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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
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PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
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 Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 5:46:06 PM
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Fresh from the Garden even means more at the end of the Season.
I am not sure about you...but our grocery stores are charging so
much for fresh produce...even though it is still being harvested
and sold fresh to the grocery stores. I don't want my garden to
quit...it hasn't been great but very tasty non-the-less!
blessings,
peggy
Farmgirl #1326
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
"Leave Your Cares Behind...Join Us On The Porch"
"I'm only as strong as the caffeine I drink, the hair-spray I use and the Girlfriends that I have."
When I was a lonely wallflower, Jesus asked me to dance. Then he asked me to be joyous, to be passionate, and to Be His! |
Edited by - LadyInRed on Sep 20 2011 5:47:51 PM |
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jan49829
True Blue Farmgirl
2428 Posts
Janet
Gladstone
Mi.
USA
2428 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 5:54:12 PM
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My garden is all done for this year, we had frost a few days already, but yes, the stores are just outragous with their prices. Potatoes are over a dollar more now than they were last month, and this is when they are getting the local ones. I miss my veggies, but did get alot of it frozen.
Jan
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
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Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 10:08:10 PM
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We are valiantly trying to hang onto ours. It's been in the low 40's for the past several nights so it's getting harder and harder but by golly I've still got tomatoes that need to ripen and green beans that need to fill out a bit before I throw in the towel! Probably will put it to bed sometime next week. Sigh...
Audrey
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
1507 Posts
Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2011 : 06:15:35 AM
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I'm still getting a few green beans, strawberries and tomatoes. Soon it will be time to harvest corn, sunchokes and potatoes, too. Just hoping we don't get rain and frost for a few more weeks so everything can finish ripening. I was awed by prices on corn and tomatoes when I was grocery shopping this weekend. Wow! How can something grown locally possibly cost more than the stuff that gets shipped in from other countries?
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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Ingrid
True Blue Farmgirl
432 Posts
Ingrid
BC
Canada
432 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2011 : 07:20:52 AM
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I am getting tomatoes from my greenhouse, carrots, beans, squash, beets and I have a fall crop coming of carrots, beets, lettuces, and radish. Love my garden.
Give thanks to yourself everyday for all the wonderful things you do! |
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Dorinda
True Blue Farmgirl
1023 Posts
Dorinda
St. Cloud
Florida
USA
1023 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2011 : 12:28:59 PM
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I have just planted okra, Tomatoes,collards, and Turnips in my fall garden!! I hope I have not waited to late. I usually plant the fall garden the last week of August. I am behind a little so wish me luck!! I still have a few more items to plant. Hum Should I stop or just keep planting ? That is the question. Am I wasteing my time!!
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
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Patsy
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Illinois
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2011 : 07:19:05 AM
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I still have lots of peppers coming on but the tomatoes are about done. I need to pull them up.
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njaw09
True Blue Farmgirl
397 Posts
Annie
NJ
USA
397 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2011 : 12:16:22 PM
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Your produce is soooo beautiful PeggyAnn!!
I still have some skinny & long eggplants blooming, round & fat eggplants, roma tomato, grape tomato, some green pepper, roselle leaves, basils & sweet mint is still blooming....its getting slow. This season is good. |
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upnorthgirl
Farmgirl in Training
35 Posts
Sharon
St. Germain
WI
USA
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Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 5:39:04 PM
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If you can believe it, here in Northern WI, we still have tomato's turning red on the vine!!! Peppers are still producing also. We did have a hard frost 2 weeks ago, but I managed to cover everything I wanted to save. Still have carrots in teh ground to pull, and onions. Does anyone know, can you leave onions in through out the winter? I remember my mom leaving onions in and having bulbs on the tips... I would think they would freeze, just thought I would ask. Thanks:)
Sharon FG sister#3239 |
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tammyknit
True Blue Farmgirl
135 Posts
Tammy
Reedsburg
WI
USA
135 Posts |
Posted - Sep 30 2011 : 5:23:31 PM
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I think what your mom had may have been something like "Egyptian walking onions" or a perennial onion. My dad grows them and leaves them in the ground year-round. I have never seen anything recommending leaving regular onions in the ground. I even just checked my "Vegetable Gardener's Bible" and the author would mention it if it were possible.
