What did you do in the garden today?

[dirkandlorie]

not sure about your zone but in zone 7b carrots can overwinter without any problem.

And in zone 6b also, I put a row cover over them and go pick a couple whenever I want them.

 

[Sueby]

not sure about your zone but in zone 7b carrots can overwinter without any problem.

If they were in the ground they definitely could, but these are in a GreenStalk so I don't know how well they'll do. But I'm about to find out because the cold is coming!

 

[fuzzi]

We're supposed to get our first frost tonight, and go immediately into deep freeze (20°F).

So I covered the peas, hope it's enough:

I placed my taller tomato trellis over the pea trellises, then placed frost row covers over it all. They were a little short, so I placed doubled over shade cloth around the base where the gaps were. There still was a small gap at ground level on the south side, so I added a length of plastic that was packaging around some fencing.

Then I covered bed #2:

This bed is mostly collards, but I covered it as I still have some lettuce growing between the collards. I didn't cover the other two beds of collards, nor the second bed of turnips. Turnips and collards laugh at ice and snow and 20°F.

And I said goodbye to my annuals, flowers:

Bidens

Lantana

Marigolds

 

[Sally PB]

I'll be interested in hearing how the covered plants fare.

 

[fuzzi]

I'll be interested in hearing how the covered plants fare.

I'll let you know. I probably will not uncover the beds until the cold snap goes away, about a week.

 

[Nym]

We got rain aplenty last nite! but that didnt stop Betty rushing to her fave spot to lay lol

 

[chickengr]

If they were in the ground they definitely could, but these are in a GreenStalk so I don't know how well they'll do. But I'm about to find out because the cold is coming!

I guess they will freeze. not enough soil to protect them.

I tried to grow carrots in the bucket and they were size of my fingers. not sure if it was too hot for them. I grew them in aged goat manure and dirt.

 

[chickengr]

I'll let you know. I probably will not uncover the beds until the cold snap goes away, about a week.

maybe you should uncover them at daytime. in my climate there would be to much humidity and lack of air circulation so plants would rot.

 

[jerryse]

Mouse catches have slowed down. I hope that means there are fewer mice. The repeating traps are the winners with the most catches. The Tin cat is the best one so far and the Tom cat has yet to catch one. It is plastic. I did not intend to buy that one. Farm and Fleet had a sale on Tin cat for 9.99. I grabbed what I thought was the last one. It was a Tom cat. Anyway they let me have it for 9.99 since they put it in the Tin cat slot.

 

[Smokerbill]

I mulched a few herb plants in the garden with lawn clippings. Maybe the marjoram will survive this winter. I pulled up a big flat leaf parsley plant and sort of "replanted" it in the chicken run. Got the garden hoses drained and put away for the winter too. And the rain gauge flipped over so it doesn't freeze and break.