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OT: Garden is Winding Down!

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El Toro

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Here's some green peppers I pulled today. They're called the Big Dipper. I took down a lot of the tomato cages since the tomatoes are about over. I limed the garden and will plow it probably next month and sow barley. The leaves are starting to fall off the red maple tree. I see some on the forums have had frost. I had 42 F on Sunday morning. Had to put on a warm shirt. Hal
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Hal, Good looking peppers. My fall garden is starting to come on(Florida), but it takes a lot of watering. We have been bypassed on the showers for the last month.I raise the garden mainly to play with Garden Tractors and impliments.
 
We had our first real freeze last night. I had covered up the tomatoes and peppers and some of the cukes, and they seem OK. But most of the rest of the tender plants are history.

We are supposed to have more 90 degree weather later this week, so I will leave things alone for a while. Maybe some stuff will survive and grow some more. It must have got down around 32 last night, but probably not much lower. I have been expecting frost for a couple of weeks, as at this altitude, this is actually a little later than the usual first frost. But sometimes after a couple of frosts, we get nearly a month more of frost-free weather.

I got my garden in way late this year in a new spot. My fences worked well and they have kept the deer out. Next year I hope to get the garden started much earlier and will start some plants indoors. Otherwise our growing season is just a little short.

Gardening is fun and while I don't think I really save that much money on the produce we grow, the quality is great!
 
A very disappointing year for a lot of folks around this area. Got a little heat to bring on early sweet corn in August and anything that came after was poor. My potato yield was the worst of any year since I have been raising them. I guess I'm lucky my potato patch would barely park a RV on it. Canning tomatoes have been hard to come by the last few weeks.
With any luck the garden will be much better next year.
 
Yesterday I picked the pumpkins and last few acorn squash, then ran over everything with the mower. Tomatoes and peppers were done, corn stalks were turning brown, and the weeds were all trying to set seeds.

Next year I'll have a nice garden though...
 
I would have the soil tested where you raise potatoes. I always planted Kennebec and a few red potatoes. I noticed one year the size of the Kennebec's were a lot smaller. Our county extension agent suggested I get a soil sample tested and when the results came back he said I needed to broadcast lime on the garden and that fixed the problem. You don't want too much as it may cause scabbing on your potatoes. I lime the lawn too. Hal
 
Thanks for the input. I will have that plot checked via a soil test. My bigger disappointment was with the other garden crops. The weather here was cool and damp till late July and stuff just never got going good. You don't want to know how the watermelon did. I really need to get the potatoes in on looser soil than what is up by the farmstead, anyways.
 
Had the best garden I've had in years. Moved to a new better drained spot. WE'll be all done in a few weeks, then disc in some wheat for winter cover. Got cabbage for kraut and pumpkins yet, and a few peppers and tomatoes to go.
Paul
 
Sow buckwheat and plow it down. It will choke out the weeds and loosen the soil. It's hard to find it here in MD. In 1959 we drove up to Plattsburg AFB to see my wife's sister and her husband who was stationed there. We went to Montreal Canada too and saw a of buckwheat in fields. Hal
 
Plant some greens for Fall and early Winter.Right now I have Turnips,Southern Curled Giant Mustard,Collards,Kale and lettuce and should have them for a couple months more at least
 
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