WR's 2014 Fall Garden

[w_r_ranch]

As y'all like pictures so much, I ran out this morning between rain bands & took some of the our fall garden to share with you. Everything is doing well in spite of our recent early frosts, which did burn the lettuce & the potatoes... We are still waiting on the arrival of the onion sets that are normally in the first week of November.

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[Smart Red]

Beautiful garden, beautiful crop of veggies you have there @w_r_ranch. Where are you hiding the bugs such as I find nibbling in my garden? Your cabbages seem unchewed, your broccoli look unbitten, your cauliflower hole-free, your radish are radiant, your spinach unsmitten, your lettuces unlicked and your kohlrabi -- drooling here -- is perfectly pickable and ready for the table. Wish it were mine.

If you want some work this summer when your garden has burned up, . . . there's always work here in south-est, central-est Wisconsin.

 

[baymule]

Very nice garden! Making me hungry for fall goodies. Is that a high wire fence in the background? Got tall cows or sumpin'?

 

[NwMtGardener]

Whoa! All that greenery and growing stuff is just beyond my comprehension this time of year!! Soon it will be just white everywhere i look...for a long long time!

 

[w_r_ranch]

Very nice garden! Making me hungry for fall goodies. Is that a high wire fence in the background? Got tall cows or sumpin'?

LOL, baymule!!! We have an abundance of wildlife here (deer, hogs, coyotes, etc)... I had to high fence the home site itself (to keep them out of the garden & away from our fruit trees). We have a sizable herd here that we manage as best we can. These pics are typical of what we see from the back porch.

 

[baymule]

Some people might see Bambi in those awesome pictures, but I see home made smoked link sausage, chili and fried deer steak.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Your right!!! Smoked venison is just one of my specialties... Here, have some peppered backstrap & some jerky...

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[w_r_ranch]

Where are you hiding the bugs such as I find nibbling in my garden? Your cabbages seem unchewed, your broccoli look unbitten, your cauliflower hole-free, your radish are radiant, your spinach unsmitten, your lettuces unlicked

Bt is my best friend when the caterpillars/worms start getting out of hand!!!

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if it's another pest/fungus, I can usually add the 'cure' to my EZ-Flow Injector (attached to my irrigation system), turn it on & then just water the garden.

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[thistlebloom]

I've got some serious garden envy Sam! I know we'd all feel better if you had at least a weed or two lurking about, so I'm sending you some seeds of my finest.

 

[Smart Red]

Zone envy, garden envy, produce envy, is there anything I might have missed that is wrong with your garden? Hardpan clay? Rocks the size of bread loaves? Quicksand in the middle of the biggest bed? I would hate to have to hate you out of pure green-demon envy.