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It is quite a blustery day out there.
Much too cold to take time to record the morning ground temp.
I didn't take the camera with me, and wasn't going to make two trips out in that cold.
It was all I could do to get the rest of the morning chores done.
But it appears that pulling the onions last night was a good idea.
The temp was below 30, and the thermometer was covered in ice.
Last week was pretty nice, though.
I did some prep work for next year's garden attempt.
I'm calling the eggplant attempt a failure.
I wasn't too enamored with the taste of them, anyway.
I'm not even sure I got mature seeds.
The okra overperformed again this year.
I have far more than I will eat between now and the next harvest.
IF I am still in the place next spring, I'm sure next year's garden will look much better than this year's.
I'll have to start the peppers indoors.
Getting only one was both disheartening and encouraging.
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My peppers and eggplants were a disappointment this year and last too. But so has my okra been a complete bust, and for five years running! I soooo want to pickle okra, but I never manage to get more than a dozen or so fruits over the whole season. I'm jealous! What variety is that, and what do you do for it? Mulch, compost, pH? I am about to give up on the stuff.
I will start my peppers indoors several weeks earlier next year, eggplant too. I think if I'd had another month, I would have had plenty of them.
The variety of okra is clemson spineless.
The dirt is mostly local, I'm east of Clovis, NM, mixed with some feedlot scrapings, tree branches, chicken coop hay, topped with ~2" of miracle grow potting soil.
It's pretty loose, I can poke my entire finger into it easily, and I flooded them each day with a minimum of 1/2" of water.
If you get them to go, let some seed pods develop early.
Once I had more than enough for me to eat I thought I would let the rest go to seed, but I don't think they made it.
When the seeds are ready to pick they look like
the one in the pic above.Oops, other post,...
Mine were curling up like that before they even got longer than two inches, and were blackish inside. Maybe I just don't have a long or hot enough season here in upstate NY.
I was wondering which zone you were in.
Okra is from afrika, it definitely doesn't like the cold.
We are pretty high here on the llano estacado and I noticed once the nights started getting to the low 40's the leaves started to show signs of stress.
I really want to grow okra. Maybe I'll try a hardier variety. I'm zone 4B, in the warmer years haha.
Gardening reveals that ever place is different. I am amazed at how little deer proofing you have, and my own attempts at tomatoes and peppers have convinced me to grow turnips and potatoes instead. I suppose starting them in cloches or indoors would probably suffice, but turnips and potatoes were very easy to grow, and I am happy with what I have managed.
I am sure you will get more peppers next year, having learned from this year.
Thanks!
There aren't many deer here, too big a targets.
There is very little to hide in here other than gulches.
Not alot of water, no trees, and lots of feedlots to muddy up the water there is.
I'm looking at potatoes next year, for sure.
The first year the mice got them.
But, I got something for them next time.
Yeah, there's ~500 deer/mile^2 here. I haven't figgered out how to train my cat to chase them, yet. Mice the cat is good with, however. Unfortunately European Land Snails are too slow to make interesting victims for the cat, and I remain ambivalent about Escargot after watching one of those videos about snail parasites that throb in their eyestalks. Gross. So, lettuce, beans, peas, and similar tasty greens are simply impossible to grow from seed, because the snails murder them in my sleep, although I have had success with beets.
Some kind of caterpillar got into the radishes.
Cut the leaves right off.
Cabbage loopers are small white butterflies that are active during clement weather quite early in the spring and into fall. If you watch them, they light briefly at many places in your garden, and when they do they lay an egg. Those worms eat most crops, feasting on their leaves. Perhaps they are more devastating where there's less verdant growth to eat, because here they're minor pests.
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