catjac1975
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You make me look lazy!
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No way you are lazy. I think I do all this in a conserving energy type mode. I must be getting back close to my before chickenpox health. I made a chocolate zucchini Texas sheet cake. I blanched squash and green beans while I made the cake, and some how I got it all done. I pickled some of the banana peppers. I am very tired. I brought in some collards and have them off the stems in the ice box and I will blanch and freeze those tomorrow.
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digitS'
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I am continuing to dig potatoes. The snow peas are planted behind me and this weekend, I'll begin sowing seed for Asian greens in that bed.
@Mauldintiger may want to take notes. It isn't all spud wonderland on this glacial till between two great potato growing regions. Weather did it this year - June weather. Ups and downs, the cool weather didn't quite hit freezing in my garden but blasts of record heat aren't friendly to potatoes.
Luckily, I planted quite a lot of Red LaSoda. I haven't gotten into the Viking Purple yet but the LaSoda plants came in all sizes. I was kinda cringing when I dug some of the smaller plants ... right at 2# for each. Okay, good. First, don't ya know, I dug a couple of big plants. Never got those spuds weighed but we were pleased. Ate 'em right away, too!
There are 100sqft in that bed and 30+ plants. Too many Purple Majesty, the Vikings are in a little separate patch because I didn't find that seed until late. Anyway, the big LaSoda will make up for the low yield Majesty, all purple. There should be about 70# from that bed. The 20sqft of Vikings will give us the 100# of potatoes DW and I can eat before the serious sprouting renders them useless in January.
With all those square feet elsewhere and a basement, why don't you grow a late variety for a longer storage? You might well ask
. Well, I could but then there's the room that the onions and dahlias take up in the basement. And, those basement stairs ...!
At least, I've got early potatoes! (Trying to dig them slowly and eat them quickly so I have less to carry down those stairs!)
Steve
@Mauldintiger may want to take notes. It isn't all spud wonderland on this glacial till between two great potato growing regions. Weather did it this year - June weather. Ups and downs, the cool weather didn't quite hit freezing in my garden but blasts of record heat aren't friendly to potatoes.
Luckily, I planted quite a lot of Red LaSoda. I haven't gotten into the Viking Purple yet but the LaSoda plants came in all sizes. I was kinda cringing when I dug some of the smaller plants ... right at 2# for each. Okay, good. First, don't ya know, I dug a couple of big plants. Never got those spuds weighed but we were pleased. Ate 'em right away, too!
There are 100sqft in that bed and 30+ plants. Too many Purple Majesty, the Vikings are in a little separate patch because I didn't find that seed until late. Anyway, the big LaSoda will make up for the low yield Majesty, all purple. There should be about 70# from that bed. The 20sqft of Vikings will give us the 100# of potatoes DW and I can eat before the serious sprouting renders them useless in January.
With all those square feet elsewhere and a basement, why don't you grow a late variety for a longer storage? You might well ask
. Well, I could but then there's the room that the onions and dahlias take up in the basement. And, those basement stairs ...!At least, I've got early potatoes! (Trying to dig them slowly and eat them quickly so I have less to carry down those stairs!)
Steve
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Need a nap after reading all of that.
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I am trying to picture 100 sq feet and 30 plants. It kind of gives me something to judge. If I plant potatoes next year, it will be in a different section of the garden. After seeing potato plants from some elderly friend's garden, I was shocked what their tomato plants looked like compared to mine.
majorcatfish
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after last nights rain no need to water.
so took the girls for a quick walk and inside to the a/c, heck with the garden.....i know bad attitude....
so took the girls for a quick walk and inside to the a/c, heck with the garden.....i know bad attitude....
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Spent all day chopping and blanching collards, chopping peppers and freezing, picked more beans and squash and now i see little beans on the pole beans. Picked 2 little bitty tomatoes.
Beekissed
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All your produce lined up like that made me nostalgic...that's what my garden produce USED to look like in the not so distant past. Very beautiful!!
Will pick some maters this morning for drying, also chives. Will likely hoe some grass crowns starting up in the garden out...that's the most prevalent weed right now, the crab grass. Might dig into a tater hill and see what's going on there...mostly I've had tops but no bottoms on spuds this year.
Will pick some maters this morning for drying, also chives. Will likely hoe some grass crowns starting up in the garden out...that's the most prevalent weed right now, the crab grass. Might dig into a tater hill and see what's going on there...mostly I've had tops but no bottoms on spuds this year.
so lucky
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We have had a week of unprecedented rain around here. Not in inches, but in frequency. Rain twice a day, every day. The garden never dries out enough to work it. Weeds growing like crazy. Hot and humid.
I hate to try to pick cukes and beans when the vines are wet. Icky, itchy.
I hate to try to pick cukes and beans when the vines are wet. Icky, itchy.
FaerieGlynne
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Latest start ever?! Life got way crazy this year and my garden is a pile of wonderfully composted duck poop hay and dark, rich soil. I never got a single thing in the ground. I have a ton of seeds. What can I plant? I'm just outside of Portland, OR. What are you guys planting for for your fall gardens?!
