Where is everyone

 

Putting their gardens to bed or waking them up, depending on location.

I'm still working on what will be a multiyear project of redoing my major
bed.


Cheryl
Southern NH

 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Dennis Mayer from GBay, WI

  I have 100 pretty nice, superbly Colorful 5' to 6' tall competition
Dahlias in bloom!!!   They are the best in 5 years of growing 'em.

   Been quietly working on my 300' G gauge Garden RR..   Hope to finish
it before Snow??

   I check this news group twice a day for 4 years now.   I say little here.

 

On 9/10/09 9:06 AM, in article
SZednSjU37N0ZDXXnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@posted.localnet, "Dennis Mayer"


Very nice. My mom used to have lots of dahlias, wonder what happened to
them?

Can I look you up if I ever make it out that way. I'd love to do a garden
layout but am worry about the grades with my particular locale...

Say more please?

Cheryl

 



    Don't envy you the labor but I do know the rewards of rejuvenating
the garden beds. For me, the ending of this "season" marks the second
full-season's production for a few raised beds that had been fallow
since 1998.
    Well, to answer your question, this one is outside giving the
"lawn" its second mowing -- probably its last until April/May except for
right in the high traffic areas -- and making the transition from
spring/summer to fall/winter veggied garden. Feeling guilty about
pulling some really rangy (and not terriby prolific) marigolds because I
need the space but still have plenty in containers that remain prolific
enough to provide for the flutter-bys: 'Tis the season. Debating whether
to remove some Italian eggplants and some California Wonder peppers that
were quite productive during the early season but which sort of punked
out with the onset of sure-enough Florida summer. Initially, had planned
to try to keep them over the winter for an early, early, crop but now
sort of think the space could be better-used. Oddly, the container-grown
"Black Beauty" eggplants and the container grown California Wonders that
overwintered are still producing heavily and I intend to try to get them
through a second winter.
    Debating whether there's time before chilly weather to make a crop
of snap-beans. This week, will plant "greens" and begin succession
planting "Little Marvel" garden peas. I plant'em every couple of weeks
until the end of October. They bear right up until sure-enough freezing
temps and start all over again when freezing temps are gone; of course,
I tent them overnight when necessary. Boy, there's nothing like a
handful of fresh from the vine garden peas with a warmish Samuel Adams
on a cool December evening or March morning; ummm... can't wait!
    Plain old white "Irish" potatoes have become hard-to-find in these
parts -- been displaced by the faddish Yukon gold -- so think I'll put
in some potatoes. They don't go in until December, though, so there's
plenty of time. I've grown them successfully in leaf-filled barrels and
in straw-filled trenches. This year, I think I'll try my hand with those
so-called "potato boxes" that are built in sections that can be tiered
and backfilled as the potato vines grow, although, I can't think they'd
be any easier to harvest than from the trenches.
    I'm going to go ahead and 86 the "red beefsteak" tomatoes and start
anew for fall. Ordinarily, I'd have a few canes layered and rooted by
now for a vigorous November crop but, this year, I just barely managed
to beat back a dose of anthracnose brought in on some cucumbers. Dunno
what to do with the infected containers, though; maybe some immune or
resistant herbs or even ginger. No more container-grown indeterminate
tomatoes for me, anyway.
--
Running on single malt in U.S.A.
Peninsular Florida,
USDA zone 9b

 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:


Yesterday I picked a bunch (~2 dozen) of tomatoes from the
neighbor-shocking front-yard garden. Gave some away to the neighbors.
Some were overripe and went into a pot of chili I made last night. I
gues due heavy rains last weekend, quite a few were "splitters", so
I'll have to use them up here.

There are still a number of ripening ones and a goodly number of
greenies of various sizes. I'm in zone 6a (St. Louis) so I expect I'll
harvesting for a while yet.




Brian

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