What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

Lifted the gladiola bulbs and carried them into the garage.

Took the dahlia roots out of the garage. Hauled out the peat moss and the 2020 dahias are now stored in the basement ... navigating our very steep, treacherous basement stairs in the process.

The final load of carrots were packed out of the garden and a nice big bucket of onions was carried down those steps to fill a basket. After several days curing in the greenhouse for protection against frost, they joined the potatoes down there.

The winter squash should come out of the garage, be selected for maturity, and go down. I don't think that hanging out in the garage can be considered "curing." I fully intend to have a pumpkin joining them. I will be modifying my Zucchini Soup recipe yet again this winter by trying it with tilapia instead of tuna in an attempt to win DW over with a bowl of hot Pumpkin Tilapia Soup.

Looking up in the early morning sky, I can tell, it will be ᵃ ˢᵘⁿⁿʸ ᵈᵃʸ !

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

Seem to have misplaced my camera. I am almost finished clearing the sea of burdock in the south pasture. One more day should do it, then I can let the horses back in without worrying about burdock dreadlocks.

 

[Prairie Rose]

It is cold enough we may see frost tonight. All of the houseplants that summered on the porches are now inside, the fall perennials that need to go in the ground still are tucked up against the house and covered for the night. We have had rain all day combined with COLD wind, with the occasional flecks of snow here and there, just enough to make you pay attention. The plan for tomorrow is to get the last three perennials in the ground, and I found a box of fall bulbs to put in. After that, adding cardboard and straw to the vegetable garden. Once I get those things done, I pretty much have everything tucked away for winter.

It's hard to believe less than two weeks ago it was 90 degrees here...

 

[ducks4you]

33 degrees called for 7AM Saturday morning. Going out to collect all eating tomatoes. The romas get take some frost bc they will be canned.

 

[flowerbug]

It is cold enough we may see frost tonight. All of the houseplants that summered on the porches are now inside, the fall perennials that need to go in the ground still are tucked up against the house and covered for the night. We have had rain all day combined with COLD wind, with the occasional flecks of snow here and there, just enough to make you pay attention. The plan for tomorrow is to get the last three perennials in the ground, and I found a box of fall bulbs to put in. After that, adding cardboard and straw to the vegetable garden. Once I get those things done, I pretty much have everything tucked away for winter.

It's hard to believe less than two weeks ago it was 90 degrees here...

today was warm and some rain. i'm not sure when the colder weather gets here but tomorrow isn't supposed to be very warm. was talking to my sister and their place up in southern CO had temperatures in the teens the past few days. i'm not ready for that yet! next week there hasn't been any frost in the forecast but we're getting down into the lower 40s and higher 30s overnight so it is coming... not sure if those temperatures will shut everything down or not that i'm hoping will have enough time to finish. we'll see. the forecasts have really been changing a lot from day to day. i don't even know why i bother looking anymore other than i hope it gives me an idea what to expect. once again today they were wrong.

 

[Zeedman]

The forecast for the Upper Midwest has been shifting downward, @flowerbug , so don't be surprised if you get a killing freeze. This is a monster storm, spanning almost the entire central U.S. (and lower Canada) from the Gulf to Hudson Bay.

 

[flowerbug]

The forecast for the Upper Midwest has been shifting downward, @flowerbug , so don't be surprised if you get a killing freeze. This is a monster storm, spanning almost the entire U.S. (and lower Canada) from the Gulf to Hudson Bay.

so far the lowest i have forecast is 36F for the week so it has shifted down a few degrees so far as i just checked.

 

[Carol Dee]

Stopped and pick LOTS of kale and some green tomatoes on my way home from errands. The freeze missed us. So I got to the kale before it froze. Brought in ripe tomatoes, pulled spent stuff and weeded flower beds so there was room to plant the new perennial flowers we got on clearance.

 

[Prairie Rose]

Today I put in all my perennials, planted allium and crocus bulbs, plus garlic and shallots. Put down cardboard and lots of straw mulch in the veg bed, finished mulching the new flowerbed with wood chips, and spent a couple of hours just cleaning the place up. I made a big mess getting everything done on vacation this week, had to clean it up before I go back to work tomorrow.

I bought one of those manual claw shaped tilling tools today, used it to loosen the compacted corners in my raised bed before mulching and I love it. I also went through them and picked out all the bindweed roots I could find, and there weren't many at all. Makes me hopeful I can reclaim my yard, one section at a time.

Also in side news, I have broken a shovel and a spade this week, and really amused one of the guys at the local big box store by insisting that three bales of straw, six bags of mulch, and assorted new tools really would fit in the back of my mazda, then proceeding to load it all on my own without his help...and it fit!

 

[flowerbug]

cleared the last of the north garden. buried all the turnips and radishes i pulled. diakons get bigger around than my arms - i'm not sure if i should take up weighlifting or just say that garden soil is pretty good. it should be. had a lot of love this season and ready to be planted for next year. i have to scrape it yet, but that won't take long. for a patch that size now that i have everything out of the way. an hour to an hour and a half later this week will do it. been a good summer for that garden though to get it cleared and kept weeded so that the management isn't upset by looking at it all the time - which i've been hearing about for the past few years at least two to seven times a week... ahem. Mom. hey. yeah. it's done... relax. enjoy. spring flowers...

picking beans the rest of the day. ditch is full of water and too muddy for the moment to make me think of working on that, plus two warmer days in the forecast later this week. i'm going to be optimistic and hope for one of those being actually accurate.

rain forecast for tomorrow and we need to run an errand so that works out perfectly. better to do something like that on a rainy day than to waste a nice one.

ok, lunch break is over... time to get a pickin'...