Birds may be picking off the carrot tops. Try making an arched tunnel out of chicken wire or hardware cloth to protect them.
Ah, the age old battle between man/hungry animals. I'll bet on the hungry animals.Birds may be picking off the carrot tops. Try making an arched tunnel out of chicken wire or hardware cloth to protect them.
Thanks, if I bring in the pepper in, will it continue to produce fruit?I think of all the reasons the expert tomato growers tout for not ripening tomatoes, this time of year it is the cool nights and short days.
Pepper plants are tropical ( or semi-tropical ) perennials so they can be dug up and potted if you get enough roots. It might be good to prune back the plant to match how much root gets pruned digging it up. Some pepper growers prune their peppers in early summer/spring to force more branches for more peppers. I've never tried it and some greenhouse growers prune the pepper way back for Winter dormancy and get a huge crop early the next year if the plant over-winters well.
I have a habenero and a jalapeno in 2 cubic yard pots to go in the greenhouse when it gets cold and maybe come inside when it gets too cold.
They won't like the short northern days but might make it.
Thanks, if I bring in the pepper in, will it continue to produce fruit?
Bring them indoors and put them on a sunny shelf. Or dig out fried green tomato recipes.I have a load of green tomatoes and a hard frost is coming soon. What should I do?
I have a load of green tomatoes and a hard frost is coming soon. What should I do?
That sounds easy, where do you hang the plant?pull up the whole plant, and hang it upside down. some people pull off the leaves, but I never do. They ripen up and stay nice and fresh, and you don't forget about them like you do in a bag!
On a nail in the garage, or a grate insideThat sounds easy, where do you hang the plant?
I'd leave them out as long as night time temps will be above 40F.Looking ahead...next week will be in mid 60's, into mid/hi 70's. If the tomatoes make it tonight, would it be better to leave them through next week?
Any chance you could get some info on what variety of sweet potatoes those were?
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