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pepperhead212
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Once again, I am fighting the frost with sprinklers. It's only 1° f colder than the predicted low of 37° at the nearest WS station but it's only 4:30am. And, there is frost on the pickup only 30 yards from the little garden.
The big veggie garden is toast. It was a situation of not being able to be two places at once the other day. Besides, there had been many mornings in the 30's, before the killing frost. Most plants had shut down before frost.
We were out in the big veggie garden and found an earlier missed winter squash, yesterday. Celeriac (celery root) has been an important addition to our winter potatoes for a number of years. Got those and a couple of buckets of other things like cabbage and kale. The snap peas planted the last week of July had time to form pods and the plants are still alive. We had harvested the tender tendrils several times through September. They are "greens" that taste like peas!
My second planting of green beans about July 20 was a complete fail. I knew better than miss my "no later than" July 15th date! Nothing guaranteed about that date either but cool weather adds days and dayzzz to days-to-maturity. Oh weeellll, the pods of the left Rattlesnake pole beans were harvested and are now drying on the greenhouse bench. They are not the easiest dry bean to shell but oh-so-tasty as green beans in the summer and as dry beans in a bowl of winter soup
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The big veggie garden is toast. It was a situation of not being able to be two places at once the other day. Besides, there had been many mornings in the 30's, before the killing frost. Most plants had shut down before frost.
We were out in the big veggie garden and found an earlier missed winter squash, yesterday. Celeriac (celery root) has been an important addition to our winter potatoes for a number of years. Got those and a couple of buckets of other things like cabbage and kale. The snap peas planted the last week of July had time to form pods and the plants are still alive. We had harvested the tender tendrils several times through September. They are "greens" that taste like peas!
My second planting of green beans about July 20 was a complete fail. I knew better than miss my "no later than" July 15th date! Nothing guaranteed about that date either but cool weather adds days and dayzzz to days-to-maturity. Oh weeellll, the pods of the left Rattlesnake pole beans were harvested and are now drying on the greenhouse bench. They are not the easiest dry bean to shell but oh-so-tasty as green beans in the summer and as dry beans in a bowl of winter soup
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Gary350
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Yesterday was sunny & 88 degrees with beautiful clouds. Today started out with no clouds by 12 noon it was heavy over cast & dark the rest of the day. I planted garlic a month ago 60 days before first frost. Sunny an nice tomorrow then storms 7pm to midnight. Thursday sunny and nice high in the 60s for a whole weeks. Fall is on the way. Perfect camping weather will be here soon. It is nice to go camping when its in the 20s at night then warms up to about 50 during the day. Excellent hiking weather.
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Taiji
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I believe our first frost was Sept. 28 and we have had several since then. Snow showers today.
Believe it or not, I picked the last of the Ambrosia corn yesterday. It must be insulated underneath the husks because it was great! Squash has had some frosts on it, but didn't hurt anything. Picked it all about a week ago. Squash and potatoes will go back out west. Pulled up the cayenne pepper plants and hung them up. Will take em out west and hang in a tree outside. Works great. Nothing bothers them and it's dry enough so they don't mildew.
Beautiful fotos from James and Gary. Our trees are looking like yours Gary. Everyone here is saying it's the best fall color year in a long time.
Believe it or not, I picked the last of the Ambrosia corn yesterday. It must be insulated underneath the husks because it was great! Squash has had some frosts on it, but didn't hurt anything. Picked it all about a week ago. Squash and potatoes will go back out west. Pulled up the cayenne pepper plants and hung them up. Will take em out west and hang in a tree outside. Works great. Nothing bothers them and it's dry enough so they don't mildew.
Beautiful fotos from James and Gary. Our trees are looking like yours Gary. Everyone here is saying it's the best fall color year in a long time.
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Gary350
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Michigan relatives said they had several inches of snow a few weeks ago. We never know what to expect in TN I have seen snow in November an 80 degree weather until Dec 31. One year it was 70 degrees at 12 noon Dec 31, snow started a 4 pm & we had 4" if snow a few hours later. We often see more snow in Feb than Jan & some years we have no snow at all. Late March we think winter is about over I have seen 8" of snow last week of March & snow furies in April. Sometimes winter is over early and I plant tomatoes first week of April and other years winter keeps hanging on and tomatoes don't get planted until first of May. I love to set next to the cast iron living room stove & kept putting in the wood an listen to the fire until my clothes are too hot to touch. Then I move my chair back a foot or so and open the stove door to watch the flames. Relax while drinking a cup of hot chocolate while thinking about planting a spring garden. Sometimes there is a tiny bit of smoke smell in the air and I hear the wood popping and cracking in the fire. Soon we are tired of staying in the house an start looking for things to do.
