What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Two nights of not-frost, and then 4 nights of frost. I may say it's too risky and pick the 4 (count 'em! 4!) habaneros which is the sum total of this year's harvest.

I'll cover the bean plants when frost threatens. If they make it, good. If not, that's ok, as I'm just trying to get some pods of totally ripe beans for next year's seed.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

no rain here in months either

Ditto that. My entire property, our whole area here, is very dry. We had one day of decent rain back in June. Since then, the so-called "rain storms" always missed us. Very strange.

 

[cj2024]

My biggest concern is the lighting. I'm using grow lights which I usually use for seedlings. Both the cocoa and vanilla bean are rainforest plants which typically live in bright, indirect light. Concerned this might be too much for them... If so, maybe put some cheesecloth or something to use as a filter? Not sure...

This light will fit in your tent, but if you use this type of light with the tent closed you need an exhaust fan to remove the heat or keep the tent door open with a small circulating fan.

I use an extra room with a rated 5x5 grow light on a timer with no tent. I have a small fan circulating the air and I keep the screened window opened. This company is pretty reliable. I can grow one or two Tycoon determinate tomato plant in an earth box with this 5x5 grow light. The one in the picture uses less watts and is rated for a 3x3 tent. It could probably grow only one Tycoon tomato plant.

https://www.phlizonstore.com/products/phlizon-pro-series-2000-led-grow-bar-lights

 

[chickengr]

Yea that is kohlrabi specifically superschmeltz kohlrabi. If you let Vienna get that big it will have the texture and taste of tree bark. For fresh eating it’s hard be beat simply slicing it thin and eating it raw with a bit of salt. It taste sort of like a fresh cauliflower or a turnip.

Most of it will get cubed up into 1 inch ish pieces the blanched and frozen in quart size bags. When I’m ready to eat it I put it into the steamer for 30 minutes to thaw and start to cook then it goes into a casserole dish with butter, cheese, and bacon bits if I have them and cooked until it’s fork tender. It tastes a lot like broccoli when cook that way. My broccoli always goes to seed and kohlrabi always grows well here so every year I plant less broccoli and more kohlrabi

I never manage to cook kohlrabi. I eat them raw, lol.

 

[cj2024]

Today while I was making roast beef sandwiches with a freshly baked sour dough bread, I realized that after I cut the sour dough bread in the middle, the slices on the left and the slices on the right line up, in comparison to pairing slices from just one side where one slice is larger than other. I never thought about it until now. I think it's called an epiphany.

It's like the rack in my Breville Smart Oven, I didn't know I could flip the rack around to adjust the height. One side of the rack is lower and when flipped around the higher side is on top. Then it lines up with the markings on the glass door.

 

[Tstraub]

I never manage to cook kohlrabi. I eat them raw, lol.

I always eat some of it raw. Tossed in a salad is really good in the spring when I have fresh lettuce and cucumbers on hand

 

[jerryse]

Yesterday I took a day of rest plus an afternoon Chiropractor appointment. Feeling much better today. Started and nearly finished a novel while resting. Ran out of interesting movies to watch.

 

[Smokerbill]

Looks like the rainy season is beginning here on Monday, and it'll be too cool for anything to grow much more. So this weekend I'm going to pull out the tomatoes, yellow wax beans, zinnias and marigolds while the soil is still dry.

Then I can start prepping the beds for next year. I'm thinking about converting a couple beds to the hugelkultur system, but that'll take a lot of shoveling. I think I can find enough wood to bury, but not sure if I'm up to the task.

I also need to relocate all the herbs that are growing in what will be next year's tomato patch. Tarragon, oregano, thyme, lemon balm and chives. And a couple marjoram plants (tender perennials) that need to be potted and moved indoors for the winter.

Gotta set up my new rain gauge too.

 

[Minanora]

I stayed so busy yesterday.... Got all the seed garlic planted, cleaned up my shed, did a whole mess of laundry, cleaned our master bedroom, cleaned part of the back patio.

Silverwhite, Inchilium Red, Red Toch, and Early Italian.

We also bought a Toy hauler camping trailer, finally. We will soon have a 22MAV in the driveway. Hooray! Finding and deciding on what camper was a long process.

All in all yesterday I walked 7 miles working on stuff. My back is not super happy with me but I feel very accomplished.

 

[TJAnonymous]

This light will fit in your tent, but if you use this type of light with the tent closed you need an exhaust fan to remove the heat or keep the tent door open with a small circulating fan.

I use an extra room with a rated 5x5 grow light on a timer with no tent. I have a small fan circulating the air and I keep the screened window opened. This company is pretty reliable. I can grow one or two Tycoon determinate tomato plant in an earth box with this 5x5 grow light. The one in the picture uses less watts and is rated for a 3x3 tent. It could probably grow only one Tycoon tomato plant.

https://www.phlizonstore.com/products/phlizon-pro-series-2000-led-grow-bar-lights
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Thanks... My lights are LED so they don't produce heat... But, I think the humidifier is going to be a problem. The tent definitely retains the humidity but now I have water dripping down the walls etc and the outside the the tent is damp. I may need to put it on a separate timer and just run it for a very short period each day