Ducks4you for 2022

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Sorry...fell down a rabbit hole, (with apologies to @Gardening with Rabbits )

Farmer taught how to DIY aquarium and greenhouse to grow aquatic vegetables​

 

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Something else, off the cuff.
Would you REALLY buy paint This color?

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Back to Friday's harvest. I only wanted to focus on covering ONE row of beans. THIS row wasn't it.
Same row, different plants. A cucumber vine and a bean vine grew up into the two adjacent arbor vitae. Had to take some pictures before frost nipped them.

 

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Here are the beans.

 

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Here are the cucumbers. The first was taken mid September.

 

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Sad to pull apart the sweet potato/sprawling squash bed, but frost was supposedly gonna kill it all, so I had to do this Friday afternoon.
TERRIBLE timing, interrupting my Salsa Party Prep!
This was the final sprawl.

 

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This was my surprise harvest. I even found one more little orange pumpkin yesterday. Expecting a killing frost, I stored them in a muck bucket and stored them in the garage. Guess I'll have to pull out some for eating soon...

 

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I had plans for my 2022 garden. Somehow...they changed...

2022 became the year of the volunteer and the year of the experiment.
Here is another volunteer tomato that resembles the Rainbow Tomato, which I have grown before but I didn't grow last year. Must have been a survivor seed from several years ago.

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Like a lot of volunteer tomatoes, This one sprouted late, but it sprouted in a great place, just next to and Inside of my 2nd big garden fencing, so I had built in structure to tie it up. These two tomatoes are ripening now, in October. VERY late.
There are more fruit on it. We will need to taste test it to see if the seeds are worth saving.

 

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I took this picture after I had used 6 of them for Salsa 12's chili and DD grabbed another 6 to take home, so 12 missing. It didn't matter if I waited. Sweet peppers take F O R E V E R to ripen, get big, and even LONGER to blush their color. Still, I think I have about 30ish left. I am cutting and freezing them today. One big pepper has decided to start rotting in the corner. No time to waste!

 

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I didn't grow any hot peppers this year.. I used dehydrated jalepanoes to grind up and heat up my party chili. I smelled the old coffee grinder that I now use for such things and it cleaned out my nose. Jalepanoes were put in the jar in 2019. They really hold their heat.