Posted on 10/15/2022 5:49:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Thank you. I am going out today to the garden centers to collect what is needed.
Make sure and feed your asparagus beds really good! Mine got a good dinner of dry molasses, eggshells, and compost.
We have lots and lots of fallen branches too. The smaller ones I use for kindling, and stack the larger ones for seasoning for next year’s firewood. Maybe we can get a wood chopper that would also mulch leaves. Are those sort of things made? I wonder how well they work.
Last year on our “new to us” property we shredded leaves where we could, left some in place, and blew some onto edge of road where poisin oak hangs out...I swear doing so killed a lot of poison oak. And last year we also had some large scrub oaks cut down...yay.
Mine isn’t quite ready to cut down and cover yet. But I will toss compost on the bed before I cover it with leaves and straw for the winter. :)
Hurry, Spring! (Too early? LOL!)
Have not cut mine down yet either. They are just heavy eaters. Zone 8a. Sandy loam. They look cool when they ‘fern out’. Neighbor asked “ what is that?”. I laughed and told them asparagus.
Mine don’t turn until about Christmas.
You actually helped me with this a couple years ago.
Come on spring!
I’m glad you’re having so much success! One thing I really regretted leaving behind at my other farm was my well-established 40’ row of Asparagus. :(
But, I’ll catch up again. :)
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40’ is spectacular!
Mine is just 4x8!
But I’m the only one here that likes them.
I may expand this spring.
I’d be looking at those leaf-collecting vacuums by the second round.
we have officially stopped opening our bedroom window at night because our house is getting too cold...
we've picked all the green tomatoes and they're sitting on the dinning room table with newspaper over them, slowing ripening....
a few more beans still to chomp on and we still have some zucchini growing as well as the trombone squash and hubbards....
garlic is planted as of two days ago....
looking forward to ordering seeds....
Falling leaves .... my new “dumpster fire” status project! The maples are losing leaves fast (and turning red!) so I need to dig out the compost pile (like tomorrow!) to make room for this year’s leaves.
No garden time this week - dad had doc appointments Tues/Wed/Thur & the pastor came to visit Friday. He has a doc appointment Monday & then family from FL is stopping in for a visit Tuesday. Whew!! The appointments are all early afternoon - keeps me from going out & getting dirty in the garden in the a.m. & we get home late enough that it pretty much knocks out the afternoon for work as well.
Spent this morning at a church yard sale - got to talk to some folks & enjoyed myself quite a bit. Sold a few things, too .... turns out there was a ‘Fall Run’ in the nearby town that had traffic in a snarl, so visitors to the sale were way down from last year. It was still a gorgeous morning to be outside.
Okie dokie .... found something ‘new’ to me in the “Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots” book. Who has heard of making ‘walking sticks’ out of cabbage (for those who have not read the book!)?? Fascinating!
How to make a walking stick from cabbage
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/how_to_make_a_walking_stick_from_cabbage
Walking Stick Cabbage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk_d9bZp-dU
MAKING A CABBAGE (KALE) WALKING STICK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcdKbTWO8w
Hubby cleaned out the veggie garden this afternoon. Our growing season is finished. He found one mid-sized zucchini, so I will fry that with supper tonight.
This year he learned what tomato wilt is. Our cucumber plants also were infected with something, so yield in both those items was down. Bush beans were great and for the first time he planted in two week intervals, so we had some to harvest for quite some time. Our peppers produced a lot this year.
I learned that if I plant herbs in the veggie garden, I use them less often than if I plant them in pots on the patio. :)
What did this growing season teach each of you?
Believe it or not, I’ve got a few buckshot-sized green tomatoes, even though the foliage is almost all dead and crunchy.
Any gardener FReepers know of any sure-fire ways to either repel or kill gophers? Normally I’m the most peace-loving old goat there is, but I’ve just HAD IT with seeing everything I’ve worked for destroyed. I put poison peanuts in the holes, and stick mashed garlic cloves in the ground as a barrier, but although those remedies seem to work at first, they never last.
If any of you have already given me advice on the gopher problem, please overlook the repetition. Nearly lost my best friend a few weeks back, and although the friend is recovering, I’m still pretty distracted and temporarily not retaining info as well as usual.
First of all, sorry about your friend! Prayers up!
Define ‘gopher.’ Are they the skinny Pocket Gophers with the stripes on their back that drill holes straight down in the lawn, or the BIG gophers, akin to woodchucks?
A liquid repellent should work (somewhat) for both. You can make it yourself:
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-animal-repellent-out-hot-peppers-81549.html
Other deterrents to gophers:
https://www.gardendesign.com/how-to/gophers.html
I had many pocket gophers in my lawn at my other farm. My Lab’s favorite pastime was for me to pour water down their holes, the gopher pops up and she’d finish them off.
“But I’m the only one here that likes them.”
It’s that way at my house with Brussels Sprouts!
Yes, Please! :)
Kale. Natures most perfect vegetable, LOL!
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