11-20-2019, 05:23 PM
One of our garden areas is done using the straw bale method - no tilling required [
]and at the end of the season you'll have a really good start on some good compost.
We still have our peas/pods growing and blooming in their moveable pots that we can roll in and out of the garage , but we'll likely be harvesting the what produce they have left since today our winter temps and precips have arrived. Up in our mtns some folks have ventured into ice fishing already.
We're already making plans for all our gardening experiments next year. We've put in small greenhouse to hopefully extend some of the gardening later into the fall as well as starting some earlier. We had our first frost back in Sept, and since then night temps are hitting in the mid to higher 20s. The lack of snow with these temps has allowed us more time this year to get our yard and gardens built and prepped for early spring planting.
We did have good luck this fall with storing and ripening of all the tomatoes we had to pick green. We still are getting some really nice red ones, only lost a handful that had to be tossed and they seemed to be the ones that may had blemishes on them.
Would really like a copy of the green tomato relish recipe you tried. We have done what my grandma used to make (Tomato Preserves) with her green tomatoes that is pretty tasty as well - posted below.
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]and at the end of the season you'll have a really good start on some good compost. We still have our peas/pods growing and blooming in their moveable pots that we can roll in and out of the garage , but we'll likely be harvesting the what produce they have left since today our winter temps and precips have arrived. Up in our mtns some folks have ventured into ice fishing already.
We're already making plans for all our gardening experiments next year. We've put in small greenhouse to hopefully extend some of the gardening later into the fall as well as starting some earlier. We had our first frost back in Sept, and since then night temps are hitting in the mid to higher 20s. The lack of snow with these temps has allowed us more time this year to get our yard and gardens built and prepped for early spring planting.
We did have good luck this fall with storing and ripening of all the tomatoes we had to pick green. We still are getting some really nice red ones, only lost a handful that had to be tossed and they seemed to be the ones that may had blemishes on them.
Would really like a copy of the green tomato relish recipe you tried. We have done what my grandma used to make (Tomato Preserves) with her green tomatoes that is pretty tasty as well - posted below.
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