Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

Yep. Everything I named likes their heads in the sun. And they grow fast too.
Awesome thanks so much !!!

Thank goodness for copy & paste.............its printed out ready for spring plant shopping
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blight can take a plant with no prior signs overnight like that? sheesh!

My friend does that with their vines, I think i'll have to this year as well. I just canned my first tomatoes of the season in SEPTEMBER and there were only three pints. Last year from this many plants I canned about 30 pints. Plus dried a bunch. I did make 4 pints of pickled green tomatoes. We'll see how they are. My plants haven't ripeend a single tomato yet. They drop off when they're slightly pink. I go out and collect them, finish ripening on newspaper, then can. what a crazy year. Hoping to do better next year!

I allready orderd my blueberry plants for next year, and two more fruit trees! I'm very excited about those, they should come in the spring. I also scored two european ginger plants to plant in my shade area that I'm looking to gardenize so we don't wreck the mower on the roots. I got them at the end of season sale for a song. Popped them in and they look great. Only two but they should colonize.
 
Spent all morning in the garden pulling plants that didn't have any fruit on them. My pepper plants decoded to finally grow.......in September :/. I also have a ton of tomato plants with green & pink tomatoes. Hopefully the warm weather the next 4 days ripens them up. We had our first frost last night but the garbage bags on the tomatoes protected them.

Here is what I picked today
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Not a bad haul. The green tomatoes are from plants that died. And I even found some more potatoes using my potato hoe I got from a garage sale last week :). Girls are happily digging thru the veggie garden today as I worked
 
Hello, found this lovely thread.....posting to keep up with you all.
I have a lot of reading to do but looking forward to each post. Chirp

Hello Chirp!
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Welcome to the conversation. If you have questions or want to add your experience or knowledge, we are happy to learn.

@AFL: Love that harvest picture! So nice. My sunflowers were swamped by the pumpkin vine that took over my garden. Next year I will make a special place for them.

We have had rain, thunder, and lightning. Quiet now but wet out and my apples and pears started falling from the trees. Lots for the flock. None for me. I need to get out a ladder and pick a few left hanging.
 

Stella was very happy to be helping me in the garden. She decided she was the taste tester for tomatoes
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After catching her doing this I found about a half dozen tomatoes had been tasted. Little stinkers I never saw them doing it. They got tossed in their run so they could finish eating them
 
Here's a tip for green tomatoes when frost is coming. Learned if from an old gardener or 2.

Don't remove the tomatoes from the vine. Uproot the vine, tomatoes and all. Hang the vines upside down from the rafters in any place that won't freeze. A garage or out building if it won't freeze; the basement of the house otherwise.

They will continue to ripen and you can pick them off the vine as they do.

Tried it first time last year and it really works!

I never knew that!

I've tried the old thing about wrapping the green tomatoes in newspaper. But they never ripen for me. They just turn brown and mushy!
 
I never knew that!

I've tried the old thing about wrapping the green tomatoes in newspaper. But they never ripen for me. They just turn brown and mushy!

I tried the "hang them up in your basement" last year and they did continue to ripen. I read someone whose family has always done it and she say they picked tomatoes for Thanksgiving some years (from the basement.)
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