I thought you might like to see what surfing looks like in the entrance to "Bender Bay"…
Posted on 11/20/2015 1:41:41 PM PST by greeneyes
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I was surprised that they weren’t attacked when I first planted them! I’m sure the voles will be after them this year!
I’ll be digesting on Black Friday. One year, when we had deep financial problems, I took a job in retail. I was amazed at the hordes that came out.
Ouch !
:-)
Well, it’s a matter of taste, I guess.
lol, greeneyes, whenever we decide to ring the bell, the weather changes, the wind drops the temps and sometimes it rains with gusts. Hmmm.
We’ll have a house full. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for us to gather friends, light the fireplace, put out the snackers, set up the serving counter in the kitchen, and let everyone pick their faves for dinner. After dinner, find a place on the couch or floor for the football game, groan,... because everyone has eaten too much. It’s a wonderful time. Then comes snack time with leftovers during half time, more groans, discussing who did what and should have done “that”. It’s a wonderful time.
No gardening here for a while. It is currently 18F outside here in the Colorado Rockies.
So happy to see you. Stay with us.
Prayers up for Mrs Proud-Texan. Yes, check with the vet, they are pretty sharp.
There are many mole/vole controls , many of which have moderate success.
You can plant castor beans (natural occuring poison), moth balls (ole timey ones, only), chemical controls , but the best is a soil drench.
Yes , once they learn where the tasty blubs are located, they will scout the area where they were before - it's a learned behavior .
If you remove the bulbs and place them in a pot in the garage , cover the pot with fine metal screening located somewhere above the floor.
If left in the ground and covered with screening , the moles and voles simply dig under the screening, and munch away.
I’ll be home reading your ping. Have a Happy!
Miss M., where do you get your saffron bulbs, and what variety?
I had never even thought of this.
-JT
I thought you might like to see what surfing looks like in the entrance to "Bender Bay"…
Yet again, I forget where I bought them - probably American Meadows. But if you google “saffron bulbs” many distributors will come up. This is truly easy, peasy as Nigella Lawson would say.
Thanks g.e.!
“Salad, kale and beets are still going strong.”
As a newbie gardener, I’m wondering what to do with my Swiss chard that grew all through the summer and adolescent-aged romaine and butter lettuce and cilantro I planted towards the end of summer.
They are all ok right now, but we have some nights ahead dipping below freezing, the lowest 23. I cover them with sheets on the below 32 nights, and I’ve mulched around them heavily.
But I don’t know when to quit all this and just harvest them all. The lettuces are growing slowly, but the cilantro and chard are surprisingly growing well.
note to self - plant Swiss chard next year - it grew great in all temperatures and freezes well!
“I am still eating swiss chard from the garden here in Massachusetts. “
Glad you said that! At what temperatures (lows at night) do I harvest all the chard and figure we’re done?
How are you feeling?
Are you cooking for Thanksgiving?
“I am seriously considering a consult with our vet who I have a lot more confidence in.”
I’ve always wished my vets would treat me! They are more compassionate than any arrogant MD I’ve met too.
Lemons - now I am missing one thing about the fascist state of mexifornia. I’d be picking huge fragrant lemons about now. Even the leaves smelled great.
Winter greens I just let em grow and pick as needed. Most of it I don’t even bother to cover.
The kale can take some really cold temps. If it gets down to 25 deg the beet tops will fold up. I’ll pull a few of those later today and make some fresh buttered beets for supper tonight.
This is the first time I’ve tried chard in the fall. So far it has handled several nights in the upper 20s with no damage. It’s also the first time I’ve tried fall radishes. They are doing way better than they typically do in the springtime here.
I also have some volunteer cilantro and fennel out there that is doing really well.
I guess the best answer to your question is stick with what you’re doing as long as it’s working and you still feel like messing with it.
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