Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

I guess we will pick the peppers one more time and maybe a stray eggplant or two. Tonight is the last night they will survive because after tonight 5 straight nights of weed killing frosts and freezes. I'm ready.

 

[NanaK]

Going to pick the last few cabbage heads and broccoli today. If we get low 20s those heads will burn.

Hopefully the broccoli plants will survive they are making side shoots.

I will share some cabbage with the chickens. They love it.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

[fuzzi]

Goodbye pretty annuals...

 

[Nomadicus]

Same here with our marigolds. It's down to 43° here already and it is clear so no clouds to help trap some warmth. Gotta take the bad with the good. Weeds will die too.

 

[Nomadicus]

The temp dropped about 3° colder than forecast so that should put the lid on all but the collards for sure. I've decided to leave the stubble on the top of the ground instead of tilling it under to decay over winter. We get some heavy rains before it's time to plant in the spring and on our slops that would mean losing some topsoil.

 

[Zobot0110]

Where to begin? I want to grow food for my chickens and salad for myself

 

[Nomadicus]

Where to begin? I want to grow food for my chickens and salad for myself

You might want to visit your local county extension service for information what will and will not grow well in the area where you live as well as when seasons start and end as for growing conditions for those crops.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Where to begin? I want to grow food for my chickens and salad for myself

What grow zone are you in?

Without knowing that, for salad I’d start with leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula or similar leafy greens. Most of them are fairly quick to get from seed to harvest, and it’s absolutely possible to grow them indoors in a dollar store cake pan with some dirt. When I first started growing greens I started with salad and mesclun mix packs of seeds, and that let me try a bunch of different types at once.

Also check if you have a seed library near you, you might be able to save money on seeds getting some there.

 

[Zobot0110]

You might want to visit your local county extension service for information what will and will not grow well in the area where you live as well as when seasons start and end as for growing conditions for those crops.

What grow zone are you in?

Without knowing that, for salad I’d start with leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula or similar leafy greens. Most of them are fairly quick to get from seed to harvest, and it’s absolutely possible to grow them indoors in a dollar store cake pan with some dirt. When I first started growing greens I started with salad and mesclun mix packs of seeds, and that let me try a bunch of different types at once.

Also check if you have a seed library near you, you might be able to save money on seeds getting some there.

Thank you

 

[NanaK]

It's like someone flipped a switch and turned on the cold.

We picked the cabbage and broccoli before the freeze.

I was also surprised to find so many butterbeans ready. Hubby helped me pick them too. We ended up with about 2/3 of a 5 gal bucket.

I don't think I have ever picked green butterbeans after Thanksgiving.