Hubby completed painting the green house concrete floor black. The shelf and supports are up for the curtain rod. I'll be shopping for a heavy duty rod to put up some plastic curtains to give a smaller space and added insulation for next winter.
We have our list for Baker's Creek Seed, and we will order those this weekend. I have been making lemonade using my homegrown lemons. So much tastier and juicy than regular lemons.
I am continuing my study regarding the Grand Solar Minimum. We have entered that cooling stage - will be called Eddy Minimum. Read several articles that are saying we will at least have a Dalton - type minimum.
For Gardeners, that means a reduced growing season, and those in the Northern States that usually grow grains or corn may not be able to - the map showed a shift to the south for the Corn Belt etc. We had already decided to grow more stuff with shorter maturity dates, and after reading this-glad we did.
Food in your pantry is a good investment/hedge against inflation, and unless Martial Law is declared it's not subject to manipulation like the Stock Market etc.
I had a couple of really nice graphs that I would like to copy and paste, but they wouldn't transfer. I did a right click/copy/then tried to paste and it wouldn't paste on this. So then I tried to paste to my spread sheet and it posted just fine.
If anyone knows how to post pictures and graphs from articles, please let me know. Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless
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Hello from the great green North!
The daffodils are 6-8” tall with flower pods sitting 3” out of the bulb, the irises 2” taller than the daffs, the day lilies are 5-7” tall.
All the fruit trees are starting to bud, I need to spring prune them and mow the lawn within the next week or two. A couple of mushrooms (not edible unfortunately) showed up in the front flowerbed.
I have to get on the roof with bleach again to slow down the moss, as it is going bananas. (Moss was the root cause of the water/roof/door/windows/more water problems I had last winter).
The indoor garden room is fully drywalled, and the first layer of mud is drying as we speak. Man, is that ever a workout! Second layer of mud goes on tomorrow, then it’s firewood fun for the rest of the afternoon, weather permitting.
Happy growing to all!
Over a foot of new snow yesterday & today; high of 5F.
Naturally, I couldn’t get out for work. The tractor is still in the shop, so called the local service company to send out a road grader. Got a call back a bit later, and was told that on the way here, the blade hit a rock, and broke the central pivot plate...no replacement parts before Monday.
I called off for tomorrow, too, then fired up the snowblower. I still have a 1/4 mile of steep driveway to finish, to get to the mile of private road out to the county road.
Needless to say, nothing new on the gardening front, other than the arrival of another catalogue.
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Western Pennsylvania had an ice storm, snow and freezing rain mix on Wednesday. It iced over the buds coming out on the dogwood tree. Friday the temps rose to mid-forties.
Started growing flint/field corn for my own homemade cornmeal and hominy. It began a couple years ago when seed for Hopi Blue Corn became more widely available. The corn stays on the stalk as long as possible (fall weather here is rainy). Then the seeds are removed from the cobs and placed in a food dehydrator for one or two days. Hand powered grinders produce a medium-coarse cornmeal. Also making hominy using pickling lime (a.k.a. cal). The results are mostly used for posole stew and cornbread but will try making some polenta soon. Last year grew a dark red corn called ‘Bloody Butcher’ in hopes of making some nice red cornbread. But it turned out mostly having just a bunch of red flakes in it. My hopes for red colored hominy were also dashed as the pickling lime turns the beautiful red color black. Not sure what I’ll grow this year. White or yellow field/flint seed is available but I prefer the colorful kind even if the flavor isn’t rated as high. (Indian Corn would be the non-PC name.)
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If you use Pinterest, you can put it there, then open it in a tab by itself, and copy that URL.
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I have a couple of seed catalogs in the mail including number 1 in my garden, Territorial Seed out of Oregon and also new to me was a AM Leonard tool catalog with hundreds of different shovels, long handled pruners and hand Pruners. I hired a neighbor to do some yard clean up. He is coming back Monday to finish plus spade a 12’ x 12’ patch for new strawberries. Our weather has been unusually clear and warm. More on another day...
Just planted a ponderosa pine seedling brought from Northern Arizona. Don’t think it will grow in arid region. However, the Italian Pine is coming along and I believe will one day be a marvellous addition to landscape.
Normal February weather in Central Missouri. Sunny and pleasant yesterday, cold north wind and freezing rain today. lol
Went to the sawmill this morning and retrieved my trailer. It was dry when I got home, but by the time I’d finished unloading it was misting rain which is now freezing on everything. Unloading the wood didn’t trigger any back spasms so hopefully I’m past that for awhile.
I need to work on our tax return, so it can do what it’s going to do outside.
I’m goint to go nuts this year planting Cannas. Mostly from seed. The Tropical and Cannova series from Takii seed seem to be good, and there’s fewer problems with Canna viruses from seed. But I did buy a few rhizomes at Wallymart, so we’ll see.
Interesting thing with Takii Canna seed is that they scarify the seeds for you, by burning two little holes in the hard seed coat with a laser. Looks like a snake bite. But at 40 or 50 cents per seed, they should engrave your name on them.
We got about a quarter inch of ice overnight. Not enough to cause tree damage, but it sure is slick out there this morning.
I got my YakTrax out of the closet. Haven’t needed them in two winters until today.