10-08-2020, 10:01 PM
Great to have you join us on this board. Sounds like you have a great garden actually. Would love to see any pictures once you create your 2021 garden thread. We all learn from each other just like we learn about fishing, its really helpful. Where are you located? We're in Morgan County.
We avoid any fruit trees here as we don't like to spray them for pests due to a good sized back yard fish pond we have. We do have green grape vine we got from wiperhunter2 to try but it is not yet producing any fruit - hopefully we'll get a small harvest next year.
We haven't yet dug up our sweet potatoes which are work in progress for us but we've had much more vine growth above ground so our fingers are crossed that we will have decent harvest this year, we'll see.
We have an abundance of tomatoes as we grew more then usual this year trying several different options to compare what does the best. We planted some in large pots that allowed us protect them in the spring and now again in the fall by moving them into the garage if any threat of frost is possible, some are in the greenhouse so they're still doing great, and we have some in our straw bale garden that have frosted so we've harvested those. Some that were in the ground in protected area all got harvested yesterday. We too have canned tomato juice, spag sauce and salsa. Yesterday's harvest we are going to can up with tomato soup that we found recipe for we really like. Any green tomatoes that got harvested we've put in the cooler basement like we did last year that kept us in tomatoes all thru Feb, so we're doing it again this year.
We avoid any fruit trees here as we don't like to spray them for pests due to a good sized back yard fish pond we have. We do have green grape vine we got from wiperhunter2 to try but it is not yet producing any fruit - hopefully we'll get a small harvest next year.
We haven't yet dug up our sweet potatoes which are work in progress for us but we've had much more vine growth above ground so our fingers are crossed that we will have decent harvest this year, we'll see.
We have an abundance of tomatoes as we grew more then usual this year trying several different options to compare what does the best. We planted some in large pots that allowed us protect them in the spring and now again in the fall by moving them into the garage if any threat of frost is possible, some are in the greenhouse so they're still doing great, and we have some in our straw bale garden that have frosted so we've harvested those. Some that were in the ground in protected area all got harvested yesterday. We too have canned tomato juice, spag sauce and salsa. Yesterday's harvest we are going to can up with tomato soup that we found recipe for we really like. Any green tomatoes that got harvested we've put in the cooler basement like we did last year that kept us in tomatoes all thru Feb, so we're doing it again this year.