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Journal for October - getting ready for winter?
Comments (11)-We've been downsizing our critter population - when we can find a dry day, which is perhaps twice a week. I have never seen such a gloomy, cloudy, rainy, muddy, yucky October. The last half of September wasn't much better. But instead of taking this as a sign of a long cold winter ahead, I prefer to think that November and December are going to be nicer than average - to make up for all this rain. LOL. An optimist, or at least I try hard to be one... We culled our remaining eight Speckled Sussex hens and made soup. Brian finished building the "Chiclet Box" as I like to call our new little chicken house and the Chiclets (Dominiques, just short of six months old) are installed there. They are laying really well, but we've had some unscheduled downsizing by our mystery predator. I started with a dozen day olds, 10 pullets and 2 cockerels. We lost one of the cockerels at about three weeks. And now two of our pullets have disappeared. All our losses to predators this year - several old hens, two young geese and these two pullets - have been of the "without a trace" variety. There are fishers about, coyotes and big hawks... so I don't know which is to blame. Our geese are doing well, the youngsters as big as their mamas now. I have a trio of Pilgrims, a Buff and five mutts, offspring of our horried gander. I managed to find a buyer for the five and he will collect them in about a month. I got $60 for them, not as much as I'd hoped, but I really was not looking forward to culling them myself. So we will only have the four to take through the winter and I hope they will raise lots of little Pilgrims next year. (The Buff will be a foster mom; when she goes broody I'll give her Pilgrim eggs. The rabbits are doing great. We put seven in the freezer last week and today we processed three of the adults, just keeping the best three breeders through the winter. (And our two indoor Angoras that popped up unexpectedly in one of the summer litters.) We have another five youngsters to do and nine more month-old babies running around in a large pen in the rabbit house (former chicken house). Very cute right now and thank goodness by the time they are big enough to eat (just before Christmas) they lose a lot of their baby bunny appeal. We've been really cutting back our spending on just about everything non-essential, but whatever we go short on this winter, it won't likely be meat or eggs. Not much left in the garden now, just some leeks and the perennial Egyptian onions. We didn't get much planted this spring due to opening the antiques shop (which is limping along, but is fortunately supplemented by sales on Ebay.) Well, that about sums it up here. Hope everyone is having a good autumn and that winter stays away for awhile yet....See MoreHeritage Raspberry Still Not Ready For Harvest Yet
Comments (14)Raspberries are my favorite fruit. Something about the taste, but yeah i like berries a lot. All berries. i foraged wild red and black raspberries this year, and wild blackberries. Here's a photo of frozen wild blackberries (they turn red when frozen) On top is a Triple Crown from my garden. OK, we seem to be hijacking this thread sorry! Greenhorn, are the raspberries first year? BTW if you like Heritage you should try Caroline, they really are a great replacement for Heritage. Better tasting. You guys in NY have some great fruit developed by NY Universities. Luckily we have MSU here, and they do a decent job too. I'm growing Liberty blueberries developed by MSU. They are working on new tart cherry trees. i can't wait till the trials end and they decide on a cultivar. They went to europe and collected many tart and related cherries for cross breeding. Brought in the Romance series from Canada too. I expect an exceptional tree(s)....See MorePlease Help Me 'Ready' my Plumerias for Fall / Winter...
Comments (4)Hi Sue, There is no need to prune plumeria unless you wish to take cuttings for propagation or you wish to reduce the size of a potted plumeria that needs to be dragged indoors for the winter. The best time to take cuttings is in the spring. If you need to reduce the size of the plant, you should do it in stages over several years so that you will have blooms every year. If you do a radical prune job, the plant will not bloom for at least a year and possibly longer. If you wish to produce a bushier plant, take a few cuttings in spring 6 or more inches above a joint. The branch stumps will each put out several new branches. Repeat each spring for several years until you have trimmed back all the lanky growth. Fertilize during the growing season with a high phosphorus fertilizer to encourage blooms on the branches you didnÂt cut. If the plant is young, give it high phosphorus (middle number) fertilizer to encourage frequent blooming. Blooming will cause it to produce many branches and eliminate the need to prune it later to fix a sparse gangly shape. One final note, cutting the plant back is not part of the standard treatment for preparing it for dormancy. We have a very active Plumeria Forum, please stop in and join our discussions. Philip Here is a link that might be useful: Plumeria Forum...See MoreWho is getting ready for fall plantings?
Comments (16)Im spending the afternoon planning the planting schedule. There are 4 houses I can plant in. 2 of them now have tomatoes growing in them, and considering those are our best sellers, we are not willing to rip them out early to plant other crops. So those 2 won't open up until October / November. Not sure if there is any reason to try planting them at that point, or wait until early spring to try to have crops in April. The other has ginger in about 2/3 of it, and zucchini in the other third. I have no problem ripping out the zucchini - but that only gives me a 4x70 bed. The ginger won't come out until late September at the earliest The last is currently empty, but is our main greenhouse. We need to get benches out, rip up landscape fabric, bring in compost and till. But - since that is our main greenhouse, and plants are our real money makers, we will need it beginning in March, I need to plan so that whatever crops are grown in there are gone by then. It is also close to a Walnut - so I have to grow walnut tolerant crops. Im thinking beets, carrots and lettuce for that house, and some brassicas away from the walnut. I will just have to rip them out come March. This year will be a real learning curve. :)...See More- 11 years ago
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