Veggie Tales >>> December 2023
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Comments (63)It's -1 °F here at noon. Wind chill of -25 according to 2. We got snow but there's so much drifting that it's all blowing to the east. What it looks like is a light dusting with grass showing thru. But we're on top of the hill. Channel 2's videos show them plowing at the mall?? It's so windy that I'm wondering if the drifting snow ever comes in before the snow falling from the clouds. Wondering what the uncovered lettuce will look like after Mondays warming trend begins. I see green poking out of the ice and snow from the window....See MoreVeggie Tales March 2023
Comments (57)A little bit of poking around in the kitchen garden. Trays hardening off a week ago are seeing their first full night outside under the caps. A few of them got planted in. I figure if the overwintered ones are good, the new ones might as well go in where the are supposed to go instead of stayng in the trays. Two bins planted with taters. Kinnebecks. The grapes, raspberries, and asparagus I potted up a week ago got moved out to a cap. A lot of stuff got watered with compost water, the bin under the tumbler was full and brown. A big spending day for the garden. Plant orders. I get to start with the new fruits and nuts this year. A smokehouse apple ordered through a local nursery. I already have a couple apples out back to add this one to. Also picked up German Butterball potatoes to plant two more kitchen bins with. Then it was online ordering. Four pomegranate bushes, two white, two pink. I realize red is more traditional, but pink and white mean less staining. An apricot, ligonberry, jostaberry, flowering currant, serviceberries. A couple shellbark hickories, two each of three kinds of hazelnuts. I think I'm going to need to finish up the plant nursery out back sooner rather than later, lol. I ordered smaller plants, so it's likely I'm going to want to grow them out for a year before planting them out. I'm kind of proud of myself for ordering this year. Usually I think about it too early in the fall when I'm harvesting stuff and it's too early to order plants... then forget about it till I'm out spring plant shopping and it's too late to order what I want. Completely blew the budget. Hopefully it will be worth it in a year or few :)...See MoreVeggie Tales >>> June 2023
Comments (84)The heat is now officially turned on here, humidity too + smoke. Looks like after today there's going to be a long stretch of 90's with spotty rain chances. Some more garden pics below from this morning...sure glad we got a ton tomatoes setting before this heat hits... One of my cheatin' tomato plants, have already picked 8 off of this one... One of the later tomato plants, most are loaded down, just a wild carrot/bloom mixed in... Some typical jalapeno peppers for the next batch of chili..... Some yellow summer squash......See MoreVeggie Tales >>> October 2023
Comments (11)Sounds easier than my caging Wayne, thanks. Today I used my long fruit picking pole and scooped up another 15 perfect huge pears, not a blemish on them and they were on the shady side of the tree so were still a light green. We have 3 watermelons in the garage fridge and as they are vacated they'll be replaced with more pears, hope to have about 70 in the fridge to last up to New Years, maybe? Of these 3 trees there must be at least 200 nice looking pears waaaay out of reach. We've been giving them away like crazy but many end up in the com[post or as deer snacks late at night. The deer are welcome as they save me a lot of picking up and it distracts them from the fall crops. Sorry to say that the last tomatoes are in the pipeline now, the late plants took it on the chin during last weeks stretch of cool drizzle, late blight has run rampant now. Peppers are still going strong, I pulled the eggplant, had enough, ha, must have picked over 15 from that one plant this year. The persimmons are getting a slight blush to em', probably another month to go on those. Carrots, collards, cabbages, and turnips all look good so far. I watered the late sweet potatoes today and the rest of the fall crops will get a good soaking tomorrow....See Morefarmerdill
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