Mid 40Fs this evening here…has the smell of fall in the air. Tomorrow i’ll try to get some fall color shots. Haven’t turned on the furnace yet but this weekend it will be running.
I bought 20lbs of Honeycrisp across the river in LaCrescent (many orchards located on top of the bluffs around here) …$20 for 20lbs of #2 grade (they looked perfect to me)…i had a Honeycrisp the size of a softball in there…i’ve never seen one that big… I ate it. My son and I are knocking out 5 to 10 apples a day…going to need to go reload soon Also bought Zestar but didn’t like them as much. Still trying to figure out where to find (if possible) the new Pazazz apple.
I’ll have a bunch of banana peppers to harvest before tonight freeze. Meanwhile, I caught two Queen- Of-The-Night blossoms in the morning hour before going to work!
Thanks to TonyOmaha for earlier advise of putting the plant in shade!
Thanks Mamuang but I don’t deserve credit for in-door stuff! I just go blind until I got frustrated then I seek help!
My area was dipped to 30 last night and suppose to be 32 tonight. Below is the only squash that I have (by dumb lucks) this year. It’s a winter melon but I don’t think it’s mature enough for winter storage. Still too bright green…
Nice looking melon. Don’t worry about the storage as it’s only one, you will eat it in no time. My climate is not hot enough to get great yield of winter melon and it needs lots of space to grow. Last year, I grew two plants but none of them produce any edible melon for me. Maybe try it again next year.
62 degrees in Newport, RI. today. Tomorrow will be about the same. Perfect Indian Summer. It will be a good day to start cleaning out the veg. beds and laying down landscape cloth to prevent weeds. It is getting chilly at night. Blackberries still growning and turning black…
Beautiful day yesterday. Rototilled a spot for garlic and planted several varieties, mostly Music. Bulbs from Territorial Seeds were very nice, large. Ones from Burpee, not so much.
I grow both hardneck and soft, the soft are going to be smaller. Are smaller. The bulbs though last a lot longer and make cool braids. So I consume all hardneck first and leave the softneck for later in the year. I planted three varieties last week, 2 hardnecks. One from a farmer in Wisconsin growing his own strain of hardneck for the ;last 20 years. Man the bulbs were the huge! And they had cloves to match! He said they have good shelve life too for a hardneck.The other two varieties I got from Filaree Garlic Farm.
Those look like the Music cloves I was planting, really nice. I’m a novice at garlic, I admit, but soft and deep brown are not traits for a healthy planting.
Nope but Burpee will refund or send you more. I would never pay for crap, I never asked Burpee for replacements, all was good, but I have many other nurseries and all were good about making it right.
Music is a Porcelain garlic, Mine are probably Rocamboles.
The bulbs look like this. The bottom dirty ones from my garden are for sure Rocamboles.(KILLARNEY RED). The top cleaner ones are the Wisconsin bulbs.
Music is a good choice, they should be awesome! I don’t ever plan on buying more unless I have a bad year. I cannot replace the Wisconsin strain though. The guy sent me 10 bulbs! I only used a few for seed, the rest i ate, extremely nice garlic too.I consume a lot of garlic! I did give some to other growers and to friends too. I’m growing a bunch for next year. Demand was high for these garlic’s among my friends.
I know the descriptions describe the differences, although my palate cannot tell much difference. I do know these are very strong, so that works for me.
I let garlic (i grow quite a bit) go to seed…bad idea…about a million tiny bulbs sprouted and are growing everywhere… I guess if you wanted a lot of seed…you could grow them out a few years and get progressively bigger bulbs. I grow the hardy purple-ish bulbs. I bought some maybe 5 years ago and haven’t bought any since. Easiest thing i’ve ever grown.
It’s nice to have something easy some years! I also like having fresh garlic. Even though i can get good garlic, nice large cloves at the Italian market, nothing beats the stuff out of my yard!
I covered my garlic today with 6" of straw, just before our first snow, 4-7". Can’t see lights out the back that are a 1/4 mile away. Highs yesterday in the low 50’s, lows tomorrow single digits with 25mph NW winds. Next week we’re in the 50’s again. I don’t know how you grow all those different fruits in Omaha, Tony.
The snow came around 4pm today in Omaha. So far around 2-3 inches that is all. I am looking forward to Tuesday when the temperature warms up again. I need to arrange the shelter to bring in the 20 potted Asian persimmon trees and cut back the figs to a foot or so and cover them with 2 feet of Bark mulch for Winter protection.
This was the first year I’ve covered small trees with shredded tree and leaf mulch to protect the graft and rootstock. I haven’t seen a peach or cherry bloom in 4 yrs and at least 10 yrs on apricots so its a wonder how others in z5a and north grow these. I do admit that I grow on a windy NW facing slope and that may have a negative affect, still frustrated.
Maybe try the Romance series of tart cherries? Rated to zone 2b.These are sweeter than other tart cherries. Juliet is the sweetest. Sold at Honeyberries USA.
These still are not sweet cherries, the longer you leave on the tree, the sweeter they become. Great for cooking, syrup, jam, cherry butter, etc.
Also bought Zestar but didn’t like them as much. Still trying to figure out where to find (if possible) the new Pazazz apple.
