Remembering summer

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  M_JimmieM_M

  Nov 29, 2010

  Your garden looks like it did quite well?
  we did not garden this last summer planting season was to cold and wet .
  Are those strawberries the sequoia variety?

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• ME

  MemberOriginal Poster

  Nov 30, 2010

  Yes, the garden did well again this year. Actually, only about half of it is visible in these photos. I'm not sure on the strawberries. We planted about 3 varieties, 2 were "everbearing" varieties, but it seems like "sequoia" is ringing a bell.

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• ME

  Member

  Dec 3, 2010

  Wow, great looking garden!  I just ordered my seeds for next year - I figure I'll beat the Christmas rush.

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• ME

  MemberOriginal Poster

  Dec 3, 2010

  Good idea! Here is a more encompassing pic of the garden taken a little earlier in the season. Tomatoes, peppers and basil in the hoop house in the far back. The small hoops in forground were to cover the cabbage, broccoli, Kale etc. to protect from cabbage worm moths. The "big ass" sunflowers hadn't yet come up along the back fence to the right.

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• ME

  Member

  Dec 4, 2010

  So do you have anything still growing in the garden?  I have kale, spinach and beets still left.  I picked all of carrots yesterday since they are not protected in the hoop houses.

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• ME

  MemberOriginal Poster

  Dec 8, 2010

  No, nothing still growing, but we do still have some carrots and parsnips in the ground tucked in their beds under insulating blankets of plastic and straw, and now 1 1/2 feet of snow. Ready to be dug up as we need them. They don't dry out or rot this way and seem to get sweeter as long as they get dug up before any new growth in the spring.

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• ME

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  Dec 9, 2010

  I tried something new this year for storing the root vegetables.  I buried some 5 gallon food grade buckets with the screw on lids under my deck.  Now I just move the hay bale (for insulation) unscrew the top and grab a few carrots or beets.  So far 2 degrees is as cold as we've had and it's still in the upper 30's in the bucket.  The main advantage is that it's much easier than uncovering the garden and digging up the veggies which is what I have done for many years.

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• OL

  

  ollygrumps

  Jan 4, 2011

  Born_Naked it looks like you ordered a lot of seeds, Your garden loks better than ones I've seen belonging to the Royal Horticultural Society (big in the UK). How do you eat all that veg?

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• OL

  

  ollygrumps

  Oct 12, 2011

  Another summer is comming to an end, another one to remember. I missed a lot of time in my garden, being too busy doing other things. One thing was being involved in planting a new village "Community Garden" with grasses, a wild flower medow and some trees. Mostly they have grown and flourished during the summer. Autumn planting starts soon with lots more trees and a hedge.

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