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(Fark)   This is the last Tuesday FARK gardening thread for November, and what are you still growing? What are your favorite cold-weather crops? Subby's are brussel sprouts, which he likes to call cabbage patch kids   (fark.com) divider line
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CatRevenge [TotalFark]
2022-11-29 7:08:41 AM  
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I downsized this fall to put in a cover crop mixture in the main plot, but I do have collards and broccoli growing in a raised bed.   There are teensy-tiny broccoli heads now, I'm not sure if I got them too late, but we'll see.

Something is eating the collards pretty good, but I still grabbed some to cook with T-giving.

Spouse wanted to try growing saffron, so she planted the saffron crocus bulbs in a raised bed.  They are a fall blooming flower of which three bloomed, so we got 9 saffron threads out of them this year.   They were beautiful flowers with a nice fragrance.
 
kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-29 7:16:42 AM  
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Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2022-11-29 7:40:53 AM  
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Well, it's summer here now, so what little garden we have is growing. The pot plants we had were slowly dying until we were informed at the local gardening nursery that the soil we were using (combination of potting soil and local dune sand) we took far too close to the ocean, and it was far too salty for the plants and so they were dying because of that. We remedied the situation and now they're nice and healthy with new leaves and everything. The daisylawn doesn't have the same issues, though, and is now a nice thick mat, coverign the entire square which we now have to trim the edges of weekly or else it starts growing all over the paving stone backyard, and is also now covered in tiny white flowers.

Growing anything that'd make edible food in the compacted salt lagoon soil is out of the question, and i was not expecting the daisylawn to actually work out this well.
 
kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-29 5:39:08 AM  
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Never go wrong with brussel sprouts.
 
Habitual Cynic
2022-11-29 7:09:40 AM  
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Even after some quite cold mornings, we still have some sugar snap peas trying to grow.
 
NINEv2
2022-11-29 7:18:11 AM  
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CatRevenge: I downsized this fall to put in a cover crop mixture in the main plot, but I do have collards and broccoli growing in a raised bed.   There are teensy-tiny broccoli heads now, I'm not sure if I got them too late, but we'll see.

Something is eating the collards pretty good, but I still grabbed some to cook with T-giving.

Spouse wanted to try growing saffron, so she planted the saffron crocus bulbs in a raised bed.  They are a fall blooming flower of which three bloomed, so we got 9 saffron threads out of them this year.   They were beautiful flowers with a nice fragrance.


Try some diatomaceous earth on the collards.
 
Old_Chief_Scott
2022-11-29 8:46:07 AM  
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In San Diego it is salad season. Lettuce, spinach, green onions, and radishes. Have also started some beets and carrots.
 
dryknife
2022-11-29 9:16:05 AM  
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CatRevenge: Spouse wanted to try growing saffron, so she planted the saffron crocus bulbs in a raised bed.  They are a fall blooming flower of which three bloomed, so we got 9 saffron threads out of them this year.   They were beautiful flowers with a nice fragrance.


I have planted saffron also and figure in 30 years I could be rich, as expensive as saffron is.
 
knobmaker
2022-11-29 9:36:50 AM  
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We've had our first snow here in the North Country, so not a lot of gardening going on.  Mrs. knobmaker rescued a ghost pepper the deer had eaten down to twigs, potted it, and it's starting to look happy in the bay window.  One of our sons likes to make terminal hot sauce, so he was disappointed that the deer like ghost peppers.  I console myself by imagining that the deer have the same trouble I would have if I ate a whole ghost pepper bush-- though I didn't notice any deer flying past, propelled by technicolor farts.

We just moved into a house that has three big but neglected apple trees.  I'll start pruning them this winter.  Soon it will be seed ordering time.  I guess we'll still have the big garden at our little farm, but we have an acre here, so we can have a kitchen garden at the house.

Anyway, thank you all for this thread.  I always find it enjoyable.
 
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