A second caveat to add to yours, 115mph wind is the limit on a 30’ tall top rail greenhouse. The framework is actually still good, but the woven plastic is shredded
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It’s time to plan(t) your winter garden. What’s on your menu for fall and winter planting?
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We are working on our fall gardens over here:
Not too late to grow something for fall/spring harvest. I will help you. A few grow bags with potting soil and you are eating lettuce!
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This stuff is my favorite green to grow. I know the guy who brought it back from Ethiopia, and he gave me seed. It is very easy to grow, tasty, and might be healthier than kale. Both contain the antiviral quercetin. It is also open pollinated, so you only have to buy seeds once. Just let it flower and it makes seed pods.
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Glad I found this one. I was thinking about starting a similar thread myself and this saved me the work. Just bought our first home here in Alaska. Not much besides livestock to grow outside in the winter, but I’m hoping to prep the ground for crops next year, raise chickens bees and maybe some goats.
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That garden is beautiful and call me hungry but that garlic looks fucking awesome. It’s like the 1 thing I can never get to grow right
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We’ve tried at least 2 years prior to this with poor garlic results, this year she slayed
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How are you storing the garlic? That’s a winter crop here.
Tomorrow I’ll take a few snap shots of our spice rack, might give a few folks some good ideas. We love to smoke meat, so we make up our own Rubs.
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The hot and sweet peppers go untill the first freeze. That’s any where between Halloween and Thanksgiving here, so we get alot of peppers, carrots, (shaded) lettuce, eggplant. But the tomato beds and squash beds do get a winter planting. Unfortunately the ants out farm me, by alot, by a whole lot!..I have fewer plants than compared to summer. Those plants have fewer foliage as compared to the summer. We have the same number of ants, that are twice as hungry, than in the summer. The ants farm the aphids to the prime spots of the upper most leaf.
I’m trying something new to me. A citrus pure oil, seems to be working at this point. But the real test will come winter.
Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, and artichoke ( never ever been successful with the artichoke). The ants love artichoke.
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Not for the squeamish, safety first
Classic public service announcement stay safe in the kitchen
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Seriously been waiting for some time to pull the trigger. Chicken coop and pen are all ready to go. Just need the happy chicks.
Thank you for this!
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These here Korean melons came from the same plant, one happened to be north of the fence, one south. They just sit there looking at each other.
It reminds me of something, cant put my finger on it…maybe I’ll ask Dennis Rodman, I bet he’ll know
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Blackberries?
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That’s the real Devil’s weed. Bane of my existence and same for most of us in the PNW. I don’t even eat the fruit anymore because I hate them so much.
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There’s one small trailing BB (Rubus ursinus) mixed with the bamboo behind that Filbert in the first pic.
The last picture is an ornamental trailing raspberry (Rubus hayata-koidzumi)
I spent the first 8 years out here battling the himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus), and lost.
Now we intensively cultivate it, primarily vertically.
It is an unstoppable successionary species. In the PNW if you have cleared land its almost inevitable that this species will take over. You can either plant something to fill the role, accept and manage it, or endlessly fight it…
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