Posted on 02/28/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by greeneyes
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Sorry to hear about the lousy weather in Mo.
It’s 29 here at 1:37. It rained earlier, so it may be ice out there.
My wife believes in feeding sick puppies cold cooked rice to settle their stomachs.
Gracie, our 6mo puppy was sick one day last week. She got the nasal spray from my wife’s night table and chewed holes in it and devoured the contents. She was laying on me in the recliner when I felt my leg get warm. She upchucked a huge amount all over my pants leg, chair, and floor. Twice more times that day also, but not as bad, and not on me. Little devil got into my wife’s ice water glass on the night table a number of times, but the other night she turned the full 32oz’s over onto the bed. Oh the joy! To be parents again at our ages!
/johnny
Oh, we’re a warm 20 degrees in the Hill Country, and it’s a toasty 60 degrees at my house. I hope you are right, and this is the last blast.
In August, when it’s 105, and our gardens are burning up, I will come back to this thread, and wish it was 60 in my house.
With my heated mattress pad, I'd probably get electrocuted if a pet did that.
My wife usually has a heating pad on her knees or hips most nights. And, we just took the electric blanket off the bed after the last cold snap.
It’s 26 here at my house 24 at the airport 4 miles from here. Winds is 16mph, with gusts to 28.
For any housebound seed catalog dreamers, I see Park Seed, and Burpee have Free Shipping w/no minimum order.
The promo Code is WHOPPER for Park
and FS60 for Burpee.
Gee, why didn’t Park have free shipping two days ago when I ordered 3 pkts of wa wa tsai seed?
So what are you doing with that pork that was thawing?
I want something soul warming.. Can’t decide between Chili, Country Captain, Chicken Fricasee, or a Beef Stew..
It’s 27.5 in my garden at 8:10 am.
Not only do I need to move my rain barrel to your house, I need to move my house to your house. 27 sounds practically tropical right now. Right now the humidity is so low here, the air in my house just isn't warming up.
“Not only do I need to move my rain barrel to your house, I need to move my house to your house. 27 sounds practically tropical right now.”
In July/August/September, you wouldn’t like 105-107 with our humidity.
My central heat works so it’s fine in the house. I hope my plants are okay with the moving pads and row cover heaped on them. I don’t have rain now.
I hope all the squirrels froze to death last night.
I'll order Cilantro seed from one of those places today and think about anything else I need. I'll see if they have an actual Cilantro plant and I'll look at their herbs if they have the plants.
I want to order some Profusion Zinnia Seeds. I looked for them at HD yesterday, but they didn’t have any. I had some last year, and they were indestructible..the hotter the better.
Burpee’s website slows my computer down to Dinosaur stage. It’s maddening since this is a dinosaur computer anyway.
I have ordered plants from Burpee’s, and was pleased. They come in these nifty plastic containers, are grown in quarantine, and their tomato stalks were really thick.
Cilantro, Calypso (24550 - 3 Plants) 24550 The slowest cilantro to bolt available. $14.95
This saves me from having to go to Walmart/Lowes looking for it to come in if they ever get any.
It's dangerous for me to have Cilantro as I love the taste of it - maybe Cilantro ice cream?
Great job on your plant protection!
“Great job on your plant protection!”
That depends on what the plants look like after I remove the covers. It’s 34.5 now. It’s supposed to get to 50 today so I’ll let it warm up more before taking off covers, and supposed to be 37 tonight, no more freezing temp for at least a week as that is as far as the forecast goes.
It’s 12:30 pm and it’s 38.4 in the garden. No way is it going to get to 50 as weather people say, so I’m not taking veggie/fruit plants/dwarf fruit tree, covers off today. Now that I have figured out which containers to use to plant as many of the 80 onion bulbs as I can, I want to plant them and get it over with, but not today in high 30s/low 40s, weather.
Onions will overwinter just fine in your vicinity with no protection. But today isn’t a good planting day for root stuff so you’re good regardless :)
If you have to decide what to protect from a frost or freeze, unless it might get below 10F, your onions will be just fine.
In Vidalia GA they plant them out (seedlings) sometime in Sept/Oct and then harvest next May/June. They don’t grow as much during the cooler temps as they do when temps are above 45F or 50F but they’re totally hardy to frost/freezing temps there.
“If you have to decide what to protect from a frost or freeze, unless it might get below 10F, your onions will be just fine.”
You are a big help to me - if you say it, I listen and learn. Right now the potting soil in the containers where the onions will be planted, is soup due to all the rain. If I planted them, they would float.
I didn’t do anything all winter for the Walking Onions and they were looking terrific before this hit - they had decided it was spring and they were ready to do something. I hope they still look that way but I can’t look today as I have quilts and netting blocking my way to get back there.
Hopefully, tomorrow, I’ll take all the protection off the plants and see what I have. Those four Homemade Pickles cucumbers didn’t look good since I transplanted them, so I have just planted six more seeds in cups under the grow lamp. Although the plants are covered out there, I expect them to be totally flat in their containers.
Onions don’t like wet feet. Hopefully they’ll dry out soon. My garlic survived outside with low temps of 5F and 8F this winter. Leeks are very hardy as well.
You might get some leek and onion seeds this summer sometimes and start them in one of those flat planting trays with 200+ little divots in them. Sometime in September or so. Then about 4-6w later transplant them out an appropriate distance apart. You should have worry free garden stuff this next winter. Be sure to choose ‘short day’ onions. Anything labeled ‘vidalia type’ or ‘granex’ should be fine as are ‘Red Creole’. Green onions will be fine through your winter also. Johnny Seeds has some short day onions and Baker Creek has 2 different kinds IIRC.
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