What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

I pulled out all of the Chard. I dug out the sweet potatoes but they aren't very big but it's okay as long as they are edible.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

Picked up debris from tree limbs and branches falling from the winds from Helene. Nothing more than a very bad storm. Others to the west of us saw devastation.

 

[chickengr]

planting more fruit trees, purple and white onions and garlic.

 

[jerryse]

Had a bit of rain in the wee hours of the morning yesterday. .95 for the month. Cloudy yesterday and I did not do much. Need to mow and bag some leaves for the compost pile. Got to keep up with the falling leaves. Not much fall color so far.

 

[Sally PB]

I will get some stuff done in the garden today, but not sure what. The bathroom remodel has taken precedence over everything the past few days. The tub is gone, the shower is in, and I feel like I can breathe again.

Yesterday was full of angst. We had one chance to cut the fiberglass panels to fit unsquare walls. The shower pan and wall panels were $2000 and a special order color. Mess one up, and it's 3 weeks and a lot of money to redo it. And sink sponge baths until it's done.

We used the sheets of cardboard the panels came in for patterns to cut the real stuff.

I'd say we did well. Whew.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I’ve got a question for you gardeners. I grew pinto beans for the first time this year, and they grew super well, we’ve been harvesting them for about a week now, as they dry up on the vine. My question is: will they dry if you pick them when they’re mature but not quite dry? There are plenty of big ones on the plants, but we need to pull them up really soon, as we have to get the cover crop planted before the irrigation shuts off for the winter in a couple weeks. I’ve read conflicting information online, and I’m not sure what to believe.

Let me know if I need to word my question differently, I wasn’t quite sure how to ask it.

Yes they will

 

[Molpet]

special order color

Oh no. The cost and what happens when it goes out of style just as you decide you have to sell.
I prefer standard of colors and items because of this. But I'm frugal

 

[Sally PB]

Oh no. The cost and what happens when it goes out of style just as you decide you have to sell.
I prefer standard of colors and items because of this. But I'm frugal

We don't give a hoot what's in style, fortunately, and we're not selling, ever. This is our last home, our forever home. Any changes or improvements are going to be whatever we like. Resale value? Ability to get the cost back out of it? Don't care, doesn't matter to us.

That's very freeing, actually. As for the cost, we have been budgeting for projects like this for years. We couldn't have done it 15-20 years ago. Now we're in a position to do them.

The selling point of this house is the land it's on and the location. It's a small market -- out in the middle of nowhere, on a dead end road with 1/4 mile driveway that the county doesn't maintain. For many people, that is a no-go right there. For the people who live back here, it's a BIG plus. Zero traffic. Very quiet.

And room for two big gardens, plus chickens, including roosters.

 

[cj2024]

This guy in this video recommends leaving just one crown or sucker on an already picked pineapple plant. He didn't kill the plant after it produced a pineapple and the sucker he left on fruited again. Furthermore, I found out that pineapple fruit must be picked earlier in the summer than in the winter because there is more sugar produced in the summer, so it's picked half yellow with green on the other half in the summer and picked with more yellow in the winter.

 

[Molpet]

We don't give a hoot what's in style, fortunately, and we're not selling, ever. This is our last home, our forever home. Any changes or improvements are going to be whatever we like. Resale value? Ability to get the cost back out of it? Don't care, doesn't matter to us.

That's very freeing, actually. As for the cost, we have been budgeting for projects like this for years. We couldn't have done it 15-20 years ago. Now we're in a position to do them.

The selling point of this house is the land it's on and the location. It's a small market -- out in the middle of nowhere, on a dead end road with 1/4 mile driveway that the county doesn't maintain. For many people, that is a no-go right there. For the people who live back here, it's a BIG plus. Zero traffic. Very quiet.

And room for two big gardens, plus chickens, including roosters.

Yeah I'm on part of the same land that my great grand parents cleared to farm. Divided amongst the kids until my generation. I bought or inherited what my grandmother inherited. I bought my uncle's. He had built in the 40s and then remodeled the kitchen in the 70s. When my cousin went to sell The realtor couldn't find anybody that wanted the orange countertops. Only offer was low-ball for tear down. So after a year I had enough saved to qualify for a loan at the low-ball price and she didn't have to pay the realtor commission. Cousin had a lot of issues with the realtor just sending people with the keys and not being with them.