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Title: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 08, 2017, 10:15:30 am
Thought I'd warm some of you Northern guys up. It's finally going to cool down here tonight.
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 08, 2017, 10:16:08 am
a couple more
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on December 08, 2017, 11:13:18 am
I heard it takes 3 years to grow a pineapple from a guy that lived next to our rental on Little Torch Key last winter. Is that true?
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Post by: BowEd on December 08, 2017, 11:38:49 am
Well up north here we've got ours already canned and froze over here and been eating it for a while already to help keep us warm.We're ready for next year.I do like your broccoli though.Nothing like fresh greens.
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Post by: Hawkdancer on December 08, 2017, 11:39:53 am
That's a nice winter garden!  Fried green tomatoes on the vine with broccoli and dip? >:D lol! And pineapple upside down cake, too! Wow!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 08, 2017, 12:40:20 pm
Chris, I've had them in a year. I fertilize the tops of the plants with liquid fertilizer on a regular basis.
we've had fresh green beans and collard greens for Thanksgiving. My granddaughter would be upset if I started picking the tomatoes when they were green, she eats them like apples. I had to plant 7 different grape and cherry tomatoes just to keep her happy and where I could get some.
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Post by: Stoker on December 08, 2017, 01:11:47 pm
Jealous... Nice looking harvest
Thanks Leroy
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Post by: Pat B on December 08, 2017, 01:31:30 pm
Looks like the makin's of a good healthy meal, Eddie.  :OK
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Post by: Zuma on December 08, 2017, 03:19:23 pm
I heard it takes 3 years to grow a pineapple from a guy that lived next to our rental on Little Torch Key last winter. Is that true?

Yeah maybe last year, may take 10 years after those stoms . Have you talked to anyone down there since?
Zuma
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: Zuma on December 08, 2017, 03:23:03 pm
You are a tease. Makin my mouth water. My greens and all took the hit about two weeks ago.
I got a sunny spot on the deck. I hate the supermarket cardboard. How do you keep the bugs away
Zuma
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 08, 2017, 06:53:43 pm
Don, I pick the caterpillars off and when the aphids come around I spray them with a vege oil mixture.
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Post by: Chippintuff on December 08, 2017, 09:27:33 pm
I had a pretty good winter garden here last winter, but this time I have been too distracted to do much gardening.

WA
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Post by: chamookman on December 09, 2017, 02:00:06 am
Wow - lookin' good Eddie  :OK. Bob
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Post by: Eric Krewson on December 09, 2017, 07:41:29 am
It was in the low 20s this morning here in N Alabama, I have a wonderful greens patch but nothing else.

Kale and collards, lots of kale;

(https://i.imgur.com/7qMvhnW.jpg)
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 09, 2017, 03:49:31 pm
That looks sweet, Eric. I grew Kale last year and the wife didn't like the taste so I didn't plant it this year. Being in the twenties ought to sweeten up those collards.
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Post by: Ryan Jacob on December 10, 2017, 04:35:47 am
Nice harvest! Save some of those pineapple leaves. They make some great soft cordage. They are a bit stronger than yucca but much softer like cotton. My just be my area though.
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Post by: sleek on December 10, 2017, 05:11:34 am
Collards are my favorite greens. Love them with a little hot sauce... add a lamb steak and some cornbread.... mmmmm
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Post by: upstatenybowyer on December 10, 2017, 06:28:43 pm
I'm jealous, but happy for you. Looks yummy  -C-
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Post by: Trapper Rob on December 10, 2017, 08:28:32 pm
You can send some heat up here I'm told it's only to be in the teens on Wed.
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Post by: Pappy on December 11, 2017, 04:19:54 am
That is looking great Eddie, I have been to Eddie's and it is pretty cool, he has almost no grass to cut in his back yard, it is just one big garden. :) Makes me wish for Spring although I do like winter here in Tennessee. :)
 Pappy
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 11, 2017, 09:41:43 am
Trapper, it's cold here for us Florida boys, in the 30's last two nights. Pappy, no grass at all, now and you'd like it better now. Had a new privacy fence put up last weekend.
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: Bone pile on December 18, 2017, 06:30:53 am
Yours did better than mine so far . I have to wait till it cools down to keep the iguanas off stuff . good looking veggies .
Roger
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Post by: Outbackbob48 on December 18, 2017, 07:51:56 am
Eddie and Rodger, not the slightest bit jealous of your crops. I put in a few snowflakes in  to grow  in December and they have grown in to my best crop ever and only took 2 weeks. 36 " in 2 weeks and no grass to mow :o :o (S) Bob
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Post by: Chippintuff on December 18, 2017, 09:44:08 am
The worst insect problem I have is stink bugs and leaf footed stink bugs. How do you gardeners control them?

WA
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Post by: Outbackbob48 on December 18, 2017, 10:14:27 am
Freeze,em, sorry couldn't help myself. (S) (S)
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Post by: sleek on December 18, 2017, 10:18:37 am
The worst insect problem I have is stink bugs and leaf footed stink bugs. How do you gardeners control them?

WA

Buy some mantis
Title: Re: Harvest Time
Post by: mullet on December 18, 2017, 04:02:33 pm
I squish the big ones and spray the little ones. Roger, Iguanas taste good. I started making sling shots and pouring .32 lead balls to shoot out of them.