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Comments (21)Let's keep thinking positive thoughts. Sunday night is still a few days away and the forecast low can fluctuate up and down a lot between now and then. I'll cover everything I can if conditions warrant, but I've already decided I'll only cover one of the three pepper beds--and the one I will cover is the one that is producing most heavily. I picked all the large peppers, but left a lot of babies on plants in that bed. In the other two pepper beds, if they freeze, they freeze. I cannot protect my pole beans. Well, I could do it by putting row cover up along both sides of the trellis and folding it over the top and pinning it closed with clothespins, but that's more effort than I am willing to expend. I will protect the bush beans. Can you pile up leaves or straw or something over the portion of the winter squash vines where those three melons are? I've done that before in November when I actually had fallen leaves to use. Leaves really aren't falling here yet because it is too early, but I'm going to pile up hay on top of the part of the winter squash vine that is on the ground. The part on the trellis may get covered, if I figure out how. I have Agribon frost blankets and I have heavier moving blankets that are really heavy and might bring down the trellis..... In light of the approaching cold front, I pulled out all the hanging-basket style cherry tomato plants that were growing in the cattle trough. They still were producing and blooming, but I just really wanted to put the back-up lettuce plants in that trough so they can get established and grow. I already have lettuce in the ground and in three large containers, but I wanted to do something with those leftover lettuce plants, and I had a lot of them. I still have cherry type tomato plants in two molasses tubs and SunGold in the ground, and I'll cover up all those. The tomato plants I removed had produced well all year, but were looking pretty tired and ratty, though still covered with fruit. I picked about 2 or 3 gallons of cherries from them, and then put the plants out at the deer feeding area for the deer to eat. I hope they like green tomatoes. It has been a long, hard garden year, Carol, and y'all had that horrible storm plus the hail on top of all the other wild weather. I can understand why you've had enough! I'm stubborn and so I will protect the warm-season stuff and try to keep it going until at least November. Apart from that, I've put in a big fall garden with lots of cool-season stuff and the grasshoppers have been eating everything down to the ground. I'm grateful for these 2 back-to-back cold fronts and hope they KILL some of those hoppers so my cool-season stuff stands a chance. Apparently, at least in our garden, grasshoppers prefer Wild Garden Kale from Wild Garden Seeds and Purple Sprouting Broccoli above all other cool-season veggies. I had some success hiding the Even Star Farms Smooth Kale from the hoppers by planting it between taller rows of purple hull pink eye peas, and did the same with Falstaff Brussels Sprouts by planting a row of it between rows of bush beans. I'm not sure if hiding those cool-season crops between rows of warm-season crops is why they haven't been nibbled, but I think it might be. Carol, I have the most green Seminole winter squash I've ever had this late in the season but they just sit there and refuse to break color. It is driving me crazy. If they freeze before they ripen, it is their own fault for being slowpokes. Oh, I forgot the Sugar Snap Peas or, as they now are known here, the Grasshopper Chow. They've devoured every plant down to the ground. I am so happy to know that somebody enjoyed eating those pea plants, but wish it had been our family eating them instead of those grasshoppers. Dawn...See MorePebble coming this weekend - see how far I've come
Comments (8)Thank you guys for checking it out. Will post again when filled or after the cure time. I think I read here that it's 2 weeks for pebbletec to reach it's final stage. Is there really no swimming during that time. Is that 10 days or 14? I just don't know that I can stand to wait. gotpool - yes spa will go in the corner. I had them create the raised area 12X12. Spa is 8X8 and I want to find a reasonably priced gazebo, maybe 10X10. gk5040 - 20 questions not a problem - under the gazebo there was a poorly constructed pond. My sons convinced me to do the spa instead. I went with the midnight blue pebble tec. They just applied it today. Acid wash tomorrow. Tiles are fixed. They still went with slicing them up, but there are the same number of slices on both sides now. I'll show that when I upload the filled pool. My coping is a limestone from MasterTile (Torreon). I got very frustrated trying to decide on coping and tile. PB is also bringing a tan skimmer lid....See MoreI like it hot festival this coming weekend
Comments (3)Here is their website http://www.ilikeithotfestival.com/index.htm I'll take a couple of pictures and post them, hopefully on Saturday, so if there are any people wanting to go on Sunday, they will get an idea. I will be working at a booth there, so I will be tired that night, but I should have time. Hopefully, my insides will be good. Last year, the next morning was a little rough after trying more than 100 hot sauces. :-) I did bring home about 8 of them though. I'll at least be picking up some hard to find pepper seeds this year for planting this winter....See MoreLeu Gardens Spring Plant Sale this weekend, March 12-13
Comments (18)It was a beautiful day at the Leu! I saw so many great plants that it was hard to pick....:) I got a mix and match of miniatures, big ones too and a pretty birdbath. Thank you Eric for your great advice on the vine, we really like it and had no idea till you told us. After the cart was full, we walked through the tropical gardens to find the rainbow eucalyptus, it is huge! lol Silvia...See MoreMimou-GW
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