can I put them in the compost pile? And when it's time to clean up the rest, like tomatoes, squash, pepper plants, can these be put in the compost pile too?

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My plants have been beautiful this year. No problems at all. So, I guess that means I can put them in the pile. Right?

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Good Job Sheri!!!!!!!!


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Well, I went out last evening and got a few cukes off my "dried up" plants and ate one for lunch today. They still have more blooms. And to think I was ready to make compost out of them.

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I have tons of cukes on my brown vines also, but most of mine are yellow. I've started cleaning up in my garden, but haven't gotten to the cucmber row yet. I cut a piece out of one that had turned almost brown (wanted to save some seeds) And even though it was huge and had changed to brown the cuke still tasted good.

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I got the last of the cucumbers this weekend because my husband cleaned everything out. That's what I get for not communicating better. I might have been able to get a few more, but there's always next year. I still have green bell peppers growing though.

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Originally posted by weezie13:
That's ONE of the reasons' I don't mind working in the garden ALONE~~~~>

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Amen to that Weezie ....Years ago DH and I had this huge fight in the middle of the garden over green beans, I pulled every one of the plants and tossed them into a pile over the fence, After that I never grew green beans again until last year, But we have come to an understanding about the garden. He gets the ground ready for me in the spring and helps put the tomato cages and any stakes that need to be put in, other then that the garden is off limits to him or anyone else unless I ask for help or invite them to walk in my garden. We get along fine now when it comes to gardening...If he wants to tell me how to do something..fine then he can take care of growing what ever it is. One year he said "we" should grow something and I said..I don't know a thing about growing that, then I went and found a couple books about the subject and told him...here you read all about it and YOU can grow it It has taken a lot of years to work out all the rules for having a garden, there can only be one garden boss And if someone else wants the job...fine, but don't come crying to me when it doesn't work out. I've been working on getting my garden cleaned up, I've started on the cucumber row, but it is slow going on the ends of the row. My bell peppers are looking great and really need to do something with what is left, before its too cold, they are loaded and I also cleaned them up and weeded them. I'll probable dehydrate some of them.

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do you have cats? I think our cat keeps every varmit away from here. I have seen a squirrel around lately but she'll eventually run it away.

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We have alot of cats here and there are no squirels or rabbits, but plenty of other critters that can do ALOT of damage to a garden in one night, even with a fence.

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