OK going to try the spanking, just have tons o bees and thought it was being taken care of, but no tomato's would sure mean ya'll are right and I shouldn't assume ...ha ha....well I am going to try this and I will let you kow how it goes...Thanks for helping

I now have around 5 dozen green tomatoes, far and away more than at any time in the past two years. Sucks to think my plants are over 6 months old and aside from a few tomatoes I got in May, these are all I have, but I'll take what I can get. I have to learn to time it better for a good spring harvest with them.

Would like some of y'alls advice...

I completely missed the boat on planting blackberries & strawberries - I was thinking you planted in the spring, but apparently you're supposed to plant in late September/early October. Wouldn't be a problem but, I've already put down about 6" of manure and 6" of hay to compost over the winter on my garden. If I tried to plant them, would the manure kill the plants?

I might just be outta luck as far as next year's berries

Would like some of y'alls advice...

I completely missed the boat on planting blackberries & strawberries - I was thinking you planted in the spring, but apparently you're supposed to plant in late September/early October. Wouldn't be a problem but, I've already put down about 6" of manure and 6" of hay to compost over the winter on my garden. If I tried to plant them, would the manure kill the plants?

I might just be outta luck as far as next year's berries

We're having family over tonight for a big fall harvest dinner. Our daughter gathered these up.

Could I plant some cabbage now? Never have tried it in the Fall.

Nice LSS.

What are those on the bottom row? I have a plant of Santa Fe Chile pepper that went the entire summer with nary a bloom, but now it's covered up. I'm up to about 100 tomatoes on the vine, but most of them a cherry or some kind of red delicious I got from Chickenman.

Next year she'll water it during early morning hours or I'll take away sex.

You ever heard of "Gypsy" onions ? They grow little bulbs on the top of the stalks and when the stalks fall over they re-plant themselves. My dad called them "shall-owes" (maybe a French pronunciation of "shallot" ? ) but they're not shallots.

Mine died out and I've been trying to find them for years. Good strong onion flavor without the bother of seeds.

Walking onions, they're sometimes called. Or topset onions. Or tree onions. As they mature, an odd growth appears at the top of the stem, encased in a shroud that peels back like a snakeskin, revealing a clutch of small, dark-skinned bulblets that send out thin green scapes to dance on the breeze like a many-armed Indian goddess. As the bulblets grow, the weight of them bends the stem toward the soil. Where it touches, the little bulbs sprout, making a new garden for themselves, slowly but purposefully moving away from where I planted them, wandering in search of something better, or maybe just different.

Perennial white topset onions, walking onions, Egyptian onions, winter onions, shallots, multiplier onions and scallions are common names for these onions. These onions can be planted and left in the ground year round.

I remember reading somewhere to plant annual ryegrass in the garden over the winter to promote a more nitrogen rich soil for the spring. Any truth to that? Experiences?

I remember reading somewhere to plant annual ryegrass in the garden over the winter to promote a more nitrogen rich soil for the spring. Any truth to that? Experiences?