Got a Bakersfield Catalog today. Hope all is going well for you. Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Planted gourds and garlic.. we planted two fruit trees about two months ago. It’s very dry, 43 days with no rain, ground frozen but warms up to mid-40s. So I’m freezing water in plastic containers and putting large ice cubes around the trees to water them.
Pinging the list. Posting link to article about front yard gardening.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3613000/posts
We are lucky that we picked the right side of the street. Our backyard has a southwest orientation. The houses on the other side have Northeast - not much sun for gardeners.
We also do not have a Housing Authority - just some basic rules that were in the original contract. Only one exterior unattached storage building. Dogs must be penned up or on a leash. No obnoxious animals such as pigs.
So far, people are ignoring the first two, but no one has dabbled with pigs yet. So a Front yard garden should be ok.
I just harvested some garlic from an old home place that’s been on my property well over 100 years. I’m not sure what it’s called. I eaten it before, it’s a little sweet, not quite as strong as the garlic I buy at the store but it has a little heat on the end. It doesn’t make into a big head and divide into cloves but it does divide and multiply. I cut up a little to eat today and had some peanut butter and crackers a little later, I was surprised these two tastes went well together.
Hi greeneyes!
(((HUGS)))
It’s so cold today.
And then my furnace failed.
Waited three hours in the cold , boiling water to pour down the drains to keep them from freezing, only to find out it was a “kill switch” that was somehow tripped in a broom closet.
I am warm now but still PO’ed.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Garlic is the only crop growing in our garden on Humboldt bay. The weather has been clear and cool for several days which is unusual as we normally have near constant rain. Lady Bender and I have done several hours of Christmas shopping for family including our one year old Great Grand Daughter...
Greeneyes, A kerosene heater in a green house is a big no no, the unburned hydrocarbons and other soot residue produced when the kerosene burns are extremely toxic to plants. A cheap humidifier from Walmart will solve this problem.
We finally got a bit of rain here in Central Missouri, but it wasn’t enough to do any real good.
I’m off work through the end of year and have a big list of things to get done. Wife and daughter have both been sick and I feel like I’m catching what they’ve had. I’m still not done cleaning my workshop, but it’s better than it’s been in a long time.
I tore out one dilapidated horse stall over the weekend, and replaced one of the main support posts on the open side of the barn. Now I need to pick up some material at the lumber yard to rebuild the stall.
I still need to finish cleaning up the kitchen garden, and prune/spray the orchard trees, but that will all have to wait until I’m feeling a little better.