Posted on 07/06/2012 10:51:22 AM PDT by Ellendra
It's Friday once again, and our regular gardening threadmasters still seem to be MIA. If anyone has the gardening ping list, or if anyone can get hold of JADB and have her send it to me, it would be much appreciated. In the mean time, I'm going to try and rebuild the list. That's going take a while.
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I've been trying to find things to be thankful for this drought for. Yes, I'm weird, but my list is pretty short, maybe you guys could help me? So far I've got:
1) The underground springs on my land are easy to spot now, since they're the only green patches in a field of brown. God might as well have circled them with a highlighter!
2) There hasn't been a trace of fungus or mildew infecting any of my plants.
3) I now can be sure that my zucchini is tough enough for a survival garden. Last year it handled a cold summer and a mildew infection and still kept going. This year it's taking the heat and drought and still going strong. Zuchetta Rampicante if anyone's curious, it makes for a great duel-purpose squash, but summer and winter.
Thank you for posting this. I hope that everything is okay for Justa, just being a busy farmer.
We are still getting many tomatos, large Big Boys, grape, and yellow tomatos, and banana peppers. We are starting to get okry on our 6 week old, 18” plants.
Gardening ping, any help rebuilding the ping list would be much appreciated!
I wonder if you could pick them and use them as you would raisins, or dried cranberries? Maybe throw them into muffins, or cook them in your oatmeal?
Anyhow, here are some names I remember off the top of my head:
tubebender, Diana in Wisconsin, rightly_dividing, cotton, Jabz, fan fan, Black Agnes, greeneyes, knittnmom, mtn climber, daisyjane69, petruchio, Red_Devil 232, Justadumbblonde, jemian, DollyCali
Good luck and thanks for doing this.
Gald your zukes are doing fine. Last year, mine were big and pretty but didn’t produce a thing. This year, the squash bugs got everything so had to pull up all the zukes, crooknecks, sweet dumplings and delicatas.
The little cherry and yellow plum tomatoes are doing fine but I only got one roma and not a single mr. stripey.
Did put up two batches of pickles (one dill and one bread and butter) this week so that’s something.
Help needed in rebuilding the Garden Group list. Please send any names you remember to Ellendra.
afraidfortherepublic, greeneyes, Gabz, tubebender,bgill, Arrowhead1952, applegateranch, bean_counter, are some that come to mind, other than the ones that I see that you have. Caps may be needed on Mr.Bender and Applegate.
drought is rough! Been eatting silverqueen corn from my garden since June 27th. Sprouted indoors then transplanted. Live in fairfax va and thankful for the trees that fell on my house not doing too much damage.
drought is rough! Been eatting silverqueen corn from my garden since June 27th. Sprouted indoors then transplanted. Live in fairfax va and thankful for the trees that fell on my house not doing too much damage.
Sevin will work on that. Two applications and mine are gone completely. I keep checking once a week at least.
I’m on the list.
Red will be on his brewing thread this evening; he may give you the names that he has.
Put me back on it!
Gardening ping! My apologies if some of you received this twice, we’re trying to rebuild the ping list.
I am sure JustaDumbBlonde is busy with some kind of farming or bee harvesting chores. I am pinging the latest ping list she sent me.
It has been hot hot here in NE Texas also. I got a late start on my tomatoes so have only harvested about a dozen so far. This heat has shut down their pollination so I don’t expect to see many more until the temps moderate.
My pumpkin and winter squash plants are starting to take over (that and the weeds). I've only been working in the garden in the early morning because of the heat. Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 104, and that is just way too hot for me!
Hi, Ellendra! I am thinking about being “thankful” in a drought. The only item I can come up with is you don’t have to mow dead grass. Plus, you “feed” the mosquitos in the early morning/evening water duties. I am so sorry about your berries. Do you have mulch around the plants (I’m thinking that may hold some moisture around the base?) Hugs, Mom
You have done well on posting the thread several times. I nominate you to be the official Alternate Keeper of the Ping List.
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