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from today's forecast...
On 10/23/2015 3:22 PM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... 30! How do you keep them from cross pollinating? i don't. most beans will self-pollinate so most of what comes in is true to the original. once in a while a bumble bee or other pollinator will do the honors for me and i will get cross-breeds (which is why i now have so many that i no longer care to count them). Also, months ago you told me raised beds were not a good idea because you always wanted more space. Well ... I could ot afford the cost of water this year so I let my back lawn go. Now I have tomatillo and purslane growing where grass use to grow. So, now the plan is to just do as you said and turn the whole stinker into a garden. yeah, today i was out moving rocks and scraping the crushed limestone away that forms a pathway between two gardens. hopefully by next spring the two gardens will be joined together and i'll have several hundred more square feet of garden space. we turned the neighboring perennial garden back into a veggie garden and then are combining the two gardens and thus removing the separating pathway. i'm looking forwards to working in this new space as it is much easier on me to weed and plant in larger gardens and having more space also means i can rotate within a garden space and have subplots of different veggies. and, well, having more space means i can have spots to dig holes and bury stuff more easily too. Next year the game plan is to carve holes into the decomposed sand stone (very very hard soil) and make my own make shift pots (providing I don't need a jack hammer to go a foot deep), fill them with compost, and have my garden spread out all across the old lawn. good luck with that! sounds like a lot of good vibrations will be coming your way if you do need to use a jack hammer. Since the cold weather started, my zukes now have the white powder mold something awful. And on both sides of the leaves. But, since I stopped watering the lawn this year, it took an extra two months to hit. as the sun shifts south it's just that time of the year too when some plants take it as a signal that things are done for the season. diseases late in the season are not an issue i worry much about as most of the production is done anyways. I think it is about time to start pulling the worst zukes out. up until last week we'd not had a hard enough frost to kill off most of the garden plants, but that is no more. now everything that is not cold tolerant is dead and most of them are buried. finished up burying several loads of garden debris a few hours ago (before i started scraping the abovementioned pathway out). we had some powdery mildew hit the cucumbers and squash plants this late summer but they kept chugging along up until it started getting cold. songbird We're still getting goodly amounts of eggplant, sweet chiles, and cucumbers. Probably won't be long before we get our first frost though. The fall spinach, cabbage, beets, and carrots are up and growing too. George |
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