Posted on 12/18/2015 11:36:05 AM PST by greeneyes
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We had some rain this week, so everything is a bit squishy and I don't plan on any out door activity today-letting things dry up a bit.
Lemon tree is blooming again, and has 2 lemons left that are almost ripe. The rosemary Christmas tree that I bought at Walmart has been turning brown, but still has some green. I'll just harvest it all after Christmas. The smaller rosemary plant that I purchased in the fall is still green, so I am hoping to baby it through the winter. I love the smell of Rosemary, and enjoy the flavors of fresh Rosemary, so I keep trying to find a way to grow it year-round.
Hope every one is doing well. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list. Praying for Johnny and Arrowhead. Have a good day everyone, and a good time preparing for a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
oops. the paste didn’t work. trying again.
Missouri lemonade for Christmas-— oh yeh. My lil garden here in N. Tx still surviving. What a treat to still have little tomatoes popping out. Had to cover them last night and tonite the same but the temps will rise again this weekend. I’ve been eating on the swiss chard just about everyday I’m here and making green smoothies too. Last year this time it was all gone with the cold except the mustard greens.
I know a couple of weeks ago you posted an address to send cards to. Can you repost?
You mean for me to post images you send me here on this thread?
If thats your request I can send it to your private mail here.
I love when we have an unusual warmer fall leading into December so that we can have extra goodies like you have this year.
It is hard to describe how good these lemons taste compared to what you get in the store. If we ever get our hobby greenhouse, I’ll try to get some more lemons trees for sure.
Prayers up.
Forgot about some fresh tomato seeds in water doing their seed fermentation thing and they were starting to sprout. Put them in some potting soil today. Don’t know if they’ll grow or not. It’s about time to start things indoor.
Have collards and mustard in the garden.
Still a bit early for starting seeds here, but I may plant some to grow indoors after the holidays when I have a little more time.
Remember this lemon tree song..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLhYghzNfII
We started seeds in mid January a couple of years ago and found this was a bit too early for Missouri. Last year we had sprouts in mid February and this turned out a perfect garden with zero failures.
The first weeks outdoors were in tents but this was manageable...
Or perhaps you are confusing me for someone else.
/johnny maybe?
ooops— I mean to send to you- not me— duh
Or perhaps you are confusing me for someone else.
/johnny maybe?
My garden was a complete bust this year. Between the deer (REALLY high deer population here in western Pa) and the groundhogs, my garden never had a chance. Need to build a better fence. We did, however get some huge pumpkins growing quite unexpctedly. Must have been some seeds in the compost pile. Hubby planted Roma tomatoes and green beans in our green house, so the deer never got to them. Sigh....I guess I’ll try again next year. Got my Johnny Seeds catalogue, so I can dream anyway........
Try 3M brand. They make good paste........................
It’s 43 degrees and overcast here in Massachusetts. I found an avocado tree growing in my overwintering tomato pot. It’s looked quite healthy, but it had to go. I still haven’t received my seeds, but maybe today or Monday they will arrive.
Snow here today in west Michigan. Then a warm up next week. Nothing growing outside. I got burlap bags for 99 cents each at Menards and covered up my pawpaws and rhododendrons this week. That’s about it. Prayers and Merry Christmas to all.
I had a tough year also. I did find that murasaki sweet potatoes are tasty and a good ground cover to keep weeds away. I also found success with ‘sun chokes.’ Tomatoes were good also but everything else didn’t fair well.
When I lived in North Dakota, these plants thrived in similar environments with ease (excepting there are few shady hillsides, but there are shady flat areas). Of course, the soil quality was much better in North Dakota than here in SW Pennsylvania.
Because mint, catnip and others in the mint family are quite fragrant, wild critters do not bother them much and I eliminate a big patch of ground which is tough to mow and keep the weeds down. Eventually, if these plants thrive like they did in North Dakota, I hope to have a whole fragrant hillside of beautiful perennial plants which will not only crowd out noxious weeds, but provide useful leaves for tea drying and the like.
Any hints on propagation would be greatly appreciated to help me achieve that goal.
LOL. Yes. I do. They had some really good songs.
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