Posted on 03/28/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday night, showing mid to upper 40’s. I bet the Tromboncino Squash are soooo mad at me.
They are happier with their red Wall of Water, with the top closed up.
What is the red wall of water?
The double window in my upstairs bedroom looks out over the garden. It’s habit I look out there when I get up. Looked out this morning about 8 am, and there was a HUMMINGBIRD on the feeder. It sat on one of the perches and drank for a while. I’m downstairs now at 8:55 and there it is again on the feeder.
Oops, Prissy was on my chair and just saw the hummingbird and had a fit. She now wants out there to get rid of the bird. I’m not letting her out - now the bird is gone. The feeder is on a tall metal pole that was put there for a feeder.
So, I have one hummingbird.
There was another box and I got it out. I absolutely don't remember this and it had never been taken out of the box. It's a colorful ceramic cowboy boot cookie jar. It's about a foot tall, very colorful and has a ceramic lid on top that looks like the straps a boot has to pull it on. I'll bring that downstairs and put it where it can be seen. I have no idea where I got that or when.
What else lurks around here that I don't know I have? Have you been surprised like that?
Yes. I usually ask them to leave.
/johnny
“Yes. I usually ask them to leave.”
I think you would consider the sex of the individual before you kicked him/her out. I would kick the “her” out and keep the “him” for slave labor. I believe you are more likely to kick the “him” out and keep the “her”.
Considering Bushes popularity is rising and the Boy King is falling, it may just bring a few bucks, especially if you paired it with a doll of Choom Gang Barry.
You will have more hummers soon.
50% chance of rain today, 60% tomorrow. Glad I have the new rain gauge in the ground. It holds 8 inches. If we get a hurricane, I'll know how much rain it is dumping.
I look at the plants on the deck and in the net room, and I'm amazed most of this came from little bitty seeds. The celery is really getting tall, maybe 8-12 inches, the onion set greens are from 12-18 inches, greens on bunching onions 8-12 inches, several types of peas for containers 6-10 inches, one is already blooming, Brussels sprouts 6-7 inches, broccoli 6 inches, various peppers 6 inches, first T squash planted is 6-7 inches, other 3 T squash is 4 inches. Four tomato plants 8 inches, six other types tomato seedlings I just put out a few days ago are still small.
The Egyptian Walking Onions greens are 12-16 inches. The three blackberry plants will have open flowers beginning tomorrow and days afterward. They looked so dead through the winter, and I got them as sticks through the mail, I was afraid they wouldn't grow but they are doing great.
The tobacco is getting really big but I hate to mention that as Johnny may sneak in and get mine to add to his since he lost 50% of his and has started seeds again. I have 11 or 12 tobacco plants in total. Big pots are on the way for all the tobacco and seedling tomatoes.
I'll look up the strawberry preserve recipe in the book I have to see what I need, if anything, to make those preserves. I bought a ten pound bag of sugar and glass canning jars this week and I have pectin if I need that. Just as with growing plants, I've never canned anything but I can follow directions and I have the Ball book and the other big book with all the recipes I would ever need to can veggies in a water canner.
I'm making chicken and dumplings. The carrots, celery, garlic, and thyme came from the garden. Since it's a little cool today, I may make a loaf of bread, too, to go with the soup.
I may be poor, but I do eat well. ;)
/johnny
Thanks, now I know what they are.
I find stuff all the time that I have forgotten I have. I also have lots of times that I can’t find stuff that I know I have.
When we moved from the trailer into our house, my keys disappeared. I looked every where and in every box as we unpacked - no luck.
Had to get new keys made off hubby’s. About 8 years later, I was cleaning out a closet and there they were. I still can’t figure out what happened. Here today, gone tomorrow, and back again sometime in the distant future.LOL
We got about 1 1/2 inches of rain yesterday all totaled. My rain gauge isn’t too scientific. I have an old can about 6 inches tall. I stuck a ruler in it and marked off the inches with a permanent marker.
I set it out in the corner of one of my garden beds, and sink it about halfway into the ground, so it doesn’t get blown around.
Today we almost got to 60 degrees, and the sun has been shining and it’s a beautiful day. Most of the yard is too wet to do anything, but the Mel’s mix beds did not disappoint. It was dry enough to be able to plant something.
Hubby didn’t get to the feed store before they closed, so he went to the other place in town that sometimes has gardening and other homesteading stuff. No luck on the mushroom compost or the cheap organic meals.
He did find a package of organic fertilizer though, and bought it, so I used some of it today, and planted another batch of potatoes. These are Butte Russets from the batch I grew last year. Another 15 potatoes.
So I have planted 45 seed potatoes so far. I’ll plant another 15 from the grocery store potatoes that sprouted before I could use them all. It’ll be interesting to see how they work out.
Their bed has a mixture of our old clay dirt, and some Mel’s mix all scrambled together, and it just wasn’t dry enough to plant it.
Gotta go finish cleaning up the kitchen now(never ending job it seems) and make space for the groceries. Hope to get a chance to finish up the lettuce planting before I run out of steam.
We’ve gone from 60% to 70% rain tomorrow with 1/2 inch possible. I’ll have that adult beverage now.
Great to hear that.
That gives us hope that we may find my wife’s other keyset that’s been missing for at least 8 years.
I don’t think of looking at the Fingerling potatoes I have in paper bag in pantry until you mention potatoes. I just looked and the growth from the eyes is about 1/8 inch. How much should they be grown out before I plant them? I’m planting the whole potato because they are small - I have 10 of them. Going to plant them in the tallest Mega Garden bag.
Sprouts should be about an inch. If a little more than that, it’s not problem. You can get them to sprout faster if you bring them out into a room with medium light. Keep the temps around 60 to 70 degrees. Regular humidity in Texas this time of the year should be ok in the bathroom or kitchen.
It’ll just take about 1 - 3 weeks, and they should be ready to plant. Remember you want 2 or three sprouted eyes per plant. I am not that familiar with fingerlings, but regular potatoes are cut to about the size of 1/2 a large chicken egg.
Where there’s life there is hope!LOL Course sometimes a person gets tired of waiting.LOL
LOL yeppers.
We’re supposed to have a nasty rainy day tomorrow, so I have planned some inside stuff in the shop. Glad I didn’t get the truck washed today.
Ooops, we didn’t get mater stakes up today.
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