Posted on 02/12/2014 4:09:31 PM PST by Kartographer
You may want to get some seeds started inside now to get an early start and more produce. I have about 100 seedlings started and will have half again as many by the time it’s time to transplant into the garden in April. Most seeds can be planted straight into the garden but there are climate considerations and bug seasons that you might have to accommodate by starting some early indoors. YMMV.
Meant the above post for everyone, not just you.
He’s been a good friend for 14 years.
He takes care of me.
I have a friend who has a greenhouse and am going to be talking to her in the next day or two.
We’re going on vacation later and I need someone to plant sit the seedlings anyway.
Maybe I can bribe her with some. :)
We can’t get them out until mid-May at the VERY earliest. I’ve seen springs where the last frost in is early April, but we simply cannot count on that. Mid May is the earliest I dare put anything out and even then I usually have to protect everything at least twice anyway.
Global warming?
Bring it on. I’d LOVE a longer growing season.
You do have a short growing season.
/johnny
“Ever time a storm comes, it looks like that picture out as people are out, in the teeth of the storm, panic buying, stripping the shelves bare. Why they wait until the last minute is beyond me.”
It’s the same here. Every hurricane, stores are stripped bare and all gasoline is gone from stations. My car is always at least 1/2 full and at the first sign that a hurricane might come into Galveston, I fill it up. All I buy for a hurricane is two bags of ice and I get that at a small store that people overlook. They are hitting the big stores.
One would think these people would get the message to stock some food and water, but they don’t. Water is gone, batteries are bought out and candles are bought out. Plywood is gone. Generators are gone. The next time we have a hurricane, the same thing happens.
I don’t need fuel for a generator, don’t have a noisy generator, I use a solar panel to recharge batteries and have battery fans to stay cool as our hurricanes happen in very hot weather in Texas. Rechargeable batteries run a security system inside and outside the house. I’ll have pure water as long as an emergency lasts even if it is years. I can be warm and I can be cool.
Have I overdone it? Some people may say yes and I say to them tough cookies, I’ll prepare the way I want and they can do the same. I don’t have to think about preparing because I’ve already done it so I don’t have to worry. I have peace of mind. I have insurance for whatever happens.
Sounds like a plan! All the charts say for me to plant in mid March but there’s always a freeze on Tax Day so go by what you know is best.
I’m pretty sure without looking it up that it was Neebish Island.
I was stationed out of the Base at Sault Ste. Marie in the 1970’s for several years and I did maintenance on all of the lighthouses in the U.P. as well as Upper Lower peninsula. Lot’s and lot’s of miles put on the roads doing that. Snowmobile miles too and then there’s all of the time lugging those damn eighty pound batteries on a sledge suing snowshoes on the frozen river.
The batteries were for radar transponders for use in aids to navigation.
Oh yeah, I also pulled snowplow duty too. Nothing like plowing parking lots and entrance roads at four o’clock in the morning.
Also Sugar Island ‘Did’ have a light house on the upper end of it at one time. I pulled maintenance on it a couple of times. They had automated it and the beautiful houses were falling apart even then. A house need nearly constant maintenance to survive in that climate.
I remember clearing out the old boardwalk through the swampy area to the boat dock they had built out of logs, possibly deadheads. The logging industry was huge in that area in the late 1800’s.
Just from curiosity: how high is your abode above sea level? When my brother drove us around Galveston Island last May and was yarning on hurricane damage we could see how low lying some places were.
I’m 2800 ft above the Gulf and am slightly less concerned about Algore’s visions myself :)
Ok, I’ve got $40 or so worth of para cord in my Amazon cart because of you. A 250’ spool for the house, and a couple 100’ bundles for the cars.
LOL!
At about the same time, we were obsessing over all the wonderful information available and were busily printing out reams of it. After filling 3 binders, we realized we could bookmark sites. Then, a few years later, we noticed that many of our bookmarks were no longer online. Oh noes!!
We then learned how to do a search and found most of the same info on different sites.
I think it has something to do with age. We elders have a dead tree bias.
Where I am, the frost is extremely deep in the ground this year. In fact, all municipal water systems are asking residents to keep their water flowing because of fears that the city pipes will freeze and burst.
It may take longer than usual for the frost to come to the surface.
I’m 100 miles north of Galveston and don’t know our elevation but we don’t have flooding except for one subdivision if there is a lot of rain. Those houses were built in an low area close to where a river is so part of it will flood. Those houses should not have been built there. If, however, you compared the elevation of those houses to the elevation of Galveston, the land would be much higher than land in Galveston.
If you live in Galveston, you are asking for destruction of your house. Hurricane Ike tore up Galveston and the area around it and people were swept out to sea on a peninsula there.
Don’t buy it from amazon.
Gimme a couple hours til I get back to regular computer and I’ll tell you the name of a supplier to the US military.
You can pick up 1,000 ft of 550 paracord from them for 35-40 bucks.
Then you cut that down to 150ft increments for your various areas it will be stored.
I only had 1,000 ft because I had my 30 day pack in the trunk.
In my other bags I carry 300 feet because it takes up so little room compared to other rope but,has the strength and flexibility without cutting a perfectly good climbing rope
Ping me layer and Ill get the supplier.
Ill even tell you how to coil your rope so you won’t find it binds or gets tangled when you take it apart for use.
It’s a figure 8 technique that will unable to easily pull off rope and it won’t tangle. its a different technique than that for climbing rope and due to the diameter of paracord 550 a better way.
Several years ago, I realized I had NO rope in my preps. I did some research and found Para Cord and bought it on Amazon. Para Cord is magnificent in strength, plus it can be separated into separate strands and used that way. It is the rope to have.
Ok, will hold off. It’s still sitting in my cart; will await your link instead.
Thanks.
Just ping me after four hours and ill hook you up.
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