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| Well we picked, cooked, and ate our first fall harvest of collards and turnips last night. Broccoli heads are starting to form now too and we also cooked up the first Chinese cabbage 2 nite ago, very tasty. Carrots are getting bushy on top and the kohrabi is starting to buldge up a bit.
Also, it's finally raining here nicely now after a 7-8 week drought. Looks like 2-3" in the forecast so that'll catch things up and I can retire the garden hose for a while.
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| I'm getting peppers and chiles (many of them turning red), lettuce, spinach, snap peas, carrots, and still an occasional zuchinni and eggplant. And way too many fall raspberries, I have given up keeping up on the picking. We have had a fabulous fall so far. Summer-like temps the last two weeks, only a few cold nights back in Sept. but no frost yet. Now it's raining like mad, supposed to rain til Monday. |
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| Picking broccoli now and one cauliflower so far....good quality. Late tomatoes still going. I chopped and plowed under the early garden. Apples doing well....have Golden and Red Delicious and lots of Jonathans. Watermelons still ripening. I have 2 late set Tiger Babies about ready.........transplanted April 9th. The first fruit was in July. Butternut and acorn squash are harvested...eating pumpkin pie. Those Really Big butternuts are really nice AND big. Some nasturums I planted in my watermelon patch have gotten about 6 feet or so in diameter! |
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- Posted by cochiseaz8 az 8 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 05 at 21:22
| I just pulled the tomatoes to make way for the collards, beets, sweet onion, lettuces and stout greens. The summer heat did those beautiful tomatoes in!! They went sterile after a month of 100+ degrees, not the harvest of last year, but better in taste,,, delectible. Garlic goes in on monday. Broccoli and colliflower as well. fennel and basil throught,,, the wild horse radish from minnesota was divided into five root stocks and contained. ,, look good so far... I sure hope the old man bags an elk this year. darlene |
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| We harvested and froze our first big batch of broccoli over the weekend and the collards & turnips are coming in steady. The Chinese cabbages were quick to mature and have been consumed whist the regular round heads and savoys are shaping up nicely now. Carrots and kohlrabi are still growing well with first harvests expected by mid-Nov. A nice rain from the effects of Wilma is giving us ~1.5" to give things a boost. Feeling like fall now, leaves starting to turn but no killing frost as of yet so the summer flowers are still in bloom. Have pansies waiting in the wings to replace the vinca - won't be long now.... |
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