Posted on 04/06/2012 9:30:28 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning, FRiends and fellow gardeners! The weather has cooled-down a bit, the sun is shining and my grandgirls have been here all week. I am one happy blonde today.
It rained again 2 and 3 days ago, so I haven't even disked up the garden spot yet, but that will get done Monday.
All of the fruit trees and bushes that I've planted are doing very well and the regular rains have been perfect to keep them moist and off to a great start! Some of the raspberries that I planted were established plants, and some were bare-root canes. Many of the canes have come alive with new growth, and the others are showing buds this morning.
A visit to the apiary this morning showed a good buildup of comb and honey stores. They say that the Spring following a drought will yield little honey flow, and half of my hives are going along with that. The other half is building comb and producing honey like crazy, so I don't know what to think.
For those of you traveling for the weekend, I wish you a safe trip! And I wish each and every one of you a blessed Easter. Enjoy!
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Neat! Thanks for those links.
Here is a book from 1914 entitled:
The Mason-bees
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2884/2884-h/2884-h.htm#2HCH0010
No pics, but shows pretty extensive knowledge of them long ago.
“BRAMBLE-BEES AND OTHERS”
from 1915
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3421/3421-h/3421-h.htm
There is a section on Mason Bees in this one too.
Bushes like Blackberries & Rasberries are “Brambles”. (you may have already known that)
I planted some peppers and cilantro this week. Everything is growing great. My cucmbers have runners already. No blooms yet, but should be by the end of the week.
I'm in Southern Iowa. Half my raised beds are now showing small lettuce, beet, pea, and spinach plants. The other half await tomatoes, peppers, zukes and beans when things get warmer.
Question, question......can Comet Red Daisies be transplanted via the stem (like a geranium)?
All of my squash fruits were shrivelling off and rotting. Of the possible causes I found, lack of pollination seemed like the easy one to start with. Early results look promising...
What is the Variety? That looks like a Gourd?
Thank you so much!
Found an interesting link, on the Old Farmer’s Almanac site, by accident: http://www.almanac.com/plant/celery
I’m posting the celery link because it has hot-links to Zones 2-10, which is more than any of the other plants I checked.
Clicking on a numbered Hardness Zone link bring up a page of links to individual flowers, veggies, and fruits —with a picture— that grow in that zone.
Clicking on a plant’s link brings up a wealth of general information on growing that particular plant.
I tried every which way to find a direct link to the Zone links, but couldn’t find one, so the “celery” page will have to do.
For that matter, the entire site is well worth a gardener’s time to visit: http://www.almanac.com/
I’m pretty sure that’s a cocozelle zucchini. Unfortunately, I guess there’s a big resell market for plant labels, because all of mine have disappeared.
I suspect they mean 3 through 12, as they list for some other zucchini, not 3 AND 12. I only know this because I looked at that page less than a minute before I read your page and thought, "Hey, that's a lot".
That could be a Coczelle DR. I have never grown them but have seen them in catalogs...
Yeah, that should be 3-12. Love cocozelle, more so than zukes. I grew some in SoCal that got to be the size of a large banana squash. They were still good eating, stuffed & baked.
Cocozelle: is that the large, 24” and 15lb squash that I see at some veggies stands here in Texas? That picture looked like a baby pic of ones that we see here.
I hope that everyone had a happy Easter and gave thanks for the risen Lord.
Wifey had Fri. off so we had a day of shopping at garden centers for just the right planters for her container garden/bird-butterfly sanctuary that is just outside from our dining room windows. Her flower beds are looking good; caladiums, lillies, and ferns all doing great in the shade, and the sunny beds are thriving too.
Garden is growing nicely, squash has blooms, the tomatos have gotten taller than the peppers now, about ready to stake before long. I am looking forward to fried green tomatos!
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