Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 10/09/2009 5:31:49 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. Running a little late with the post this morning. My garden area is now clear of plants. If the daily rain showers will just by pass me for a few days I will do a final tilling and remove a few more of the roots left behind. To all of you with Fall/Winter gardens I wish you the best.
Weekly Gardening Thread
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When to plant turnips and root crops?.................
I still have okra coming in. I picked a big bag yesterday. It was the first picking in a week or so. The recent cool, wet weather has slowed it down considerably. I was picking a bag every other day when the weather was warmer. I still have a few tomatoes and peppers coming in, too. I have planted broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots and lettuce in the greenhouse and they are progressing well. I’m planning to plant a second round of Broccoli shortly, putting the second harvest about a month behind the first. I’ll do the same with carrots in another week or so.
Do you get frost where you live in Fla.?
Good Morning RD, and thank you for running this thread.
it’s down to cornfield/rattlesnake/butter beans,, harvested the last yesterday, big batch drying,3 runs canned..
turnips so-so and collards produced well,
will bring the rocoto and arbo peppers in and get ready for frost next week..
maybe we will all survive and be here next march to start again...
Yes, but it’s usually in Dec - Feb, but sometimes as late as April....
I’m done. All that’s left in the garden are the brussels sprouts and they’re staying as long as possible to get sweeter with the cold.
Harvested the squash FIL grew for me this year; butternut, delicata and honeybear (a new acron-type from Jung’s.)
Killing freeze this weekend...and maybe SNOW! Eeeek!
The kids and I will be grabbing the rest of the tomatoes today. I have gobs of Romas still out there. I will be stewing and canning them - easy peasy. The remaining peppers are small, and the rest of the beans need picked. We are supposed to get below 32* tonight, so it’s a “must do today” thing.
We harvested the Sugar Pie pumpkins and spaghetti squash a week or two ago. My vines got powdery mildew, so they were dying off pretty quickly. The squash is curing nicely. :) The spaghetti squash was so good buttered, it tasted so sweet to me! I love it. And I can’t wait to make FRESH pumpkin pie. Yum.
You all inspired me this year, and this is probably the best harvest year we’ve ever had. We normally lose out to weeds and pests. Many good ideas are posted, and I can’t wait until late winter/early spring to start over.
It is supposed to get down to 45 tonight here in the Dallas area, does that mean an end to tomatoes and peppers?
Thanks for the ping, R/D.
After our 7” of snow last weekend here in Central Oregon we are in a “clean-up” mode. We did get the garlic planted and will now focus on flowering blubs this weekend.
Liberty Thug - our forecast low for tomorrow is single digits due to that artic blast coming down from the ‘pole.
Count your blessings. We hope that after breaking thru the frozen layer we can plant blubs.
Weekly visit to the nursery last weekend discovered “winter tomatoes” so bought two and planted them. Never heard of them before, but we’ll give them a try and see how they do here in So.CA.
Six nice sized pumpkins are going to be ready for carving for Halloween. Still have a nice harvest of egg plant going, one Japanese and one regular.
Morning all.
Our transplant lettuces and chard are looking good. Our seeds of lettuce, leeks, mustard greens, spinach and radishes are going to town. We had some heavy rains this past week that did not help, but the sun is supposed to appear more just in time.
I’m in central Texas and have turnips, radishes and carrots up already. I am trying to get potatoes to grow in five gallon buckets this fall.
Last week, I finally cleared my tiny garden space, mixed in some compost and planted fall/winter stuff.
I have no idea if anything will actually come up.
I’m just hoping for the best.
If it stays cool overnights like that they will definatly slow down.
I harvested about 20 lbs turnips, 20 lbs rutabagas, 80-90 lbs potatos (kennebec, yukon gold and red pontiac). Picked all the green tomatos before a big freeze so they are all ripening on the kitchen counter. Got 16-16-16 fertilizer and superphosphate bone meal worked into the soil before planting two varieties of softneck garlic and two varieties of hardneck garlic. Last night it was 27F and snow up here in the Colorado Rockies. Two ski areas opened last week, Loveland and A-Basin. The earliest they have ever opened. The Rockies and Phillies are tied 1-1 in their series. The first two games were in Philadelphia. They play game 3 in Denver. It may be snowing Saturday night for the game! Been following the Florida Gators football. They were really terrible when I was at UF!
Mornin’ all! :)
The sun is shining and I finally got out in the garden last evening! Lost one broccoli and two collards, only found one carrot sprout, and the onions look great! Found lots of deer prints. I showed them to the gbaby. Told him, “You know what those are? Deer prints! You know what? Opa’s gonna have to get his gun and shoot them.” He told me, 2 1/2 yo, totally serious—”I’ll get my gun and shoot them.” He went back in and ran to his gpa. “Opa, Opa, deer prints in garden! Shoot them! LOL
The tomatoes aren’t going to be crazy about 45 degrees, but in my experience the peppers will just now be getting going good. I am about 4-5 hours east of you on I-20 and my peppers go crazy when the weather is cooler. Last year I picked peppers right up until Christmas.
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