Posted on 09/18/2015 1:12:45 PM PDT by greeneyes
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That’s great. Here we get down to below zero, so I tend to grow spinach indoors. I do have a winter garden - small patch covered with row covers and straw, but I only visit it on days when the weather is well above freezing.
Here as soon as the temp hits 70 degrees, the vines start dying of very quickly, so we don’t get much-I think it’s a soil borne disease that gets started at that temp, but I can’t recall the name just now.
San Antonio Home and Garden show at the Alamodome this weekend.
Anyone going ping me.
I sympathize with you both. I do like the free range chickens as they have the best beautiful egg yolks.
However, I also know what damage to a garden you have slaved on is like, so a fence of some sort is a good idea.
Either that or put the chickens in a portable coup/pen. Move it daily around the yard, so that they are ranging in a limited area, but not long enough to make the soil bare, and not in the garden. Keeps them safe from critters while they are eating bugs too.
The little lady has 3 earth boxes on a cart, she calls it the salad wagon. She (we) rolls it in and out of the garage during the appropriate times, providing us with fresh greens for most of our Wisconsin winters. She’s a keeper...although, even after 34 years of marriage, I still introduce her as my first wife. It keeps her on her toes. :{) (God, I hope she doesn’t read this thread)
Thank you, greeneyes. I think that I will go with the option of bringing some of them indoors. I overwintered a tomato plant last year, which died when my husband put it out on the deck without hardening it off. I believe that it got too much sun, but that’s neither here nor there. :) We have two south-facing sliders in the living room and kitchen area that have been perfect in the past.
It’s not as good as a greenhouse, but it does have the advantage of being easily accessible. I never knew that it could be done with vegetables, although I have had some very good luck with new guinea impatiens, lettuce and various other plants.
Thanks again!
That looks really nice.
Wow. What beautiful gardens! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for sharing the lovely pictures. My front rose bed is needing a reworking. The roses got sick during our very dry summer a couple of years ago, and Hubby thought the wild petunias were pretty and unbeknownst to me, kept throwing the seeds into the rose bed.
Pretty soon the bed was full of the petunias and choking what was left of the roses. They have pretty flowers, but are ugly after blooming.
Planning to yank them out soon, plant some bulbs for spring, improve the soil too, and figure out what else I’ll plant for summer blooms.
We have been gone for 20 days, got back last Saturday. We were in Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Ohio (son lives there), Penn., (sister lives there) New York (daughter lives in Ithaca), Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana. We are too old to make that trip again. We need to be in Ohio where his son lives and son has been trying to get Bob to move for a few years. Oh, yes, we went to casinos if the state we were in had one or more.
About Johnny which is really why I am making this report. He had his last chemo two (or is it three now) days ago. He said it is a bad one but I see he has posted on a few threads on FR so he's not totally in bed - yet.
He weighs 125 lbs. which is a miracle as he was barely over 100 lbs. during the first part of this cancer. He has kept a daily record of how many calories he could get down himself and that has paid off into more good lbs. of weight.
I don't know yet what the “last” chemo means. We will go see him within the next few days and I'll have a report.
I haven't grown any food this year and it hurts my soul since I put so much effort into learning how to do it. I'm going to have tomatoes and a couple or three of other foods next spring - I promise that to myself.
There is a heavy metal archway here and I want that archway covered with Tromboncino squash but being metal and in Texas heat, it scorches/cooks the flower vine that grows on it every year. Is there a cure for this to keep the heat from cooking the plant on it?
Where do you store your canned and other goods?
Most of our cedar has been cut down and used for hand hewn posts for wire fence/grape vines. We only have two really nice looking trees left-Hubby covets them, but I like to look at them during the winter-so they are safe for now.
Well, better luck next weekend on the pond. Guess I’d better go make sure the lid on the composter is down. Last time it rained, someone had left it up.
Eat a tomato for me will you? I think I mentioned we have almost zip in that regard. I already have canned all he green beans we need, so we are letting the rest mature for dry beans-they are sort of like pinto beans.
I think about Johnny often and thank you for this update. I don’t know if we have a dedicated thread for those who are coping with cancer and treatment here, but if not, we should. Keeping records is a very good idea, and Johnny’s success with keeping his weight up is a perfect example.
This winter I’m going to be starting from seed again. Next season is going to be better than this one.
Hickory Nuts- ours are so hard to crack and then you can’t hardly get the meat out.
How are you using them?
Beautiful! I love gravel in the garden, too.
We’ve done 30-50 broilers each year for a few years now in chicken tractors...this year my wife got some laying hens (for which I now get to build a hen house) They have just started laying some cute little pullet eggs. How long before they lay standard size eggs?
Thanks, although the gravel area started out as a patio extension, but we’re losing that battle.
Basement. It’s 3/4 finished. One of the rooms has an exercise machine with 3 stations. So we put in shelves along two of those walls from floor to ceiling: 18 ft. x 11 ft. room.
I can go directly from my basement kitchenette into the pantry/exercise room.
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