Frost has killed my garden

[jinman]

Well Jack Frost has finally had his way with my tomatoes. We have had fresh tomatoes on the vines until last week. Now, my wife has picked the last 15 pounds of semi-ripe tomatoes and they are ripening indoors. I have cherry tomatoes from my garden on every salad and even slicing tomatoes, though they have been pretty small. Kathy put up 8 pints of tomato sauce last week. I feel really lucky to have tomatoes and butternut squash fresh from our garden this late in the year. Does anyone else still have a garden?

 

[tungularafishcamp]

My tomatoes froze out a long time ago but still have some of the heartier greens and broccoli in my hoop house. Everything was froze for the last week hard but we have a few warm days coming so it will be interesting to see if things come back like they did last time. The dark water tank really seems to make a difference in the hoop house, gonna put 3 of them in next year and see how it does.
Rick

 

[randy41]

i've got lettuce, boc choi, spinach, arugula, turnips, and chard in my hoophouse. everything outside froze up last month.

 

[charlz]

I have tomatoes ripening in the house, butternut squash curing in the garage and a freezer full of corn :thumbsup: Garden has pretty much been put to bed for a while, just need to till in a few raised beds if I get the chance.

 

[looknlearn]

Got mostly greens and some carrots and turnips and peas in the hoop house. The rest of the garden has been dead for a month or so.

 

[MarkV]

Jim our last 'maters got too chilled 10 days ago. End of another season. We do have lettuce going and we put in garlic in Oct. which will winter over here.

MarkV

 

[gauthier]

Been eating greens from my garden for a few weeks now,,no turnips yet,,rest is planted in winter rye grass which is up inch or two now.

Least that all growed,my summer garden about all dried up.got a little of everything but little is the word,we had record breaking drought and heat here this summer.

 

[forgeblast]

just have my kale and cabbage up and doing well.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

Turnips and kale coming up great, for me. I have no idea what I did right.

 

[gauthier]

The best thing for me when planting greens,,is first till of course,than sow your seed,than I run over it with tractor[industrial tires],seems to work better than just sowing on tilled ground.

 

[orezok]

We still have about another month til the first frost. Still going strong.

 

[jinman]

We still have about another month til the first frost. Still going strong.

Oh sure! But in the desert you have to pay for bottled water just to keep your plants alive.:laughing:

That's really great that you have such a long growing season. I'd bet some varieties of tomatoes get to be huge bushes before they die. This year, I pruned about 1/2 my plants back to the stems when they started getting diseased. Sure enough, they sprouted out and and produced tomatoes again by the end of the season. I also bought several yellow and red cherry tomato plants when Walmart was closing out their inventory. All those have produced really well up until the frost finally got them.

I envy all you guys with winter gardens in your greenhouses/hoophouses. I eventually want to build one, but just haven't got it done with all the other projects on my plate. Some day. . . .

Oh yes... I noticed Harbor Freight has their 10' x 12' greenhouse on sale for $699. That's a pretty good price for such a big greenhouse.

 

[jimmyj]

Our garden got frosted about the end of Sept. I was able to keep a few things going in the greenhouse till mid Oct but then I gave up having to keep the heat on. Time to think of spring.........

 

[looknlearn]

Jim our last 'maters got too chilled 10 days ago. End of another season. We do have lettuce going and we put in garlic in Oct. which will winter over here.

MarkV

We put garlic in last month also. We wouldn't know what to do without our supply of garlic. :licking:


For the sake of pictures, I'll try to post some pictures of our hoop house and the greens inside. I'll try to get to it tomorrow.

 

[MarkV]

We put garlic in last month also. We wouldn't know what to do without our supply of garlic. :licking:


For the sake of pictures, I'll try to post some pictures of our hoop house and the greens inside. I'll try to get to it tomorrow.

Please do post some photo's. I have visited up your way in the winter. :shocked: More power to you if you can keep things growing.

It is easy here in my area. Plant in Oct. and harvest in July. We do mulch it in for some protection.

MarkV

 

[jimmyj]

Do you have a problem with rodents under the mulch?

 

[MossRoad]

Ours frosted out a couple months ago, then we got warm again. Heck, I saw a toad hopping around on November 11th! Crazy weather! :confused2:

 

[looknlearn]

Well, here are the pictures. Tell me if the pictures are to big, to small,want more, or closer pictures.
The hoop house is 72ft x 21ft







Here is a picture of the garlic bed.


We plant it in beds instead of rows to conserve space and planted somewhere around thirty pounds of garlic in these two beds. The plants are 6inches apart in every direction. We normally mulch with straw but I'm not sure what we are going to mulch it with this year if we can't find straw. Hay isn't good to mulch with unless we want a hay field the following year.

We also have cold frames that we have carrots and greens in. Nothing beats winter carrots.:licking:

 

[jinman]

looknlearn, that's not postin', that's braggin'! Wow! NICE! I am so jealous. I can just taste all that good stuff. I just moved my greenhouse up a few lines on my to-do list.:thumbsup:

BTW: I had some mulch that sat out all summer and got rained on several times. The bags had some holes and got soaked with water. When my wife when to spread the mulch last week, it was full of termites.:shocked: I told her to go ahead and spread it because as soon as it dried out the termites would die. It's been very dry here and I hope my advice was correct.

 

[forgeblast]

what are the blue barrels for? and did you make the frame yourself?