Weekly Gardening Thread (Catalog Fever) Vol. 1 Jan 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Seeds) Vol. 2, January 13, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 3, January 20, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (U.S. Hardiness Zones) Supplemental Vol. 1
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Types) Vol. 4, January 27, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 5, February 03, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 6, February 10, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation?) Vol. 7, February 17, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Home Sweet Home) Vol. 8, February 24, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Structure Part 1) Vol. 9, March 2, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Transplanting Tomatoes) Vol. 10, March 9, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Useful Links) Vol. 11, March 16, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 12, March 23, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 13, March 31, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Happy Easter!) Vol. 14, April 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 15, April 13, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 16, April 20, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 17, April 27, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 18, May 4, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 19 (Getting Projects Done) May 11, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Harvesting Wheat) Vol. 20, May 18, 2012
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Bump for later.
/johnny
and please folks, I don’t want to hear your corn is tasseling or your tomatoes are ripe!!! We just transplanted our corn plants that I have to start in the greenhouse in order to beat our cool weather and have a crop. Strawberries are starting to ripen and the Blueberry and Raspberry plants are looking good.
Another hot week in Central Texas. The corn is making and there’s jalapeno, banana and bell peppers. The tomatoes and green beans are coming back after the last storm. Next, year I’m not planting as many lettuces as I’m giving bags out to everyone. Noticed one evening that the squash was looking droopy and the next morning there were squash bugs everywhere. Pinched the ones I could catch. I only had some old Sevin dust so went with that. One step forward and two back.
That was also the evening I noticed the neighbor had cut the stems of my grape vines on my fence that separates us. This is their vacation house so they don’t live here. Yes, he can legally do what he wants with whatever’s on his side of my fence but he could have asked. I saw him down at the bottom with loppers but I ignored him so now I’m going to have to go down there and see what he was doing. This winder, I had cleaned the fences of everything but the grapes so they’d be abundant for jelly making. Now, no grape jelly for the neighbor. No nothing from the garden for the neighbor. So, now I have to clean the dead grape vines off the fence. I’m not a happy camper. Last year, they wanted to put a vine with thorns on it (they have little grandkids and dogs) and I told them not on my fence but they were more than welcome to ask the neighbors on their other side about it. So guess this is pay back. Never mind that we have run people off several times from their place because it’s obviously a vacation home and never mind that we’re here to notify them when there’s a weather situation. Last straw and no jelly for them - ever, grrrr.
We have okry sprouts coming up in the new okry garden area!
We also have first fruits of 2012. A wierd looking squash and a sweet banana pepper, along with one grape tomato that ripened overnight.
Tomatos are growing larger every day. It's getting tempting to pick them for fried green tomatos!
OK, here’s a challenge for the group. More of a deckscaping question than gardening.
Large deck, large planter - probably 15 gallons or more.
Looking for a nice vertically growing evergreen shrub. Am in Atlanta, so something hardy enough to make it through a winter here in a planter on a deck.
I already have a sky pencil holly in another planter.
Any ideas?
I noticed about tow months ago a tree on my neighbor’s property was some sort of fruit tree. It is obvious now that it is a peach tree. There is one branch that hangs over the fence onto our property and it is heavily populated with fruit. I will have to prop up that branch so it does not break off. Mmmmmm peaches later this summer sounds good to me. My tomatoes are doing fine and enjoying the warm weather we are having. I think they will defiantly benefit later in the summer from the afternoon shade they are receiving.
In other news - FReeper knews_hound has turned over his Homebrewing ping list to me and I plan on doing a monthly thread using the list starting in June. It will be focused on Homebrewing Beers, Wines and from time to time pings to articles posted on FR about Beer, Wine and other Spirits.
Anyone growing muscadine grapes and have a photo they like from this year or last?
I did transplant pink banana squash into the garden a few days ago, but planted through black plastic. It was wide enough that I could cover the seedlings for the night. At least the onions, potatoes, spinach, carrots, peas, broccoli & Brussels sprouts loved the cool turn, as did the newly transplanted English violets.
Today, we bought 4 - 6" pots, with 3 plants each, of cilantro. I could really care less about the cilantro leaves, but I want the seeds: whole coriander seeds for brining & rubs for our pastrami. The first experimental attempt came out great.
