Doug Green's Garden

Rolling into the last week of August - we've had lots of rain this week and I'm about to start dismantling the hoses and irrigation system. No more water to the perennials for sure although I will leave the veggie garden hoses out there.

Cool weather has slowed down our tomato harvest a bit (not impressed) and we need a week of really warm weather to kick it all into high gear again.

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You may be interested in this link about how I've withdrawn from all Social media for 99 days. Taking the 99 Days Without Facebook challenge. There's likely the first week's progress report on the same page. (it's scheduled but not printed at this time of writing)


So yes, not doing anything in the way of social media.


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I did put one article up this week It's a bit of a report on our gardens and some of the things we're doing (with pictures)



No articles about perennials but a ton of new insect pics uploaded and identified

Unfortunately, I didn't get to the question queue this week. ;-( Seems there was always something else going on to steal the time.

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Early Frosts?

If you have an early frost - keep this in mind. Do not use plastic to protect your plants. Use old sheets and soak them. If there's a frost, the water on the sheets will freeze - give up its heat and your plants will take several degrees of frost. Plastic will just let the cold through.

Failing having some old sheets, put the water sprinkler on just before bed so the leaves are soaked and then first thing in the morning before the sun gets to warm up the garden - water and soak everything again. The water will do the same thing - give off heat as it freezes and just a layer of water on the leaf will give several protection through several degrees of frost.

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Questions.

I'm still working on the queue so please have patience. Watch this spot for the next question open period. Thanks for your patience

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Twenty Bucks Off the Craftsy Course

Craftsy Link - one more time at $20 off the course cost. (yeah, that's 50%)