Pull the plants, roots and all just before the killing frost. Hang them with the beans attached in a sheltered, semi warm area to allow them to continue to ripen and dry. If these are pole beans, ignore that and pick the pods that have changed colors and take them inside to dry.
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These are missed beans from my garden that got frost killed. The pile on the left are edible. The 5 on the right is seed grade.
Basically, if you will make sure the beans look like what you would buy in the store, the seed should be viable.
If you are looking for a certain variety of dried bean, you can usually get them in the store on the food shelf. Most of those are viable. Test by sprouting a few.
Basically, if you will make sure the beans look like what you would buy in the store, the seed should be viable.
If you are looking for a certain variety of dried bean, you can usually get them in the store on the food shelf. Most of those are viable. Test by sprouting a few.
Ya'll got a frost ? - we haven't.
Up on the plateau we had 3 light frost in a row about 3 weeks ago
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Finally dried out enough to get garlic planted.
Still have broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and beets to harvest. Also still need to dig potatoes.
Still have broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and beets to harvest. Also still need to dig potatoes.
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Absolutely, if you plan to spray for diseases. It has a label on a majority of vegetable and many fruit crops. However, it is not effective on all diseases you may encounter in the garden. Just depends on your problem diseases.
Like many fungicides labeled, it is a preventative, and does nothing to cure diseases, but prevents initial, or subsequent infection. So, to be effective, you need to be watching for disease development, be mindful of conditions that favor infection, e.g. long periods of leaf wetting.
Like many fungicides labeled, it is a preventative, and does nothing to cure diseases, but prevents initial, or subsequent infection. So, to be effective, you need to be watching for disease development, be mindful of conditions that favor infection, e.g. long periods of leaf wetting.
Kitchen table count as garden?? They definitely grow fast!
You just now need to find a gallery wall and some heavy duty duct tape, auction it and break the $ 6.2 million bid on the “ducked tape banana”! Title it “The Morel Of The Story Horns”.
I like the way you think. Accepting offers.
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Very cool! Are those "kits" or do you grow them from scratch?
They are "kits" that I picked up on grand Ave in Galesburg last Saturday. Found the listing on Craigslist and thought I'd check them out. They are giving them away every Saturday in November till they run out. A young couple that is tied in with a non-profit for sustainable food. I'm not sure how sustainable mine are going to be. These were ready to take off all I've had to do is mist them with water and I've had a lot of mushrooms.
I guess they use wood stove pellets from menards and I forget what grain wheat germ maybe and start them in those bags but I guess 5 gallon buckets will work too. She made it sound simple and easy. I'll be happy if I can get the cycle started and have some mushrooms every now and then.
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"The Last Harvest"
that picture looks like a great jigsaw puzzle. Nice!!
A little eager this year! Started flowering 2 weeks before Christmas. My yard giveth to me an early Christmas gift!
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Wow! Way early for a Lenten rose (Hellebore). When would be normal for you, end of January?
I am lucky that within a 30 minute drive is a hellebore breeder. I already had one or two that would bloom in early to mid January - they are close to 20 years old now. Right now, they are in bud, but not blooming. I go visit the breeder at least once a year and buy some of his hybrids that seem to be good but not good enough for final selection (think inexpensive). This past year I asked him for a mix of ten that bloomed more upright (that's his hybridizing goal) and some of his earliest. This pink one was the one he picked as an early one. It was!
@trc65, sorry to single you out. I was wondering why you got Prelude raspberries? The place I reordered my asparagus that got drowned out was out of them. So I uninformedly ordered Heritage to make up for free shipping. Hope I didn't make a mistake. I plan on planting in front of a wooden stockade fence so I can staple wires to the fence if I need to trellis. I'll probably plant 2' feet away so I can still get behind them to paint. Too close?? I don't know how big of a bush they will get.
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One of the selling points for me on the Prelude was they were a little bit earlier on floricane harvest which beat Japanese beetle emergence. They also have good berry quality- size, firmness and flavor.
Heritage is also a good berry and one that we used to have. It was just in place that never got managed well, started dying out from neglect, and then I finished the job.
Size wise, I think that Heritage is a slightly smaller plant than Prelude. As for spacing, that can all be managed with pruning.
Heritage is also a good berry and one that we used to have. It was just in place that never got managed well, started dying out from neglect, and then I finished the job.
Size wise, I think that Heritage is a slightly smaller plant than Prelude. As for spacing, that can all be managed with pruning.