Tater Tots?
Spudzilla?
Posted on 04/01/2016 12:05:34 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks to everyone for their prayers, they are much appreciated. I have read through the various posts, and enjoyed all the comments as usual.
This is the date for planting potatoes in Missouri, so I'll be working on that some this weekend. I am very far behind on garden planning and preparation, but I do have my seeds, and the potatoes are sprouted. The weather has been nice for the most part this week, and Hubby has managed to get quite a bit done on his gardens.
All I really have outside at this point is garlic. Lemon tree has bloomed and is putting on some fruit, but needs to be repotted, and I have not found one that satisfies me yet.
Rosemary I bought at Christmas is half dead, and the other half is alive. My Grand daughter told me she grew one successfully in her apartment. In front of window where she never opened the blinds, and often forgot to water it.
So going forward, no more sitting in front of the patio door where it gets direct sun, and watering every other day per instructions will be reduced.
I ran across an article regarding plants that will do pretty well in shade: celery, mint(invasive), bush beans, spinach, swiss chard, lettuce, and honey berries.
Another article for new gardeners and hard times, advises heirloom seeds, and lots of root vegetables such as beets, carrots, onions, potatoes, radishes, turnips and peanuts. Part of this reason is for obscurity, and suggests locating it away from the more obvious garden patch.
Specific varieties: Pinto beans, Detroit Dark Red Beets, Sugar Beets to give you ability to make sweetener, Danvers half long carrot, Reid's yellow dent corn, raw peanuts from the local grocery, cherry belle radishes, Bloomsdale spinach, Roma tomatoes, Purple White Top Globe turnips-The beets, spinach, and tomatoes, I am familiar with, and they did well for me.
Hubby is just planting Romas this year, as they did the best last year, and I am reminded that JRandomFreeper used to advise planting Romas.
Hubby is going more and more into perennials, fruit trees, berries, etc. - a good idea as we get older, but we'll always want to plant potatoes, tomatoes, and beans!
Hope all is going well with you and your gardens. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
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About 2 ft of snow on the ground right now. Spring won’t come here in the Colorado Rockies for a few months.
Bought more blackberries after hubby took his new torch to them last year.
The tomatoes have some sort of disease and hoping it’s not rust. They were happy happy in their tiny little cups out on the porch but immediately went ick three days after I planted them in the garden.
The beans are slow to come up as are the cukes and no sign of any lettuce. Haven’t gotten around to putting out the other seedlings since hubby’s fall. Had to buy a lift chair for him and I’m exhausted waiting on him hand and foot.
Yay!
You’re back!
So glad you’re feeling much better.
My citrus bloomed this past week too, en masse. My garage smelled like an orchard before I moved them all out this week.
I got great big pots for my citrus here:
http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/large-nursery-container/nursery-pots
Scroll to the bottom of the selection thingie for the really big ones. These were the cheapest we found for this size and will likely be the biggest containers we use for the citrus. If anyone finds similar or larger containers than this for less money please post!
Tater Tots?
Spudzilla?
We still have a chance of frost, and have been known to have an occasional snow fall in April.
Praying for you and him. I do understand the fatigue-had to do that for my Dad a lot after his strokes.
Sounds like a good plan!
So nice to see you back in action. I am glad you are feeling better. Don’t over do it.
Thanks for that-I’m glad too. Megastore was on my list to check. I checked it last year, but didn’t really find one then, but I will check again. Thanks.
LOL. Yukon Gold this year. Maybe some Dakota Pearls, and Butte Russet, if I can find any that survived storage from last year’s crop-I was very tired last fall, and didn’t properly package them up or even make it to the coolest storage place in the basement.
I don’t remember seeing these particular ones last year. I’ve been on the hunt for big containers for my citrus for a couple of years now. Walmart and the other big box stores had pitiful selection of containers that weren’t all that large and wanted $15++ for what they did have. Er...no thanks
My current project is seeing if I can get some dwarf apple (or peach or pear) trees in these same big containers. Concealing them with wooden box planter exteriors (from reused pallets hubby can get for free) painted to match my house’s exterior. This way, if we get a really unseasonable freeze in midbloom we can get a moving dolly and put them in the garage for a night or two.
I will try to keep it reasonable. Thanks.
That’s a good plan for the fruit trees. I saw some containers I liked at Dollar General last fall on sale, but they didn’t have the size I needed, since I didn’t want a really big one.
They had some smaller than I needed, and larger than I wanted. Once I get my greenhouse, I’ll go for a larger one, and put it on a dolly that hubby made, so that I can roll it around if I need to.
I’m just waiting to see when and what the big nurseries put on sale at the end of the season ‘we have to get rid of it now! sales.
One of my citrus trees, a Persian Lime, is nearly 6ft tall not counting the container it’s in right now. It *really* needs a larger container. Hopefully we’ll get that done Sunday afternoon or Monday depending on weather and family stuff.
I'm in an in-between stage with my garden right now. All of the early stuff is in, but it's too early to put things out that can't take a light frost.
Somehow my peach and plum trees have come through the cold nights that we've had with very little blossom damage. I thought they were doomed last Sunday night, but there was so much moisture in the air a crust of ice formed on the flowers before the temp dropped below 27 deg.
I checked one of my morel spots after work yesterday and came out with enough to fill one skillet. It was the earliest I've ever found any here. I'm thinking another week and they'll be popping out of cracks in the sidewalk.
Can’t wait for Homegrown Tomato picking time!<>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4 Guy Clark - Homegrown Tomatoes
Me either! What are you growing this year?
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