Garden Grow?

[PaulN/KS]

It was a decent year for the bush beans and I have some July planted rows coming in for a Fall crop as well. Tomatoes are in the late stretch but still doing OK. And, while this rain we are having here in Kansas is welcome it will cause some cracking if they don't get picked quickly.Peppers have been so so, the jalapenos are doing fine but the poblanos are small and the anahiem are not doing very well at all.
Picked about 8,5gal buckets worth of red delicious apples over the last couple weeks and still have some high up on the tree.

 

[omarick1948]

Well it's down hill time for my garden and overall the summer wasn't that bad. I had the best year in a long time for my tomatoes and canned a bunch for winter. My cucumbers never produced hardly at all and I only picked about a dozen or so. Now it's Kraut making time at this Germans house and the cabbages did good.

Rick

 

[KingofDerby]

Planted stuff last week...came back from an event this evening to find that woodlice had eaten the seedlings!

I think you call them roly-polies?

 

[coloradoclyde]

Picked my Indian corn yesterday.....Best year yet for it....I picked it early so the critters didn't get it this time....got it hanging in the shed drying....
When it's dry I'm going to grind it and make cornbread, pancakes, tortillas, etc....

 

[sidelock]

Finished my garden for the year today. Got 5 acorn squash. Usually at least 4 times that. BADD year.

 

[Ames]

I'm swimming in hot and sweet peppers from 135 started seedlings, grown in low tunnels.
Taters and hundreds of lbs of winter squash bringing up the rear!

 

[coloradoclyde]

Yep! I've started to clear things off....will be planting garlic soon.... Planning different things for next year....

looks like I'm going to have some buckwheat this fall....pancakes anyone... :grin:

 

[BullRunBear]

Clyde, LOVE buckwheat pancakes. I'll bring the maple syrup. See you at breakfast. :grin:

Actually, now I know what I'm making tomorrow. Ah! The power of suggestion.

Jeff

 

[coloradoclyde]

:haha: Ever had beer pancakes? A nice porter or brown ale works well

 

[sidelock]

My Dad loved buckwheat pancakes.

 

[sidelock]

My growing season is so short I never have time to clear my garden until next spring. In the spring I run the lawn mower over last years vines and mulch them well then till. Works well.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Such a screwy year this year, many things just don't want to quit growing... :shocked2:

I use to do like you and just mow it off and till it in.....But clearing in the fall prevents a lot of diseases and weeds the following year.
I also plant cover crops which I can harvest all fall and feed to my rabbits, then I plow it under in the spring.

 

[BullRunBear]

Clyde, I never heard of beer pancakes. I'll look for a recipe. Thanks.

Jeff

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just substitute the water with your favorite flavorful beer...I like a brown ale, porter or stout. Really hoppy beers like an IPA will make your pancakes bitter.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Work sent me out of town this week, and then we had the first freeze, so my wife and her sister have been doing the great tomato haul in my absence :haha: Some times work is good.

 

[Katahdin]

Beets and Swiss Chard were perfect yesterday,,I know that because last night the deer ate the second crop I planted,ate the first crop to,and my squash vines, not the fruit, just the vines.Paying it forward.See a fawn, with spots, last week,late birthing,,not good for winter survival.Coyotes in the area,heard them past three nights,,

 

[satx78247]

Are you seeing the VERY large/aggressive "Eastern coyotes" (wolf-coyote hybrids) in your area?

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Spent all day from sun up to sun down cleaning off my gardens.....
Tore out some raised beds....Still have some changes to make......Still need to plant garlic.
Will probably harvest buckwheat tomorrow.

Busy, Busy, Busy.. :grin:

 

[satx78247]

BEST WISHES on your Winter garden.
(What are you planting besides garlic?)

Personally, I wish that I lived in a place, again, where I could have tomatoes, beets, shallots, melons, etc. all year.
(And that we had a mushroom farm & an Amish market nearby, too.)

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

BEST WISHES on your Winter garden.
(What are you planting besides garlic?)

Not much!... :haha: Nothing else seems to survive the frozen ground and snow cover.... :haha:

I do grow hot peppers inside during the winter though...along with assorted kitchen herbs.