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Year of the Patriot: Gardens
Marc St Louis:
Looks like a family operation going on there. Fall is a busy time for farmers
Good days are in short supply up here. Pretty well nothing but rain and cool weather for the last couple months. Good for some thing like Rutabaga, Beets and Parsnips which have done well this year. Didn't get any freezing weather till a couple nights ago though which is unusual as we generally get some frost by early October.
Stoker:
Got a few herbs to dry and some celery left other than that frost got everything
bjrogg:
Same here Marc. Except we haven’t had a frost yet. I think tonight we will get a good frost. Still a lot of green leaves on the trees yet.
The crops did really well here this year. Our sugar beets are absolutely amazing. To amazing. At this point we don’t think there’s any way we can process our entire crop before it spoils on piles next April.
We are at this point instructed to not harvest 5% of our crop.
The beets we dug today are running over 47 tons per acre. Normally 37 would be pretty good bragging yields. The really crazy thing is these are not our best beets. I had to replant this field and it has a reduced stand.
The sugar content is pretty low yet. Hopefully it comes up some after frost and some sunshine.
Right now we would trade tons for sugar content.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
A couple pictures of the sunrise this morning.
Bjrogg
PaulN/KS:
Just came in from pulling the pepper and tomato plants.
Still need to haul off the piles of dead plants, clean up the scattered funky tomatoes that are on the ground and put away the cages.
2021 garden is officially over and we did pretty well this year with the veggies and fruit. Time to let the ground rest till next Spring.
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