Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on September 13, 2011, 09:15:54 pm
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I've harvested everything I planted earlier except the Collards, so I thought I'd plant some more. Planted some Pole beans, winter squash, pumpkins, and cucumbers. Also the tropicals are getting fruit.
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Here's the Tropicals ;D Oranges, lemons, papaya, and pineapple.
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And the Salsa garden;
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Nice
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wow, what kind of plant grows bows like that ;D
noel
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The Weeping Willow ;D.
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You're killing me Eddie. We are already down in the 30s and my eggplants never really took off. Tomatoes did good and I never could get them to grow down south. Was that the bow Ryan made?
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Looks like you got it going on Eddie. Its so dry up here it would never sprout and the cost of city water would put me in the poor house.Ronnie
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Yep!, that's the heart breaker Ryan made :( :'(. Ronnie, When the water get's too expensive, I'll fix that. Remember, I'm a Well Drilling Contractor? ;)
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Yes Sir,
That's some good looking produce!!!
My Tumbleweed garden is in full swing here in Houston.
Hopefully a tropical storm or maybe Winter will save us from the wild fires.
I know it's crazy, even though we live in town, we've got a wild fire less than ten miles from the house tonight...
Confounded El Nino!!!
-gus
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Ronnie, When the water get's too expensive, I'll fix that. Remember, I'm a Well Drilling Contractor? ;)
Yeah I would but this little broke ass rat hole town conveniently made it illegal to drill you're own well. Ron
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We have State Water Agency's that handle permits. Little towns can't make their own rules. But County Health Depts can, and some are a pain in the you know what.
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Eddie, do you eat those little habanero fire breathers or just cook with them? They make great salsa but I burned my hands the first time I cut them and thought I'd die. At least I didn't rub my eyes. Rubber gloves for me now. Love the bow stake...weeping willow. ;D
George
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Our garden is on the downside but we have planted spinach, lettace, kale and Swiss chard. The spinach will last all winter and bolt in early spring. The lettace will be over after Christmas and the kale and chard should overwinter ok.
I'd like to have a sack of those tropicals, Eddie. ;) How's the FLA citrus crop gonna be this fall?
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George, I like to cook with them. Once in a while I'll slice and put some on a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich.Pat, Florida has a bumper crop of citrus this year. The growers are already whinning, a lot of oranges bring down the price.
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Good looking garden,a little late for that up here. :)
Pappy
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A little early and way too dry for it down here. 105 yesterday for the high and 101 today they say. We broke the Dallas record for most 100 degree high days in a summer yesterday (70). This morning I saw wet drops on my car windshield. I seem to remember that happening before in the distant past... We could use 2 weeks of that stuff. Funny how the climate is so varied. My brother in Montana has already had snow. Here's what my "garden" looks like:
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6066/6081525376_94e8b979c3.jpg)
Yous looks a heck of a lot better Eddie.
George
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The weather wizards called for frost last night.Looks like the only thing to go now is snow peas >:D
Thanks Leroy
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Stoker, Well if it's getting cold in Alberta I'll be heading your way. They always send me up there to work once it is colder than this Florida boy is used too. :'(
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I've been picking habenaro for the past few weeks.... I cut them up so they dry then grind them. Great in chili and for hot wings.
Going to be close to first frost here tonight too!!
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Just got back in town ,will be alittle late with the garden this year.All I have left from spring is some hot peppers.Have a bumper crop of Starfruit and will be making carambola/muskadine wine again this year.My peanut butter fruit is doing good this year .
Roger
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Mullet you must be drilling in the top half of the province on that frozen muskeg.That'll be a few months befor that's ready.If your in the SE corner let me know I'll take you out icefishing for pike.
Thanks Leroy
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Stoker;
I'm up in Redwater, north of Edmonton. I've never been ice fishing. Some guys in Edmonton were going to take me last year but I had to fly out the next day.
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Ice fishing is one of the few things I miss after moving to Texas. I hope you get to go Eddie.
George
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Roger, that carambola/ muskadine wine gets two Thumbs up from me. ;D After I brought it home Kathie tasted it and said it was her's.
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Redwater you are about in the middle of the best whitetail territory in the province.
