Garden 2024

[Mad Trapper]

I didn’t plant many beets this year. I only canned 2 qts of pickled beets from my first planting. It was a poor harvest. Then I decided to use up all my partial packets of old seeds for a second planting. Today I pulled everything and I might get one qt and one pint of pickled beets. Not much but better than nothing. I need to get off my lazy duff and pull all the carrots and can those too. Looks like a good year for the carrots.

My parents house has a root cellar. A big box or tote with moist sand will keep carrots overwinter. Clip the tops off ~1" from the root. No light or they will try to grow.

[Mad Trapper]

I have 6 ft tall posts now. But I’m going to extend them up another foot or two and string another wire around the top. I also thought about putting a couple of saw horses inside the garden area so they don’t have a clear space to land in. My main garden is only fenced 6 feet high also, but it’s filled with many closely spaced raised beds so there isn’t a flat open space for the deer to land in. That’s the plan anyway.

Even regular wire might work if you try this. Tie ~ 1-1.5' long pieces of flagging tape on it spaced every few feet, it will blow in the wing and deer won't like it.

[Mad Trapper]

That lines up with something I watched recently... that deer wont jump over something unless they can see a 'good' place to land and then get out of. The guy in the vid had waist high raised beds, a few feet out from the fence; a 'small' garden area would accomplish the same thing.

I covered that whole plot up with lumber covers that day. This was the garden the next day, hard frost that night 26 oF, everything lived. Got into the 50s next almost next 2 weeks.

Next hard frost was the night of 11/13th, 22oF picked everything then

[Michael_Js]

I have to be over a thousand strong in my cherry tomato harvest. I'll make sauce & can it later today or tomorrow...


I have my own small sugar pie pumpkin patch!



Cayenne peppers!


Some of the corn is also ready - what the damn bugs/birds haven't destroyed - so probably some picking & freezing this weekend also...

22 cobs of corn processed and frozen!


Then 2 of these mothers! They look like Delicata - they are next to the Delicata and the butternut squash, so maybe a hybrid??

[Michael_Js]

Prepped a new bed for next year's garlic - planting next week: Had to leave that last Napa cabbage though


Good harvest - my peppers are getting huge! Picked more Cayenne peppers and there's a Bell pepper that 1.5 times bigger than the one I'm holding!


Delicata started getting ready - lots of Sugar Pie pumpkins ready Gotta pick & process more corn now:


The "new" garlic bed had potatoes in it before...so, harvested those also:


Also canned more quarts of Roma tomatoes...much more to go!

[Mad Trapper]

Strawberry questions.

I bought a 6-pk of everbearing berries, put them in large ~ 1-galpots. Got some berries still am.

What is best way to overwinter them? I am in zone 4-5.

Thought of just planting the pots in the garden to overwinter?

Fucking voles eat anything with roots

[Slippy]

Strawberry questions.

I bought a 6-pk of everbearing berries, put them in large ~ 1-galpots. Got some berries still am.

What is best way to overwinter them? I am in zone 4-5.

Thought of just planting the pots in the garden to overwinter?

Fucking voles eat anything with roots

Grow in basement with artificial light?

[Mad Trapper]

Grow in basement with artificial light?

No just over winter. No animal damage overwinter.

Fucking voles/mice took out a dozen blueberries in pots. over wintered, in a barn here .

[Mad Trapper]

Low 28oF predicted tonight. Picked a lot of the peppers and covered the rest and the few tomatoes the deer did not get.

Another frost tomorrow then 60s-70 next week. Will see if any survive?

[Innkeeper]

Low 28oF predicted tonight. Picked a lot of the peppers and covered the rest and the few tomatoes the deer did not get.

Another frost tomorrow then 60s-70 next week. Will see if any survive?

The only things I have left to harvest are my potatoes. I tried a small, raised bed garden this year, in cloth bags Beans, tomatoes and Potatoes, everything came out really good, my corn which I planted in the ground by my property line is the only thing that didn't survive the spring. I am getting ready to plant garlic in the bags now and then they will stay in my garage over the winter. It's finished and doesn't get unbearable in the winter.