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#61 of 129 Re: peppers [okko1] by ateixeira Oct 08, 2008 (7:56 am)
Replying to: okko1 (Oct 02, 2008 4:58 pm) Lucky duck! I got a few more 'maters and one good cucumber, but my plants are fizzling out with this cold weather. I picked up a garden claw on clearance for less than 2 bucks, anyone ever use those to aerate their soil? Hope it works. Didn't cost me much if it doesn't, at least. Replies to this message: gagrice (Oct 08, 2008 11:00 am) steve_ (Oct 08, 2008 12:12 pm) gagrice (Oct 08, 2008 2:34 pm)
#62 of 129 Re: peppers [ateixeira] by gagrice Oct 08, 2008 (11:00 am)
Replying to: ateixeira (Oct 08, 2008 7:56 am) I use one of those hand claws a lot to keep our hard soil from packing too hard. Just planted some winter tomatoes. Hope we get a few before it gets a hard frost. Our tomatoes have started a second crop. Not as nice as the first. Also planted swiss chard. If you plant enough stuff you get a little before the bunnies and squirrels eat it all. We did have a nice crop of Fuji apples. Filled one drawer in the crisper. Pears are just getting ripe. I think my experiment with straw bales will be my last. I did get good tomatoes and Zucchini squash. The bails are just about disintegrated and falling down. I may try packing straw with dirt in half barrels. The plastic type. We use them a lot. Replies to this message: steve_ (Oct 08, 2008 12:12 pm) gagrice (Oct 08, 2008 2:34 pm)
#63 of 129 Re: peppers [gagrice] by steve_ HOST Oct 08, 2008 (12:12 pm)
Replying to: gagrice (Oct 08, 2008 11:00 am) The straw bales didn't work out for me. It's too hot here for any kind of raised bed I think. We have feral bunnies (and wild hares) in the yard, but not enough of them to be a nuisance. Replies to this message: gagrice (Oct 08, 2008 2:34 pm)
#64 of 129 Re: peppers [steve_] by gagrice Oct 08, 2008 (2:34 pm)
Replying to: steve_ (Oct 08, 2008 12:12 pm) They require a lot of water and dry out in our heat too quickly.
#65 of 129 more harvesting mmmm by gagrice Nov 15, 2008 (11:07 am)
We tossed one sweet potato eye in a corner of the garden this summer. I just dug it all up and here was our surprise. The vines were also very pretty ground cover all summer with flowers that look like morning glories. Our regular potatoes did not do so well. Also shook the walnut tree again and picked up a good basket of walnuts. I cracked enough the other night for a great batch of oatmeal date nut cookies. So good warm with vanilla ice cream on them. Steve, I think I will pass on the straw bails next year. Plastic barrels cut in half seem to work better in our weather. I imagine the dry heat is much like your area. Got to go plant pansies in the garden for color this winter.... Replies to this message: steve_ (Nov 15, 2008 3:31 pm)
#66 of 129 Re: more harvesting mmmm [gagrice] by steve_ HOST Nov 15, 2008 (3:31 pm)
Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2008 11:07 am) Yep, gonna go back to planting in the sand here next summer. Those sweet 'taters look more like Garnet Yams to me. We got about two dozen walnuts off our little tree that's about 3 years old.
#67 of 129 Garden by ray80 Nov 20, 2008 (10:46 am)
My veggie garden this year was a total bust. Way to much rain here and the area I have it in has gotten way to shady over the years. Glad I didn't spend to much effort on it. On a brighter note (in more ways then one) while wandering around a graden center in June, I happened upon some cactus plants in with the regular perennial stuff. Thought that was interesting so I had to buy and plant one outside. Being curiuos kind of person I had to do some net sufring and to my surprise I found it this species is actually a native in Connecticut (never knew that and never found any in my wanderings). Looking around some more I found a post by somone in michigan mentioning article in my local paper about a place where some have been found and I ended up taking a hike up to the top of a ridgeline to find them (kind of rugged ugly rocky place, but they manage somehow). I ended up knocking down a 50 or 60 year old badly leaning oak tree to give my newly aquired cacti ( and a few others I have obtained since) more sun plus I can try again next year to get some veggies in this new spot. Replies to this message: steve_ (Nov 20, 2008 1:11 pm) ray80 (Nov 21, 2008 5:24 am) steve_ (Nov 21, 2008 7:50 am)
#68 of 129 Re: Garden [ray80] by steve_ HOST Nov 20, 2008 (1:11 pm)
Replying to: ray80 (Nov 20, 2008 10:46 am) That's fun - we "harvested" a lone prickly pear "fig" last month and ate it. Replies to this message: ray80 (Nov 21, 2008 5:24 am) steve_ (Nov 21, 2008 7:50 am)
#69 of 129 Re: Garden [steve_] by ray80 Nov 21, 2008 (5:24 am)
Replying to: steve_ (Nov 20, 2008 1:11 pm) I may try that someday, If I can get them to survive our cold/wet winters here. Hopefuly I will also remember about glochids (couple times already I have been skewered and had the couple weeks of minor skin irritation that accompamies it). The last of the specimens I have that were standing up to cool weather we have had so far has sucummed to the temps in teens at night the past couple days and is becoming desiccated for the winter. Replies to this message: steve_ (Nov 21, 2008 7:50 am)
#70 of 129 Re: Garden [ray80] by steve_ HOST Nov 21, 2008 (7:50 am)
Replying to: ray80 (Nov 21, 2008 5:24 am) The prickly's don't seem too bad that way although the books say to watch for them around the base. You can get the pads in the grocery stores around here so they must not be too awful. My wife likes succulents but they don't much like our winters either. The cow blinders and horse cripplers died the first winter.

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