abhege's blog: KEEPING UP

Again, I did a lousy job keeping up here. Would have been nice to have the information to refer back to. That's why I'll try again.

We are having the most unusual November. I'm pretty sure we had a frost earlier than this last year. I am taking advantage of it and still transplanting some potted flowers. Lots of rain last week and predicted for the next week. One day we had 4" ! Everything is soggy.

My cauliflower is doing great. We cut three heads today. Variety was Amazing. Also picked sugar peas, Dwarf Gray. Some carrots and two side shoots of broccoli that were good sized. David also picked the peppers again. A full tub that we gave to friends who do a CSA. She weighed them. Twenty two pounds! So happy they won't go to waste. Hard to believe we are still picking peppers in November!

I saw a zinnia blooming by the compost tumbler at the farm too. A volunteer. Rosemary was in blossom too and I tried to pull a few seeds. The seeds I planted in the garden almost got washed away with all the rain we have been having. I transplanted the teeny, tiny seedling to a bit higher ground. This is actually the first time I have gotten rosemary seeds to germinate. We'll see if they survive the winter.

I think I planted the sugar peas around the middle of August. The cauliflower was started before we went to MI for a family reunion, so mid July. I had lots of broccoli planted too but it all rotted from too much moisture after it germinated. I got one plant. I did plant Purple Sprouting broccoli direct in the garden before we left also. Then after we got back I started more so there are quite a few plants. They over winter and will produce shoots in spring.

My first planting of carrots are ready as well. The beets never matured and the turnips got eaten by some little black bug. I think I got about six small turnips before they finally just all died. I think I planted all of these mid July as well. I have a thick patch of parsnips from seeds my mother gave me in July. She told me to plant them thick and it looks like they pretty much all came up. I also have some onions from seeds I saved from my winter onions that went to seed in the spring. I will transplant them next week if the weather permits and hope I can get some nice onions from them, but I do have many bunches coming from Dixondale sometime next week as well. If I can get them all planted and mulched I may have a good shot at having lots of onions next June.

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