Posted on 06/20/2014 12:30:26 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks for the update. I do hope you can get a place of your own. I don’t understand why anyone would do that to a strawberry patch.
I hope you find a great new job with a really healthy company.
Sounds like you have some tall challenges all right. We lost all the apple trees we have planted except one, IIRC. Also had trouble with peaches.
I think all the stuff is just too darned close to the walnut tree. We just need to replanted elsewhere is my opinion.
Cats make for pretty decent pest control. Hope you get tons of peaches. They are one of my favorites to can.
Glad to see an update and opinion. Our aloe vera plant died, so we probably need to get another. Hope you are feeling better.
Oh my. Your losses are so much worse than mine. It’ll just cost around 1200 for a new laundry unit, but we don’t have to do it immediately. For a little more than 400 bucks we got the washer and dryer fixed. 75 bucks of that was to look at the laundry unit and tell us that the motor couldn’t be replaced, because they didn’t make it anymore.
No sweat. LOL That’s what makes the thread so fun and relaxing.
That has got to be the one of the stupidest things I ever heard. What the heck is so magical about 100? And who the heck can’t tell a tomato plant from something that might be illegal to grow?
Freakin’ idiots.
I am so sorry to hear about it. Why don’t you just plant some stuff in a few little pots indoors if you can. I have had great luck with my cherry tomato plant.
Thanks for the picture. That’s a great looking deck.
That looks really good. By George, I think you’ve got it!
I would guess slugs like beer as much as snails. Place a shallow bowl of beer, in an indent in the ground, so the bowl is level to the ground, and the slugs have no trouble getting into it.
I don't actually use that method. I like a product called Deadline, and also the cheapo walmart version of sluggo. Deadline has mulluscicides or however you spell it in it, and sluggo is iron sulfate or something that is non toxic, organic, etc. As sluggo breaks down, it enriches the soil.
Continued good luck with your cucuzzas. :)
I am really enjoying the Tromboncino and Cucuzzi on cattle panels project this year. I had never tried, seen, or even heard of either one. They grow so fast, and they're so big. I was out there..yes..on a ladder awhile ago, to hand pollinate some cucuzzi, but my flashlight wasn't cooperating, or my cats that wanted to get on the ladder to help, so I came back in.
After a totally disastrous last year with ‘regular’ squash (yellow & zucchini) due to a major squash bug infestation, decided to try some of the Italian Heirlooms this year. It’s been quite the adventure and has made gardening especially exciting! The Cucuzza bloom is really delicate for a squash and this was the first one I’ve ever seen. Fingers crossed, it looks like this one might have been pollinated since the ‘baby squash’ is at least twice the size it was when the picture was taken.
We grow the Hyacinth Bean Vine for show only although we caught some neighbors picking a few pods & they probably would have tried to eat them. The info I’ve read seems too “iffy” for me to take a chance on eating them - we’re happy just to look at them. They’re certainly a show stopper - cars slow down to look at them since they’re planted along the road.
Give em a try next spring. Son and his wife will visit this summer from Seattle and they like what I’ve made in the little grinder.
A tip:
Run the grinder outside. The red dust can get out and it will make you sneeze!
Oh, I loved those old-time wringers. My mother had one, and I’d use it over her snappy new wash machine. It definitely got clothes a lot cleaner, and I thought it fun to use. I hope you can find a wringer.
Since evil Sprint discontinued Picture Mail, my picture posting is imapaired. I have a tablet, but it doesn't have a thing on the back to show what you're taking a picture of, only the lens thing on the front..So, I take about ten pictures hoping one will capture the intended target.
I am absolutely horrible at planting/spacing seeds, especially if they’re tiny and a lot of them are. If they’re too close together (which happens a lot), then I have a hard time bringing myself to thin out the plants. Sigh. My radishes aren’t that great because I didn’t thin them & if my onions were doing anything, they’d have the same problem.
Like a bolt out of the blue, it dawned on me that maybe I could make ‘seed tapes’ so I ‘binged’ the topic and came up with two decent links for starters. Reading the comments was instructive as well .... I think I’m going to try this out!
Make your own seed tapes:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Own-Seed-Tapes/
Another one that looks even easier:
http://www.gardengirltv.com/how-to-make-seed-tape.html
I’m doing a fall garden so I’ll find out before next spring if it works for me or not.
This is only my second garden, so I was naively surprised, I guess. lol I really wanted those turnips, dangit, & didn’t get any beets last year, but this year I thought for sure we would. Time to find a farmer’s market...
I’m thinking I’ll get seeds from at least 2 different sources next time.
It IS stupid, and we are going to take it to the town's 'Board of Selectmen'. As an 'act of defiance', we moved to a bigger piece of property on a temporary basis, and I have more tomatoes (and beans and squash and peppers and...)growing than even before.
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