Is anyone else sad about gardening season ending?

[BlueNightingale]

I still have my herbs and they're under plant lights, but I feel disappointed that the season is coming to an end.

We still have a few things for as long as it lasts (bok choy, napa cabbage, kale, etc... zucchini with prayers it will work) but I'm ready for a fuller garden next year.

Here's a picture of our flowering thai basil. I haven't used it for anything. I don't know what to do with it.

 

[Muna]

Not this year it was too hot.

I still have ginger, peanuts and sweet potatoes and a few heads of cabbage, out there, but not much else.

I don't even know how well all the above are still doing, because I am done with it.

When its cooler I will see what has survived my neglect.

I start my onions, and garlic in the fall, and I want to try some various cold resistent lettuces in the hooped areas covered with a green house film for the first time, just to see how that goes.

Most of our garden is typically cleaned up before the end of July, not this year, what I left neglected looks dried up and/or fried by the sun. I miss all the green, but that has always been so short lived because of the heat.

 

[Lambano]

The season's not quite over down here in Dixie, but the end is near. The strawberries have stopped fruiting, and the Kieffer pear tree took the year off, but we did get some fruit on the Patio Peach that managed to escape the attention of the local squirrels. This is the first year we ever got any fruit off that tree, but I think we harvested it too soon; they were hard as rocks and never did ripen. I had bought a basil and an oregano plant from one of the neighborhood girls who was selling them for some Girl Scout project. As a little bonus, she must've slipped in a few portulaca seeds 'cuz we were surprised with little magenta blooms in both pots. The basil didn't make it (the portulaca now owns that pot), but the oregano is doing great and smells like an Italian restaurant. But neither I nor the Sweet Lady know what we want to do with it.

 

[amigo de christo]

The season's not quite over down here in Dixie, but the end is near. The strawberries have stopped fruiting, and the Kieffer pear tree took the year off, but we did get some fruit on the Patio Peach that managed to escape the attention of the local squirrels. This is the first year we ever got any fruit off that tree, but I think we harvested it too soon; they were hard as rocks and never did ripen. I had bought a basil and an oregano plant from one of the neighborhood girls who was selling them for some Girl Scout project. As a little bonus, she must've slipped in a few portulaca seeds 'cuz we were surprised with little magenta blooms in both pots. The basil didn't make it (the portulaca now owns that pot), but the oregano is doing great and smells like an Italian restaurant. But neither I nor the Sweet Lady know what we want to do with it.

OH the season is about over and the END darn sure is NEAR .

 

[amigo de christo]

Not this year it was too hot.

I still have ginger, peanuts and sweet potatoes and a few heads of cabbage, out there, but not much else.

I don't even know how well all the above are still doing, because I am done with it.

When its cooler I will see what has survived my neglect.

I start my onions, and garlic in the fall, and I want to try some various cold resistent lettuces in the hooped areas covered with a green house film for the first time, just to see how that goes.

Most of our garden is typically cleaned up before the end of July, not this year, what I left neglected looks dried up and/or fried by the sun. I miss all the green, but that has always been so short lived because of the heat.

Most years in west texas are far too hot to grow anything
lest it be dust .

 

[amigo de christo]

I still have my herbs and they're under plant lights, but I feel disappointed that the season is coming to an end.

We still have a few things for as long as it lasts (bok choy, napa cabbage, kale, etc... zucchini with prayers it will work) but I'm ready for a fuller garden next year.

Here's a picture of our flowering thai basil. I haven't used it for anything. I don't know what to do with it.

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Dont weep dear sister
the season sure is coming to its close and the end sure is near .
You just think about OUR HOME WITH THE GLORIOUS KING who saved us .

 

[Muna]

Most years in west texas are far too hot to grow anything
lest it be dust .

The southern states have two seasons they must mind when planting, the cold and the heat, whereas the northern states just have one to keep in mind (the cold) because their summers are more mild than the south and the heat causes the majority of things to drop their blossoms or bolt and go to seed.

I just hate that dill bolts before the cucumbers come in (to pickle them) and that both the basil and cilantro bolts before the tomatoes come in. Although, for this year I found a real good heat resistent cilantro, Calypso, I tried that this year and it endured better than whatever thing I planted last year (I forget).

