2025 Garden!

[Gellar]

View attachment 388969View attachment 388970 just for that I'm posting pictures of fall tomatoes down here.

As the OP I think I can speak for most of the other gardeners who have contributed to this thread… you suck.

 

[IDFireLass]

Good for you JShane. I enjoy my seasons and a break. But I still don't have to worry about gators, hurricanes and whatever else creepy crawlers you have down there.

 

[JShane]

Good for you JShane. I enjoy my seasons and a break. But I still don't have to worry about gators, hurricanes and whatever else creepy crawlers you have down there.

This list is long, but distinguished. It's admirable what your able to produce and grow in such a difficult region for vegetables.
@Gellar i couldn't agree more. It's the trade off we get for what we don't have down here. Our fall/winter gardens are the easiest. There's no heat,humidity, disease, or bugs to battle.

 

[Pucky Freak]

 

[Gellar]

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I wish I had done some fall garden things. The way this fall has been it would have been good!
I had a bunch of 4” broccoli starts I should have planted in September.

 

[IDFireLass]

I had some beet seeds that I had planted. Never came up. Then after a bunch of rain I have beets popping up. The seed laid dormant all summer.

 

[WildWill]

Still getting about a half dozen sugar snap pea pods a day, have a few Tomatoes left, and will harvest pumpkins and sweet potatoes soon.

 

[JShane]

pulled my sweet potatoes and started transition to fall garden prep. still have the volunteer yellow cherry tomato going strong

 

[brymoore]

I’m selling pears 3 for a nickel.

Wife cans them and the kids eat a pint at a time as a snack.

 

[Pucky Freak]

Light frost killed off my warm-weather plants. Pulled everything out except broccoli, radishes, and carrots.


I got a pumpkin and 4-5 watermelons as well. I’m trying an internet idea this year of suspending tomato vines in my insulated garage, and pick fruit as it ripens.There are about 100 tomatoes still on there - I probably lost another 30 or so that fell off as I cut, moved, and hung the vines.

 

[Gellar]

View attachment 390130I’m selling pears 3 for a nickel.

Wife cans them and the kids eat a pint at a time as a snack.

My roommate in college had a pear tree at his mom’s house. One fall we made gallons of pear wine. It turned out more like a brandy, but college kids didn’t care.

 

[Dave N]

I always used to cut my asparagus patch down before winter but I'll let it go this year. Still green, straight and full of berries. I soaked the ground good a while back when it was real dry around here and things really look good for next year's crop. Definitely time for things to come to an end, though. The little 4-footed critters are making their way into the buildings. Another mouse fell victim to the Rotating Wheel of Doom and died. Also known as the blower fan in my car. Terrible vibration in it and I knew right away what it was from previous events. I just spent the last hour or so tearing the dash apart to remove the dead mouse. I even left the cabin filter out last time to remove the platform they used as a perch for a nest. Bastards. I put out more bait chunks in the building and may set some traps for extra help. SO FAR they've left my truck alone. I think.

 

[Gellar]

I always used to cut my asparagus patch down before winter but I'll let it go this year. Still green, straight and full of berries. I soaked the ground good a while back when it was real dry around here and things really look good for next year's crop. Definitely time for things to come to an end, though. The little 4-footed critters are making their way into the buildings. Another mouse fell victim to the Rotating Wheel of Doom and died. Also known as the blower fan in my car. Terrible vibration in it and I knew right away what it was from previous events. I just spent the last hour or so tearing the dash apart to remove the dead mouse. I even left the cabin filter out last time to remove the platform they used as a perch for a nest. Bastards. I put out more bait chunks in the building and may set some traps for extra help. SO FAR they've left my truck alone. I think.

The black cat had a half live mouse on the garage floor this morning and the cat was no where to be found. I took the mouse to the rat snake at work.

 

[buckbull]

Pulled all my tomato plants. Still had plenty on the vine

 

[JShane]

getting some color on the fall tomatoes. Lettuce, kale, brocollis, brussel sprouts starting to emerge.

 

[np307]

Pulled the first broccoli off. Still getting peppers. Peas are close to throwing some pods. Napa cabbage just about ready to take. Regular cabbage pretty small. Chard and collards I think are too much for the bed they're in. That bed may need nitrogen too. Garlic and onion sets pretty much all sprouted.

 

[brymoore]

I still have a few final garden clean up items to complete. I’ve been MIA big game hunting for a while.

I took the time yesterday to tent the artichokes. I cut them back to the ground, cover with row cover and then tented with plastic. This winter method has worked to overwinter my Artichokes the past 3 or 4 winters. I’m still surprised each spring when I open the tent and the artichokes are green and healthy.


The other garden related item yesterday was pressing our pears. We picked 25-30 gallons of pears. Wife canned a lot, we gave some to neighbors and tried to give to Halloween kids. It’s hard to peddle pears. Elk have been raiding the buckets on our front porch. Left with few alternatives except feed the elk, we decided to press pears and make pear cider (Perry). We haven’t brewed before so this is a new experience. We’ll be sampling our batch in a few months.