2022 gardens

[Dotch]

Dotch, nice radish for sure.  I had cut the tops (bigger than most corn stalks) off the cannas a week ago. Today I dug the bulbs and will have to get them inside before tonight's freeze. Sheech it's hard to get any serious hunting in lately.

I used the good ol' bean hook to cut the stalks on our cannas. I was just thinking about that too deadeye while I was soil sampling this afternoon. Would've been a nice day to be hunting in the woods out of the wind. Now I'm kinda hungry for some fried or grilled squirrel. Would taste pretty good for supper. Could shoot the nice young fox squirrels I've been feeding in the backyard I suppose... And yup Ken, that's a watermelon or red meat radish. 

[KEN W]

Mine have never gotten that big.

[Cooperman]

Got the site prepped for the new 2023 garden. Next come the fencing hopefully this fall or spring.

[glenn57]

  aint gonna be big enough!!!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

Had a good laugh yesterday. Dropped off some winter radishes at a customer's place. Didn't find him around so put them in his squeeze's pickup. Called him to let him know they were there then asked how his apples turned out. I've been pruning them for him since he 1st got them. Good he said but you never told me I had a pear tree. Huh?!?!? Said his SO was out walking around the yard last month and found a bunch of pears she thought some pranksters had tossed out under the tree. When she confronted the potential suspects, they all denied it. She went back out, looked up in the tree and sure enough, pears! When I'm pruning their trees, there are never any leaves or flowers on them. There is one tho that's displayed a more upright growth habit and is taller. Sure enough, that's the pear tree.

[KEN W]

Rainbow Salsa......Red Tomatoes, Yellow Tomatoes, Green Tomatoes, Red and Green Peppers, Onions. All from my garden......last of the Tomatoes and Bell Peppers.

[Dotch]

Looks awesome Ken! Wife made one of the last batches of stuffed peppers last nite. I was starving.

[KEN W]

LONG time till next August. Store bought after this.

[Dotch]

Longer than I'd like for sure. Just wish it would rain enough so I could tear up the new patch for next spring.

Put the mulching blades & attachment on the zero turn yesterday afternoon to grind up leaves. Hadn't used it with the kit on it before but was impressed. It pretty much vaporized everything including the oak leaves. Even tho there are still a few leaves on the trees, figured I'd grind up the mat that had developed in areas of the lawn before it rains. Will be easier to run those remaining leaves thru now. Really appreciate the hackberry trees. Leaves lay flat and when you go over them, you have no idea they were ever there. Was a dusty dirty job but no one else was going to do it. 

[KEN W]

Ground is really hard here. Will have to wait until next spring to till my main garden. I was able to turn over my wife's flower beds by hand using a spading fork.

[Dotch]

Haven't seen a stretch like this since 2012. We can't soil sample hay fields. Can't get the probe in the ground. Even if we could, the potassium tests would likely be worthless, just like they were in 2012.

[glenn57]

pretty dry in this neck of the woods too!!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

Doing some indoor gardening, sort of, since the wife has been on IR. People have brought plants, flowers, etc.,, God bless them, and guess who gets to take care of them? Someone gave her a gift bag the other day. The lady had told me I'd have to help the Mrs. with it. It was a couple amaryllis bulbs sans the usual planting kit so guess who had to round up all the stuff for that? This is a lot like the outdoor gardening thing. She gets it then I take care of it. Not liking where this is going...🤨

[mike89]

you're a good man Charlie Brown!!   

[deadeye]

I doubt they will be blooming on Christmas. 

[LPS]

 

[roony]

You always get all the amaryllis bulbs.

[Dotch]

I did on Tuesday that's for sure. Be lucky if they bloom by Valentine's Day.