back!
“I mean...if you can go 100% lazy....why not?”
Exactly! :)
You and your Hostas in pots always amaze me!
They are such beauties - but to grow them in pots just seems so un-do-able for me, when they’re just ‘shady foundation plants’ in my little world.
Though I DO remember visiting the Hawaiian Island of Kauai and after the HUNDREDTH time I made ‘The Husband’ STOP! so I could look at Amaryllis growing in the ditches like our orange Tiger Lilies and him saying ‘Enough!’ I figured out how special it is to grow something that is ‘foreign’ to you. ;)
(I have Amaryllis blooming on the house all winter...)
Last year I had a lot of stuff going on autopilot vis a vis watering with gravity feed water with timers.
But I found I enjoy watering the garden innthe evening then sitting out with a beer or 4 and relaxing.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Wow!
Possibly useful info. to some from right at the end of the last thread — the 1st may be timely to some:
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Assuming air temps remain above 32 deg. F, moving plants under large trees that are still well leafed out will help prevent frost from forming on those plants. The “canopy” will significantly reduce radiational cooling...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-21-9710210333-story.html
https://wxguys.ssec.wisc.edu/2017/10/09/frost/
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In case any reader doesn’t already know THIS:
My wife came running in a few days ago to tell me our two White Leghorn pullets are actually cockerels. Spurs beginning to form. I was this || far from asking her when she wanted to butcher those skinny little birds. But I recalled one Buff Orphington hen we’d had who had partial spurs. So, I researched:
It turns out that any hen may develop spurs, but Mediterranean breeds like Leghorns are particularly prone to the hens developing spurs. Our two Leghorns are relieved, their rooster is looking forward to having 8 hens instead of 6, and we are hoping the pullets all start laying soon, as most of our older hens are well past their prime.
:-)
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