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jal_ut
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So went out and got on the JD tractor and tilled up the garden plot. Let 'er snow!
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Don't know why the photo won't load? This board is so frustrating.............
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James, the link you are pasting in is the Flickr website page for the photo and NOT the actual jpg file name. That’s why the image codes can’t display the photo.
I can use the link you used to go to the Flickr page, then run down the file name for the photo you want to share. When the file name ending in .jpg is pasted between the image codes, it will display — like this:
— GREAT photo, as always!
...Love seeing your photos, so please don’t stop sharing them with us — and If you need assistance, I’ll be glad to help. You can PM me or just keep doing what you are doing, and, with your permission, I’ll go ahead and hunt down the file names and replace them as soon as I can.
I do have to use a different browser than Safari to do this (and it’s nearly impossible to do on the smaller iPhone screen) — I guess different browsers have different features.
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I can use the link you used to go to the Flickr page, then run down the file name for the photo you want to share. When the file name ending in .jpg is pasted between the image codes, it will display — like this:
— GREAT photo, as always!
...Love seeing your photos, so please don’t stop sharing them with us — and If you need assistance, I’ll be glad to help. You can PM me or just keep doing what you are doing, and, with your permission, I’ll go ahead and hunt down the file names and replace them as soon as I can.
I do have to use a different browser than Safari to do this (and it’s nearly impossible to do on the smaller iPhone screen) — I guess different browsers have different features.
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jal_ut
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field540 by James_40 Lofthouse, on FlickrThis is my place out in Avon where I grow wheat grass, deer and ground squirrels. 90 acres and much of it is a mountain.
Thanks for the pictures. Your fall colors are so bright. Only a few non-native trees will turn colors with the season. Fall for me means the plumeria will drop all of its leaves, and the mountains and hillsides will start "greening" up again once the rains start to come in regularly. It does not take long for haole koa to recover. There are fewer trees in bloom now and most of the seasonal fruits are done. I always have a green Christmas here and maybe and extra blanket on the bed. The temperatures are around 80 in the daytime and 67 at night. It rains a little almost every week, but it can still be muggy if the sun comes out and steams it off later. I have komatsuna, swiss chard, broccoli, and the long beans have resurrected themselves and grown new leaves. The plumeria are starting to shed leaves and I have topped the bilimbi and Indian curry tree. Weeds rebounded after the rain and I have hit them with roundup. Some of them are drying, but the nutsedge needs another shot. I have to mow again. I have a couple of orchids in bloom. The stores have already put the Christmas decorations out. It is harder to get garden items now because they have been put away for Christmas or are not being ordered. There are some good end of season deals right now on summer tables and pop up tents. The containers with the trees will be arriving soon since they have to be quarantined before they can go on sale around Thanksgiving.
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[/url]grdn365 by James_40 Lofthouse, on Flickr[/img]This software sucks! Golly gee, I actually got a photo to load Took 17 tries.
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I would love to grow 350 onions like that in my garden but that will probably never happen in TN I think its too hot here. Probably the best I can hope for is 4 smaller onions = to that 1 large onion. I should have paid better attention to my fathers garden he knew how to grow large onions.jal_ut wrote:
Now that is an onion.
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I think in your garden, you might be able to grow overwintering varieties like Walla Walla and Candy.
Also, make sure to get the correct varieties for your zone — I think you need Intermediate. Have you checked out your growing zone for onions? My location in southern border of Long day onions along the Atlantic coast, so you need at least Intermediate and I suspect you are not south enough for Short day.
Heat isn’t the issue since one of the biggest onion transplant source is in Texas.
Also, make sure to get the correct varieties for your zone — I think you need Intermediate. Have you checked out your growing zone for onions? My location in southern border of Long day onions along the Atlantic coast, so you need at least Intermediate and I suspect you are not south enough for Short day.
Heat isn’t the issue since one of the biggest onion transplant source is in Texas.
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Seems onions bulb up when the days are a certain length. Here I get a bag of onion sets (Long Day) and plant them in April as soon as the snow is gone. They will make some nice big bulbs. If I plant seeds I end up with some marble to golf ball sized onions. I like to plant seeds for the little green onions.