Veggie Garden in November
I’m happy to see that we can grow veggies through November here. Our peppers are doing better now than they did in Spring. The tomatoes are producing well but now the plants are looking tired. I learned it’s better to cut the Spring tomato plants back in July than to replant for Fall. We make some killer salsa out of the harvest. Our experimental Mexican Piquin Pepper plants that we grew from seed are finally producing their itsy bitsy peppers too.
One of these slides shows prepared ground for Apache and Navaho blackberry plants (to be planted next Spring). We live on “Hills of Whitestone” so I dug out tons of rocks. One of them must have weighed 200 pounds or more because I could hardly even roll it. We then added a few hundred pounds of various composts (and a little cow manure) to help improve the clay soil. Next week we’ll dump a bunch of mulch on top to encourage the worms to keep working for us over the winter.
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1. Sudi | November 21st, 2009 at 4:12 pm
You’re not kidding when you say “killer salsa”. It is truly the best salsa I have ever had…..we buy baked chips and have a feast.
Tonight in fact we are having that for dinner and a movie.
Can’t wait to have my juicy blackberries……thank you darling for all the hard work you’ve put into getting the ground ready.
You are a green thumb….like mother like son
2. Steven | November 21st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Yeah, salsa night!
I think I did get mom’s green thumb. I love gardening… especially growing FOOD.
3. Sudi | November 21st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Lucky for me!
4. Mom | November 21st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Your garden is beautiful. I planted onion sets spinach seeds a week ago and they are now little sprouts. Today I planted radish, beets, poblano peppers and fajita pepper seeds. we will have to wait and see if they grow. It has been getting down to 50 – 55 degrees at night and 70 – 75 during the day. I have cilantro and parsley ready to pick. Keep up the green thumb work.
5. Steven | November 21st, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Wow! Sounds like you can grow whatever you want in the winter.
The more peppers, the better!
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