Before and After the FROST
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- čas přidán 16. 10. 2018
- A tour around the farm looking at several areas before a hard frost, and then revisiting the same crops and places to see the effects of a hard frost. The potato fields were well killed down, and not before time. The tomatoes and uncovered peppers in the high tunnel were severely damaged, but it the plants were in decline in any case. The eggplants in another house weathered the cold with flying colors and were fine. Also a brief look at our Musa basjoo Hardy Banana, both before the frost, and then after harvesting the leaves for tamales, and the remnants were blasted by frost. More or less the end of the warm season crops here on Oxbow Farm, although the eggplants will be kept going as long as possible.
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Thanks for the tour. Here in Cape Breton, our last frost was June 17 and our Fall frost was Sept 20. It was a good growing season though with just the right amounts of sun and rain.
We just got drenched. My buddy Nathan in Rhode Island had drought. Go figure.
The cold icy grip takes hold! I enjoyed the tour of the greenhouses! Lol, I totally understand that list of things I was going to do quickly....in the Spring:))
I hope that you can overwinter your banana plants and eventually have a 50 foot MEGA row. Those tamales looked delicious!!
I have high hopes and much gratitude for the original pups EA.
That's exactly what happened to me. Temperatures went too low to see any differences in frost resistance. Maybe next year :)
I did not know that blight resistance and late season cropping are linked, that's good to know. But is blight really a concern for you? For me in 4 of 5 years frost comes before blight, so I'm not really concerned about breeding for high blight resistance.
Those eggplants look fabulous! How do you keep away the spider mites? My plants usually get thrown out mid summer because they are totally covered with those ugly beasts.
I can just speak for the European strains of Jalapenos, but I had good success with early ripening on Purple Jalapenos, two crops actually and they are so beautiful deep dark red when ripe. And Brown Jalapenos, a Mutant with German origin. Santa Fe Grande is not a Jalapeno, but I get two good ripe crops from it too and for me it's close enough. I do not get the skin cracks, in lack of high temperature, anyways.
The list of late ones is way longer lol I won't grow Farmers Market or NuMex varieties again, the Spice series (lemon, orange and pumpkin) was especially awful in being late and unhappy about cold nights.
Hey Torp! Actually compared to Europe, our danger from late blight is hugely lower. As I understand it, in Europe they have both mating types of late blight present in all of Europe, which means that the blight can form oospores that can overwinter. We don't typically see blight most years, and then every once in a while we get it very severely extremely early. The other thing about late blight in N. America in recent decades is that it is adapted to be more virulent in tomatoes than potatoes. This is because blight overwinters in N. America in the winter tomato crop growing region of Florida (and Texas?). In the really severe years we have, blight has been brought up on tomato seedlings in the spring by the commercial transplant industry, selling seedling transplants to home gardeners. At least in the eastern US, most home gardeners grow a few tomato plants, and very few of them grow potatoes, and potatoes are not really grown commercially on the east coast to a huge extent. So there are way more tomatoes for the blight to infect than potatoes, and it seems to have adapted towards attacking them more specifically.
I have a line on a variety called "Early Hot Chipotle", I want to talk to the company and try and find out if it is any different than "Early Jalapeño" which is a pretty common and low yielding variety in my experience.
As far as the eggplants, I have never had an issue with spider mite (knock on wood). All of my tunnels are mobile units, so they don't stay on the same ground year on year. I don't typically get outbreaks of insect pests in them that are typically associated with greenhouse growing like whitefly and spider mite. I DID have some broad mite (cyclamen mite) damage in my peppers this year, but it was kind of patchy inside the houses and outside so I don't think the location of the plants mattered. I hope they don't come back next season.
That's a beautiful plot of land, but I do NOT envy your growing season! P.S. is that a mound of haylage in the background?
Just mulch.
Hi, very interesting. I looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you. do you plant Autumn crops ? as with your tomatoes I find it hard to make the decision when to pull out my summer plants.
Hey Charlie. I do have a lot of greens, but they are all under rowcover and not particularly photogenic (and hopefully not damaged by frost) right now. I was mostly trying to get footage of damage before and after.