Thursday, October 31, 2013

April to Post Morterm?

Sorry folks, I didn't mean to lapse until now to get anything online. Doing a lot of work so when I get off the computer at the end of the day, I don't want to keep blogging. Also, working on another novel so I...well its just too much typing.

So here is the deal with the 2013 season: It sucked.

The season was really cool, we hardly had any 'hot' days down here. Spring was really wet and cold, and when summer got here it was perfect, but has no water. Fertilized numerous times, watered, etc. but things just didn't yield like I wanted them too.

I planted a bunch of sweet corn in the Main Bed that got pulverized in July in a hail storm (really felt like Laura Ingalls dad in one episode of "Little House on the Prairie.") After they all got smashed I replanted. They finally came up and I got some sweet corn out, but they were really stunted and only had 3 ears or so that we big enough to eat, although they tasted good.


That was pretty much it.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Killing Frost

The week before Halloween this year. They seem to be getting earlier and earlier. I planted some spinach last week in the hopes of having some green  veg over the winter. I even improvised a cold bed for them. I have a bunch of pics from this very unproductive season. I think it's time to let the main bed go fallow next season. Or at the very least just plant beans. Going to try my biochar as well. Hmmm, guess I need to buy the pieces for the kiln. Ok let's see if I can put up some pics.

 Baby green peppers. Everything was dwarfed this year.

Tiny, but tasty corn. After replanting from a hail storm in July.

Dragon chillies. HOT!!!!! I have no problem growing anything spicy.

Beans drying nicely on my twine trellis.

The only pumpkin that made it. All of my other 8 vines died. This one is in my window now, still green.

Volunteer cherry tomatoes. They were still growing until this morning.

The ones I did plant. The Wife and the Littlest Giant loved them.

Regular yet dwarf tomatoes. Apparently they tasted good too.

I had dozens of sunflowers. This one is drying on the porch so I don't have to buy new seeds.

So that's pretty much it for this season. Pretty disappointing as I got none of the potatoes I planted. Only 1 pumpkin. Oh but I did get a bunch of watermelon but they were really tasteless. Might just buy a sweet one and replant the seeds. 

Hopefully I can get some pics up of the cold bed I am making. But who knows. ;)