Today's Pickings

[Logan]

Picked the first lot of blackberries from the garden, they're a thornless variety.

Chillies from the conservatory

 

[DirtMechanic]

Picked the first lot of blackberries from the garden, they're a thornless variety.
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Chillies from the conservatory
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Ok that is AMAZING! My blackberries were gone so long ago I cannot remember what they looked like and BAM those peppers are pretty!

 

[Logan]

Ok that is AMAZING! My blackberries were gone so long ago I cannot remember what they looked like and BAM those peppers are pretty!

Thank you, September we start to pick the blackberries but this variety is a bit earlier.

 

[Logan]

Picked a lot more chillies.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Picked a lot more chillies.
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Good looking pick! Our plants have languished in humidity. They just can't breathe when its so wet. I need a roof, raised beds. Then I can panel the walls,,,,

 

[Logan]

Good looking pick! Our plants have languished in humidity. They just can't breathe when its so wet. I need a roof, raised beds. Then I can panel the walls,,,,

Thank you, I have to grow them in the conservatory.

 

[Logan]

Picked some more blackberries.

 

[digsdirt]

Had so many, one plant was starting to fall over.

 

[Logan]

Cherry tomatoes

 

[DirtMechanic]

Cherry tomatoes
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Those are picture perfect!

 

[Logan]

Those are picture perfect!

Thank you DirtMechanic love to snack on them.

 

[Tess]

I made a pumpkin pie from a homegrown pumpkin! Here is a small piece of it!

 

[Tess]

I gathered some Siberian Miners Lettuce from my yard and made marinated chicken tacos with homemade tortillas and the Miners Lettuce went on top!

 

[Logan]

That looks yummy Tess

 

[Meadowlark]

Today's pickings included broc, cabbage, radishes red and white, and the first turnips of the fall.

Turnips seem to be an underappreciated crop in my part of the World, but I love them.

I just peel, slice and chill. Make a great snack.

 

[Meadowlark]

First freeze predicted tomorrow...so today was a good time to harvest.

The sugar snap peas probably were the most vulnerable, but I just kept going thinning out several other plants. Cauliflower, broc., cabbage, radishes, turnips, and thinning out the carrot row.

Even found a lonely volunteer cherry tomato as a bonus.

 

[DirtMechanic]

First freeze predicted tomorrow...so today was a good time to harvest.

The sugar snap peas probably were the most vulnerable, but I just kept going thinning out several other plants. Cauliflower, broc., cabbage, radishes, turnips, and thinning out the carrot row.

Even found a lonely volunteer cherry tomato as a bonus.

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That is a very photogenic pile of veggies! When in east Texas do you set those crops? I assume they are outside?

 

[Meadowlark]

That is a very photogenic pile of veggies! When in east Texas do you set those crops? I assume they are outside?

"Set" crops? Is that an Alabama expression? Thanks for the comment.

Carrots I start from seed in the ground when temps start to moderate in Oct. They then provide continuous supply from about Dec. as shown above to March as shown below. They, like the Long Island improved Brussels sprouts grow all fall/winter here and need to come out before temps start getting above 75 deg.

 

[DirtMechanic]

"Set" crops? Is that an Alabama expression? Thanks for the comment.

Carrots I start from seed in the ground when temps start to moderate in Oct. They then provide continuous supply from about Dec. as shown above to March as shown below. They, like the Long Island improved Brussels sprouts grow all fall/winter here and need to come out before temps start getting above 75 deg.

Southern slow mouth rules require me to leave out verbose or woody phrases. When do you set them out-sow-transplant etc.? Sorry to "sow" confusion with my lazy ways!

 

[Meadowlark]

Here's my fall garden:

2021 Fall Garden

Row 1 9/11	Row 2 9/12	Row 3 9/13	Row 4 10/2	Row 5 Feb.14	Row 6 Nov. 20
Bonnies best cabbage(6)	Dwarf white snow pea	Cabbage stonehead	leeks	20 pounds red potatoes	200 yellow 1015 onions and 100 red 1015 onions
Bonnies best cabbage(6)	Snap pea sugar	Chinese cabbage	brussels
Broc green magic(6)	Snap pea sugar sprint	Brussels long island improved	cabbage
Broc green magic(6)	tunips	Beet red ace	bruc
Cauliflower(6)	carrots	Detroit dark red beet	cauli
Swiss chard carrots 10/1		Spinach bloomsdale	kale
White radish		turnips	carrots

Daikon Radish (20 ft)

White Radish (15 ft)

Cherry Red Radish (15ft)

Mikhnevskaya Red Cabbage (6)

Green Cabbage ( 17)

Stonehead Cabbage (9)

Chinese Cabbage (20 ft)

Bok Choy (12)

Curly Kale (5)

Green Magic Broccoli ( 28)

Romanesco Broccoli (12)

Snowball Cauliflower (12)

Swiss Chard (5)

Long Island Improved Brussels sprouts (6)

Jade Cross Brussels sprouts (6)

Detroit Dark Red Beets (10 ft)

Red Ace Beets (10 ft)

Bloomsdale Spinach (15 ft)

Dwarf Sweet Peas (15 ft)

Purple Top Turnips (80 ft)

Danvers Half Long Carrots (15ft)

American Flag Leeks (10 ft)



All veggies stagger planted to mature continuously through winter and early spring.