Posted on 11/16/2012 10:38:39 AM PST by greeneyes
The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you.
This thread is non-political, although you will find that most here are conservative folks. No matter what, you won’t be flamed and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked.
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I picked all the tomatoes on the vine prior to a hard frost. I have planted some of the raised beds with rye. Hubby has planted some winter wheat.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Pinging the list.
Sure wish we had your temps..
Has fist 6” of snow early last week - gone now...temps in low 40’s during the day...
All beds are tucked in and the Rosemary (tough to grow here is still growing and green - will use some for the turkey this thanksgiving).
Hope this finds all well...
Freshly picked rosemary is wonderful stuff!
Can you add me to the ping list?
Just harvested the last of our brussel sprouts. All the raised beds were tilled and covered. Now all things gardening are relegated to the seed catalogues until Spring!
I have my rosemary planted next to a retaining wall facing south west, and covered with a row cover. I’ll run out and grab some on Thanksgiving Day to use.
I tried growing it indoors one year - it did not work.
You’ve been added.
I am ordering seeds now for the essentials.
Tried indoors as well with no luck...
My in-laws, who used to live in Lake Havasu, used rosemary for landscaping....it grew like weeds. When we went to visit, would always use rosemary in cooking for them...kinda wish I’d brought a bunch back to dry and use later....
Temps here about 60 and 36 or 37 at night for the last few nights. No frost yet. Warmer temps coming on Sun night.
We are ready to rip out the remains of the garden and get a soil test done so that we can go ahead and make whatever changes we need for next year and put the '12 garden to bed. Of course, the ghost peppers are a different story, they are in pots and are babied, looking forward to next spring when we expect them to be large enough to have some peppers on them. I have the back porch ready for the container plants and hanging baskets this winter, the grow lights hung from the ceiling and connected to a timer. That worked out well for us last year. Our container plants looked the best that they ever have using the grow lights.
We hope that you have a happy Thanksgiving day.
No gardening news, but here is a garden-related topic. Justadumbblonde will appreciate this:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0
I am jealous of your back porch. Wish we had one too. LOL
Thanks for the link. Have you heard from JADB?
When I lived in California, I had a rosemary bush that grew out by my back steps. Whenever I made spaghetti, I’d hop out the back door and pick a nice brig sprig, rinse it off, and strip the leaves into my sauce. One day my 3rd child saw me do that and had a fit. She wouldn’t eat spaghetti for a long time, accusing me of putting sticks into the sauce.
Rosemary is strictly an annual around here (Wisconsin). An it doesn’t work to bring it into the house for the winter. It never survives. I’m always tempted by those darling little topiaries that they sell in the spring, but without a green house to keep them, I’m just throwing my money away.
No, I haven’t. I thought that some of you would know where she has been.
Anyone with any spare time might want to see if you can get a ‘victory garden’ rolling for your town or local church to help provide produce for the people who are going to be suffering thru 2013...
I have not heard a word for the months since she posted the last thread. I haven’t heard from anyone else that they have heard from her either. Just hoping she is OK.
Her last post seems to be August 10th...
Thank you!
Well, it’s hunting season now, so she may be off on a trip.
Our Mayor was working on that here last I heard. He called it a community garden though. It’s a great idea.
I just hope she’s ok.
Well, that could be, but I am suprised she hasn’t posted since August. I have to get online here at least once a week. LOL.
She’s been MIA for over 3 months. When FRiends go missing that long I worry.
In TX, we’ve had a few night light freezes and daytime temps of 60s. So far, knocking on wood, everything survived. I’m leaving what’s left of the “deer’s” beans to dry so I can replant next spring but I’m moving them to an inside fence so Dufus 1 and Dufus 2 can pretend to guard them. There are tomato plants popping up everywhere. Still not getting tomatoes from some of the ones I started last December so will till them under in a few months and start over. Harvesting mustard and spinach. Kale looks to be coming on so might get some before it gets too cold. Planted some elephant garlic a couple days ago.
Well, there’s harvest and then there’s hunting. She could be just very busy. I hope it is nothing more than that.
Once again, I want to thank you, greeneyes, for taking charge of the gardening thread!
My usual response to stress is to work on getting closer to a self-reliant homestead. So as I’m sure you can imagine, the gardening bug has bitten rather hard since the election, and about 3 months early. More than once I’ve even found myself browsing wistfully through LAST YEAR’S seed catalogs. This is going to be a long winter!
Earlier this week I went out to my land with a load of carpeting to lay down, since the landscape fabric I’ve got isn’t quite up to handling those weeds. I have a neighbor who farms one end of my land, and it seems he’s got a new hired hand working for him, one who never quite learned how to color inside the lines. Thankfully the only thing that got shredded was one end of the landscape fabric, I would’ve been really steamed if he’d gotten my saplings!!! Still, I think I’m going to have to come up with some kind of fence for that area. It’s going to be rustic, I lost my job last February (and because it was due to medical reasons, I was told I didn’t qualify for unemployment, and my disability insurance only covered one paycheck instead of 3 months like they promised), so I’m going to have to build this fence out of whatever I can find on the land or scrounge up on craigslist. There are some woven willow fences that look really cool out there!
