What did you do in the garden today?

[politicalcenter]

Been weeding and mulching the fall garden. After a disappointing summer garden the fall garden is taking off.

Got kale, collards, Swiss chard, beets, carrots, and onions planted.

Still have plenty of room and will start planting more as soon as I catch up on weed control. Need another pickup load of mulch and thankfully I can get it right behind the house. There is a little road in the woods and the mulch is free for the taking.

I will learn not to let the mulch sit too long in a pile on the ground....fire ants!

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Been playing in the puddles all day!

 

[Peep_Show]

Took out the withered cucumber vines, squash row and some spent tomato plants. The veggie compound is definitely winding down.

 

[Bugseye]

I'm slow to take anything down yet, as I'm still getting green beans, tomatoes and zucchini, but I'm keeping an eye on the weather. Heard it reached freezing in the area last night, so we'll get the hoop houses back up tomorrow. I'm going back out to investigate what is going on with the cool weather stuff. Looks like it needs something.

 

[politicalcenter]

My summer garden was a disaster but my fall garden looks real good.

We still have another month or so before frost and Cole crops and greens usually last all winter.

Have to get ready for potato planting in February and my plant some strawberry plants soon.

I will probably plan my garden to play out when it gets hot and just have field peas and peppers in during the hottest part of summer.

It is no fun gardening when it is in the upper nineties and nothing grows well when it gets that hot anyway.

 

[Stuffedcritter]

We had our first hard frost Sunday night. Politicalcenter if you need help weeding in February sure us New England Gardeners would be willing to help-)

 

[politicalcenter]

We had our first hard frost Sunday night. Politicalcenter if you need help weeding in February sure us New England Gardeners would be willing to help-)

I can always use help weeding.

We will get our first frost about the middle of November. It gets in the seventies during the day in February sometimes.

We even get snow about one out of three years. It never lasts.

 

[Arielle]

Woke up to 39 degrees this morning. So.. .boys picked all the squash from back yard to ready for storage. Kale still going strong. Picked one lone mnt gold tomato for dinner. Ate it straight up. Yummy.

Looks likely too much N as we just dump all the horse manure directly into the garden. Seems a little balance is in order. Perhaps more fall leaves or other dry plant matter.

 

[lazy gardener]

I harvested 4 roos. Dug a nice deep hole, buried all the "trimmings" and then planted a grape vine in the top of the hole. I've planted one vine at either end of my metal clothes line, and will use the frame for a grape arbor. The other grape vine is similarly amended. I know that grapes like the soil "lean", so... we'll see how these 2 plants process the extra N load.

 

[Arielle]