2024 garden season

[sonny580]

Are you canning your pumpkins?

We grow Waltham Butternut saving seeds for the past ten years. It stores for a year or more for us.

This past year we grew South Anna Butternut after reading about it being an improved version but we are questioning that fact as it bore much less.

I like the look of yours and would be interested in some seed if you would like to share. I'm familiar with isolation distances for squash.

I'll trade you some Dr. Martin pole lima bean seeds for some of your squash seeds if your are interested.

Butternut is good too. We grow a few at the other farm every year since a lot of our friends like them.
Getting ready to take some seeds out of 5 or 6 of the best looking canners and dry them. I can send you some seeds if you want to try them.
I just take some seed and give the pumpkins to a friend for chicken feed and she gives us eggs in return.
We make several pies and pig out on them. A few bags go in the freezer. I did freeze dry a batch 2 years ago, ---- still have some of that left.
The main reason I keep this variety going is that Libby keeps modifying it and this is the old variety from 42 years ago that I have planted every year since.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

My garden is still hanging in there. Been doing some clean-up, wasn't much to do though.
I potted up one of the volunteer tomato plants and brought it inside on my flower shelf, along with a bowl full of water hyacinths and water lettuce. Going to bring in the sweet potato vine in the mason jar before it gets too cold outside.

The potato plants are looking fabulous! Spotted two more poking up through the straw today. 15 total, so far.

Someone gave me a bag of garlic bulbs Sunday, but they were old and soft and since they were starting to sprout I planted them in the garden today. I read up on it so, hopefully next summer I'll have fresh garlic.

Potato back row, radish on the right and garlic in the middle row.

Oh, and I planted some red clover seeds in the two rows on the left, below.

 

[muddstopper]

I had my last fried green tomatoes for supper last nite. We waited as long as we could for them to ripen, but they just wouldnt. Replanted my garlic last week. Was looking at it yesterday and noticed it has already came up. I thought that to be unusual. Got deer every night. One monster buck, several little trophy cups, 4 pointers, and some ugly spikes. Seems 5-7am is prime feeding times. If I had a thermal, I could get one pretty much every hour. I have one pic of two standing on their hind legs head butting each other.

time to fill the freezer

 

[muddstopper]

 

[sonny580]

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Dancin over the goodies!!! Ya , kinda depressing to say the least!!!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

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A beautiful sight... I'd give up on the garden and enjoy (watching!) the deer.

 

[muddstopper]

Wit

A beautiful sight... I'd give up on the garden and enjoy (watching!) the deer.

as many deer as are running around here, one might as well give up on gardens

 

[muddstopper]

Utoh. another one bites the dust

 

[sonny580]

neighbors been workin on the deer here got a couple in combines and a couple more on the road hit by semis racin to the elevator at 90+ mph! Not safe around here for anybody or anything!!!!!!!!!!

 

[muddstopper]

I might have a bigger problems than deer. One of my neighbors claimed to see a wild hog a few months ago. I have two different pic on my camera I cant make out, they look like hogs, I just aint sure. No other sign besides the pics. If I see rooting or poop, things will get serious.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

I might have a bigger problems than deer. One of my neighbors claimed to see a wild hog a few months ago. I have two different pic on my camera I cant make out, they look like hogs, I just aint sure. No other sign besides the pics. If I see rooting or poop, things will get serious.

Yeah, that I would eliminate ASAP.
When I first moved here someone told me about a local hog farmer who fell, or had a heart attack (can't recall which) in the hog pen.
They ate him up.

Rumor has it there is a pair of them around here somewhere.

Then there was that movie where the mean guy in the wheel chair got eaten by his hogs... what was that movie??

 

[muddstopper]

Yeah, that I would eliminate ASAP.
When I first moved here someone told me about a local hog farmer who fell, or had a heart attack (can't recall which) in the hog pen.
They ate him up.

Rumor has it there is a pair of them around here somewhere.

Then there was that movie where the mean guy in the wheel chair got eaten by his hogs... what was that movie??

Not really worried, I have a very good friend with a very good dog or two, or three that can catch that hog in very short order.

 

[sonny580]

possums all summer in the traps,---now its rabbits moving in! 3 nights= 3 rabbits so far and I saw 3 more today in the garden. Fight vermin all year round here!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

possums all summer in the traps,---now its rabbits moving in! 3 nights= 3 rabbits so far and I saw 3 more today in the garden. Fight vermin all year round here!

You just have a lovely critter-friendly yard.

 

[sonny580]

guess so,----- got another possum this mornin too!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

guess so,----- got another possum this mornin too!

There's a giant possum hanging around here - probably what ate my goldfish.
I've only seen it a couple of times, but the other night I was reading and all four cats were in the room with me.
I have jingle bells hanging on the storm door handle and Smoochie hits them when he wants to come in...
Well, that night I hear the bells ringing.
Go to the door and there's this monster of a possum standing there looking at me like, "Let me in."
I just shooed him away.

Before my neighbors dog, Moose, got hit by a car he was great varmint control.