I like this scent for Fall: *SMIRK*
Posted on 10/09/2021 5:51:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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That one is in a pot. They do well in pots, I have several in the ground as well.
I like the aroma but not the actual FLAVOR.
So it’s Pumpkin Spice Candles...and that’s IT.
Anybody use weed barrier in raised vegetable gardens? Last fall, I got some at an Amish nursery. Not the flimsy kind they sell at Home Depot or Lowe’s. This is much heavier. Left it down all winter and through growing season. Great stuff, very few weeds.
The nursery says to leave it down all winter again. However, I’m wondering if I should roll it , fertilize with 10-10-10 and turn the soil over and then pt the barrier down for the winter. Or is that unnecessary work?
Going to try the fire cider recipe. Looks good.
Between fire cider and kimchee and saurkraut I should be good!
You’ll be “hot” to trot .... LOL!
I think spice pumpkins are perennial.
I’m not sure because there are none in the forest here. It’s not a native plant in New England.
I applied the toxic formula to 5 enormous weeds in the forest yesterday. Acer platanoides. Should give the other trees a boost next summer
I like this scent for Fall: *SMIRK*
My garden is on hold as well.
I cleared out on raised bed and planted my garlic crop the other day.
Now it’s just waiting for the first frost to take out everything else and then do a hard core clean out.
There are still several LARGE pumpkins in my garden that need to ripen yet but I’m going to let nature take its course.
At the very least, I get the seeds for toasted pumpkin seeds.
I refresh my beds with a loader scoop of homemade compost every three years. (Next Spring is time again.) If your soil is otherwise OK, not too clay, not to sandy, has a decent earthworm population, then I’d leave everything be, as your weed barrier is already in place.
Make sure to fertilize your individual plant varieties with what they need next season, though. Will you be able to rotate crops with the barriers in place?
IOW, it’s your call. :)
I hear tell that tilling the soil just causes more weeds as dormant seeds come to the surface and start to grow.
What I am trying is called either no till gardening or lasagna gardening.
I have been scavenging plain brown cardboard, taking off the tape and labels, laying it down on top of the ground, and the putting on top of it, wood chips, leaves, grass clippings, compost, and manure.
What I’ve seen online indicates that it will mulch over the winter and leave you with a nice fertile top layer of soil. I have nothing to lose doing this as much of our soil is heavy and wet and so needs the conditioning, and if we have a lot of rain, it gets swampy for a few days.
None of us bother to get into big political discussions over here because there are a hundred OTHER political threads on FR for that. :)
Kristie Sullivan had a post on FB with a pic of a large smoked pumpkin:
"If you’d like to try it, wash a pie pumpkin (not a carving pumpkin), cut off the top, clean out the seeds and “guts”. Smoke at about 325 for 2 hours or until the flesh is tender when pierced with a fork. Let cool, remove the flesh and make the things! David [husband] smoked this in a Big Green Egg using pecan chips."
When woken have tried to describe my effect on their life....frequently they try try to reference pumpkin spice. I think they are referring to the desire to have me in their life more often but I guess it could be I remind them of a pumpkin.
Yesterday I pickled 7 quarts of jalepenos ajd put up two more batches of spaghetti sauce/chili bases in the vacuum sealed bags and froze them.
Completely red did the shelving in my greenhouse, fired up the dehumidifier and the space heater....and moved my potted peppers and eggplants inside.
Been fighting a cold and took 2 days off of work and hopefully can get back to work tonite.
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Hello from Suwanee, GA, Zone 7B. A Saturday off for me in my landscape business. I am painting instead. Hugs to all the country!
That’s BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks for sharing! I sure hope mine do something eventually! Should I fertilize them?
“TIRE FIRE” is fragrant, but “DUMPSTER FIRE” beats ‘em all! :-)
Not perennial, but they reseed themselves.
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