Weekly Gardening Thread
Weekly Gardening Thread
Good morning gardeners. Nothing much left to do inthe garden. There is still work to do, but it’s too cold to work. The remainder of garden preparation moves indoors and the outdoors will have to wait for spring. Maybe some fallen tree work will get done, but not much else.
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Good morning on this chilly morn, not much to do in the garden until spring. Hopefully next year’s harvest will be more bountiful, rather slim across the board this year. Late start due to a trip and then the weather was not to good either rain at the wrong time or none.
Frost on the ground this morning! It was beautiful. Greetings to all my gardening FReepers!
We are finally getting a nice soaking rain here. It should be raining most of the weekend. That may save a number of trees here. I heard that there are places that have little moisture as far as 20’ down.
One community - Horseshoe Bay - is going to cut down every cedar tree that is less than 6” diameter since they drink so much water. I wish they would cut every cedar tree from IH 10 to the Tex / Mex border.
Good Morning!
My Veggies are loving this cool weather...and I will have more lettuce than I know what to do with in a few months.
That’s OK...I’ve been eating a lot of salad lately and have lot over 20 POUNDS! Hallelujah!
Everything is frosty here in upstate S.C. but the collards, kale, beets, and lettuce don’t seem to mind.
Mrs. Augie has rediscovered our Jack LaLanne Power Juicer and has been hard at the row of red russian kale that I left in the garden for the chickens.
Meet the world's heaviest insect, which weighs three times more than a mouse... and eats carrots
I know I said no more pics but I wanted to show everyone a lettuce I picked just a couple of days ago called Four Seasons or Mervielle d'Quatre Saisons. It's gotten down to 25 degrees here and it came through great. Definitely a keeper.
Got what I think is the last picking of greens off the plot. If they're still good I'll strip the rest today. Hard to imagine eating fresh salad around here December 1st. Worth the effort, and I even had 'help'.:
Got to put the garlic and onions in this weekend and get the tunnel set up and clean the flats for starts next year then this boy is DONE.
Just got my Johnnys Seeds catalog. Can’t wait to sit down with a cup of coffee and start dreaming of next year’s garden! I hope to try wintersowing, so maybe I’ll order a pack or two of seeds for that.
We've got around 1,000 acres of wheat planted on the farm, and it looks really good at this point. Just enough rain has fallen to get it off to a good start. The fields are wet enough that we will not get any more planted though.
Installation of our solar system begins next week. By the end of December our home and all of the outbuildings, except the donkey barn, will be 100% solar. This is a very exciting step for us on the road to complete self-sufficiency. We had originally planned 2 windmills, but in the long run solar won out. We will install 1 small windmill to operate a well supplying water and power to the livestock areas.
Time to concentrate on some serious hunting and fishing before Christmas. My husband killed a little buck last night, but we had to take it to the processor because the weather was not cool enough to hang it here. I plan on canning a bunch of deer meat this year. I've been canning chicken for a few years now and it is so convenient to have meat that is already cooked and ready to put into a meal. That will make room for more fish in the freezer :)
All of my beehives have been winterized, although the bees still work on warm days like we are having now. I've really enjoyed my first year of beekeeping and would highly recommend it to anyone. They are fun, fascinating, and do the garden a world of good. The honey is a great reward as well.
My best regards to all of my gardening FRiends!
Lovely weather here in Benderville altho we did have a frost yesterday morning but I don’t see any damage yet. Still eating a few Raspberries every other day, Garlic is looking good and a few perennial flowers blooming. Lots of cleanup to do but we found time to go over to the Church and bring home a pickup load of Redwood needles for future compost material. They have a vacuum/shredder to clean the parking lot that reduces the volume. I got a new bigger iMac last night and will get it booted up today...
I have to give the winter garden another row cover and straw sometime today or tomorrow. The indoor garden is sparse this year with out all the tomato pots I had planned.
The spinach is doing well, as are the herbs.
We are still eating tomatoes from the garden that we wrapped in paper while green. I am hoping the one pot of tomatoes takes off soon.
We have only received 2 seed catalogs so far. Have a great weekend everyone. God Bless.
About 1 1/2 feet of snow on the ground here in Colorado.
HI Red Devil and the gardening list.
On my wish list this year... I would appreciate anyone that can tell me how to protect myself from wasp stings and how to naturally get rid of these wasps.
We have acreage and I was stung this summer twice by swarms — the first swarm was from the typical mud/dirt dweller type wasps and the the last set was the German Yellow Jackets.
I’ve done a lot of reading online and I’m going to order (if possible) Dragon Flies and Preying Mantis’. I was going to buy about a dozen Purple Martin bird houses, but I read recently that wasps like to take over bird houses.
Ideas and Suggestions most appreciated.
Snow on the ground this morning.
