We are picking up all the loose ends today–
Terry and I ran down early, early this morning to cut some tree limbs, which were too close to the roof on the other house.
We checked to see how the bean crop was doing at the early morning irrigation –the pods are now at the green string bean stage…we need at least three more weeks of growing weather for them to ripen and strip.
The corn is looking good. This is not sweet corn, but the kind of corn you have for cereal, corn bread, and animal food. Harvest for the corn is not until late October or sometime in November.
The alfalfa is coming along nicely. It looks like around Labor day will be third and last cutting of hay.
Boy, the growing season is fast coming to a close!
I’m pleased with my canna bed. This is where we cut down a dead pine tree this winter. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with this area, but I think having the cannas here was a very good thing.
Like most of you, we are having cold temps. It was 47* this morning when we woke-up. Sure feels like fall. Although, we are NOT ready for a freeze. We need the heat to return to be able to get the crops to maturity.
I guess I won’t worry about it…there is nothing I can do anyway.
Your friend as always,
Linda
Such a busy time of year! Love your cannas and Love your stock water tank garden!! Super smokey here this morning and coolish but will warm up . Another cold front due to hit tomorrow evening. Such strange weather!
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It is strange weather. I use stock tanks for everything! Tee Hee
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beautiful skies! in the 80s here and got some much-needed rain, so i’m happy!
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YAY for you!
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Hard not to think about Fall cuz it sure feels like it in the air right now! We too are looking towards what things I’ll bring in to overwinter and such. Your gardens and fields look like they are doing just amazing!
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They are…it would be terrible if we have a freeze now. 😦
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But in farming it is dificult not to worry about the weather isn’t it Linda. Love the cannas.
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Very, I try to not to…but I don’t do very well. As you understand.
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I didn’t have any idea how much work went into running a farm until I started reading blogs. You wear me out. 🙂
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Sometimes I wonder if Terry and I will like being retired with nothing to do. Other times I realize we will LOVE IT!
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Oh, and my cannas from you are lovely this summer
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YAY! I’m so glad!
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Your gardens look amazing Linda. What sort of beans are they? Our cannas got nailed by the frost, but they always come back again. 😃
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I have to take my cannas in every winter. I dig them up and sit them in my basement. The beans are Pinto Beans.
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We need rain badly, and there’s a little bit coming, but it’s being chased by a cold front, so that’s the sting in the tail of winter for us. Not that you’d recognise it as winter, of course! I have so much work to do in the back yard to get ready for spring, and so little time right now it’s not funny, but it’ll all get done somehow… Beautiful cannas, and your white angel trumpet is coming along nicely!
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we need rain here very much, also. The fires from around the North West and Idaho and California and well, you name it, makes a huge need for rain. Right here on the farm, we need rain also. Very much so. 😦
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Holy hell – no wonder you were down quick smart to the other house to remove
those overhanging branches – far TOO close for comfort as a fire hazard to my liking.
The crops all look great and as you say/write now all in the “laps of the weather deities”.
Lets hope the weather holds good for you until the last crop is harvested. My God you
and Terry deserve it after all your labours.
Cannas are quite amazing plants – they seem immune to varieties of weather.
I from my New Guinea days always associated them with the Topics where they
grow whilst you look at them and so many varieties of flower (Bloom) colours and mixtures also
of the bloom colours. They certainly grow well here in Brisbane gardens and even bloomed
profusely in Young, NSW where it does get very cold in winter.
Presently raining here but it is needed to freshen up lawns and garden beds.
This August has been just so un-August like!!! Really August never arrived.
Cheers and fingers crossed for continued good weather for your crops.
Colin
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Thanks, we are going to need all the luck we can get…it seems that fall is quickly arriving.
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The corn, beans and alfalfa are looking really good. Here’s hoping the weather is kind to get them all finished nicely.
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I see you have a Datura, be careful with it….it is very poisonous. We all need days to catch up..or weeks:)
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And a pest of a plant. I had ONE plant 15 years ago…now I have to keep it pulled out or it takes over.
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The big clouds and your lush farm are gorgeous! Lots of good wishes for a bountiful harvest.
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Thank you, Leenie….it’s getting closer
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I dare not ask what hour “early early” is! Praying the weather is just what you need, when you need it.
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We get up at 5, so we were down there at 6.
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beautiful pictures, and you are right..the one thing we cannot control (yet) is the weather, Garden is looking great, fields look splendid and the world is ok…
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🙂
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Crossing fingers for your weather. Worrisome :-/.
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It is!
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I’ll send you some Southern California summer heat diiiirectly! We need those pinto beans to ripen up!
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We do!
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