I figure I can fence off a 6-foot strip of land that was cleared but shouldn’t have been. That would put it about where the edge of the field used to be. All that nice cleared land can’t be allowed to go to waste, of course, so I’ve got my graphing paper and seed inventory out and am planning what to grow there. That edge of my land is a little over 250 feet long, so at 6 feet wide, that’s about 1500 square feet of gardening space! Plus, If I can’t find a job I’m going to be camping out there most of the time, so hopefully I can make a little off of selling my extra produce. There’s a local-foods store that buys from individual farmers and gardeners, and they’re usually short on cucumbers.
This also gives me space to expand my seed supply, some of the “survival stash” varieties I have, such as hulless oats, I only have a little packet of the seed. I’d rather have 5 pounds or more, so that if I have to I can grow enough to live on. (Oats aren’t the only grain I have, I’d be doing that with lots of things.)
The person I want to order popbeans and flour corn from still hasn’t posted her seed availability for this season yet. I’m starting to get antsy waiting for the new seed catalogs to arrive.
You are welcome. I am happy to do it. I do feel a little discouraged not and then since we have so many who used to be regulars, that don’t post any more.
However, I really appreciate those that do all the more.LOL.
Yes, planning is a great stress buster. Also, cleaning and organizing is a great way to get rid of tension. Something very satisfying about taking a drawer or cabinet, taking everything out, sorting and reorganizing/cleaning it all up.
JADB just stopped pointing during a discussion of her extensive Solar Panels. I have run a few search engines to see if I could her but nothing showed up.
That’s right. She was having them installed this year. I wonder if she is having trouble with them?
Yeh, It is kinda a worry. She was really going to be busy, so I wasn’t suprised at first. But then as time went on and no one heard anything it just makes me concerned.
Only thing I can really do is pray and hope for the best.
I’ve checked JADB’s posting history: nada, so she isn’t just ignoring us.
I’ve FReepmailed twice, with no reply.
I looked up her phone number, and called, but only got a machine, and no call-backs.
I’ve checked her local area newspaper online, but no mention of her or her family. Sort of good news, since no accident reports or listed obituaries involving her.
I’m going to try sending a Thanksgiving card via snail mail, and see if it’s ignored, comes back, or whatever.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what area of Montana their other place is located, so can’t do much about searching there.
Thanks. Hoping all is well for her.
This past week has been yard cleanup. Last mowing of the lawn for the season and leaf pickup. There are around 18 trees in the front yard and a few more on the west side of the house.
All trees are naked now except for an oak, a willow and a Bradford Pear. I use contractor heavy duty trash bags to store the leaves until I can put them in the compost. These bags will be placed in between the blueberry plants to ward off the roving deer who love to prune the plants.
Yesterday I got my first new seed catalog for 2012/2013.
Thank you for your diligence and knowledge of the internet. She posted some great photos.
Ellendra, wishing you the best of luck in selling your produce. Hello to the list from western PA. Overnight temps are below 30 degrees and we wake up to frost on the lawn. The purple and green kohl plants are hardy enuf for the low temps. Everything else was cut back and made into sprigs we call tussie mussies.
Hubby usually just mows over the leaves and lets them stay on the yard. I pick up a few and stuff them in the compost pile on top of kitchen scraps.
We’re kinda lazy when it comes to leaves. LOL.
Good to be back after a long tough campaign season. My guys didn’t win but we gave them a good race.
Garden is put to bed, didn’t even have time to put any greens under the tunnel or get my grains in, so it’s completely empty except for the herb garden and the jerusalem artichokes.
I discovered a website via my facebook awhile back called Cultured Food Life - http://www.culturedfoodlife.com - and now I am brewing my first batch of lacto-fermented vegetables. Will let y’all know how it goes.
Welcome back. We are all a little weary and very disappointed with the election results, but I want to say thanks for your efforts.
We are still warm enough to get a little more winter wheat in and maybe some lettuce and spinach too.
My thoughts and Prayers go out for JADB as well...
Not a good omen to just drop out of sight like she did.
Thanks to a tip from afraidfortherepublic, it looks like I’ve located her son, and sent him an email asking about her.
Oh that’s good. Maybe we’ll find out what’s going on.
Thank you!
The garden is currently producing Dinosaur Kale, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, and radish. The peanuts look like they'll be ready to harvest soon also.
I moved all my citrus and tropical plants into the greenhouse in case there is a sudden freeze. The one plant I'm worried about is the papaya, since it managed to grow through the greenhouse skylight and is partially exposed to outside temps.
What do people think of the idea of gathering ideas/s\directions about particular gardening advice in a permanent way (seed starting, for example), so that when the questions come up in the spring, a number of replies are ready?
Mouse theives got my peanuts.
I thought I had them safely located to dry..But they were carried off without a trace.
I forgot to mention that I got about 50% of my cover crop planted Thursday before the weather changed and it looks like heavy rain for the next few days which will make mush of the remaining Raspberries but Lady Bender picked another 2 quarts of them while I planted the CC
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