Your pineapple and papaya have my drooling with envy 8)
Thanks Leroy
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Leroy;
The guys I work with have invited me up numerous times to hunt those Monster whitetails and moose. When the company is not paying for that plane ticket and expenses I can't afford it. I'm getting ready to work for Agrium when it gets cold up in Idaho. I will take my rifle then. eddie
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Ok, where is the Okra? 8) What part of Idaho? Try for a Moose license too! ;) Dang, now I want to try that wine....... ;) ;)
Wayne
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I've got the seeds, just don't like okra, except pickled. ;D
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I picked tomatoes here in Wyoming on Thursday-just got back from 9 days in elk camp. Gave some to some of the older ladies who can't garden-they thought the tomats just came out of the fridge. Ah, no temp was 38 degrees. We don't always get tomatoes to ripen by frost here. This year summer came late and I didn't
think I was going to get any. But I like gardening because it always teaches you that you are not so smart or in control. I am using raised beds for much of my planting-like Timo showed pictures of earlier in the year. Soil warms quicker for us and makes some things possible that are not normally possible without a green house.
Ah, Citrus, we hope for a bumper crop in Mullets area so we can buy them cheap! See, everything works out!
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Kpete; I framed this garden in with pressured treated 2x4's. In the summer I cover it with shade cloth and in a bad winter I enclose it with clear plastic and put a series of lights inside to raise the temperature. It didn't do any good two years ago when we had two weeks of temperatures in the teen's or low thirties.
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Mullet nice garden!! those pics explain why the conquistadors named your state Florida which means in bloom.
We have had the same weather George talked about. Last months water bill was $260 just trying to keep our trees from dying.
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Mullet,
I used planking and boxes to turn a "worthless" slope into a veg garden. Soil was poor enough that lawn would not grow there. After a few years of mulch, manure, compost, the soil is pretty good. I started the boxes as carrot boxes with 2 parts soil, 2 parts sand, 1 part peat moss, and some composted manure. IT is amazing what will grow this way. We always struggle with frost dates. As late as June and as early as late August. Rasberries and turnips grow well. Leaf lettuce and cabbage. Some years brussel sproats. Tomatoes are always iffy, peppers struggle. Rarely winter squash and melons, both of which are my favorites of course.
Keep diggin'
Kirk
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I couldn't believe you were growing pinapple! Is that from a seed, wonder how it would do in so cal?
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I alwasy thought the bottom of a pineapple was sitting on the ground with the roots comming out and holding it in place. LOL
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Steve;
The pineapple is an air plant. I started all my plants by buying a pineapple in the store or the Farmers Market. You cut the top off and either throw it on the ground or bury the meat portion shallow. Just water it for a few days to get it established and it's maintenance free. If the leaves get a little yellow I just pour some Miracle Grow on the tops. These are growing in full sun and in crappy sand.
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Badger, Florida, used to be a major pinapple producing state, till a really bad winter hit. They should grow well out in So Cal. Just buy a pinapple, and cut the top off, and stick it in the ground about an inch and a half or so. Keep it watered.
There are seeds, but few and far between. They are in the little hole sections on the peel. I have some, but have not planted them yet. Got enough pinapple plants around here as it is. The darn squirrels eat them, but the population is dwindling. My cat, is a phenomenal hunter! Unfortunately, that includes birds! He got another squirrel, and a mocking bird. They aren't nesting, now, so he must get them while they roost. Anywhoo, go get you some pinapples, and cut the top off, and grow your own. It will take a year or two to get fruit. You should be able to buy the plant at "Home Depot, or Lowe's", or just about any nursery even some with the fruit started, or ready. ;)
Wayne
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Very cool eddie.
Looks like some nice soil for FL. Wish I could grow some of those tropicals.
Time to get in my winter garden also. Not sure what I will start. Lettuce, broccoli, spinach for sure. Probably a few other things like garlic and some root veggies.
I still have tomatoes coming on and I planted a couple more tomatoes in Aug so I should have them right up til the first hard frost in late Oct or nov.
My sweet potatoes are like balloons sticking out of the side of their hills now. about time to haul some of them in.
I read an interesting thing on curing sw potatoes recently. you have to cure them for approx 5 days after picking in approx 80 deg F temp. then they will last all winter. Guess it allows the outer skin to set and really improves the taste.
Wish I could make chris's this weekend but its not gonna happen. you all have fun and kill something big.
later
wade