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Have to ask, what do you do with the peppers from 92 plants?
 

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Have to ask, what do you do with the peppers from 92 plants?

I don't know. I never grew 92 plants before. I usually start seedlings and lose a lot, but I did not have any problems with these. I have the best bunch of vegetables and flowers I ever grew and then got the chickenpox. Last year I gave a lot of plants to my neighbor and this year gave him some cabbage and collards and he let them die and told me he is not planting anything this year. I was going to share with another lady and she told me she FORGOT her tomato plants and left them out for 3 days and they died, so that did it, after taking care of all these plants while being sick, I am keeping them.
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Moved all the annual seedlings and purchased plants inside. Covered potato and tomatoes growing in the garden. Moved my hanging basket and covered the container planting. That's the best I can do to ensure there is no frost tonight -- on the theory "if there's nothing to hurt there's no reason for a frost".

Only the strawberries are left uncovered in hopes that they are hardy enough for Wisconsin weather.
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Doesn't the bed look great! Hardly a weed to be seen -- those few garlic scapes at the bottom don't count -- and the Alpine strawberries in the (mostly unplanted) bed to the left are looking just as good.
Going to be a great year for strawberry shortcake if the weather doesn't take the blooms tonight.
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It sounds like you are all ready for the cold. Your strawberries are amazing. I am hoping I get some to eat fresh. All this moving and transplanting has set them back. I have actually ate 4. They do not look good. The ground is going to need a lot of fertilizer and weeding for next year.
 

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This morning DH and I reset the perimeter poles for the front garden. He wasn't happy with them because they could be wobbled a little. So he pulled them out, I knocked the concrete off them, then we made the holes a bit wider and re-cemented them in.
I weed mowed up around the front garden and under the maples, took a break in the shade, ended up prone on the lawn with a large dog trying to snuggle under my arms, and dozed off.
Lots more to do but we have a neighbor kid birthday party to attend. If it wasn't for the neighbor kids having birthdays we wouldn't have a social life!
 

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Buried some compostables in the compost pile ... hey, that counts!

My compost pile utilizes so much soil that it is amazing how hard it is now that I have begun to work my way through it. Dirt and gravel settle well through the winter! It would probably make a better garden bed this spring, than a source of soil amendments!

I've gotta use it for hilling the spuds, tho. That's been a primary use for the compost in the little veggie garden in recent years. I'm not asking much of it. One hundred square feet of mulch ... well, a few more this year since I found those Viking Purple seed potatoes a little late and after I had already planted one bed.

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Thistlebloom, you keep babysitting the neighborhood kids (ie teaching gardening) and you're apt to get invited to plenty of birthday parties. At least you have a social life.
 
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