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
1507 Posts
Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
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Posted - Sep 30 2011 : 6:27:04 PM
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I grow onions through the winter here where we often get temps in the mid - lower 20's for a few days here and there. Last year we got down to zero twice and they did just fine. I plant the starts in October and harvest in July or August. Maybe the young plants are hardier than the fully developed onions are?
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
1360 Posts |
Posted - Oct 01 2011 : 08:33:09 AM
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i have so much to harvest, but am waiting for junior to put in an appearance so I can bend over again and pick. Fortunately no frost, so the cabbage, potatoes, carrots, etc can wait. I do get out and try to keep the Zucchini and tomatoes picked. The green beans (only a few plants) got away from me adn the broccoli is starting to as well. This year I put in sweet potatoes too. Haven' even sneaked a single peak at them, though I am tempted. I am trying to give them as much time as possible.
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3331 Posts
marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
3331 Posts |
Posted - Oct 03 2011 : 05:13:48 AM
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We haven't reached freezing yet, but everything has really slowed down and the deer have sped up. Winter must be around the corner because all of a sudden the deer are eating my tomato plants down to a nub. The zucchini wants more heat than we are getting and I don't know what is taking the blackberries so long this year. They still are not ripe!
My neighbor came over yesterday and she took eight grape vines that I didn't want to fool with any more. The roots were really deep! I hope they do well for her, I was so glad that someone wanted them and they would be appreciated!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 03 2011 : 08:24:30 AM
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I just picked some runner beans and snapped them this morning. They are on the stove cooking right now. I love beans! I havew not dug up my sweet potatoes yet. The vines are so long and the leaves are still green and growing. I did dig up one hill a month ago and got 7 huge taters. I want to wait a little longer to dig the rest up. And I still have beautiful zinnias. And that's about all. I am waiting on my Granny Smith apples to ripen so I can pick them. I won't have much but what I do get I think I will make pies.
And I did plant turnip and collard greens in my cold frame about a month ago. They are almost big enought to pick some. Can hardly wait for those!
Kris
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Beca
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Becky
Chino Valley
Arizona
USA
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Posted - Oct 03 2011 : 08:56:06 AM
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| We are getting near freezing temps in a couple days so I need to pick what is left in my raised beds. Transplanted some herbs into pots and they are in the greenhouse now. Soo being that this is the first year doing this: I hope to have some tomatoes, basil, parsley, lemon & limes. Picked one little cucumber and two small zucs the other day that was good. Oh also have green onions and carrots. The marigold flowers and beans took over the raised beds again this year. Next year I will be better at pulling out volunteers. Or heck...just grow marigolds and beans. LOL. |
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Dorinda
True Blue Farmgirl
1023 Posts
Dorinda
St. Cloud
Florida
USA
1023 Posts |
Posted - Oct 03 2011 : 3:38:06 PM
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Peggyann , My summer garden is over. But my fall garden is doing great. I should be picking okra, Tomatoes, Datyl peppers and greens soon out of my garden. Sometimes I think the fall garden does better than the spring garden! Not as many bugs and weeds.
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
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Lilwren
Farmgirl in Training
20 Posts
Ninon
McKinleyville
CA
USA
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Posted - Oct 04 2011 : 8:24:19 PM
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We are getting blueberries, asian pears, apples some carrots, green beans --been fighting the bear (fruit) and the deer (veggies and fruit). Got the gopher's licked and now it's almost time to plant the garlic (the mesh finally gave out last year and they got up and into the planter beds and ate every bulb overnight--dug out and reinforced, so...maybe we'll see the results of our efforts. Now to fence the back garden...which won't stop the bear, but at least keep the deer at bay.
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