I am kind of enjoying the birds a little more, I am officially old. We have just 4 bottle type hummingbird feeders (but only three of them are in use). And these teeny tiny little things drink 5 gallons of sugar water a week. If the price of sugar goes up too much, I am going to have to stop this.

It's a good thing they dont have teeth because they wouldn't be keeping them for long with the amount of sugar these little guys go through.

 

[amigo de christo]

The southern states have two seasons they must mind when planting, the cold and the heat, whereas the northern states just have one to keep in mind (the cold) because their summers are more mild than the south and the heat causes the majority of things to drop their blossoms or bolt and go to seed.

I just hate that dill bolts before the cucumbers come in (to pickle them) and that both the basil and cilantro bolts before the tomatoes come in. Although, for this year I found a real good heat resistent cilantro, Calypso, I tried that this year and it endured better than whatever thing I planted last year (I forget).

I am kind of enjoying the birds a little more, I am officially old. We have just 4 bottle type hummingbird feeders (but only three of them are in use). And these teeny tiny little things drink 5 gallons of sugar water a week. If the price of sugar goes up too much, I am going to have to stop this.

It's a good thing they dont have teeth because they wouldn't be keeping them for long with the amount of sugar these little guys go through.

Methusulah would laugh at you and say you are but a wee toddler . sixty three . Try nine hundred and sixty plus .
Though i have to be very honest , There be only ONE day i look forward too
and it will be in the new heavens and the new earth with THE KING . Beleive me when i say
I dont sit around and visualize myself at old age . I visualize five words .
EVEN
SO
COME , LORD JESUS . now that is a day of upmost beauty for the sheep . Till that day and that hour
TRENCH ON in the LORD .

 

[amigo de christo]

The southern states have two seasons they must mind when planting, the cold and the heat, whereas the northern states just have one to keep in mind (the cold) because their summers are more mild than the south and the heat causes the majority of things to drop their blossoms or bolt and go to seed.

I just hate that dill bolts before the cucumbers come in (to pickle them) and that both the basil and cilantro bolts before the tomatoes come in. Although, for this year I found a real good heat resistent cilantro, Calypso, I tried that this year and it endured better than whatever thing I planted last year (I forget).

I am kind of enjoying the birds a little more, I am officially old. We have just 4 bottle type hummingbird feeders (but only three of them are in use). And these teeny tiny little things drink 5 gallons of sugar water a week. If the price of sugar goes up too much, I am going to have to stop this.

It's a good thing they dont have teeth because they wouldn't be keeping them for long with the amount of sugar these little guys go through.

you would still have nine hundred and six more years to have seen the age of methusulah .
You aint old my friend . just getting older is all .

 

[amigo de christo]

The southern states have two seasons they must mind when planting, the cold and the heat, whereas the northern states just have one to keep in mind (the cold) because their summers are more mild than the south and the heat causes the majority of things to drop their blossoms or bolt and go to seed.

I just hate that dill bolts before the cucumbers come in (to pickle them) and that both the basil and cilantro bolts before the tomatoes come in. Although, for this year I found a real good heat resistent cilantro, Calypso, I tried that this year and it endured better than whatever thing I planted last year (I forget).

I am kind of enjoying the birds a little more, I am officially old. We have just 4 bottle type hummingbird feeders (but only three of them are in use). And these teeny tiny little things drink 5 gallons of sugar water a week. If the price of sugar goes up too much, I am going to have to stop this.

It's a good thing they dont have teeth because they wouldn't be keeping them for long with the amount of sugar these little guys go through.

While its true we are day by day getting older , YOU have to SEE THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL .
day by day and hour by hour , WE JUST that much closer to being forever with THE GLORIOUS LORD .
And paul was right . THAT BE the FAR BETTER place . So lovely it will be .
We can even imagine just how wonderful it will be . But till then , PLANT the heels and point the toes
CAUSE IT MARCHING TIME IN THE LORD .

 

[Muna]

you would still have nine hundred and six more years to have seen the age of methusulah .
You aint old my friend . just getting older is all .

You are only as old as you feel, there are people in their 90's who get around better than people in their 70's and those getting around better in their 60's then some in their 50's so aging is more than just numbers when you think about it.

 

[amigo de christo]

You are only as old as you feel, there are people in their 90's who get around better than people in their 70's and those getting around better in their 60's then some in their 50's so aging is more than just numbers when you think about it.

