Weekly Garden Thread - October 31-November 6, 2020

October 31, 2020 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[cherry]

that’s fantastic....gardens should be everywhere...

[cherry]

I'm trying the pepper thing too...I have two plants in my bathtub upstairs that believe it or not gets the best sunlight....I watered them a little....I put them in some pro mix....mostly they're just Y stems that are green ....the truth in the pudding is if they start growing leaves....we'll see.....

my garden in the north country is shot....still cleaning out beds...still adding some composting material to the beds.....dissappointed in my beets....pulled them up, and there was very very few....next year I guess..

[cherry]

I don’t have the patience to wrap tomatoes in newspaper...I just set them on the dining room table on some platters and they ripe slowly...still govt a few good salads left as of Nov 1st and a few tomato sandwiches....

[Augie]

The past week started cool and damp here in Central Missouri, then got a bit nicer as the weekend approached.

Much of nothing going on in the garden right now. It's time to put garlic in the ground, but the soil is too wet to till. Need a couple or three more days of sunshine to dry it up a bit.

I put the finishing touches on Mrs. Augie's new deer stand on Saturday. It is rock-solid and ready for the kahooming to begin. Cut up and hauled close to a cord of firewood from deadfall in the area where I built her stand. Sunday we cleaned out all of the gutters on the house and barn, then spent most of the day trimming trees in the yard and hauling brush from that to the sippy hole. Got another half cord or so of firewood from that project.

Reason #617 why women live longer than men. That's a 10' ladder leaned up against the carry-all basket.

Mrs. Augie usually throws a big halloween party/hayride event, but she decided to punt that this year due to the covid thing. She managed to have a little fun in spite of no party.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Great pumpkins! And I agree with the ‘reasons women live longer.’

Beau is famous for his total disregard of all OSHA Regulations, now that he’s retired. :(

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Time to plan next year’s garden.”

I’ve already ordered from Totally Tomatoes and Seed Savers. Jung’s is on deck! :)

Are ‘field peas’ usually harvested for animal feed?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

More 'farm' than 'garden' related, but I just came across this old photo which reminded me that, 'Not All Love Notes are Written.' How was I to resist Beau? None of my other boyfriends ever wooed me with dried, stacked firewood and his own home grown beef and winter squashes. He had my number from Date One. ;)

[Augie]

Sometimes the tightwad in me overcomes my highly-developed sense of self-preservation. It would have much easier, and definitely safer, to have a professional tree service out for this job, but they would have gigged me for at least five bills.

I’m not crazy about ladders, but I don’t mind using one to climb into the carry-all basket. It’s not much different that working out of the basket on a boom truck, other than having to climb down every time I need to move around a bit.

Pops never had a loader tractor when we were farming. I don’t know how we managed without one. Hydraulics are one of mankind’s finest inventions.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You and Beau are cut from the same cloth! :)

[Ellendra]

Field peas are a food for both humans and livestock. They’re the source for the dried split peas you’d find in the store. The variety I grew would make yellow split peas, if I had an easy way to remove the skins.

It’s hard to find recipes for home-grown field peas, because too many recipes consider “field peas” to be another name for cowpeas. These are NOT cowpeas, they’re peas peas. But I haven’t found a way to specify that in the search.

[campaignPete R-CT]

40 mph gusts today in CT. I Hear I huge clatter, like lightening & thunder. I look out ... a 70-foot hemlock crashed near the house ... took the top half of another hemlock with it on the way down.

I dodged a bullet, it’s 30 feet from my house and 30 feet from the neighbor’s. It missed everything.

It’s odd ... Cuz the tree was alive. Usual only the dead hemlocks fall.

[daniel1212]

40 mph gusts today in CT. I Hear I huge clatter, like lightening & thunder. I look out ... a 70-foot hemlock crashed near the house ... took the top half of another hemlock with it on the way down. I dodged a bullet, it’s 30 feet from my house and 30 feet from the neighbor’s. It missed everything. It’s odd ... Cuz the tree was alive. Usual only the dead hemlocks fall.

Wow. It is also very windy up here in MA, but nicer weather ahead, praise God. .

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wow! That was a lucky break! We had those winds the other day - nothing fell, but Mother Nature did a lot of the ‘raking’ for me! Yay! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Got it. I was in the ‘cow peas’ camp. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Frosty Morning on my old farm; Frosty Decorative Kale and Frosty Frizze Lettuce:

[campaignPete R-CT]

Yes, fell just where I would have dropped it. Saved me at least $300 in tree services.

18 inch trunk just snapped off, 5 feet from ground

[Diana in Wisconsin]

As much as I love trees (I’ve planted hundreds through the years!) one falling on my house or car would not make me very happy!

Take care if you’re chopping it up on your own. Safety First! :)

[campaignPete R-CT]

Just put the chainsaw away. Cut the limbs, doing cleanup. The trunk can stay where it is laying.

There must be tree angels that placed it there.

Hemlocks have a disease out east.

“Native to Asia, the hemlock woolly adelgid, or HWA, is an invasive, aphid-like insect that attacks North American hemlocks”

This tree’s days were numbered

[Liz]

Who would have guessed......a pushover for a stack of wood?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! It gets COLD up here on, ‘The Frozen Tundra!’