Weekly Gardening Thread – 2009 Vol.18 – September 18

Free Republic | 9-18-2009 | Red_Devil 232

[rightly_dividing]

Thanks, that is just perfect for us.

[Red_Devil 232]

Thank you. I enjoy posting the thread and reading about what others are doing. We have FReepers growing gardens in bags, buckets, earth boxes, using hydroponics, building green houses from simple to complex. FReepers flooded out, facing drought and extreme heat and a cooler than usual summer, high altitudes and everything in between. FReepers facing hard times and good times and they all say the same thing - we will adapt and try again next year.

Yep! I enjoy posting this thread.

[MtnClimber]

Forcast for Sunday-Tuesday up here at 8,500 ft in Colorado Rockies is SNOW! The forcast low is only 30F so I will cover as much of the beans, tomatos and squash as possible with plastic. I will pick beans as much as possible ahead of the freeze. I have one tomato turning color so I will pick on Saturday and finish ripening indoors. I got in four varieties of garlic to plant around mid October so I still have some gardening left this fall. The compost bin is working well and I will be expanding my planting area for next year. I have eggplant and a Cherokee Purple tomato I dug up and put in containers so I can bring indoors in cold weather. I have many south and west facing windows for winter sunlight. I may dig up some other tomatos too. Will this thread continue through winter?

[Red_Devil 232]

Yes I plan to keep posting the thread through the winter. I expect the responses will slow down quite a bit. Maybe FReepers will post more recipes.

[gardengirl]

Thank you for doing it! :)

LOTS of gardening going on here, which is why I’ve been AWOL so much! I have planted and planted and planted and sowed and sowed and sowed and transplanted and transplanted until my fingers are about to fall off! Not a bad thing for a garden center, but I am still out of some plants and dangerously low on others.

Happy gardening! Check in later if I get time!

[tubebender]

We no longer grow a winter garden due Slugs, Snails and Aphids here on the shores of Humboldt bay. Today I am going over to our Church to start the fall cleanup compost pile and opening up the old one for the flower and ornamental gardens. We received the annual “Keep Eureka Beautiful” award two years ago. Here on the vast Bender estate I started our new pile and started spreading finished compost on the veggie and flower beds and Monday we will shred corn stalks and other matter to add. Our 21 y/o grandson came over yesterday for lunch and helped me start the shredder as it is a bear to start the first of the season...

[tillacum]

I have 2 heirloom tomatoe plants putting out blooms. They did squat this summer...guess it was too hot. They are huge. I’m waiting to see what happens now. Gardening is proving velly interesting.

[gardengirl]

SNOW?

Blecch!

Glad it’s you and not me! If I had my way and control of the thermostat, it would be 75 year round! LOL

[tillacum]

What state are you planting these veggies in?

[tillacum]

Welcome to the club,,,my spring/summer garden was a disaster, my corn dried on the pant, the okra is NOW coming on, my tomatoes, with the exception of 2 heirlooms did noting, OH, I did get 2 red tomatoes. It was HOT in central Texas.

[cherry]

my garden did bad but I think for other reasons...

I had a good crop of cukes and zucchinis coming on...harvested a few and then the plants just started dying....leaves turned white.....

I used a heavy mix of compost...its called "ecocompost" and I wonder if it was too strong for the plants....

any suggestions?

[poobear]

Central Florida. I’m am taking a chance with the green onions and collards. Still hot. Might better wait till February. The pole beans and tomatoes should be fine.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

There exists a website or two that report the progress of fall colors up in that area. A google search would probably produce results quickly.

[Gabz]

Good morning! Glad to see you survived the Habaneros! LOL

Of course I did!!!!

Alas some of the salsa I made from your peppers did not survive the death of my refrigerator this week.

Living out of coolers is NOT fun.

[rightly_dividing]

Thanks for the heads-up. I imediatley went looking on the net for sites to see in the N.E. US. We may go through Pa. and visit the Amish areas, then on to Niagara Falls. Then, wherever!

[tubebender]

Reference to Okra here Glock... (#50)

[tubebender]

It took me three hours to rebuild the compost bin and make a start on next years Black Gold at our Church. I was surprised how little material I had to remove from the old one to find finished product. Next week we will go over to the stables for raw material. My First Wife just got home and said the weather service is warning of a heat wave here next week. A heat wave here would be in the 80s...

[Free Vulcan]

This year has just sucked thru and thru. Wrote it off and am getting ready for next.

[tubebender]

This weeks gardening column from our local Paper

[SouthTexas]

I don’t know if there’s much left down here.