The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, and i would have painted the last wall of the outside of the coop if it hadn't rained. Those guineas need to be in a bigger place soon!

 

[Beer can]

You are ahead of me. I am not done planting for this year. Plus trying to save what has not been eaten yet.

I'm just in pre-planning stage, yr round thing for me
My tomatoes are just turning red right now and I've been harvesting various stuff for awhile, but come Sept we have to keep a eye on nightly forecasts and cover up at least the tomatoes and cucumbers, we could start getting frosts soon. Could have two more months of good weather, might be just a couple more weeks and then hot and cold.
You know your a true upstate NYer when;
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm just in pre-planning stage, yr round thing for me
My tomatoes are just turning red right now and I've been harvesting various stuff for awhile, but come Sept we have to keep a eye on nightly forecasts and cover up at least the tomatoes and cucumbers, we could start getting frosts soon. Could have two more months of good weather, might be just a couple more weeks and then hot and cold.
You know your a true upstate NYer when;
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

I grew up outside Albany.

 

[Beer can]

Thinking of going with the three sisters planting for half the garden next yr. I've done corn and pumpkins together yrs ago but it was super difficult to pick the sweetcorn with the pumpkin vines a mess all over, they did eliminate weeds though with their big leaves.
Last yr I did sweetcorn and dry beans, I used pinto, navy and kidney, bush beans, would have been better with pole beans.
I didn't plant any sweetcorn this yr but have a big patch of dry beans.
Next yr with a three sisters I'm planting flour corn instead of sweet, so I can wait to harvest with winter squash instead of pumpkins and a dry very vigorously climbing bean that was originally used for that purpose Haudenosaunee Skunk bean, sometimes called Flagg or Chester.
Grown in the Finger Lakes of New York for centuries before Colombus arrived. Fruition Seeds is where I'll probably get them.
Seneca round nose for the flour corn.
Was going to go with Gill's Sugar Hubbard for the winter squash which is a cross of the Sweetmeat squash I'm growing now and true Hubbard and supposed to be better than both and store for a long time but get huge.
Thinking of keeping it native instead and trying Hopi Pale Grey squash, 7-20 lbs and I've read will store in excellent shape for 2yrs.

 

[Beer can]

Mangelwurzel beets are bulbing up

Can't wait to see how big these things get.

 

[pennyJo1960]

looks like they are growing great

 

[drumstick diva]

very nice sheds, how big are they?

 

[room onthebroom]

Got the electric fence up. Hope it fries that ground hog. It is a 10 mile charger and just hooked up around my little patch of garden. So tired of it eating my garden. The neighbor said one ate their garden too. Die, ground hog!

I thought it was birds & bugs eating mine, but saw a big, fat rat out there the other night balanced in the top of a tomato plant chowing down on huge, almost ripe tomato.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I am just starting to get tomatoes (cherry only) ripening. I had a ton of cukes, then all of a sudden the squash bugs exploded the week I did the cemetery work and didn't have time to bug and egg pick, and I lost most of the plants.
Then a deer came and ate everything in the front yard garden, pretty much.

 

[CapricornFarm]

very nice sheds, how big are they?

12x20 it will really help our storage problems.