Planting November 2023 Planting and Chat Thread

[packyderms_wife]

Planting Calendar - Gardening by the moon

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• 1st – 3rd
  Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Best planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable.
• 4th – 8th
  Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests. Last four days are good harvest days.
• 9th – 10th
  Favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 11th – 12th
  Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South.
• 13th – 15th
  Poor planting days.
• 16th – 17th
  Good days for planting peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
• 18th – 19th
  A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
• 20th – 21st
  Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops where climate allows.
• 22nd – 23rd
  Seeds planted now will grow poorly and yield little.
• 24th – 25th
  Fine for planting beans, peppers, cucumbers, melons, and other aboveground crops where climate is suitable.
• 26th – 28th
  Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
• 29th – 30th
  Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Best planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable.

 

[seraphima]

Just did another dryer load of kale chips.

I think I will pull the plants next warmish day (over 40 anyways), pick the rest of the leaves, swish the soil on the roots off, and toss the old plants. I don't compost them so as not to carry over plant borne pests or disease. That bed won't have brassicas again for 2 or3 years, as I practice a strict rotation. So, the water with the washed off soil can go back in the bed the kale came out of, and that should cut any problem there. Root maggot overwinter in the plant itself.

Most of the rest of the garden is put to bed. Still have a lot of calendulas blooming between frosts as they are very hardy. those will just stay in the soil to hold it through the winter and be removed and composted in the spring.

 

[paxsim2]

We have turnips, radishes and beets coming up in fact we've had several radishes. Tomatoes in the greenhouse are growing almost too well. Then there are 4 plants out in the garden area that have many tomatoes coming on. We'll watch the weather and move them inside again when it becomes necessary.

 

[dioptase]

I'm pretty much putting the garden to bed this weekend, as I'm having my first knee replacement surgery on Tuesday. So I've been deadheading the society garlic, and dividing whatever I could of the irises and potting them (I had to do several gopher rescues, hence the potting), and flinging fertilizer hither and yon on various ornamentals.

In the kitchen garden, we still have basil, peppers and some green tomatoes; I'm going to have to task DH (black thumb) with harvesting/caring for them. Plus the perennial herbs (mints, rosemary, chives, garlic chives).

I'd be out there today, but we're supposed to have new ovens delivered (the top of our current duo died earlier this week), and since DH can't hear anyone at the door, I'm stuck indoors (and fuming). (He just called them up to get an ETA, and got hung up on!)

I might do a little indoors gardening, in the form of starting daylily seeds, or just potting up some rooted basil, until I can be out and about again (without a walker or cane... I dug up some irises last weekend, and let me tell you, that's not easy to do one-handed, while leaning on a cane!). I'm still waiting on my amaryllis to die back, so I can give them a little cold fridge time and then restart them again.

 

[seraphima]

Put all the eggshells I've been saving on a cookie sheet and gave them the first crush, then stuck the pan in the oven to keep drying. Next time i bake something, i will put the pan in at the end to use the heat to roast them, then crush them with a rolling pin. The crushed and baked shells are then spread over garden beds, or sometimes go into the compost bin. Drying and baking them this way means that critters dn't get into them, and when I used to keep chickens that they didn't turn the chickens into egg cannibals. Have found i have to write down where the shell bits are put, getting a mite forgetful of details. Had my birthday this past weekend- now am 76.

 

[Border Collie Dad]

I'm getting ready to transplant a tomato plant to see if I can grow it in my basement.
I have lights.

I miss having good tomatoes.
I have a couple Brandywines that are indeterminate and will keep producing.
(I hope)