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Chilly Weather

10/22/2014

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With the cool Fall weather upon us you must get your sweet potatoes dug. Sweet potatoes don't like cool soil and you run the risk of the tubers rotting in the ground, don't procrastinate!
When you dig the tubers, save all the little pieces that aren't big enough to eat. Dry and cure your tubers and the put the little tubers in a paper bag and store in an out of the way place where it will stay cool and dark. Next spring those pieces will become your very own planting stock.

Also with the cool weather be prepared to cover your remaining tender crops left from the summer. I'll protect the last of the peppers, eggplants and beans. When it gets cool my garden looks like a JC Penny white sale. Use old sheets and blankets, these will breathe and won't have to be removed early in the morning when the sun comes up. Plastic is not good for this project, plastic is not a good insulator and will have to be removed before the sun scalds the plants under plastic.

Possibility of a frost tonight here on the farm so I covered the last bean crop that is blooming and has tiny beans trying to make a crop. I'm taking a chance with the peppers and eggplants, a lite frost will only burn a few of the top leaves.
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Garlic

10/10/2014

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 With the calendar changing to October it's time to plant garlic. And if you are planting by the moon, we are past the full moon for the month and the next two weeks are perfect for planting garlic. So yesterday I planted!!
  Garlic is one of those easy crops to grow and the seed catalogs have many varieties to choose. I stick with my favorites, a German Porcelain and an elephant garlic. I plant leftover stock from lasts year's crop as garlic is one of those crops that will replenish itself. If you didn't save some of your last crop you can order online from any of many sources. Another option is to buy a few garlic bulbs at the grocery to plant. Be advised, grocery garlic has been treated with a sprout inhibiter so it won't sprout in the store but if you plant these bulbs they will eventually sprout and grow.
Planting is easy, separate the bulbs into individual cloves and plant the garlic cloves 4-6" apart. The depth of planting should be twice the height of the cloves...most cloves are 1" tall, plant them 2" deep.
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