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Post by LinFL on Jul 30, 2012 17:51:11 GMT -5
If marigolds counted, I'd be getting a bumper harvest. I picked three small watermelons and three cantaloupes last week...we are still eating them. It will be a while before any more are ready. I am also getting a few red noodle beans here and there from my old plants and the new plants are going to start producing soon - then I should have plenty. Okra is also producing, and there are green onions and herbs (mint, basil, parsley, sage, oregano, chives, etc.) that I harvest as needed. I just finished harvesting the last of the coriander/cilantro seeds and I harvested a few heads of dill last week. I have a few sad-looking bell peppers to pick. Something is causing them to start to decay just as they get ripe. Most of it is sunscald, but I think there is something else going on with some of them as well. It's nowhere near the blossom end, so I don't think it's blossom end rot. Maybe something to do with the heat? Hopefully it's safe to cut the soft parts off and eat the rest, because that's what I've been doing! There are two nice tomatoes on my Top Sirloin plant that I think are getting close to ripening. Other than that, I have just a couple of newly-set tomatoes on my Florida 91 and SunSugar plants, so it's going to be a while before I get any other tomatoes.
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Post by gardencrazy on Sept 6, 2012 11:44:29 GMT -5
Not much new to report here. Just more greens and more beans. My lettuce reseeded itself, so I should have more lettuce ready to pick soon.
My cabbages are tiny this year. It's not necessarily a bad thing. The DH and I can usually get through half a regular head of cabbage. Then I run out of things to do with it.
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Post by LinFL on Sept 7, 2012 10:41:23 GMT -5
Ichiban eggplant just started producing this week (from transplants planted in late July). I am also picking a little okra still, an occasional tomatillo, and a watermelon from time to time. Green onions and several herbs are available when I need them.
That's about it right now, since most of the pepper plants are sad and about to be yanked. I may get a few small Anchos soon, though.
Hopefully I'll be picking the first fall crops (lettuce, radish, Dixiewine tomatoes) in a month or so.
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Post by txdirtdawg on Nov 12, 2012 15:52:05 GMT -5
Well, weather report says dropping to a low of 42F tonight. Similar temps over next couple nights. I don't tend to be too much of a fraidy cat, but our weather folks tend to be off of the actual temperature I get at the house by as much as 5+ degrees. Now we're talking potential frost danger. The wind has been blowing for a week, so should not allow frost to form, but with my terrific luck, The wind will die down about midnight tonight and the weather folks will be wrong by 10 degrees tonight. Soooooo,
I picked all the green beans that had any size on them. I picked most of the sweet peppers that had any size or color to them (Emerald Giant, Quadrattro D'Asti Rosso, Jimmy Nardello, Red Marconi and Roumanian Rainbow). I'll send some to work with DW and I'll freeze a bunch. I need to go back out and pick maters and hot peppers.
I don't think I'll be putting plastic over the plants tonight (remember that constant wind blowing? A royal pain that would be), but then again I may be out there around 10PM with a flashlight really doing it the hard way. Lol.
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Post by marielouise on Nov 12, 2012 23:25:59 GMT -5
We have picked all thats ready to pick that we want. Jim has 2 big dog food bags of mixed peppers he will sort out tomorrow.... He pulled those pepper plants this afternoon. They had stalks bigger than a 6 in dia. HUGE stalks and they were fulll of different size pepprs--yellow, green & red bells -- chilies jalapnos, you name it he had some. Our temps up here are dropping fairly quickly tonight and supposed to be in low 30s by morning. All that left out there are the winter cole crops and greens that these temps won't hurt a dang bit. We had friends come out Sunday evening from town and they stripped the rest of the butter beans off the vines --- I had already picked over a 5 gal bucket full for a restaurant up town. And the last 4 tomatoes.
The onions and garlics lettuce and greens etc will all be ok.
Actually its wayyyy past time for the summer veggies to be gone and I am glad--- can't stand to see anything go to waste so it bugs me that I had ran outa room for freezing or canning. Now I can sit back and rest----LOL---- just in time for the Hollardaze maddness!!!
My son stopped by for a moment so I put him busy carrying the rest of my porch sitter house plants inside and sitting here there and every where. Some are in rather large containers so he did dig out the dolly wheeled mover thingy jiggy... I think that one tall sucker I gonna throw a string of lights on it and a red balll or 2 and call it a Charlie Brown Christmas tree!!!
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Post by catgrass on Nov 13, 2012 14:41:14 GMT -5
We're gonna be in the 30's at night for a few days and I have about 50 tomatoes on the vine. Guess I'll pick them, cover them with newspaper and let em ripen inside. So, this means summer is really over.
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Post by kay on Nov 18, 2012 13:05:44 GMT -5
Greens greens greens!
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