Living in Texas, there are two seasons we all look forward to. Spring and Fall. Spring brings sunshine and warmer days, knowing full well its gonna get hotter than Hades soon. Fall brings much needed relief from the Dog days of summer. We've endured the second hottest and driest summers in Texas history this year. Over sixy days (I'm to lazy to look up exactly how many just now) of 100+ temps. You could count how many times it has rained this summer on one hand. After the record heats this summer I am so glad to see cooler weather. We had a cold front move in today with a little bit of rain. It only got up to about 78 degrees here today.
Don't laugh, thats pretty drastic here! Cloudy and overcast.....wow I had forgotten what that was like!
The forecast has been calling for it for a couple of days now. Which kinda messed up my plans for working in the garden on my days off (Wed-Thur). But hey, bring on the rain. I re-arranged my plans and went to the local nursery yesterday. I picked up my fall veggie starts. (Next year I am going to try my hand at starting my own) We put in broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and cabbage. I've never grown any of these so we shall see!
I was so sure that it was going to rain today that I didn't even water them in. Imagine my delight about midnight last nite to hear raindrops on the roof. I went back to sleep, knowing that all those little plants were going to be fine!
This is my first fall garden ,and after the dismal start a few weeks ago. I wanted something in the ground that I could see. Other than the winter squash, which is looking really good, all the planting I did resulted in about 12 turnip plants and 1 lettuce plant coming up. It was still to hot to plant is my guess. I still want to put in some more turnips (we love the greens too) and start staggering some spinach. I'd like to do a little lettuce, but its just the two of us...and honestly how many salads can you eat. Hmmm, maybe I could stagger that out too? Any thoughts?
And now the confession.
When I started this post I was going to tell ya'll how good it was to pull out my flannel PJ bottoms instead of putting on another pair of shorts! Yeah, I know its still warm here but there is something I find comforting in a old soft pair of flannel pants!
Hey.... I'm just saying.....
You go girl! I'm so proud of you...look at you! Starting a FALL garden, when you barely even had a garden up to now. You are a true survivor!
ReplyDeleteAs far as lettuce goes, it's really an empty veg...no value, it just sits there and holds your dressing for you, lol. We do spinach salads only here. Makes it worthwhile to me.
You go girl! I'm so proud of you...look at you! Starting a FALL garden, when you barely even had a garden up to now. You are a true survivor!
ReplyDeleteAs far as lettuce goes, it's really an empty veg...no value, it just sits there and holds your dressing for you, lol. We do spinach salads only here. Makes it worthwhile to me.
good for you Sci. I hope the Fall garden fares better than your summer garden. :D
ReplyDeleteI like to wear flannel nightgowns when it gets cold :)
Have a good one!
Hugs~Felinae~
I discovered flannel PJ bottoms about three years ago when my kids got me a pair for Christmas. Oh my, what nice snuggy comfort wear in cooler weather! I now own about six pair!
ReplyDeleteYour fall garden sounds great and I'm sure you're right about the earlier fall garden fizzling just because of the unusual heat we've had this year. We do salads for supper twice a week and like iceberg lettuce, but I don't know if it grows well here. We both love spinach ...but not as a salad. I've heard the 'empty vegetable' thing before about lettuce, especially iceberg ...but, hey ...we like what we like. There is so MUCH more to a salad than the lettuce anyway. We have carrots, tomatoes (YOF likes cherry tomatoes, I like any tomato), radishes if we have them, and a few green onions occasionally. Besides the veggies, I put a little shredded cheese on top and sometimes a hard boiled egg (1 egg sliced up between us). YOF turns his nose up at the idea, but I also like a few sunflower seeds on mine.
You are doing awesome gardening SF! Think how much you have learned and shared!!
ReplyDeleteI hate winter but I get a warm, cozy feeling with fall coming and I love my PJ's - forget glamour - go for comfort and warmth!!