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All good things must come to an end
Hi All,
All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26. So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T |
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All good things must come to an end
On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 9:10:25 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26. So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Where are you that it's getting that cold already? Our overnight lows here northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, are projected to be in the mid-60's for the next week, then falling to around 50. We've been very dry here, no noticeable rain for a couple of weeks. They're saying morning showers next Friday but those are frequently scattered around the area; one neighborhood gets wet, the one across the street stays dry. Paul |
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All good things must come to an end
On 9/28/19 5:42 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 9:10:25 PM UTC-4, T wrote: Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26. So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Where are you that it's getting that cold already? Our overnight lows here northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, are projected to be in the mid-60's for the next week, then falling to around 50. We've been very dry here, no noticeable rain for a couple of weeks. They're saying morning showers next Friday but those are frequently scattered around the area; one neighborhood gets wet, the one across the street stays dry. Paul https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...73447126141484 |
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All good things must come to an end
On Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 6:25:13 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
On 9/28/19 5:42 AM, Pavel314 wrote: On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 9:10:25 PM UTC-4, T wrote: Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26. So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Where are you that it's getting that cold already? Our overnight lows here northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, are projected to be in the mid-60's for the next week, then falling to around 50. We've been very dry here, no noticeable rain for a couple of weeks. They're saying morning showers next Friday but those are frequently scattered around the area; one neighborhood gets wet, the one across the street stays dry. Paul https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...73447126141484 I wouldn't have thought it got so cold so soon up there. Paul |
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All good things must come to an end
On 9/28/19 7:29 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 6:25:13 PM UTC-4, T wrote: On 9/28/19 5:42 AM, Pavel314 wrote: On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 9:10:25 PM UTC-4, T wrote: Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26. So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Where are you that it's getting that cold already? Our overnight lows here northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, are projected to be in the mid-60's for the next week, then falling to around 50. We've been very dry here, no noticeable rain for a couple of weeks. They're saying morning showers next Friday but those are frequently scattered around the area; one neighborhood gets wet, the one across the street stays dry. Paul https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...73447126141484 I wouldn't have thought it got so cold so soon up there. Paul It is always a fight between summer and winter. We have a really short growing season |
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Pavel314 wrote:
.... I wouldn't have thought it got so cold so soon up there. some of my garden friends up in Idaho have already had snow on the ground this past week. here we have two days of low 80s in the forecast for Mon-Tue and then returning to cooler, but no frost or freezing in the forecast for at least the next week so far. as long as it holds like this for a few more weeks that should be good enough. the early stuff is already in (onions, early beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash). the later beans will go as long as they can or until i can get out to pick them. way too much rain this week so i may be picking some pods in the rain (today included). songbird |
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All good things must come to an end
On 9/28/19 9:04 PM, T wrote:
On 9/28/19 7:29 PM, Pavel314 wrote: On Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 6:25:13 PM UTC-4, T wrote: On 9/28/19 5:42 AM, Pavel314 wrote: On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 9:10:25 PM UTC-4, T wrote: Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26.Â*Â* So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Where are you that it's getting that cold already? Our overnight lows here northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, are projected to be in the mid-60's for the next week, then falling to around 50. We've been very dry here, no noticeable rain for a couple of weeks. They're saying morning showers next Friday but those are frequently scattered around the area; one neighborhood gets wet, the one across the street stays dry. Paul https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...73447126141484 I wouldn't have thought it got so cold so soon up there. Paul It is always a fight between summer and winter.Â* We have a really short growing season The weather service said it got down to 28F last night. But nothing froze. We did have winds about 20 mph. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Tonight is suppose to get worse. |
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All good things must come to an end
T wrote:
.... The weather service said it got down to 28F last night. But nothing froze. We did have winds about 20 mph. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Tonight is suppose to get worse. be glad you're not in Montana... eek! that's way too early to get that much snow! songbird |
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All good things must come to an end
On 9/30/19 5:02 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... The weather service said it got down to 28F last night. But nothing froze. We did have winds about 20 mph. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Tonight is suppose to get worse. be glad you're not in Montana... eek! that's way too early to get that much snow! songbird ¡Ay, caramba! I listened to a documentary oh plans that won't domesticate. one of them was "huckleberry". They REQUIRE high altitude and a blanket of snow over them in the winter. (Cold weather with out the snow cover kills them.) Montana sounds like they will be getting a bumper crop of (wild) huckleberries this years! |
