Buff Gardeners
This group is intended for those who enjoy the natural aspect of gardening, and don't feel the need to cover their natural state while tending their plants. This group may be used to exchange ideas, and success stories, and of course...recipes, that have been brought fourth from the earth.
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Remembering summer
Return to DiscussionsYes, the garden did well again this year. Actually, only about half of it is visible in these photos. I'm not sure on the strawberries. We planted about 3 varieties, 2 were "everbearing" varieties, but it seems like "sequoia" is ringing a bell.
Good idea!
Here is a more encompassing pic of the garden taken a little earlier in the season.
Tomatoes, peppers and basil in the hoop house in the far back. The small hoops in forground were to cover the cabbage, broccoli, Kale etc. to protect from cabbage worm moths. The "big ass" sunflowers hadn't yet come up along the back fence to the right.
No, nothing still growing, but we do still have some carrots and parsnips in the ground tucked in their beds under insulating blankets of plastic and straw, and now 1 1/2 feet of snow. Ready to be dug up as we need them. They don't dry out or rot this way and seem to get sweeter as long as they get dug up before any new growth in the spring.
I tried something new this year for storing the root vegetables. I buried some 5 gallon food grade buckets with the screw on lids under my deck. Now I just move the hay bale (for insulation) unscrew the top and grab a few carrots or beets. So far 2 degrees is as cold as we've had and it's still in the upper 30's in the bucket. The main advantage is that it's much easier than uncovering the garden and digging up the veggies which is what I have done for many years.
Another summer is comming to an end, another one to remember. I missed a lot of time in my garden, being too busy doing other things. One thing was being involved in planting a new village "Community Garden" with grasses, a wild flower medow and some trees. Mostly they have grown and flourished during the summer. Autumn planting starts soon with lots more trees and a hedge.