Pragmatic Gardener

This is part 2 of my next year plan. After the last one got so long, I decided to save the plant section for this week. I have several things I am going to try next year. I have a few new plants, I will be trying. In addition, I will be attempting several failures…

Here in Oklahoma, we are in the last few weeks of the season. Soon my days will consist of pulling plants, hauling compost and laying out mulch, to put the beds into sleepy time mode. Before that happens, there is still much picking and plucking to do in the garden. However, it is time to…

This a weird time of year. There is very little to do on the garden but wait. My peppers are in overdrive. My tomatoes have put on one more flush of fruit. Okra is going on doing okra things and will soon be allowed to seed for next year. The shift from salads to soup…

Honestly, I was out of my garden for about 10 day this month. My cucumbers finally gave up the ghost but everything else is going full fruiting. My peppers are reaching their big flush. The tomatoes have put on their Fall flush as well. As tradition states for 2021, my Fall garden is failing though…

If you are followed me for any length of time, you know that my Dragon Egg Cucumbers have gone crazy this year. One of the issues with such a bountiful harvest is how to keep it all from going bad. Traditionally, you pickle cucumbers to preserve them. This is less than ideal for a slicing…

Back a week or so ago, I was talking with one of my online buddies about my Dux D’Espagne peppers and the fact that they were all suffering from Blossom End Rot. The cause of this disease is a lack of calcium. The thing is the soil is pretty rich in calcium. It is fairly…

So I had a bit of an issue with the Fall garden. My Summer garden keeps going. If you care about what wrenches got chucked into the gears then you can read it here. With the fall of my Fall Garden, I need a new strategy to keep my garden productive for a few more…

This week has been a strange one. I have been away from my garden for 5 days and everything is a bit crispy at the moment. I have decisions to make and I am not sure which direction to do. Mirroring other elements in my life, I am at a crossroads, though this one is…

Another month, another update on my weird experiments in the garden. In my last Garden Update, I told of my dead dragon fruit. It is still dead. I have yet to get the time and will to try again. I will before the end of the year, maybe. My Chinese peppers, Jelly Melons and my…

At the beginning of the season, I screwed up. I mixed up my blue cream, yellow pear and beef steak tomato seedlings. As a result of that screw up, I made the decision to not single stem them immediately and wait to do it later in the season. After the best growing season I have…