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When I started gardening, I was told to plant ornamental herbs.

It turned out to be pretty sage advice...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[bigfootbob]

Add me, please.

[Don W]

Good morning. Just thought I’d let you know that while I seldom write, I read your thread every time it’s posted, and enjoy it. Thanks for posting it, and I hope your autumn is as bountiful as can be.

[Redleg Duke]

Greetings from southern New Hampshire! Household Six is proudly harvesting tomatoes and peppers. Her Luffa is getting ready for harvest. One impressive yellow straight neck zucchini is starting to pump out fruit, and our bush and pole beans are suddenly blossoming out.

I, however, have been sidetracked from pallet disassembly and raised bed production to pantry renovation. I picked up a nearly new, small chest freezer on my trip to Georgia, and I removed some shelving in the pantry and moved in the freezer. Then, I started installing a French Cleat system on the wall above the freezer with can storage modules (Magazines). Now, they are populated and we have decided to remove the rest of the shelving and convert the whole wall to French cleats. I need to drive over to Rockler at Salem, NH today to pickup some more Baltic Birch plywood.

Somehow, I will get everything done before the snow flies and my cataract surgery process starts.

[tired&retired]

Correction

“folks that love soil, manure, seeds and plants of all kinds, except weeds.”

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

CLICK ON THE PHOTO
TO FOLLOW HER (and eyore) BACK TO THE SEPTEMBER 11-17 WEEKLY GARDEN THEAD!

CLICK ON PICTURE BELOW TO LINK TO RESOURCE AREA. BOOKS, MAGAZINES, GARDENING SEEDS, SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT, AND INTERESTING GARDENING LINKS HARVESTED FROM PREVIOUS GARDENING THREADS!"

(The resource area is posted at the end of the the July 3-6 Gardening Thread beginning after post 112!)

[left that other site]

Good Morning! :-)

[Albion Wilde]

[LibWhacker]

The “Black Crack” along Utah’s White Rim Trail, a natural fissure in the rock a few feet wide and deep enough to kill you.

Known to glassmakers for centuries, Prince Rupert's drops can withstand the impact of a bullet on the bulb end but will completely shatter at the slightest touch on the tail end.

[Pollard]

Researchers at the University of California-Riverside are working on a way to grow edible plants that carry the same medication as an mRNA vaccine.

Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers are now looking accomplish three goals. First, the team will try to successfully deliver DNA containing mRNA vaccines into plant cells, where they can replicate. Next, the study authors want to show that plants can actually produce enough mRNA to replace a traditional injection. Finally, the team will need to determine the right dosage people will need to eat to properly replace vaccinations.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3996101/posts

Yet another reason to grow your own food

[daniel1212]

Toms are still ripening and many dropping as cooler temps are here, but production is late and about half of normal due to sunny days being in the minority, plus soil needs helps, but the squash continues to grow and grow. Thank God for them all, while here is another thread for this forum's interest:

Fruit, vegetables and exercise can make you happier (Healthy foods & exercise makes you happy - causation found)

9/18/2021, 12:19:44 PM · by ConservativeMind · 30 replies

Medical XPress / University of Kent / Journal of Happiness Studies ^ | Sept. 17, 2021 | Olivia Miller / Adelina Gschwandtner et al

New research has found that fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise can increase levels of happiness. While the link between lifestyle and wellbeing has been previously documented and often used in public health campaigns to encourage healthier diets and exercise, new findings published by the Journal of Happiness Studies show that there is also a positive causation from lifestyle to life satisfaction. This research is the first of its kind to unravel the causation of how happiness, the consumption of fruit and vegetables and exercising are related, rather than generalizing a correlation.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Heavy rains her in the PNW/Seattle area.

Between Friday night and Sunday night we qil have received more rain than we did since May combined.

Some tomatoes splitting are the only issues so far. Thanks God I staked every tomato plant with at least 1 bamboo pole.....and some have 3 and 4 with zipnties holding them steady.

Last year’s method of bamboo poles every 6 feet and twine bracing running back and forth would have failed the wind and rain this weekend.

Making pepper jelly tomorrow with half my jalepeno harvest.

Madera quick freezerbatch of spaghetti sauce/chili prep, foods average sealed.....made from herbs and tomatoes from the garden and saved in freezer to cook up this winter.

[Pollard]

New seed saving guide-pdf added with spacing to avoid cross pollination; https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/XeZKLT4GGdDGsXE

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[metmom]

We are not due for a frost for a while, apparently, looking at the forecast, but the garden absolutely needs to be cleared out and prepped for next year.

I have a bunch of veggie plants that have essentially stopped producing. What’s the best way of dealing with the plant carcasses?

I understand mulching them it’s always a good idea because of the risk of spreading bugs and disease. How best to get rid of spend tomato and pepper plants?