Damn them butternut squashes are dreamy!!!!!!!

I love potatoes a lot. It’s why I misc!

Thanks! We pretty much picked all the burgess buttercup squash (top), but we have a bunch of spaghetti and butternut still growing. For whatever reason they are just a bit slow this year, so we picked the ones that were ripe and are trying to baby the ones still outside by covering them up at night. Supposedly they will ripen a little after being picked, but I'd like to get them as ripe as possible while still on the vine. I have a cold room in my basement where I put the ones we pick.

Tomatoes, squash, and peppers are done as of last weekend. We picked everything that was left and brought it in. Low have been getting into the low 20's (teens forecasted later this week). That's too cold for most plants even if you cover them at night. I still have lettuce, carrots, and beets growing. I probably need to bring in the beets before it gets much colder. The carrots just need to be pulled before the ground freezes. One year I got busy, and the ground froze, and I just left them. Eventually I decided to chisel them out in January. They weren't quite as crisp, but they tasted OK.

That's a little outside my area of expertise, but I'm glad it's working out for you.

We had snow at my house a couple mornings ago. It's been a warm fall, and I think we'll still get a few more nice days, but the warm days are numbered.

Out cleaning up in the yard/garden and grabbed a picture of one of my cats making its way back to the garage:



You're missing out if you've never watched a cat stalk a mouse.

Sweet peppers
Green tomatoes
Kale
Cucumber
Okra

All sprouting ripening

I’ve no luck with dill it didn’t take 3x. I’m thinking bring the dill indoors??? Like where weather suppressed but still get sunlight through window

I need to live a little more after seeing this! Absolutely a thing of beauty like poetry in motion

Backyard yesterday morning:



It was snowing again today as I left for work. We got the main garden tilled up last week, but I still have carrots, beets, and onions in the square-foot garden. I still need to prune up my blackberries, too. That's quite a bit of snow for an early November storm for us. We should still get some days in the 50's to finish my yard work, although the next week shows highs in the upper 20's. I generally leave the carrots in the ground as long as possible because the stay fresher than if I store them in the cold room. However, it's a pain to pull them after the ground freezes and we have single digit temperatures forecast for Friday night and Saturday night.

Moving my garden beds and planters to tool shed in case the category 1 hurricane so soon after Ian

Bump for warm climate/southern hemisphere gardening miscers. I'm still a couple months out from planting peas but need to inventory my seeds in the next couple weeks and put in my order. I'm hoping to pick up some elderberry bushes this year. That's really my only new thing planned.

Mirin all the green thumbs in this thrad!

Got good tomatoes, broccoli, and kale and peppers until the cold front.

I am planning for spring now. Taking a break until then.

I've not got anything going ATM.

Did check this out. Another reminder to not wait to buy seeds.

Springtime BUMP!

Anybody got something in the ground yet? We had a skiff of fresh snow on the ground yesterday morning, but almost all the snow from winter has finally melted. My wife started tomatoes, peppers, and some squash indoors last weekend. We're a bit slow on the tomatoes and peppers, but I think it will be fine.

The ground finally thawed, so we could start peas, lettuce, spinach, and maybe broccoli soon.

Plants my wife started are up. In the past we haven't started pants inside. For plants that need a longer growing season we've just bought started plants from a greenhouse. Last year me daughter started a few and they turned out great so this year my wife decided to do it again and she has some seeds up. It's going to be a while before I move them outside; usually we wait until the end of May for the non-cold-hardy plants. Also need to get some leafy greens started in my square foot garden this weekend.

My woman started a bunch this year too, bunch of ground cherries and peppers plus trying to get some herbs started



I'm probably jumping the gun on this as well but been out already fertilizing the lawn/trees and dropped grass seed earlier this week aiming to increase lawn thiccness and drown out the thistles/weeds the previous owners didn't address

I am up to 4 raised gardens on wheels
3 mini kiddie pools which I’m growing sweet potatoes and cucumbers in. I’m doing more.

Got a few male cucumbers, some parsley, and tomatoes sprouting . I pick the tomatoes daily.

[QUOTE=Destor post_id=1681176973]My woman started a bunch this year too, bunch of ground cherries and peppers plus trying to get some herbs started

[img]https://i.imgur.com/zvqm8Dl.jpg[img]

I'm probably jumping the gun on this as well but been out already fertilizing the lawn/trees and dropped grass seed earlier this week aiming to increase lawn thiccness and drown out the thistles/weeds the previous owners didn't address

[img]https://i.imgur.com/3ftfqpV.jpg[img][/QUOTE]Nice, looking good. I haven't done anything outside yet. It snowed last week but I really should get the cold hardy stuff going. I've just had stuff going on the past couple weekends and it's been windy and or rainy on the days I had a little time.


[QUOTE=Deathstroke post_id=1681177833]I am up to 4 raised gardens on wheels
3 mini kiddie pools which I’m growing sweet potatoes and cucumbers in. I’m doing more.

Got a few male cucumbers, some parsley, and tomatoes sprouting . I pick the tomatoes daily.[/QUOTE]Jealous of you warm weather guys this time of year. I've never done sweat potatoes, maybe I'll try some this year. So far the only other new thing that I know I'm trying this year is Brussel sprouts.

It’s not a lot but it’s some of what I started for this season . I’ll post updates throughout the summer

Tips welcomed

Prepped one of my garden boxes and planted lettuce, spinach, and onions over the weekend. Need to prep the other one and get some carrots planted, too. To prep the garden boxes and just turn over all the soil and mix it up good. I also mix in a bag of compost. Not much to look at now, but I should have seeds up in a couple weeks:

Getting a huge row of beds. All across patio . I can pay someone to do it. But I suppose if I were determined I could myself but I want replace all the pots and all else with raised areas

Updated plantings here too

So I am moving into a new house in a couple months that has a nice flat sunny yard. Think I am gonna start off with a couple elevated beds.

In SC - I understand we can grow collards and kale and root veggies and other stuff through the winter here. And some herbs. So gonna start with that and then if it goes well expand in the spring.

Will contribute to thread.

Nice. Raised beds are an easy way to get started. You can get a surprising amount of produce for the space, and you don't have to worry about soil testing. I do raised beds for some things just because I think they work well for them. I always do my carrots and leafy greens in my square foot garden. Really, the only things I don't are things that take up a lot of space or that need more depth than I have in mine - squash, corn, potatoes, etc.

yeah I only want to start with greens, peppers (jalapenos, chili, etc) and herbs and go from there. Also have 2 big dogs I need to keep everything up out of site from lol.

Wtf! I’ve never seen this thread before. In!

2 of these out for delivery


Land Guard 8×4×2 ft Galvanized Raised Garden Bed Kit, Galvanized Planter Raised Garden Boxes Outdoor, Large Metal Raised Garden Beds for Vegetables……https://a.co/d/06ZeJE9

Be sure to post pics!

Adding greenery to the back yard. Bought two Siberian Larches that are supposed to grow up to 50' high and 20' wide, they also have cool soft needles and turn a bright gold in the fall. Two purple leaf sand cherry shrubs, one azalea, and a magnolia in the bucket





Also moving a bunch of the pine/spruce trees that were planted way too close to the lot line after we had a fence built, whoever planned these out was not thinking. Not 100% sure if they'll survive the move but we'll find out, you can see where they were previously too close to the fence and the ones we already moved



Done so much dirt work and yard maintenance already this fukn year

Doesn’t look like much right now but this is some type of ground cherry, two blackberries, 3x 3 different types of raspberry, and a tiny little Saskatoon

Um, you already had cucumber and tomato?
Would pet. And, yes, those were planted way too close. Hope they make it.