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All good things must come to an end
On 9/27/19 6:10 PM, T wrote:
Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26.Â*Â* So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Well how about that. The weather service said we had SEVERAL days at sub freezing and the kids did not die. Huh! |
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All good things must come to an end
T wrote:
.... Well how about that. The weather service said we had SEVERAL days at sub freezing and the kids did not die. Huh! everything here needs water wings. more rain still in the forecast until next week when we may get enough days in a row of dry weather to where i can get back out and get a few things done. planting garlic would be a good idea. being inside for a few days in a row let me get caught up on shelling, sorting and consolidating box tops/flats so i have some space back in my room. also got some of the worms fed - they look to be doing alright. songbird |
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All good things must come to an end
On 10/3/19 5:01 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... Well how about that. The weather service said we had SEVERAL days at sub freezing and the kids did not die. Huh! everything here needs water wings. more rain still in the forecast until next week when we may get enough days in a row of dry weather to where i can get back out and get a few things done. planting garlic would be a good idea. being inside for a few days in a row let me get caught up on shelling, sorting and consolidating box tops/flats so i have some space back in my room. also got some of the worms fed - they look to be doing alright. songbird I keep wondering if I can buy worms and toss them in all my holes. So far the only thing I can find are fishing worms. |
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T wrote:
.... I keep wondering if I can buy worms and toss them in all my holes. So far the only thing I can find are fishing worms. you can, but it would likely be a waste of $. adult worms generally don't transplant well as they are acclimated to the soil they were raised in. some fishing worms may do better than others. do not, however, release worms into the wild or wooded areas unless you know for a fact that they are already there. night-crawlers from North America, no, don't buy those as any type of worm for raising or using in a garden as they likely won't make it without special care and they also may not be right for the area anyways. one worm you may find in a bait store will be called either an european night crawler or a belgian night crawler. these make excellent compost worms but will likely not survive extreme heat or cold so you might raise them in buckets like i do and then put the worm compost outside without too much worry that they will be a problem to any native species. yet, it is a good idea to ask your local environmental type people what they'd think of using them. if you want any tips on raising worms in buckets in the non-conventional way you can check out my webpages for those: http://www.anthive.com/project/worms/ http://www.anthive.com/project/taters/ the reason i call it non-conventional is that many people do worm composting but they don't use any dirt from the gardens in their system so they are not recharging their garden soil and also they usually aren't using a mix of worms where i usually have at least three to six worm species in the buckets here. if you can find organic matter out and around that is kept fairly wet/moist there is a good chance it already has a population of compost worms there. you can take a few dozen from various place and that will often work just fine to start with. as you get deeper garden soil you can then look for gardners around your area who would likely be happy to share some other species of worms with you to use. songbird |
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All good things must come to an end
On 10/2/19 6:31 PM, T wrote:
On 9/27/19 6:10 PM, T wrote: Hi All, All good things come to and end. According to the weather service, Saturday night will be 29F, then 26, 27, 26.Â*Â* So I harvested everything big and small. well, except the Goji's which adore the cold. Now to plot out next year's garden! And I have all winter to pull out all the dead plants. Nothing more pathetic looking than a frozen dead zucchini plant. Also, it is time to plant my garlic. -T Well how about that.Â* The weather service said we had SEVERAL days at sub freezing and the kids did not die. Huh! Last night got them. Very pathetic looking. Time to pull out all the dead plants. |
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On 10/3/19 12:07 PM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... I keep wondering if I can buy worms and toss them in all my holes. So far the only thing I can find are fishing worms. you can, but it would likely be a waste of $. adult worms generally don't transplant well as they are acclimated to the soil they were raised in. some fishing worms may do better than others. do not, however, release worms into the wild or wooded areas unless you know for a fact that they are already there. night-crawlers from North America, no, don't buy those as any type of worm for raising or using in a garden as they likely won't make it without special care and they also may not be right for the area anyways. one worm you may find in a bait store will be called either an european night crawler or a belgian night crawler. these make excellent compost worms but will likely not survive extreme heat or cold so you might raise them in buckets like i do and then put the worm compost outside without too much worry that they will be a problem to any native species. yet, it is a good idea to ask your local environmental type people what they'd think of using them. if you want any tips on raising worms in buckets in the non-conventional way you can check out my webpages for those: http://www.anthive.com/project/worms/ http://www.anthive.com/project/taters/ the reason i call it non-conventional is that many people do worm composting but they don't use any dirt from the gardens in their system so they are not recharging their garden soil and also they usually aren't using a mix of worms where i usually have at least three to six worm species in the buckets here. if you can find organic matter out and around that is kept fairly wet/moist there is a good chance it already has a population of compost worms there. you can take a few dozen from various place and that will often work just fine to start with. as you get deeper garden soil you can then look for gardners around your area who would likely be happy to share some other species of worms with you to use. songbird Thank you! The last thing I wanted to do was introduce an invasive species! I see about two a year in the garden. I presume the better my soil gets, the more of their cousins will comes. |
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