Got a few aches and pains do you . I understand . beleive me i do my friend .
But look on the bright side , THE LORD IS WITH THE SHEEP . HE BE OUR HOPE , HE BE OUR SALVATION .
Has mr rightis and his brothers come calling . yeah arthur is not body friendly . Always raising up something .

 

[amigo de christo]

You are only as old as you feel, there are people in their 90's who get around better than people in their 70's and those getting around better in their 60's then some in their 50's so aging is more than just numbers when you think about it.

Ol arthur loves to stir up things . Pesky fellow aint he .

 

[Jay Ross]

The gardening season never ends as the preparation for the next gardening season kicks in to preserve the seeds for the season to come when we plant out the seeds for the next harvest of produce. Taking care of the seeds for next years' garden is just as important as watering the seeds to produce the new plants.

 

[BlueNightingale]

The gardening season never ends as the preparation for the next gardening season kicks in to preserve the seeds for the season to come when we plant out the seeds for the next harvest of produce. Taking care of the seeds for next years' garden is just as important as watering the seeds to produce the new plants.

This is true. I have the old marigold flowers drying out to save the seeds for next year.

The rest of it is going to need to wait. And some of it figured out because it's still new to me.

 

[BlueNightingale]

Not this year it was too hot.

I still have ginger, peanuts and sweet potatoes and a few heads of cabbage, out there, but not much else.

I don't even know how well all the above are still doing, because I am done with it.

When its cooler I will see what has survived my neglect.

I start my onions, and garlic in the fall, and I want to try some various cold resistent lettuces in the hooped areas covered with a green house film for the first time, just to see how that goes.

Most of our garden is typically cleaned up before the end of July, not this year, what I left neglected looks dried up and/or fried by the sun. I miss all the green, but that has always been so short lived because of the heat.

How hard is it growing ginger? I've thought about starting it but I don't know what to expect.

I know how to start but in my head, it just all grows under the soil and I'll never notice when it's time. I think it's around $8-9 a pound here so I'm not sure if it's even worth it.

We do go through a lot ginger.

 

[BlueNightingale]

Lol @Truly "When its cooler I will see what has survived my neglect."

That is sometimes the answer for a lot of plants that don't want help.

 

[Muna]

How hard is it growing ginger? I've thought about starting it but I don't know what to expect.

I know how to start but in my head, it just all grows under the soil and I'll never notice when it's time. I think it's around $8-9 a pound here so I'm not sure if it's even worth it.

We do go through a lot ginger.

Yeah, I just love those ginger shots, ever have one of those?

We started ours looking for some healthy organi ginger in the grocery store and looked for ones with what looks like these little sprout nubs on them (thats what you want) and I started mine way too late this year, I should have started them on a heating matt in January, they take about 10 months to fully grow and they are tropical. But I am wondering is if I can still get them to grow (even though what I have will likely not fully mature). I have been regrowing the same ginger from the same grocery store purchase. They are the easiest thing to grow, no fuss whatsoever, and I havent found any pest that even bothers them. Truly an easy thing to grow, we have them in these barrels set around the pool, they just look like minature tropical trees, kind of oranamental. So it has nice greenery but yes it is a root and it multiplies under the soil.

Worth growing because of the expense, I do that with Chimayo peppers because they too are expesive, something $50 a pound the last time I checked, but they grow with absolutely no fuss, so how is that even justified? You might as well grow things that will cost too much to buy these days.

 

[Muna]

Lol @Truly "When its cooler I will see what has survived my neglect."

That is sometimes the answer for a lot of plants that don't want help.

That's how I felt this year, my heart really wasn't in it in the end. I got these weird pepper bugs that were like little vampires, sucking the life out of them.

So I started off excited, and then gradually I ran out of steam and just said, "the heck with you all!"

Then I feel bad, and start looking for survivors, and bringing what I can in.

This is not what I expected for this year. I hear ya.

 

[Lambano]

...and the Kieffer pear tree took the year off, ...

I stand corrected. I found a couple of full-size pears on the ground beneath the Kieffer. I never saw them on the branches. One was too damaged to salvage, but we've got the other on the kitchen counter; let's see if it'll ripen. I've never had one make it past the squirrels this long.