We’re on a trip now, but we got some friends to water and pick what stuff they want.
We’ve got about 100 butternut squash, all volunteers. We’ve got tomatoes everywhere, mostly volunteers, which I’m going to call the Khan variety (genetic supertomatoes.) My BLT eating has begun. We ate beans and eight ball zucchini every other meal before we left. We grew onions this year, and dried them out back - I moved them to a box (full) and there are still red onions from my additional patch.
Before I joined my wife to see our new grandson I had Japanese eggplant stir fried and then regular eggplant, zucchini and tomato in roasted vegetable sandwiches.
One unexpected thing. Our neighbor has lung cancer (though he never smoked) and his therapy has killed his appetite. Except for my tomatoes. Now I’m glad I have so many - better he gets them than me.
A hundred squash, or a hundred PLANTS?!?
So far I have harvested about 60 habermeos, made some hab jelly and the rest are in the freezer, probably have as many again on the two bushes.
In serendipitous news I saw what I thought was a weed growing under a laurel that is still struggling after the freeze. I left it alone and it turns out the weed is a Firebush and is quite pretty and I just saw two hummingbirds flapping around it.
I have no idea where it came from but I’ll probably take out the laurel and leave that to grow in its place.
My front stoop. Chicago.
Very cool!
So I’m still new with plants, I just love them. A lot. I have about 10 separate pots and two gardens to water but can’t tell you what half of them are.
Anyway, the blackberries and green beans did well! It’s just that the cauliflower is about dead and the raspberries might have some virus. All the flowers are doing great and the fig tree didn’t fully die!
I’m working on not being emotionally attached to all the plants. It’s been a rough year or so, but I’ve been home with all the plants all day!
Habernero madness continues, I now have 3 x 1 gallon freezer bags full of frozen habs, and the two bushes are still fully loaded with green fruits so they should be ripening in a couple of weeks. The jalapeno plant is kicking in as well giving 3-4 a week.
Anyone in the houston area want some habernos , there is only so much habernero jelly , mango hab sauce I can make.
I got a fine crop of peppers too - cayennes, shishitos, and purple tigers. I should probably skip planting any next year.
The tomatoes here are done, and the basil looks to be the next die off outside. The perennial herbs will keep going until it freezes. The purple basil inside in the Aerogarden is still going strong, but I will probably plant new items in there soon.
I planted another abelia and a spirea in the front garden to replace a viburnum and some lavender which had died. I also set up a small raised bed and will plant some wildflower seeds in it next month - I’ve got wild geranium, aster, and columbine seeds, and the nursery I got them from also gave me some purple clover, which I think I will sow elsewhere.
I, too, am still picking jalapenos while the tomatoes and cucumbers are done. Late addition to the front, hardy hibiscus, are still blooming beautifully. Really weird about the peppers though, especially them outlasting the tomatoes.
Due to weird weather here in Minneapolis, my Roma tomatoes, green peppers, and jalapeños are re-flowering. I’ve already made a gallon of sauce from the previous tomato bounty. Guess I’ll be making more! I’m pulling 3-4 jalapeños per week, only had two green peppers, a half dozen wee little fish peppers, and I’m still pulling a meals worth of green beans every week.
I gave up on the zucchini and broccoli.
Squirrels got the carrots. One tried a jalapeño- the bottom of one had been chewed off. Poor thing.
It felt a lot like the end of the season today. I pulled up the runner beans, 2nd broad (fava) beans, pumpkin and courgette (zucchini) plants and chopped them into the composter. Leeks and most of the turnips I pulled and processed for the freezer a couple of days ago. All that’s left on the allotment now are 2nd peas and a few turnips; plus the squash plants and french beans I plan to compost tomorrow. Weeding and putting to bed beckon.
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I’m sorry. I feel bad. But I laughed like a loon at the mental image.
Okay, “sorry-not-sorry” is more accurate.
Still getting 10-20 haberneros every 2 weeks, and thee plants are not showing any signs of quitting with plenty of small green fruits.
Still in the high 70 low 80s in the day and 50/60 over might.
Jalapeno has a couple of flowers and a few small fruits going.
The Mexican petunia and firebush are slowing down as well.
Haven’t checked in for awhile.
The beans ended a couple weeks ago, which isn’t surprising.
Something got the last of the lettuce - not sure if it was squirrels or one of the local bunnies made it up to my second floor balcony/walkway.
The parsley and chard are still hanging on, as they will do, despite the snow this week. I’ll probably get the rest of the parsley this week and hang it for drying. Trying to decide what to with the chard, maybe a chicken and greens over rice thing. Or I’ll wind up with a second bag of it in the freezer for later.
I’ve still got parsley, a few chilis, some sage, oregano and thyme. None of that will last too much longer since we’ve had our second frost, so a hard freeze is not far away. I just started a new Aerogarden indoors and the basil is already coming up.
It snowed an inch or two this weekend. Didn’t stick around, though, and it’s mostly melted now. I suppose I should pull up the carrots before the ground freezes. I have two cabbage plants still that never headed. Guess I could pick the leaves and make stuffed cabbage rolls.
So this year we I have planted a cayanne pepper and a new jalapeno plant.
Some sage and a couple of basil plants have gone in some plant pots.
A few random flower things in the front garden.
I started some roma tomatoes and cucumbers from seeds ,and I just transplanted to outside.
Unfortunately I was a bit premature with the cucumbers and a days of strong dry winds wiped them out, so off to lowes to buy a new one while I get a few more going from seed to take over when the first one dies off.
Survivors from last year , the fire brush looked dead but now has some shoots comming through. A jalapenon I thought was dead but didnt tear up is showing signs of life. Both haberneros died , but I just saw a ton of tiny shoots comming out the ground so some of the habs that dropped off and got burried in the soul must have stared sprouting , so I may be in for ridiculous number of haberneors .
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So whats in your garden this year .
Unless of course we should do a 2022 thread.
Yes, let’s! 'Tis the season.
I think this may be this year’s, but it lacks a year in the title.
Aw, shit, I missed that!
Just started one here
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-gardening-thread-whats-in-your-yard-balcony-pots/962344
Mods, how might we sort this out best?