Posted on 10/23/2021 6:18:54 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Is it about time to start planting rhubarb for the next season?
(The resource area is posted at the end of the the July 3-6 Gardening Thread beginning after post 112!)
Yes, if you are in a colder growing zone. It MUST stay dormant from now until next Spring. It needs a full-sun spot, too, and good drainage. If the spot is too wet, it’ll just rot before it can get established.
Top it off with a nice shovel-full of compost and she’ll do the rest. :)
Full instructions here:
https://www.savoringthegood.com/plant-rhubarb-fall-garden/
Thanks, Pete! A Cider Bar? How smart is that? :)
Good Morning Everybody!
:-)
Garden cleanup has started ... 3 of 9 beds are totally done. I'm clearing them out & putting in compost from my last year's leaf pile which means lots of digging & hauling. The compost is not as broken down as I had hoped - I'm guessing about 3/4 of the way, but it will break down the rest of the way in the soil. Remind me next year NOT to plant climbing vine plants anywhere near my fencing - a good portion of my time this past week has bee spent picking/cutting vines out of my fencing!
And now, since I am on chicken and dog-sitting duty this weekend and I had to deal with the chickens/dog BEFORE my coffee this morning ..... this is about where I'm at ... first cup of the morning - sooo good!
(Humm...Fruitly Flavor??? :)
Forecast 100% for rain on Monday and I can't wait. Hope there's more on the way.
Meanwhile:
Floss Silk tree is putting on its mid-fall display of orchid-like flowers:
Roses are making a brief come-back as they always do in the fall:
French Lace:
And the bee garden is continuing to attract more bees:
Sticky Monkey Flower:
And Achillea, "Apple Blossom"
Happy clean-up
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where the Autumn colors are moving towards peak.
We are busy harvesting from our garden. An incredible production of peppers (Anaheim, Jalipenio, Poblano and Bell) from the first raised bed I built out of pallet wood, last spring. I have already strung two aristas using the Anaheim and probably can string another, short one from the harvest a couple of days ago. Quite remarkable.
The tomatoes are about finished. I hauled a cartload of loofas to the back deck and Household Six has both ovens on “Proof”, doing the final drying. The first one she did, she removed the seeds and husk and cleaned it and I looks impressive.
Our pole beans, planted late in the summer, are pumping out massive amounts of delicious beans! Our ground cherry plants are producing heavily and we have discovered several tomatio volunteers around the back yard.
We have selected a site for our cattle panel hoop house and I will be starting on that, this weekend.
Today, I have to take the chainsaw and finish cutting up a fallen tree. I was able to move the #44 Loader from our original John Deere 318 to the second one. The original one is back from the shop and purring like a kitten. I have the trailer tow bar on the weight bracket of the new JD and will be towing our small, utility trailer down to the site to load up the vines and wood to bring back up to the back yard. I will stack the wood and then take the vines and the used bedding from the duck coop to the transfer station for them to convert into compost for next spring.
Yeah, I have three raised beds to build this Autumn, one in the hoop house and two where the garlic was grown this past year. Oh, yeah, we have to get our garlic in the ground this weekend. Way behind on this!
We are looking at adding a Walipini to our garden development next year.
I started by harvesting a big armful of Dahlia - I cannot believe how well they produced this season, but having a dry year helped greatly. Still had Nasturtium hanging in there, too.
Then, I cleaned out the planter that's on the south-facing porch. It was full of herbs; Rosemary and Lemon Thyme, and I cleaned that out and covered the dirt with straw and added pumpkins and squash that I grew myself this season. I LOVE how it turned out, and my Puppy, Fremont, seems to be leaving it alone for now. Yay! At Christmastime, I fill it with various evergreen branches, pine cones, berries and other fun stuff for the holidays. I plan on making some herb salt rubs and some herb butter with those herbs - waste not, want not!
And, yes. That's our falling-down barn, which looks funny from this angle, but is built into the hillside; there is a milking parlor below. It was re-built (shabbily!) in 1950 after the original barn burned. When I talk about the 'kennel shed' that's the metal building to the right, which is attached to the barn. It's in fine shape and full of kennel runs for our hunting dogs. The south-facing side, which you cannot see, is open to air and sunshine.
And since I mentioned him, and he's so darn CUTE, here is Fremont. He is a Plott Hound (for hunting Black Bear) and is about 5 months old.
Garlic was planted last weekend, all the other gardens were cleared for the year.
Put up the temp. greenhouse over the lettuce garden - we get fresh lettuce right through December under the plastic.
And that's about it for growing things.
Cleaned the woodstove flue and prepped the stove area for winter burning.
Stacked the last of the firewood (two cords - we burn oil, too.)
Next weekend we prep the chicken run and coop for the winter - then we just wait for spring....
Thanks for the photos. Stole the first 2 for my jigsaw puzzle program.
- https://whdh.com/weather-blog/cooler-weekend-ahead-wet-weather-next-week/
Cool and damp this past week here in Central Missouri. The Kubota zero-turn has been at the mower doc getting some love, and the lawn grass has gotten out of hand. Mower came home yesterday, so today, if the rain holds off, it’s time to get some grass cut.
We’ve been enjoying the late-planted green salad pretty much every evening at supper time. I’d pretty much given up on my carrot crop. I seeded those in the cold frame back in the spring, thinking it might be easier to keep the weeds down in that, but it wasn’t. Early August I took the weed whacker to it, mowed everything down, and forgot about it. A few weeks later after some rain it started to turn green in there, and it was the carrots putting out new top growth. They didn’t seem to mind the summer haircut, and have made some very nice roots in the deep, loose soil that’s in the cold frame.
If I get the mowing done, it might be dry enough in the garden to get a spot tilled for the garlic. If it’s too wet to till I’ll buzz it down with the week whacker, set the cloves on top of the soil, and bury them under a nice thick blanket of composted stall waste.
And you KNOW people will buy them! I admit to having the sparkly reindeer set; doe and buck. I need to dig them out and clean them up for the season. ;)
I might actually put them inside in the Family Room this year. Where I’ve been putting them outside gets a big snow-slide-off the metal roof and they just end up buried, anyway!
“We are looking at adding a Walipini to our garden development next year.”
When we break ground for the new pole barn to replace the falling-down barn, we are considering that, too!
It would also be handy to have as a fall-out shelter here in Tornado Land!
For others that may be interested:
How to Build a Walipini Greenhouse
https://morningchores.com/walipini/
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