What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Id leave the squashes and gourds out. They may be fine and even if they did take the hit can very possibly still ripen out on the vine. The fruits, keep VERY CLOSE eye on. If you see the leaves start to wilt and want to come off, pull the fruit inside to ripen. If the plant dies / goes dormant, and you leave the fruit on it, every bug in 50 miles is going to be after that thing. Same with the tomatos and other non tough skinned / hide fuits / veggies.

The stuff you do pull in, put on a counter to ripen, or a bag, or in the fridge, whichever works for what you got. Keep a close eye, you WILL bring in hoards of fruit flies, if they start up put the stuff in the fridge, leaving it out is just going to cause you problems.

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

I was able to get my hose in a patch of sunlight and thawed before the sun reached my garden.

Also, hoses do NOT LIKE freezing either, and partially thawing it, running water through it, moving it around is tearing the hell out of it. It's cold stiff BRITTLE and you are moving it. Just remember WHATEVER YOU DO....... NEVER .....forget to turn off the water spigot and think, ohh the pissy fizzy sprayer on the tip of the hose will keep the water turned off. People do this way too many times, they forget, until a day or two later, a flood later, and a 500 dollar water bill later.

be careful moving a very cold hose around, it will crack on you and be useless.

 

[WthrLady]

Yep. Processing time!

 

[WthrLady]

4.5 pounds of tomatoes today that are pinks and I'll see if I can get them to turn inside.
The stuff I picked Sunday/Monday is simmering on the stove, and I think that's the last of it. Everything else out there is VERY green and small, and there just isn't enough heat or daylight to get them to ripe. So it's time.

 

[jerryse]

Sharing a new to me find . Mammoth series hardy mums . Bred by U of Minnesota . Said to be zone 3 hardy and come back next year . I have got to try these .

 

[Ascholten]

I have this issue going on with my, it is supposed to be a blood orange.
it is going along fine then for no reason, the thing splits, yellows then about a week later falls off the tree. Not sure why, any ideas?
Ignore the mooch in the back ground.

 

[Ascholten]

and while were complaining.
My papaya, the leaves are turning black? it seems it's the leaf itself, it's not like a coating or something you can scrape off, the new leaves are green still, just not sure is this a fungus or did I catch some bugaboo.

The banana tree right next to it seems to be getting this as well, so that makes think there's a fungal problem here.

Again, any ideas, suggestions?
thanks

 

[esturtz27]

I don't have any Kona right now but DO have some Lbs of the eth blueberry left, i got a few seasons but as it get older it's not as potent but it shows how it varies over the year. Kona and chocolate, hmmm.. Kona has it's own inique flavor. THe Centrals coming in now THERE is where the chocolate is. I have an El Salvador that is just YUM !!

Aaron

Ooooo I forgot all about El Salvador! That is brilliant coffee. I have a Jamaica blend right now(coffee subscription) I was gonna switch it to some Ethiopian but now yeah El Salvador all the way...that is the perfect autumn coffee.

About your citrus...could it be citrus greening? The Asian citrus psyllid was super prevalent this year down in floribama. It is truly causing serious problems. Idk if it would effect other plants similarly but different colors but the orange definitely looks like some I've seen with greening.

 

[Ascholten]

I really don't know much about any citrus to honestly say one way or the other. My experience with citrus has been, loves my neighbors, hates me.. over and over again.
Plant does not seem unhealthy, but the occasional orange doing this, is a bit disconcerting, makes me ask, is this just the nature of things orange, or is this an indication of a BIG problem I have coming on that I better get on before it wrecks my entire tree?

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

Ooooo I forgot all about El Salvador! That is brilliant coffee. I have a Jamaica blend right now(coffee subscription) I was gonna switch it to some Ethiopian but now yeah El Salvador all the way...that is the perfect autumn coffee.

About your citrus...could it be citrus greening? The Asian citrus psyllid was super prevalent this year down in floribama. It is truly causing serious problems. Idk if it would effect other plants similarly but different colors but the orange definitely looks like some I've seen with greening.

The Uganda Bugizu if you can still find it is totally awesome too, as is the Burundi. Most people tend to just not even think of these regions. This year, yah you'll pay 3 dollars a pound MORE for that 'other' popular region that's mediocre this year, but won't even look at this one?

JBM's have in my experience been mostly marketing and hype. HUGE and HUGELY successful !! marketing campaign is what drives them. Nothing super about them about 90 percent of the time... except their prices. Yah, it's good, it's not GREAT, it is not really standing out in any one quality, scores maybe an 85 or so, but people pay top dollar for a name. THAT is it right there, the name recognition. just like a certain mermaid that sells burnt sewage but people will gladly pay 8 to 10 dollars for a cup of slop, JUST so they can show that cup and pretend they are somehow, slightly better than YOU are... because THEY paid 10 dollars for that cup !!

Kona is another one that people get stupid over. Kona at least has a unique flavor that ONLY Kona has, so there is that. Did you know that a coffee only has to have like 10 or 20 percent Kona in it for them to be able to put the "Kona" label on it (and the kona price), the rest is typically another much lower priced arabica, some will really do you over and put a Robusta in there to kick the caffeine up.
Were you aware that Kona is just where it is grown? Low grade FAR inferior beans are grown on that Island too, but because they were grown on "Kona", these low grade culls, can technically put the "Kona" label on themselves too and sell for "Kona" prices??

Don't let a name fool you into paying stupid prices. Do some research before you buy ANY specialty coffee !!

Aaron