Posted on 04/08/2016 1:30:15 PM PDT by greeneyes
just got my third cutting of celery. Probably be my last for the season - getting too warm and dry. Cauliflower has been exceptional this year - still have a couple of large heads developing.
Still a bit early for taters here; next new moon, maybe; should be safe then. German Butterball; Russet Burbank; Norkotah Russet. Still need to till their area.
Today, I did manage to get 80 or so (2 bundles) of Walla-Walla Sweets seedlings planted. They took up about 2/3 of one of the 3 raised rows I made yesterday. I still have 200 yellow onion bulbs to plant in them.
I’ll be glad when I get my garden tractor’s hitch repaired, so I can start using it & the garden trailer to haul my water jugs; carrying 15 gallons by hand is a royal pain. Every day, the carrots, peas, and turnip seedling need water; still no sign of any carrots, but I didn’t expect to see any for another week, at least.
One thing I’m hoping one of our experts can explain is why a weed can grow through 6 feet of compacted subsoil, and then break through 2-4” of concrete; but a garden seed can’t get through a 1/16” surface crust without help?!? LOL
The ducklings will be 5 weeks old this coming Monday, and are growing like gangbusters. They are now sounding more like ducks. Tomorrow, I’ll have to empty to tub of used bedding straw onto the compost pile, so I can refill it. They eat, drink, and poop (all three messily) nearly continuously, so it takes a lot of chopped straw to keep them clean & dry. Still not sure if I’ll try keeping a female for eggs or not.
Yes, it’s cool and dry in Central Missouri. We did get a little rain shower yesterday afternoon, but it didn’t amount to much.
The weeds were starting to come again on the unplanted areas in my garden so I got the tiller out after work today and took care of that little problem.
I noticed a few potato leaves sticking out of the compost, but there’s nothing else new going on out there right now.
#2 Son Taylor, DiL Rachel, and the grandkids got here a couple hours ago. They’ll be here all weekend. Mrs. Augie’s fractured sacrum kept us from going to them when #2 Grandson Rhett was born a few weeks ago, so this is our first time getting to meet him. He’s a handsome little guy. Looks a lot like Grampa Augie. LOL
Or, if row cover is too inconvenient to use, cloches will work too, if it isn’t too hard of a frost.
Cut the bottom out of a gallon plastic milk or water jug, and push it into the ground enough to anchor it, and remove the lid so you don’t cook the plant accidentally in the early morning sun.
For a harder frost, invert a larger container—storage tub, bucket, etc. over the cloche; or just wrap it in old towels, a gunny sack, or pieces of old blanket, or whatever is handy. No guarantee, but maybe even wrapping a 2 or 3 layers of bubble wrap around the jugs should insulate them adequately.
Just remember to get outside & uncover once the sun starts burning off the frost.
Wish you lived close to me in Missouri. LOL
Thanks for the link. That’s a really cool thing.
I sometimes use the tips of onion plants just as an addition to stir fry. Bet they would be good in egg drop soup too.
There you are! I was hoping you would be able to help out with the collards.
I have heard that celery is hard to grow, so I have never tried it. Some day when I have more time, I may try it.
it is a cold weather crop. I get three cuttings, since it will grow back, and not pull the whole bunch like is found at the store.
Winter here in N. CA is pretty good for it, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce and cabbage (in addition to chard, spinach and a few others)
Oh my! What pain! I am only hauling about two gallons daily right now, and have to beat myself up to make me do it. LOL
I hear you about the weeds. I had some butte russets that were really good, but last year, I was so tired, I didn’t store the seed stock correctly, and so I had none this year.
So I just picked up some Yukon Gold at Wally World. Hubby planted some sort of russet, but not sure what.
Do you sell your onions? Cause that’s a lot of onions.
I grew some but didn’t thin it so tiny spindly little stalks.
If I can grow celery plants from seed anybody can! ;)
I’m not much of a gardener.
Lovin’ the grand kids and great grand kids keeps me going.
Today, one of my great grand daughters - age 3 told her Mom, I want Granny to come and pick me up from daycare from now on. I’ll see her and her brother tomorrow.
We had some rain earlier in the week. I should have already cleaned out the rain barrels, and set them up to catch some fresh water, but no time no time no time plus the spirit is willing, but the body weak. LOL
We covered a Cherry tree with a big barrel, because it was loaded with bloom. It got out of control and was dropped so that it bent the tree over, and I’m sure a branch or two was snapped.
We righted the barrel, and I guess we’ll see tomorrow how much damage it did. The rest of the fruit trees we left to fate.
That’s good to have all that for winter. We have to really coddle stuff here to do that.
Well, I am not either. LOL That’s why I have to have the thread, so I can keep learning stuff - need all the help I can get.
Before 2010, I managed to kill everything I ever tried to grow. In 2010, I got my first sq. foot raised bed, and found this thread that Red Devil was posting, and almost everything I planted grew.
Hubby was snickering like crazy about the sq. ft. deal, but then when I was able to grow so much in a small space, he asked me if I wouldn’t like for him to build me some more beds. LOL
Yeah they’ll help out when the noms are coming.
:)
noms???
Nom nom nom nom nom.
(Food)
:)
Oh. Okay. kinda like yum yum.
If you can put a cedar shake to shade the plant from high noonday sun, and provide some trickle irrigation ,
you might be able to get a couple more cuttings.
Don't forget that celery, in its native environment , is a 'swamp crop', that needs moisture so as not to get 'woody'.
Try it ,..as an experiment on a couple of plants.
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