What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

i finished getting one garden ready for .... ground is pretty hard with the lack of much rains. no worms to be found.

the next garden i'll get into will be much easier since i can actually stick my fingers into the soil in some places.

 

[Mini Horses]

@R2elk are the "purple" also purple fleshed?

 

[R2elk]

@R2elk are the "purple" also purple fleshed?

The Purple are purple the whole way through. The Purple Viking are white fleshed.

 

[akroberts]

I harvested some green beans and squash. Have to go back and get the sweet potatoes dug up. Pick more beans and cherry tomatoes. Hoping to get to pick some peppers before the cold kills them off. I opted to leave the sweet potatoes in the ground for a couple more weeks.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I have green things in the ground! Whoop! The bug has bitten hard - going to have to get busy!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Overall, the red corn experiment was a flop. Cleaning out the bed, I found one ear I missed. This is the only ear that was full red.

 

[Mini Horses]

It's a lovely one tho . Next yrs seed!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Found some motivation. Garden beds are cleaned up and ready for winter, with the exception of the "salad" bed which has my late crop of lettuce and chives and the big tater bed.

Asparagus did great. Looking forward to the spring.

Got about a bushel of miscellaneous stuff. Peppers and onions I will chop up and freeze, taters from the small bed will be frozen hash browns, the rest will be side dishes this week

Lots to think about over the winter with this year's experience.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Woo Hoo! You did good! I can only imagine it'll get better and better!

 

[LaurenRitz]

Overall, the red corn experiment was a flop. Cleaning out the bed, I found one ear I missed. This is the only ear that was full red.

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A few things to consider. First, this is NOT a flop.

Second, each of those kernels is made up of a male and female parent. By keeping only the red kernels of the partially red cobs, you're moving closer to your goal.

That entirely red cob is probably self pollinated and both "parents" have the same color genetics. Next year plant only the red kernels.