How does your Garden grow?

Andre

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Monique

You're reading my mind, because that was on it I remember seeing it in a botanical garden once, but had forgotten its name. I find it a really clever plant, it's on my list now.

I'm not sure about the insect-eating plants, I feel it's creepy if it would be eating my spiders.. although mosquitos or craneflies would be welcome prey.

turbo

Sundews are wonderful plants. They attract bugs with their juicy-looking leaves, trap them and eat them. Look for them in poor soils and atop wood.

Evo

We're due for a hard freeze. After a summer of no produce, my plants are full of babies. Figures.

Here is the ghost pepper I grew from a seed Rhody gave me summer before last. The plant is gorgeous. I had cut it way back because last year it had started to grow weird stunted leaves. Now it even has baby ghosts. I dedicate this plant to Borek and Marzena.

The next is a Giant marconi pepper bush. Those peppers are babies, can't imagine how big they'll get, given the chance.

The last is my bell pepper bush.

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Astronuc

We're not near freezing yet, but the temperature was 40 F this morning. The blueberry bushes and maple tree are changing colour from green to red.

I'll have to pick the remaining peppers soon.

turbo

We have brought in almost all the peppers, and my grand-niece and grand-nephew are here picking pumpkins. She is 3 and he is 2. The back of the 4x4 is filled with pumpkins.

It's about time to bring in the butternut squash, too. Kale and broccoli are doing well, though the cucumbers are on their last hurrah.

NeoDevin

Pumpkin pie anyone?

Evo

Nice pumpkin!!!

Astronuc

Gardening season is over in our area. We had a hard freeze last night, and my pepper plants have come to their end.

turbo

Still gardening here. Today, my wife and I planted 3 wide beds of garlic. 35' long each. We planted 2 beds of really fat German garlic and another of Russian garlic. These are hard-neck varieties and they keep really well. Tomorrow, Duke and I will trundle down there with oat-straw, so I can mulch those beds. This is Duke's ATV, and it has a nice cargo bed. When I cart the straw down to the garden, he will happily sit on "his" seat until I coax him to join me. He doesn't like getting off his buggy.

dlgoff

Same here; sort of. Here's my strawberry bed yesterday before the hard freeze last night.



I felt sorry for the little crowns.



So I clipped them off to save them.



Now what?

Evo

Nice strawberry bed!!!

Here are hints for wintering over both ground and container strawberries.

http://strawberryplants.org/2011/11/...-strawberries/

turbo

My neighbor had his daughter splitting garlic bulbs for planting, and she filled a 5 gallon pail with cloves. Unfortunately, she worked inside where it was warm, and when he wanted to plant the cloves today, almost all of them had sprouted. Not good.

I haven't mulched my garlic yet because I want to get some seriously cold weather to chill the soil. I'll mulch after a few ~20 deg nights. Snow might be even better. Garlic needs to be kept cold and dark to prevent sprouting. I'll have to check my stocks. I have more Russian red than I need, and that propagates very quickly, since each bulb can contain 8-10 cloves. In contrast, many of the German white bulbs only have 4 (or even 3) large cloves.

All that sprouting will set him back probably 2-3 years. I might be able to save a season for him with my spare Russian garlic.

dlgoff

Thanks for the link. That's exactly what I needed. In the first picture you can see I have straw waiting to overwinter the bed but I have never tried to keep potted crowns over the winter.

turbo

Good luck with that, dlg. Some plants keep well if you have heat and light, though I have not had great luck with that. Our last house was dark and cold, and this one is no better.

trueo

How can that squash be too big ? Seems like the bigger the less tastier it becomes. In my area, the biggest one's diameter is only around 15-17cm, this is sort of long enough.

jim mcnamara

We froze - -7C last night. Al that is left is some sad thyme, droopy sage and ratty spearmint. They persist on into December usually.