With the freeze coming, I had just hours to make my move.
Plants like Pitaya (Dragonfruit), GAC Fruit, and some Tamarillos were moved inside while the peppers and herbs were harvested one last time. In the end, I'll call it a success. It's a hard time of year to watch the garden die, but we saved what we could. Now, we wait for spring.
We moved what we could, and harvested what we could. Now, I've got a year to work on a geothermal greenhouse with a built in rocket mass heater... I'll get started as soon as I can.
SAVING THE GARDEN VIDEO
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-my-bathroom-jungle
Until next time…
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Big ups homie @papa-pepper. I thought Dragon Fruits only grew in Asia..
It seems a lot of people are growing them all over these days.
This is changing my entire perspective on 'indigenous'
You are an amazing and inspirational homesteader. Saving plant from freeze is a nice idea.
Send invitations to Papa-Pepper Jungle House!😃🌱🌴🌳🌵🌲 You're a Plant Superhero!👍😄
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LOL - The bathroom is a jungle indeed!
Ahah😂 I hope there isn't many dangerous savage animals inside!🤣🦁
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Best things to do to save the fruit how are you doing papa and the family
That's awesome! Hopefully the transplanted ones will last that much longer and you'll get a little more harvest from them. Glad you were able to get a lot of it in!
Yeah, I hope I can replant them next year.
While we get really cold here in SA and our homestead has frost in the gardens and snow on the mountains it's not as cold us you. Good thing you're a diligent gardener tending that vulnerable plants @papa-pepper
Rocket mass heater... sounds like some kind of space vehicle. Any who have a garden always enjoy that harvesting, a time when we can celebrate... and eat the "fruits of our labor" sad as it is to see the end of our gardening because of the change of seasons, we look forward to the coming of spring to start all over... it's the "circle of life" :-)
Yup, at least we can begin again in the spring.
Awesome man! Wow that is a lot of work to prep for the freeze. I don't have to do much work here. I do move my mango trees around to the other side of the house for the intense summer heat, then back to my patio for fall, winter, and spring. This also reminds me of the time I had an indoor hydroponics system in my kitchen nook of my house. I had lights on from 7am until 11pm. And they were bright! I think people may have thought I was growing weed in there. haha Ultimately I took the system down.
in my case .. am worried my new green house isn't warm enough if it snows
some of my tropical plants dont seem to look very happy atm
That time of year. We just had our first snow this past Friday. :}
Sounds like we might get some tomorrow. How long is your sister and her husband around?
They leave on the 17th. Jebi and Abi leave around the same time.
We were busy with my folks in town this weekend, but we'd love to make a quick trip up.... I'll talk to @mama-pepper and see. I'll call up early this week.
Sounds like a plan. :)
I love to see winter shows at this time of year. It's damned hot here. The seasonal changes seem to mean a lot of work for you guys
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Looking forward to following your greenhouse build.
I completely relate, except that my jungle is mostly in our living room, and I additionally have to protect our plants from being peed on by our cats. Aarrgghh.
Over the next couple of days I'll be moving the majority into the other house, with no cats to deal with, but at the moment our sliding glass door lock is jammed. Hopefully Marek can help me unjam it today before he leaves.
Right there with you regarding the greenhouse with rocket mass heater.
I'm planning to put up a couple of small greenhouses initially, that I'll be able to grow some cool weather crops and greens in, but my ultimate goal is to have a large one that I can keep at 60 degrees consistently. This will allow me to have my chaya and pittayas and the rest in the ground, as they prefer, and with some supplemental lighting they'll still be able to put on some growth through the winter.
In the meantime, I'm looking at other ways of providing some of our own heat, from solar panels to Stirling engines, and of course a rocket mass heater, which I'm planning to put in the basement of our other house.
There is nowhere to put one in the main house as I don't trust the floors with that kind of weight.
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Well...I didn't get to my naranjilla before the frost! I was planning on trimming it back and bringing it in. I as well didn't have enough growing time to ripen all the fruit on it. This plant was started indoors in January and still didn't have enough time to fully mature the fruit. Oh well it was something new to try this year, probably won't grow it next year.
BONUS: There is a rabbit trying to hunker down in this picture, can anyone spot it?
Looking good! It's very satisfying to get that all done!