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Whoa, Tim, that's insane. Hope all is well.

BTW, I tilled the garden Monday and planted curly leaf mustard, purple top rutabagas, collards, and cabbage. Kept my GIANT jalapeno and bell pepper plants, as they are still producing well.

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Four ft of water in the basement but looks like it's starting to recede now. I took the picture after I had finished bringing everything up from the basement that I could. There was nothing more I could do so I hung out on the back deck with some coffee and a La Riqueza and watched the susquehanna river flow through the back yard. If the tackle wasn't under water in the basement I would have dropped in a line - the river's good for muskies and smallmouth but I usually have to walk to get to them. :)
As for the beets I'll definitely try them after the water goes back where it belongs if they didn't wash away.

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Wow Tim, thats a bummer. I hope it all turns out ok.

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beans looking good!

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Hmmm....beans! Good job, Hugh.

Here's a couple of shots I took this evening. I've got 12 Blue Max collards, 4 Wakefield cabbage, 4 Catskill Brussel sprouts, a few short rows of curly mustard and a few short rows of purple top rutabagas. Didn't want to plant too much as my dad has hundreds of each planted and I know every visit to him will end with a car full of greens. I swear he feeds half his town and all of his immediate family.

Everything here is going along nicely.

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Still getting bell peppers and jalapenos weekly.

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How my garden looks now.
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A nice pear tree killed by a gopher. The roots looked like a beaver chewed on them under the ground. :(
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Here is my fall garden so far:

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The Contender green beans and soybeans are on the right side of the SFG. And the California Wonder Bell peppers are on the left.

The Tomato to the left in the nursery pot is one of the many jjirons sent me. It's a Orange Oxheart. The one in the nursery pot to the right is the Old German. Both doing well.

You can see the stalks of the remaining sunflowers my daughter and I planted. We already cut the heads and they are drying as we speak.

Here is a closer up of the SFG:

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Here are a few blooms on the Orange Oxheart:

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Here are the bell peppers. I counted 16 on one of the seven plants.

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I had some bug problems early on, but I found a life saver. It's called Garden safe vegetable. It kills everything I have encountered so far.

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Lance, your tomatoes look lke they faired about as good as mine this year....Withered and weak. Another sub-par growing season plagued w/ cold foggy nights and cooler day time temps. We are just getting a heat wave now...to little too late. Oh well, next year.

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I forgot I had a garden. It started with this cold rainy crap, so it should be finished up very soon. We might still get some really tough tomatoes, but I'd say that's about it.

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All the tomatoes looked weak except one, at the end by the corn, pouring out into the walk way. That was a volunteer, looks like a Roma.
And yeah, I may just grow cold varieties next year.

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The only Toms that grew well for me this year were the Yellow Boys and I love em. Bell Peppers did decent too I guess. Tomatillos pumped out early but already have some sort of mildew on them.

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No pics of my garden, as it is ragged and ugly. But it produced a couple bushels of tomatoes, too many zucchini and enough green peppers, jalepenos, chilis and onions to make salsa and chili for most of the winter. All canned up now, it's getting in cold in MN.

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Beans turning!

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Ah, the pride only a father can feel!

Good job growing those babies from seed, Wayne. Can't wait to see your giant tomato garden this coming spring!! Wait until you plant one of those potato leaf varieties - it's quite a unique-looking plant.

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Raining all day here. I knew I should've fertilized my yard this weekend. Hindsight...

Garden looks good, though. Still harvesting tons of peppers and my greens are coming right along.

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I'm getting raspberries and strawberries. The potatoes are regrowing from whatever was still in the ground tomatoes and squash are still going, beans are making a second effort. Still getting cukes too. Peppers never got going this year. We had excellent eggplant parmesan a couple of nights ago, now that it's October.

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Too late in the day for a picture - I picked 12 large, beautiful bell peppers. Also crushed the jalapenos with over 100 picked - some big suckers, too. My basket ranneth over. I'm putting them up tomorrow night. Need some more lids for my pint jars. Still have 4 jars from last November that are quite tasty. I'm been sharing them on and off with co-workers and friend. Nothing says love like a jar of hot peppers!

Had to dust my collards. F'ing worm invasion on a few of them over the weekend when I was out of town. Doesn't take long before those buggers can get out of check. The greens are otherwise doing very well and are getting huge.

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We had a hot spell here that turned the tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers back on. With luck they will ripen before a cold snap hits them.

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Down they go!

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Cool pics

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Still getting green beans. Tomatoes have slowed to a crawl. Potatoes are making a second crop. Squash still going. Most everything else is gone and we didn't start a winter crop. We haven't got the killing frost yet.

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I just cleaned up the garden this past weekend. I left the broccoli for the bees as I always do. It'll keep putting on flowers and feeding the bees until it freezes hard as a rock. That's a good 8 weeks away, at least.
Our garden was absolutely stellar this year, we used just about everything. We were totally spoiled. Having just that little strip of dirt sure made me appreciate all the years of having great big gorgeous gardens.
Suburbia is hell. :lr

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Still crushing the jalpenos. Put up 4 quarters of pickled ones on Sunday. The bushes are still loaded, as are the bell peppers. I also planted 50-60 yellow onion bulbs this past weekend. The collards are giant! I think I'm ready to start cutting them by next week. 18 plants will take me into Feb. eating one per week. I'll give away a couple. The rutabagas, cabbage, and mustard are also doing well. Still have quite a bit of time for the Brussels sprouts. Hell, they probably won't be ready until around Feb or Mar. I'll try to get some pics this weekend.

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From post #305 to today - a little over 2 months. I'm cutting a collard head tomorrow. Can't wait. Peppers have slowed and have a little frost damage. I'll pull them after Thanksgiving and will plants a couple hundred more onions. Why not?

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Nice!

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That's all for this year. Brr-rr-rr-rr!
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Although i was unable to plant a lot of veggies this season, I still enjoyed watching you alls gardens progress. Thanks for posting pictures.

Im over the cold weather already and it has just begun. Is it spring yet? :sl

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I know I should have taken more pictures, but I didn't. I must say this year was the most productive and easiest year yet. The square foot garden with mushroom compost is certainly the way to go. I had more bell peppers than I could handle and the plants were huge!! I also got a ton of beans (contender is a easy and quick bean) and the soy beans were awesome as well ( I need to plant closer next year). The tomato's are still producing and I got some pics of those. Thanks again Jaime, I am going to try and grow at least one of each seed you sent. It may take me 20 years, but it should be fun!

I have already started on my winter garden. It was 76 here on Saturday and I was afraid my lettuce would bolt. But it's doing good. I have some black seeded simpson, some soloist chinese cabbage, rocky top lettuce salad mix and some danver carrots. I must say these carrots are coming up waaaay quicker than before. I think that is due to using fresher seeds and carrot tape.

I'll get some new pics of it all. But again, SFG is the way to go!

Lastly, I should have a treat in the spring which I'll show you all. For now it's a secret.

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I thought I'd start a permanent thread...
http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showth...32#post1584932