Weekly Gardening Thread --- Happy Mother's Day

Garden Girl's Monthly Gardening Column | May 2007 | Garden Girl

[Red Badger]

The distilled white vinegar I bought two gallons of at Sam’s Saturday was 5%. Where can you find 10%?..........

[gardengirl]

Sorry about your parsley! :( Rinse it off—it should be ok.

Evidently I thought you couldn’t hear since I replied twice! LOL

The wind is flat honking here. I’m afraid to go check on my garden. Everything here at the garden center is hanging on for dear life!

[Gabz]

My mistake on the white vinegar, you’re right, it is 5%.

Cider and wine vinegars have a higher %

[Gabz]

I’m sure the parsley will be fine, eventually. Maybe if it stops raining sometime overnight like they say it will the marsh that is now around it will dry out enough by Wednesday for me to get to it to cut it back!

The wind seems to have died down, for right now, but we are under high wind warnings and advisories until late tomorrow morning.

[Gabz]

Hubby just informed me that the causeway to Chincoteague Island is currently closed due to flooding, I guess even if they do switch it to indoors tonight’s softball practice will be a no-go for our daughter, because practice on the Island.

[Red Badger]

Cider and wine vinegars have a higher %

My cider and wine doesn't last that long...........

[Gabz]

Wisenheimer!!!!

[gardengirl]

Ykes! The ferries are probably shut down here. Glad we live on the mainland! All the bridges/causeways are raised enough now that they don’t go underwater. Much better than it used to be! Still have low places where you have to beware, but I’ve pretty much got them down pat!

Can’t say I’m sorry about no more softball for us—daughter aged out!

White vinegar is for scrubbing your floor! Bwahaha!

[Gabz]

The bridges are fine, but the causeway itself is practically at the water level.

This is a perfect example of why, when we first started looking to move here I said NO to any thought of living on Chincoteague or Saxis (the town in the picture I posted earlier) low lying causeway which constitute the one way on/in, one way off/out for both locales. I live halfway between both, so I enjoy the benefits of both, without the concerns of both.

[gardengirl]

We have 3—count them, 3—roads coming into our county. A few years ago the state wasted $$$$$ putting up Hurricane Evacuation signs on all the west bound lanes. If you’re too stupid to figure out how to leave, you don’t need to be here! Can you tell I hate tourists?! And wasteful spending?! Their brainstorm for this year is to take all the uturns out of the medians, no more stoplights so the people from Raleigh can get to the beach faster.

[Gabz]

I hear you. We have a similar geographic layout here with only one main road through the county. There are other north/south roads, but they are only 2 lane blacktop.

We’re actually getting 2 more stoplights up at this end of the county. One we have been begging for for years, at the elementary school, which sits right on the highway. It will finally be functional just in time for school to get out for the summer. SIGH

[nw_arizona_granny]

a friend practically begged me last night to plant rice and maybe it would finally stop raining!<<<

My first thought was “do it”, but maybe not, we do need a little rain, to keep things green and growing.

That is an impressive photo, and a lot of water to wade in.

Maybe doing a rain dance in reverse will work?

[Gabz]

Weekly Gardening PING !!!!!!!!

So Sorry that I am reviving last week’s thread, but I’m not at home. I’m using the Moose Lodge computer because there is no electric at my hours and the electric company doesn’t know what the problem is or when it will be fixed.

It is again raining here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, but the weather is supposed to be real nice over the weekend, but then revert to rain come Monday. Oh joy!!!!!

[Red_Devil 232]

Sorry to here about the electric outage. Was it the storms?

I would like all of you to visit my Freeper Homepage I have posted a bunch of pictures of my small garden. To visit my homepage or anybodys just click on my nick name at the bottom of this post. Warning to those who have slow connections to the internet there are many many pictures.

Gardengirl here is the wonderful fig tree you sent me.

This Is My GardenGirl Fig Tree When I received it it was in great shape. After I planted it, it lost all its leaves except for the one you see that is brown on the edges. But it has revovered very well! Thanks Gardengirl.

[Gabz]

Glad to hear your fig is starting to revive!

As to my lack of electric, yes in part it is due to all the rain, everything is totally waterlogged around here. Haalf my friends don’t have phone service because of all the water...and we had more rain overnight.

[Red_Devil 232]

We had the heaviest rain of the year early morning yesterday up until about 1 pm. 4.5 inches! It almost wrecked havoc with my garden it was so heavy! Nothing severe tough.

I hope you get your electric back soon!

[tubebender]

We had a record high for the day yesterday of 80 degrees with 34% humidity but it was 88 here at the Bender Estate. Temps about the same today and I sped 3 hours at our Church doing some more drip line. The weather service instruments are on Woodley Island just across the inner channel from Eureka and 3 miles north of us.

Gabz...I just knew you had weather related problems over yonder when you didn't ping us yesterday which is OK because I have been too busy post much.

[Red_Devil 232]

It has been overcast and cool here in central Miss. Did not even make it to 70 today. Nice compaired to yesterdays rains. Truebender check out my garden:

Red Devil 232's Garden

[Gabz]

Thanks both of you!

My field is back to looking like a rice paddy.......I’m so sick of rain.

I’m posting this on borrowed time at the moment. We borrowed a generator from friends that have electric, but no phones, so they’re using our phone. At the rate things are going it looks like it will be at least Tuesday before power is restored. Thank goodness one of the freezers at the Moose Lodge was empty, it now contains the contents of my big freezer.

[gardengirl]

Whoopee! Your fig looks great! I am so glad! Thanks for the pic!

Don’t have time right now to check your homepage, but I will. Maybe I’ll hit you up for some advice on how to make one of my own! LOL

Another poster has been trying to teach me how to open powerpoint presentations but my computer won’t cooperate. Course, it could be operator error!

How’s the garden doing? Ours is pretty good, behind yours. Need any nutgrass?