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6:38 pm
November 7, 2009
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TXLady
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I harvested spinach, green beans and radishes tonight. My fall garden is amazingly bountiful this year. I planted green beans a little bit late but I thought if I was lucky and there were no early frosts I could easily get some beans. So far I have picked them twice and there is plenty more to come if the frost just stays away….We don't usually have a really hard freeze till around the end of the year but you never know. It was a brutally hot summer and my tomatoes just fizzled out but from experience, I knew if I could keep the plants in good shape, they would continue producing so tomatoes are loaded down. I get a few most every day and before the first freeze I will pick them all as we did last year and we'll have fresh tomatoes till Feb….My greens, kale, collards, spinach, mustard, beets, mustard and chard are all beautiful and the peppers are still going from the spring plants.
I am your typical little old lady so when we moved here, My husband had a worker build me garden beds and I have a stool for sitting to weed or harvest…It works really good for me….
So what did you do in your garden today?
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7:05 pm
November 7, 2009
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okbarb
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I am thinking of a winter garden but I don't like kale, spinach, or other greens. Is there anything else that I can plant? Would peppers keep going if I had not tilled them under?
Ruth – your gardening experience and patience are what I need!
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There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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10:10 pm
November 7, 2009
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Pete
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Barb, my peppers are still producing, even with the couple of low 30-degree nights we have had. A few of the plants have wilted from the frosts, but over half of them are still strong. We are having a couple more very warm days after which I will probably strip them. Can't imagine that there will be enough warm days after that to keep them producing.
Checking the peppers and taking some cuttings from a few annuals is all the gardening I did today.
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Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!
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10:30 pm
November 7, 2009
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Helen
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Here along the 41st parallel, the hips of the multiflora roses are ready to pick.
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"Wednesday, play with your food"
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11:54 am
November 8, 2009
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TXLady
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Peppers are heat lovers and will do well until the first heavy frost or freeze and then they are done. I have already picked mine and they are still flowering and producing more …It was such a brutal summer that they are actually doing better now than earlier…but Peppers won't survive the cold.
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7:30 am
November 18, 2009
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Runningtrails – Sheryl
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I have always wanted to pick rose hips and make some things. There are recipes out there for rose hip jelly and tea that I would like to make. I think I am going to start making jellies and jams from everything possible, just to try.
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7:50 am
November 18, 2009
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Debnfla3
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Sheryl, I wanted to do that too since I grow around 150 roses!! Rose hips are loaded with vitamin C and are good for you…if you don't spray with chemicals. I try not to spray chemicals and use stuff that won't kill my good bugs and honey bees that seem to love my rose blooms.
Deb
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6:53 pm
November 18, 2009
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TXLady
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I harvested today. green onions to ripen on the porch, Florida speckled butter beans, chard, and the last of the green beans. The chard and green beans are in the freezer already and all of the small tomatoes I used tp make relish. I have onions and garlic to plant and lots of greens to harvest for the freezer. I won't harvest the collards till we get a few more frosts but the kale, spinach and chard is ready and waiting. Oh and my sweet potatoes are beautiful. I dug just a couple of forks last night and got a bucketful…beautiful nice and big.
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6:57 pm
November 18, 2009
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Helen
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What a beautiful picture you painted for us with that description of your garden!
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"Wednesday, play with your food"
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8:10 am
November 21, 2009
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Joyce
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okbarb asked for suggestions , here in Western W V we don't really do a winter garden but have found that smaller onions will survive though only the bulbs are much good as the tops get very tough and stringy. My favourite is Chinese Cabbage (Napa)we grow it starting early in August to have large heads for making Kimchee in early November. With light cover, an old curtain or sheet the heads survive down to about 25, then cut and stored in a root cellar or fridge we have nice salads on through Christmas and into the New Year.
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1:15 pm
November 23, 2009
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TXLady
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I pick a trash bag full of mustard greens saturday and put them in the freezer. Washing, stemming and getting them ready is a pain in the bunns but I like to have a stash of greens in the freezer to eat after the big freeze hits the greens. Our season is pretty long and starts pretty early with things like greens so it doesn't take to many bags to get us through.
My next project will be beets. I brought the rest of the Sweet Potatoes in on Saturday too.
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7:21 am
December 2, 2009
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Knittlin
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Ruthie! I found you! ;)
Are you getting ready for the cold this week? I have all my winter garden veggies in and only one pepper plant still surviving, a Tobasco pepper ~ bet it'll be gone after tonight. But I'll be picking bok choi, lettuce and mustard greens soon. Broccoli, too. Do you have all the other winter things in? Broccoli, regular cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, snow peas, etc.? How about garlic?
OH, sweet potatoes. Love them, but didn't have the room to plant any this past spring (I've since fixed that). I did get some from work when they dug them and made a fabulous casserole ~ sweet potatoes in thin slices with cream and pureed chipotle peppers in adobo sauce poured over them, then baked at 350 for an hour (these potatoes were more mature and a little woody, so I had to pre-bake them for a couple hours). Yum-o.
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8:40 am
December 2, 2009
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TXLady
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Hey Knittlin…I'm pretty much a newbie here but love reading Suzanne…Don't know about this weather coming up. 2 inches of snow….I hope I can manage to stay off these roads cause Texans will kill you with their vehicles when it snows.
Garden doing rally good and yes to all the fall stuff. Lots and lots of garlic planted.
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