10-17-2023, 11:04 PM
(10-16-2023, 05:23 PM)jjannie Wrote: Well, yesterday we selected the bell peppers that we will winter over for next year. Doing this, we definitely got more peppers on the ones we had wintered over. It just gives us more peppers and its pretty simple to do. They get SO full of peppers we learned they'll need to be staked or caged when we put them back out next spring.
We also started seeds in the inside (grow towers) for later this winter. So far, we've been very happy to have fresh stock of salad makings. We even found a container version of a cherry tomato that has produced well it. Broccoli, we use its leaves for darker greens in our salads - we never get to them or the cauliflower to make heads/crowns - add some nutrients than just having straight lettuce.
Each week we clear out some garden stuff to toss in trash - winter composting never works for us. Jeff has been cleaning out the pond to remove plant growth that'll die and make it hard on the fish. We lost quite a few last year even though we did some of that last year. So we're hoping to not lose any this winter.
They shut off our secondary water now but my garden had been going down hill for weeks. Now it's time to start pumping water from my big water tank, to finish off the year. It's going to be interesting to see how your bell peppers do next year, good to hear the first year over wintering worked out so well.