Posted on 09/16/2011 5:18:08 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It has been another beautiful week here in East Central Mississippi we have had moderate daytime temperatures with cool nights. Perfect weather to get out and do some garden and yard clean up. My Fig trees have finished producing and it is time to winterize them with a thick layer of straw. All my of the pears have been picked and either canned or eaten. My vegetable garden is basically through producing except for a few Jalapenos that are still hanging on and still producing large peppers. My Beer brewing experiment is still progressing nicely with 6 gallons of a Canadian Blonde still aging in bottles and I have a six-gallon batch of Irish Stout fermenting and almost ready for bottling.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
I had glorious cherry tomatoes in 5 gal buckets and plants and fruit were perfect......we put them up along the garage along an elevated wall above the lawn.....well, the deer did it all in the other night....I think they came up several stairs to get to it....
I’m trying to give mine away before they rot. The ones that are spoiling faster than I can eat, or give away, I’m throwing out in the pasture for the deer. I’m afraid my dog is eating a lot of those, however. Anyhow, they are disappearing.
You might want to try this web site. Weed Identification Guide
http://web2.ento.vt.edu/servlet/wid?table=grasses
By the end of January we were awash in fruit - and the quality was unsurpassed.
Do you cover the top of the soil as recommended? I didn’t because I felt the plants weren’t getting enough water from the bottom only. To say I was disappointed is an understatement, but I admit I didn’t follow instructions.
Yes...otherwise the medium will dry out...
SOUTH FL UPDATE:
The gardening season in FL is underway.. Rains have lightened up and the plants are taking off. WOOOO HOOOO!
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You are cranking up and quite a few of us are winding down with our gardens!
South FL dosn’t start are veggies till Sept 15th and Jan 15, That is why so many of our veggies go up north.. 100 days and I should have watermellons.... Here is one of the Egg Plants, I have no clue what I will do with all of them. I give a bunch to my friends and a bunch to the church and will still have to many..
Egg Plant
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I know dogs can’t eat onions but I don’t thing tomatoes will hurt a dog.... Please don’t give my dog any ideas! :-}
BTW- We just got rain! It was great! Now we need it to rain constantly for about a month. The aquifier is low.
Also try this:
Some people may not like the idea of snaring these varmints, but they can and do carry disease.
WOW, Down here they toss whole truckfulls of Tomatoes out for the cows when the prices drop... I have seem piles and piles of tomatoes out in the cow pastures.. The cows seem to like them... My dad also used to feed his cows grapefruit... They loved them but their eye’s rolled back in their heads on the sour ones... Funny they would not touch a sour orange.. Sour orange is a native tree in FL and they use it to Graft to....
My silly dog catchs moles... Funny to watch him, He finds them and jump up and down on them. He then digs them up and eats them if I don’t get to him in time... Ugly things!
I have used one of these for the last 5 years on rabbits and possums.
They are quiet, and even legal in some locations. I think they are legal here. If not, I have friends on the police force and on the municipal court bench!
The first year I grew pumpkins, I planted them way too early. They matured in late summer and I drenched them them in a solution of 10% Clorox and 90% water. I stored them in my shop (heated to 50F) until Christmas.
I have since waited to plant them until the first of July, and they mature before frost, and store well until Christmas without treatment.
When a bare patch exists, such as when he cuts a tree, he often doesn't do anything - something will eventually grow there. He never rakes leaves, just leaves them wherever they land. Some places are permanent leaf heaps with no effort.LOL.
I have a small fenced play yard for the grand kids, and I rake up leaves in and around it for the compost, as well as the driveway in front of the garage door. Once I asked him why he didn't rake up leaves, aside from simple avoidence of a time consuming task, he said letting the leaves decompose was a good thing. LOL.
I am so sorry for you. We haven’t had trouble with deer. Mostly we have squirrels, and I have pinwheels, and aluminum pans, and wind chimes as well as human and canine activity to keep them scared away from my tomato beds.
We occasionally see a fox wander through, and I think we may have a coon that ate a bunch of grapes, but so far no deer.
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