The method to enjoy our sometimes frustrating hobby and obsession

@resonanteye

The weather has been challenging. Hang in there and use every trick you know. If i may make a suggestion since greens are doing well for you plant lots more greens now so that later you can cover with plastic. During winter if greens are covered in a thin sheet of plastic it will protect them from freezes. We grow turnips as root crops that way as well. Dont love turnips myself but they keep us alive because they are so productive . Things like lettuce, spinach, mustard you can keep alive late in the winter for fresh food. You can have greens until december or January in my area. Certain winters our winter greens never die. If you really want to cheat winter plant winter wheat next month and drink wheat grass juice until time to plant next year. You already proved yourself by not giving up. The difference between our family and other people frequently comes down to our knowledge to survive. We share our knowledge and what we have with others and we all get by together. My sister had plenty of peaches this year so she made a big dinner with peach cobbler and had everyone over. In my family the family sticks together and we do well together. My sisters kids came over last year and picked hundreds of pounds of pears. Insects , animal pressure, weather have all been difficult this year for raising food. My neighbors will kill coyotes soon their numbers are way up. They want to keep them off their cattle and animals. Absolutely understand and would do the same in their shoes but cautioned them against killing them all as they are rodent control. Coyotes are necessary to the system. No one else mentioned coyote balance to chicken and cattle farmers. My orchards are still heavy with fruit even on a bad year. I’m helping them learn to graft and to survive here. Think in terms of years like this never come singular they come in multiples. This is the new normal we need to adjust the rule book has changed. If you expect every year from now on to be like this one you adjust. Insects die in the winter and you have a pest free big harvest. The year is not over when other people take off their garden boots in the fall and burn off their garden. Those people spend their time at the diner drinking coffee between cattle feedings complaining about how tough the summer was. Meanwhile we will harvest turnips and greens in large quantities. Wishing you much success in your garden and for fall crops

People like @fruitnut does some of his best work in the greenhouse and a greenhouse works well for him!

Whatever crop your growing now you can add a couple of weeks to a month to like those blooming tomatoes with some clothes line wire and plastic you dont put on until the weather gets cold. See this link https://proudhomedecor.com/top-10-cold-frame-tips-for-fall-and-winter-veggies-gardening/ it summarizes much of what i mentioned thats posted throughout the growingfruit site in more detail. Here is a cattle panel greenhouse like i use Cattle Panel Hoophouse Greenhouse

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