Garden time !

[WFO Speedracer]

Gardening can get expensive , if you let it, but as the old saying goes , if you are going to be stupid you better be tough, I will add or have deep pockets.

This cucumber trellis popped up on my screen this morning and yes looks cool but the price is ridiculous and it's only 48 x 42' , for $34.99 you can buy a 16tf by 34' wire fence panel from Tractor supply, make a U out of it and spread it out as far as you like and have tons more growing area .. this is exactly the way I am doing it next year.

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I like gardening this time of year because it's not scorching hot, the weeds don't pop up as much and you can do fun stuff , since the freezer is now stuffed I can let remaining peppers and tomatoes grow and see just how big they will get.

I also do fun stuff like rooting tomatoes from cuttings and replanting them, I have three new ones in the ground now and three more about ready to plant , they are about a foot high when they go in the ground.

I also have the same with Potatoe plants , the peppers are still putting out like crazy and the okra is still producing some, the tomatoes at my other place have now started kicking out tomatoes and the second crop of cucumbers has been planted in both places so I will have more cucumbers in about a month to 6 weeks , cucumbers grow and produce really fast.

I made vertical cucumber towers by stacking two tomato cages together with zip ties, they are about 7 ft tall, we will see how it goes. I also learned this year that pepper plants are perennials, that means like trees they go dormant and produce year after year if you dig them up , repot them and put them indoors for the Winter, I am going to try it out and see what happens.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

The garden has slowed down a lot because of the shorter days but I pulled these huge Cooliano peppers this morning , the tomatoes were pulled during different times this week , I also have a bunch of bell peppers growing nicely , the cucumber towers are really taking off now , I have one watermelon that might actually mature and a few more cantaloupes .

This month it is time to plant lettuce , brocilli, caluflower , kale , spinach ,radishes and Swiss chard , the lettuce if you harvest it correctly and just snip it off leaving about an inch grows right back just like grass last all Winter long.

The peppers get cut in half , gutted and put in freezer bags , later you can stuff them or cut them up like bell pepper , the Bell peppers if they are large enough get gutted and left whole and frozen, if they are too small they get cut up diced and put in a freezer bag for later use cooking. I have a ton of both put up in the freezer already this year .