Gardeners in the Asylum

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by mmblz

does grass count? this is what i spend the most energy on

Grass does count - it's harder to manage than most garden plants. Looks good.

[Chainsaw13]

Never got the chance to plant any fall type veggies in my raised beds. But did manage to get my garlic in the ground today. 5 varieties (German Hardy, Music, Stull, Roja and an unknown variety I've been planting for a few years) for a total of 38 heads for next year. The 5 named varieties are all hardneck types that produce 5-8 large cloves per head. Can't wait to see how they do.

[SvilleKid]

Kinda a "gardening" thing. My fall haul from two afternoons of "harvesting". I wish I could say these were from my two trees. But alas, the crows shredded my crop while it was still green. My trees were heavily loaded, but after the crows, I was left with a grand total of 8 pecans on the ground. These are mostly from a friend's house a couple of miles away. The table cloth the pecans are on is a 6 ft square. The dvr remote is to give an idea of the thickness of the pile. Going to let these dry for a couple of weeks before I start cracking and picking them.



My "harvester" is basically this"

[MarkinAZ]

That's a beautiful pile of pecans you have there Cliff. I can already visualize a few pies coming forth

Aunt and Uncle in Oklahoma had a pecan tree in the back yard about 8' from the picture window. Gathered many a pecan off the ground from that tree. Use to be fun watching the Cardinals and Jays trying to position themselves to snatch a pecan from the Squirrels

A 12ga works wonders on Crows you know

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by MarkinCA

That's a beautiful pile of pecans you have there Cliff. I can already visualize a few pies coming forth

Aunt and Uncle in Oklahoma had a pecan tree in the back yard about 8' from the picture window. Gathered many a pecan off the ground from that tree. Use to be fun watching the Cardinals and Jays trying to position themselves to snatch a pecan from the Squirrels

A 12ga works wonders on Crows you know

I know, and a 20 gauge does too. Plus I have several .22 rifles and thousands of rounds of .22. The only problem.... The trees are in the front yard, and almost any angle, I'd be shooting with the street and one or the other of my neighbor's house as a backstop! It's a real tricky placement for gun work. I'm already past any pecans this year. If I can drop one or two crows, even in the yard, I can place the dead crows in the trees, and that will deter the rest. But they are crafty little devils! I have a master bedroom window that faces the pecan trees, and slept with it open in the early fall/late summer. The crows would wake me up around 5:30 - 6 am, but would be gone by the time I got up, got dressed and got a look off the porch. I was up already one morning when they started cawing. When I peeked out the kitchen window, the damn crows had a lookout quietly sitting on the ground under the window, where it could see me coming around the bed in that window. That's how they were staying ahead of me. dammit! I was up early another morning, grabbed a seat in a small pine grove near the road that gave me a shot away from any houses or the road..... The stupid crows never got close to the pecan trees after having been there all week. Frustrating.

[Jasonw560]

Originally Posted by SvilleKid

I know, and a 20 gauge does too. Plus I have several .22 rifles and thousands of rounds of .22. The only problem.... The trees are in the front yard, and almost any angle, I'd be shooting with the street and one or the other of my neighbor's house as a backstop! It's a real tricky placement for gun work. I'm already past any pecans this year. If I can drop one or two crows, even in the yard, I can place the dead crows in the trees, and that will deter the rest. But they are crafty little devils! I have a master bedroom window that faces the pecan trees, and slept with it open in the early fall/late summer. The crows would wake me up around 5:30 - 6 am, but would be gone by the time I got up, got dressed and got a look off the porch. I was up already one morning when they started cawing. When I peeked out the kitchen window, the damn crows had a lookout quietly sitting on the ground under the window, where it could see me coming around the bed in that window. That's how they were staying ahead of me. dammit! I was up early another morning, grabbed a seat in a small pine grove near the road that gave me a shot away from any houses or the road..... The stupid crows never got close to the pecan trees after having been there all week. Frustrating.

Try an air cannon...I'm sure your neighbors wouldn't mind...

[Jasonw560]

I found some lettuce seeds today. Going to break out the tiller once we get back from Disney and prep the beds to get something started again.

[thebayratt]

got some Collard seedlings coming up, hopefullyI can get them in the ground soon.

On another note, my tobacco grew, but not enough. I had a bad storm come through early in the season and whiped out half of them. The ones that did make it had damaged (bent) stalks. I do have a few that are making flowers, so, I'll have more seeds for next year. going to let them do their thing and try again next year. Then I'll be a little more prepaired and have a bit more time to tend to them.

[SvilleKid]

Spinach, onions and turnip greens. All doing well. I got about 25% germination on the snow peas I planted (to the left of the turnips, not really visible). Not sure if they are going to make anything.

[jjirons69]

Nothing like greens in the winter. Good job, Cliff!

[shilala]

I still have to pull my tomato stakes out and cut down some more corn stalks to have the garden ready for the snow. It's time to cover up the deck furniture, too. The yard and garden is a wrap for this year.
We still have wildflowers beside the house, it's pretty amazing. Real nice to see this time of year, too.

[jjirons69]

No hard frost yet here on the coast. We picked a dozen big bell peppers this past weekend. The pepper bushes are still loaded. My collards are growing quite nicely, too.

[jjirons69]

Well, we had ground frost the past two mornings, lows around 34. Peppers got smacked. Good while they lasted. The collards, on the other hand, loved the dusting of ice.

[jjirons69]

All growing well in leaf mulch

[Mr B]

Very Nice.

[SvilleKid]

First hard freeze coming this week. Harvested all the spinach yesterday. Put up 10 quart bags in freezer. Onions not ready, so I mulched them with about 2 feet of wheat straw. Will see if they survive the freeze. If not, then a whopping $2 in costs is down the drain! Surprisingly, they are growing much better in the fall than they ever grew in the spring/summer!

[iaMkcK]

I got some Rosemary growing as hedges. That's.. Pretty much it. Not much grows in the desert, unless you time it just right and spend all day tending whatever it may be. Haha

[shilala]

It's time to order seeds again. I'm gonna try to NOT put it off till March and then get half my stuff and complain about the service.
I swore last year I'd never order from Park Seed again. Now I have their catalog ready and waiting. I've been ordering seed from these guys for 25 years, what the heck ya gonna do, right?
I really, really, like Willhite Seed. Crazy good prices on huge amounts of seed. Stuff always comes in a couple days and my whole order is there. I'm sure I won't order from them.
This is only one of the many things wrong with my head.

[jjirons69]

Man, been eating white egg turnips, curly mustard, and collards the past several weeks.

[shilala]

Got my seeds from Park awhile ago. Some of them. They shorted me six packs of corn seed but billed me for them separately a couple weeks ago. I highly doubt they'll ever show up, they do this to me every single year. Granted, sometimes the seed shows up about a month and a half after planting time, but that's as good as "didn't show up".
I'm not in a big hurry, so I'll wait a bit before I start calling them. Wish me luck!!!