Beap52 809 #1 Posted Saturday at 11:43 PM The weather service is calling for the thermometer to dip into the upper 20's this coming week. Here in southwest MIssouri, we've had an unusually long growing season this year. I've got broccoli, lettuce still going strong. Today, I pulled the tomato plants did some cleaning of our raised bed. For the past couple of years, in my asparagus patch, I been nurturing two peach trees that I grew from seed and one sour cherry tree that I started after pruning a cherry tree and sticking the sticks into the earth hoping they might take root. One, out of probably 60, did manage to take root. I transplanted them this past week. Now I'm trying to learn how to prune them correctly. A trip to the Extension Office resulted in a pamphlet and google has resulted in some videos. Probably next February or March I'll give the fruit trees a pruning. My end of the gardening years supper consisted of mashed turnips, fried green tomatoes and brisket. 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimSraj 429 #2 Posted Sunday at 03:23 AM Speaking of broccoli. Check this out! 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,376 #3 Posted Sunday at 03:26 PM Very cool. We had an unusually long season here as well. No full freeze until mid Oct which is quite late. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne0 450 #4 Posted Monday at 10:02 PM In my small raised beds, I cut the beans, tomatoes, cukes and peppers off just below ground level to let the roots compost over winter. Covered it over with rotten straw from my potato patch as well as leaves. I'll turn it all in in the spring. Every thing left over went into the compost pile along with the (continuous) chicken poop from the coop. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
