Time is flying. Amazingly it is faster this year than ever before. Didn’t Winter just end, the sun just start being out more each day, when now it’s out less each day, and the temperatures aren’t AS tough, it’s backwards Spring. But it was just Spring.
My garden is a mass of dead plants and weeds, with one lone Cauliflower ever strangling taller and taller, looking ugly, not producing a thing. Actually, my garden was rather like that since Summer began. Spring it was working, and then, blahdom set into it. If I had the time to be in it noon and night it still would have gone sour. It’s just that ugly spot of land, that ugly Summer we had too. But it was a blink of an eye. A dream I had one night.
So now it is October. Good beer month.
I have one tomato plant that popped up not to long ago in the middle of the yard. Right now there are 10 tomatoes on it in various stages of development, as well as more blooms ever opening to be fertilized or not. It has been a gift. It would be somewhat connected with the hens, in that I gave them some tomatoes a few times this past summer, and they were penned in that area then too. One way or another, one nice plant sprouted up. I saw the leaves popping out from amongst the too long weedy yard, so I smooshed the weeds down to investigate it. I knew it was a tomato plant just from the couple of leaves visible. Oh what a nice plant it was! So I ran and found a tomato cage and propped it up nice and tidy. Pulled some weeds out that were near it and just have been nice to it ever since, pulling off extra leaves, moving a branch in the cage for better support.
We have another month and a half before first normal frost. I think I just might get tomatoes from this plant. That’ll be nice, since my real plants all were horrible this year. I have do a raised bed for them next year, no doubts about that. I think that the method I found this year, one plant in the middle of the yard, is a clue as to what’d be good to do.
I think it best for me to plant tomato plants later in the year, not in Spring. And plant them in various non-garden spots throughout the yard. Take a plug of grass and earth out, and put in the tomato plant. Grass will overtake it by Spring, and the spot will be ready to be used for a tomato again another year or so, but that the very next year it’ll just be grass and the tomatoes of that year will be in other little spots here and there.
Well, that’s a maybe solution to having nicer tomatoes. In the South there really are two planting seasons, and I’d really like to take advantage of them by growing some things earlier, and other things later. That’d help me not be so overwhelmed as to failure garden-wise. 🙂
So I’m happy to see October arrive, and hope to find some fresh North Georgia Apples soon, and hope to have some lovely tomatoes from the middle of my backyard soon! I’ll see about a tent to protect it soon enough, in case of early frost. That’s not so hard, to figure out a tent for one lonely plant 😉
A brief note about the hens: They have been molting for too long, and we’ve had no eggs from them since about September 10th, and most of them quit laying before that. It’s quite frustrating, and I hope to get a better set-up for them with lighting, so that maybe they’ll start to lay and keep laying all Winter. Any way, the Leghorns are the problem, I figured they’d lay all summer and fall and then do them in. They are in there eating and not laying though for a couple of months, so …. I want some eggs out of them! If we did them in, we’d only have 8 hens. 8 hens that are never every day layers. I need some new stock, and want to get the pens figured out and really just DO IT! This month would be the month to get babies. Hmmm.
So Happy October to y’all!
6 responses to “Happy October!”
My garden looks awful now, too – the gourds growing on a trellis are all turning brown and dying, the cantalaupes never amounted to much in the first place. The tomatoes have grown out the tops of their cages and they’re all leggy and brown underneath… The summer gets so hot here that I just stop working out there.
I should try to garden earlier, and again this time of year. I don’t remember what time our first frost comes, but since we’ll likely be moving next year I’m reluctant to plant much more…
Hi Marysue!
This is an off-topic comment.
I recently switched to Foxfire and just noticed the icon here at your blog! I’m liking it alot as well as using and liking Thunderbird for email. I’m having trouble logging into admin for my blog though so I’m still using Explorer when I have to update. Any suggestions? Also, an error keeps occuring and closing down my program when trying to import my bookmarks, etc. I haven’t taken the time to research this and since I noticed you using Foxfire, I thought I’d ask and see if you had any suggestions…
Hope you are having a great day,
Scratch the not being able to login to my blog with Foxfire…fiddled with it and it’s working now. Still not able to import from Explorer. Any ideas?
LOL FIREFOX!! Guess my brain likes how it sounds the other way… 😛
Tamara, I started to reply yesterday and looked for some other info during that time and closed the browser window that had my reply comments in it. 🙁
So about importing bookmarks, I’ve had trouble too, and the easiest way is to install Firefox and let it autoimport them when you firsttime open it, and if that doesn’t work …
I know it works to make an html page of links for it, that works.
The A HREF = tag with the URL between ” ” and then the Name of the link with the ending A tag coming after.
I mean not even an HTML page, just open up a NOTEPAD window, and put your links in like that, and save it as an html page, without having to input any html other than the actual links. Then open up Firefox’s Manage Bookmarks, and drag that html file of links to where you want the list … I think that’s what I do, or try IMPORTING it if that doesn’t work. I do think it’s the first way.
Bad workout might be to import IE Links to Netscape, if you have that … Netscape is a heavy version of Mozilla, so the bookmarks work the same way, an HTML page is made of them … so you can fiddle with it that way, if you have Netscape, since that should work to import … oh well, I’m confusing myself nearly!
I haven’t looked into the whole import thing with FireFox, just do know that the way to import links with it seems to be one link at a time, which is ridiculous, and that I know it asks you to import or not from IE when first start after install happens. And then the only way I’ve found afterwards to get more than one link at a time in is to make an html link page for them.
Does that make sense? I don’t have the problem of it closing down on me or anyhthing when I try to import links, but I do have it not doing what I think it will, and being weird, like not being able to import a folder of links.
Worse case, open IE and go to each bookmarked site and copy the URL to the Firefox Address bar and either do the save bookmark thing, or do what I do, make a toolbar for my links and drag each new site onto the link toolbar. Just a few ways to work around it. I haven’t , I think I’ve already said above, looked into it as a troubleshooting problem, yet.
Hope something helps!
Tamara, Firefox Foxfire, same thing to me 😉
I didn’t even realize the flip flop until you showed it to me!
Makes me wonder if I’ve done it myself …
Firefox, though invokes a scene in my head, for some reason, from the movie Independance Day, when they fire their weapons … they say Fox and Fire in their talk at those points. 😆