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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
16962 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2020 : 8:57:01 PM
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Well it's almost Garden beddy-by time... My sunflowers are spent,, and the leaves are burned from the strong winds we had... Raspberries are done.. what is left of my carrots, beets and onions, are the stragglers...and my tomato plants are wheeping but still loaded in spite of the fact that I have been harvesting for the past 2 weeks (when I can go outside)... I have been giving away onions, peppers and maters like crazy.. My strawberries are steadfast.. but I know they to will give up soon. My okra bushes still bloom,, but we are getting to cold at night for them to do anything. Oh, and go figure, my cantaloupe have about 6 melons, but are the size of an apple and now with no sun, and cold nights I know they won't make it..
Oh well,, there is always next year...
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4086 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4086 Posts |
Posted - Sep 17 2020 : 02:32:59 AM
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I just cleaned most of my garden out last night. I left the zucchini and a few cantaloupe out there. The zucchini goes to the pigs and chickens, so if they keep going good. I picked 6 of the cantaloupe and brought in. Various sizes. I picked all the peppers last night as well. Chance of freezing, but it is only 42 right now. I will get them froze up and be done. Grace we always have optimism for next year don't we.
Farming in WI
Michele FGOTM June2019
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
6747 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
6747 Posts |
Posted - Sep 17 2020 : 05:49:45 AM
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Grace and Michelle we all know when the season ends our hope for the next season begins. When the leaves fall I'll gather some to put in my pots of herbs. My herbs & container roses all winter over outside except for the bay and I move it inside to a sunny south window. All the herbs left in the raised beds will winter over there with help of leaves. The only thing left for me to do is plant the garlic the first of Oct in one raised beds and among the herbs in the other 3.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14 FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015. & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
16962 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts |
Posted - Sep 17 2020 : 2:20:53 PM
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Sara,, yep,, one season ends,, and the next one begins.. I will compost most of the garden stuff,, and will give some to our daughter for her goats, sheep and mini piggies to enjoy.
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
6625 Posts
Krista
Utah
USA
6625 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2020 : 1:22:26 PM
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Same thing here Grace. My teeny tiny garden is basically done. I have harvested all my tomatoes and all my red peppers ( my green peppers didn’t servive a horrible wind storm we had a little while ago). All I have are some raspberries that are stragglers. They should be all done here shortly. I will be putting in more raspberry plants in the next couple of weeks. Other then that I am done for the year.
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6488 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6488 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2020 : 10:57:31 AM
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I don't have a vegetable garden but our flowers everywhere are still going strong. They seem to be thriving with all our rain and humidity. The only thing in the garden that is droopy and weary is ME! I am so sick and tired of semi-tropical weather conditions for weeks on end!! Like your tomato plants and others who are DONE with this season, I stand with them because I am so DONE with this Summer too!! LOL!!
Winnie #3109 Red Tractor Girl Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015 FGOTM- October 2018 |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
16962 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2020 : 3:07:57 PM
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Krista,, yep, I hear ya,, those horried winds burned the leaves on my sunflowers...
Winnie... it's funny,,, once I am done... I AM Done! and then in the midsts of Winter, I wish it were summer gardening time! lol! But for now,,, I will find an excuse to continue playing in my sewing room,,, even tho' I know I need to get outside and clean up my garden...lol!
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2857 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2857 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2020 : 3:52:57 PM
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I am the opposite. I hold on, and go out and say, "Oh look a cherry tomato and a 2 inch cucumber, and this pepper looks like I could salvage it for half a salad portion!!" Just let me wade through 10 feet of weeds to find it! Kind of a produce treasure hunt/fall maze |
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NatChap
True Blue Farmgirl
441 Posts
Natalie
Clarkesville
GA
USA
441 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2020 : 8:48:26 PM
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The Roma tomatoes are still giving a few but will soon be done. The butternut squash vines are loaded. This year we planted Tennessee Spinner gourds that are so pretty on the vine. These were planted for crafts and such. Pretty soon I want to get containers ready to plant spinach. There will be a lot of clean up around the blackberry vines once it gets a bit cooler.
Lisa, I am the same way. There is always room for even the smallest vegetable in a salad. :)
Keep shining! Natalie
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
16962 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
16962 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts |
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VegiChik
True Blue Farmgirl
96 Posts
Sharon L
Gaylord
MI
USA
96 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2020 : 6:19:40 PM
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I too THOUGHT I was done with garden but then took a little stroll thru it & found some new little broccoli “heads” on my plants. Into the dinner salad they went! And the kale just won’t give up!!! - so “waste not want not”, I will be harvesting that tomorrow . . . Sigh.
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