The biggest one took some extra cooking but the ones we had with dinner today were delish…
Posted on 02/13/2015 1:01:56 PM PST by greeneyes
Pellet rifle. I’m adding that to my Birthday list. Still haven’t spent the money I was given for my Birthday. I’m just making a list, and eventually I’ll make a decision.LOL
Forgot to ping you to #40. We have more cold weather coming Sunday and a much bigger one next Wednesday. Remember I’m 20 miles north of Dallas now. It takes about 35 minutes to get to Johnny’s house. We have been there now a few times and he hasn’t shot us for trespassing - yet.
“Still haven’t spent the money I was given for my Birthday.”
Well, Bob ask what I wanted for my birthday and I told him I wanted this pellet rifle and gave him the name and picture of it, and he got it. He found it at Walmart and got the last one they had.
Maybe I’ll check out our Walmart next time I’m in there and see what they have.
Beans/peas (Alabama black eye butter beans - Roma green beans)- over the top.. Okra? I had one plant 17 feet tall - the rest averaged 10+ feet tall from which I pulled some 30 pods every other day. My Korean “White Cucumber” produced fruit every four inches at the knot.. (my eight plants produced fruit I couldn’t give away quickly enough).
I’m not doing ANY squash as I think it’s just an incubator of fungus - besides - it’s soooo cheap during the summer season.
This year:
Maters (krims - hybrids)
Butter beans (bama black eye butter beans)
Green beans (roma, of course)
Okra
Peppers (maybe a few california wonders)
Cukes (Korean white)
Parilla (Korean or Japanese - TBD)
I’m doubling my square area to 700 square feet.
Yeah, lotta work.
Getting laid off 01May15.. I’ll have time to work the garden... Ha!!
The zukes totally bombed. He planted them in a new bed that had some top soil he had hauled in and they totally went gray. I told him when it started he needed to yank them quick and get rid of it, and treat the soil with a fungicide and also cover it for solarization while the sun nice and hot.
He plans to use it this year. I would probably burn it up every year for the next 2 or 3 years if it was me. Those dang spores spread too. Yuck
Looking forward to hearing of your success with your dwarf trees.
Having lived in Massachusetts for year’s ( now in CT) I am wondering how you will keep the deer away.
/johnny
I started some pot tomatoes last fall and brought one up from the basement after Christmas.
It took off like Jack’s beanstalk and looks really great. BUT, the blossoms fall off...
I can’t see anything wrong or on the plants that would cause this and when I called a gardener friend, she said that she was having the same problem, also.
I do supplement our cloudy west MI sunshine with a full spectrum light.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
The biggest one took some extra cooking but the ones we had with dinner today were delish…
We sometimes slice and roast the beets over charcoal. Beets are the best.
I have very successfully brought in tomato plants and continued to get flowers and fruit in front of a southwest patio door, supplemented with a full spectrum grow light from sunset to around 8 pm. Those plants were not planted in dirt, they were planted in a potting mix for indoor plants.
What you are describing is failure to set fruit. This can have several causes:
1. Too hot or too cold temperatures - 70 to 85 degrees is optimal. Below 55 and above 90 is problematic.
2. Tomato plants are heavy feeders, but when flowering they do need some extra potassium and phosphorus. Too much nitrogen and too little of these nutrients can lead to lots of nice foliage, and little fruit.
I use a slow release granular additive for flowers and veggies along with once a month supplement of Dyna-Gro 7-9-5 which has essential trace elements.
3. Proper humidity is 40 - 70%. Indoors during winter can be very dry.
4. No insect or wind action indoors. I usually give mine a little flip or shake as I pass by or when watering.
If the sun is heating things up too much, I sometimes turn on a fan on low (not too close) and not aimed at the plants to get some air circulating, and disperse the heat build up a bit.
If none of these are possibilities, then you might try blossom set spray.
Hope that helps.
Nice. I have been wondering about overwintering beets. Is there a particular kind that is good for this?
What is the process ie how do you do it?
I can only speak for my “Neck of the Woods” and we have wet but very mild winters where a low would be 29 degrees for 2 or 3 days…
The lighter colored ones must be the Golden variety and the red ones are the common Detroit Red.
Ok. Thanks.
Veggie seeds from Bountiful Gardens arrived.
New for this year are lovage, Portugese (sic) kale, sugar beets, & some old carrot varieties that are new to us.
Tonight, I bought butterfly weed & milkweed seeds on e-Bay.
Since October, I’ve been working part time at our local Taco John’s, with a side benefit of all the clean empty 1 gallon cans & 5 gallon oil bottles I want. Some of the cans are now feed scoops, but most are destined for garden/greenhouse duties. The oil bottles will mainly be used for drip watering some things that are hard to reach otherwise.
All but the most shaded snow is gone, and the ground is drying out. We’ve been having above average & even record high temperatures since the second week of January, and looks like an early spring is in the offing. I’m even starting to think about starting some of the hardiest seeds for early transplanting.
Monday we should be able to pick up the garden tractor from the shop. Steering & brakes were shot; needed engine repair, general servicing, and new belts. We’ve had it at least 12 years, with no major work previously, so I can’t complain. I really miss it, as it gets used nearly every day, for one thing or another.
I’ve been familiar with ki-ki birds for over 60 years; my dad worked on the Alcan Highway in the Yukon during WWII. He told us all about the ki-ki birds.
Sometimes, here in the summer, we get a related species, the gaw-gaw bird. We rarely hear it’s call, because the noise of the overworked air conditioner drowns it out. LOL
Is milkweed, the plant that Monarch Butterflies need?
Warmer than usual sounds great to me. I have felt the cold more than I ever have before this winter. I don’t know if it’s because of the weather, or my age/circulation.
Whatever, I’m wishing I was rich enough that I could go somewhere and be a “snowbird” for the winter.LOL
When I was just a young, newly married person, I got a bunch of DQ cans. They were about 30 inches tall and 20 inches wide - Cups were shipped in them - so they were clean from the git go.
I also got a bunch of pickle buckets from the local restaurant. They were plastic and only about 4 gallons. Marvelous storage containers. I had all sorts of stuff packed away and stored in our outdoor shed. I still have the ones I used to store baby and toddler clothes.
The babies and toddlers grow so fast, that a lot of the stuff looked brand new. I used them with our second child and several of the grand kids. Wish I had all the other containers, I have all sorts of things I do with them.LOL
Yes it is. It is sparsely native here, and we do get a few Monarchs. The Butterfly Weed is closely related, and they will also use it. Both plants are perennial to Zone-3, so no problem overwintering them. We’ll put them in the same fenced off area that has the grain patches in it.
We used to be able to get those pickle buckets free or cheap, but most places either don’t receive them any more; or they have to pay a deposit...or use that as an excuse to ask an (to me) exorbitant price for them.
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