Why I am not pulling UP my peas! Garden cleanup! CC
Cleaning up Much of our summer garden and harvesting quite a bit. Also cleaning up a raised bed and explaining why you don’t want to pull up your plants but instead leave them in the ground.
I pulled out my purple hills before I’d heard not to do so, but I’m cutting everything else off at ground level from this point forward. I’m about 3 hours N of you and we’ve dipped down to low 30’s but have not had a hard freeze—it may happen this weekend but I’m hopeful it will hold off. I cut my okra down yesterday—will those stems that look like small tree trunks decompose by spring? This not pulling this out is new territory for me.
Your talking about winter squash was enough to light a fire under me. I am finally processing my cushaw's. It took about 15 minutes to cut up three, and get in the oven. I have never tasted it, but I grew it because some say it tastes better than pumpkin. I figured I had a better chance of them making it than pumpkin in our heat. I did get one teeny tiny pumpkin though. Tis the season for pumpkins. This is the first fall in years I haven't gone to the QT to get my pumpkin spice coffee drink. I haven't even used my own pumpkin syrup. I'll have to get to that, because it's finally feeling like fall around here. I've already had a few days wasted due to horrible sinus headaches.
I cut my tomatoes at the dirt when I took them out early in the summer as well as a good bit of my peppers. I planted my brassica's in those spots and all that was left was about three inches of stem. I just cut off my okra too. I'm hoping that it helps the soil this winter. Those are a bit different, they're like small trees. I still fit 18 into a 8X4 raised bed and I got more okra than I could keep up with. Enjoy working with your harvests today! God bless you!
Those are some nice looking peppers! Left my purple hull pea roots in the ground too. Then planted a cover crop on top. All I have is fall/winter plants in the ground now, carrots, collards, kale, cabbage, broccoli and spinach.
I have a very small plot.I will use maybe half for my plot for garlic.The other half i will cover with cardboard so its not naked. Lol I'm growing my cabbage ,mustard greens,beets Swiss chard in bins( got the bins on bricks).I sat my collard green bin directly on the gtound.And when I looked to see why they weren't growing TWO fat slugs were feasting away.Yuck !
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Good morning glory!
Canning the roasts that I got at Brookshire.
I pulled out my purple hills before I’d heard not to do so, but I’m cutting everything else off at ground level from this point forward. I’m about 3 hours N of you and we’ve dipped down to low 30’s but have not had a hard freeze—it may happen this weekend but I’m hopeful it will hold off. I cut my okra down yesterday—will those stems that look like small tree trunks decompose by spring? This not pulling this out is new territory for me.
Can you ship the hot peppers you mentioned selling?
Your talking about winter squash was enough to light a fire under me. I am finally processing my cushaw's. It took about 15 minutes to cut up three, and get in the oven. I have never tasted it, but I grew it because some say it tastes better than pumpkin. I figured I had a better chance of them making it than pumpkin in our heat. I did get one teeny tiny pumpkin though. Tis the season for pumpkins. This is the first fall in years I haven't gone to the QT to get my pumpkin spice coffee drink. I haven't even used my own pumpkin syrup. I'll have to get to that, because it's finally feeling like fall around here. I've already had a few days wasted due to horrible sinus headaches.
I cut my tomatoes at the dirt when I took them out early in the summer as well as a good bit of my peppers. I planted my brassica's in those spots and all that was left was about three inches of stem. I just cut off my okra too. I'm hoping that it helps the soil this winter. Those are a bit different, they're like small trees. I still fit 18 into a 8X4 raised bed and I got more okra than I could keep up with. Enjoy working with your harvests today! God bless you!
❤Where do u get truck load of compost from? ❤
Those are some nice looking peppers! Left my purple hull pea roots in the ground too. Then planted a cover crop on top. All I have is fall/winter plants in the ground now, carrots, collards, kale, cabbage, broccoli and spinach.
maybe try a cover crop in your raised bed. like buckwheat or something like that.
I have a very small plot.I will use maybe half for my plot for garlic.The other half i will cover with cardboard so its not naked. Lol I'm growing my cabbage ,mustard greens,beets Swiss chard in bins( got the bins on bricks).I sat my collard green bin directly on the gtound.And when I looked to see why they weren't growing TWO fat slugs were feasting away.Yuck !
Save those radish greens! They are more nutritious then the radish! I made a radish soup and it was delish! Who would of ever thought 😲