If you put some plants in containers, you can take them inside when the weather starts to turn cold and place them in a sunny window. We have fresh herbs year-round this way.

 

I've got both a Meyer Lemon and some kind of an Orange Tree going in containers that will definitely be my biggest 'Houseplants' next winter
The Meyer has a bout a half dozen or so lemons starting on it already, tho' it's still kinda puny from being shipped...

The tomatoes are bearing now - about chest height. Spuds are all up, and some are a foot tall. I went in between the rows with all sorts of peppers - so about forty "Yukon Gold" spuds, maybe 35 or so peppers, 36 tomatoes, and I'm hatching out basil, celery, & eggplant.

I have watermellon and cantloupe, and I relented and started a punkin' last month to give it lots of time (But ONLY ONE!!)

My shrub line on both sides of the house are nearly complete. Some kind of euonymus looking bushes that grow locally in the woods.

On top of everything else, one of the neighbors gave me a full set of Yucca plants that I used to further line my driveway to keep people who CAN'T (F)ing DRIVE from even poking they front grill down my driveway!!!

All sorts of stuff going on. This AM I rounded up near 20 bushels of clippings in about 45 minutes flat. Tomorrow I can get an equal mount if I need to from the right of way that the county always hacks to pieces

The yard itself is much improved, the bare patches are exposed yes - but winter rye grass will fix that. Meanwhile the doggoned clover is going by-by fast, since no weed seeds are left to root up.

 

Sounds like one wolf is staying too busy to chase after little porcine neighbors....

 

Harvested some more lettuce AND enough yellow wax beans for last night's dinner. Also got about a dozen hot banana peppers. Tomatoes are about golf ball sized at this point.

 

I added 9 rows of corn and a few more rows of beans this weekend.
I went with the Incredible and the ambrosia corn this year. I hear it is great.

 

I have to start a killing spree, not certain if a 22LR is enough for groundhogs, they are eating it up as soon as it gets a foot high.

 

On the bright side....groundhogs/woodchucks are pretty good eatin'. Just make sure to remove the sweat glands under the front legs.

 

I'm not interested in eating them, they aren't good unless corn fed.

 

I picked another 2 gallons of leaf lettuce, 8 cucmbers, 4 hot peppers, a handful of beans and a handful of peas this morning. I also harvested 2 types of basil along with some spearmint & peppermint. Weeded and fertilized the garden as well. I generally give it some 10-10-10 mixture once a month.

 

What do you bo with spearmint and peppermint, I used to have some.

 

I put in in my tea (iced or hot). Also can be used in baking cookies, baking certain dishes and in mixed drinks. It's really good in sun tea.....iced down with a sprig of mint for decoration. Very refreshing on a hot afternoon.

 

My ex dried it, and mixed in bath salts, worked good.

 

I need to find a way to deal with digging toads - they live in the first few inches of ground, go after the grubs and bugs, and tear the daylights out of the roots of plants.

They GOTTA GO!

Just like moles - but they proliferate by the hundreds


I want something that doesn't just drive them off for a while, but kills them off for good and all...

 

A couple rat snakes,maybe?

 

So I need to build some kind of a "Snake Lodge" that will or may attract the poisonous ones? No deal...

I've laid out some rat traps, and I doubt those fat suckers look where they land after they hop!

What Mark needs is some kind of passive system that works 24/7 without oversight.

May I suggest WIRE SNARES and bottlenecks that they have to go through?
(This is poacher strategy, and is highly effective if done well)

~Don't ask....

On the bright side, I have given away a few ten pound cucamongers. I expect them to run out to four foot long eventually, as they are another "WEEKS SEED Co." speciality


I did plant them too thickly - so eventually (and as much as I don't want to) some of them may have to be WACKED