Posted on 05/07/2008 7:50:50 AM PDT by Gabz
Nascar Truck race is on and I will be on the Freeper thread. Look for me when ya see me coming and the Latch String is always out...
Hang in there, Gabz!
We went without electricity from Christmas Eve through the day after Christmas one year. Some drunken doofus took out a power box down the road...and of course the town didn’t want to pay double-overtime for a holiday repair. *Rolleyes*
Yes, the Gardengirl fig is doing GREAT! Do you know what kind of fig it is?
I posted my pictures of my garden on my homepage because I know some FReepers do not have high speed Internet and all the pictures would have really slowed this Garden Thread down. If they want to see it then they can chose to do so.
I am so glad you were able to save your freezer contents. We have a small generator that will run a frig/freezer, fan or two, and charge phones and computers. We bought it the day after Katrina hit this area and we lived off it for 2 weeks. Oh, it will run a coffee maker also ... we could not do without that!
I understand the rolleyes on that one.
This wouldn’t bother me so much if I could get out into the garden, but it just won’t quit raining.
My garden isn’t even tilled yet, LOL! I have about two weeks to get it together, and Husband and I are both so busy these days, it’s going to be a miracle if we accomplish it. (Plants are ready to go, but the ground isn’t!)
But, the fact that neither of us can live without home grown tomatoes and peppers will motivate us.
The weather has just finally warmed up, up here...but we’re to have a night next week when we’re back down to 36 degrees.
Enough! Uncle! ;)
Bless your heart!!!!! I have to avoid high picture threads and posts because of my dial up connection.
I literally live on the wrong side of the tracks. My best friend lives 9/10ths of a mile east of me, on the same road and on the same side of the road. She has DSL. I don't. Verizon has not come west of the railroad tracks which are less than 6/10ths of a mile east of me. And they have no intentions of coming west of the tracks in the foreseeable future.
Not sure what the proper name for your fig is. The cuttings were given to us by a friend who lives “Down East”. Think—the end of the world! Go as far east as you can—when you’re close to running out of terra firma, you’re Down East! Our original cutting came from one of the outer islands, called Davis Island, so that’s what we called it. Most of the downeaster’s have one growing in their yards. No telling where or when the original came from! It’s a bigger fig than the brown turkey, and not quite as sweet, but still very good!
I’ll try to work on a homepage—later. Greenhouse is slowing down but I’m still doing flyby’s and mostly reading hit and miss style!
My garden has to be RE-tilled. We’ve has so much danged rain, then the tiller decided to take a vacation............
I have nothing in the ground. Every time I’m ready to put corn in, it rains, same with the beans.
GRRRRRRRRRRR
Hear you loud and clear! We got our cold stuff out and it rained 10” in one day. Talk about concrete! The garden stayed underwater for three days! I figured we’d lost all of it. So far it looks great, and we finally got the warm stuff out. Now “Mr. Squirrel” has decided we planted it all for his benefit. He dug up some of my green beans before they even sprouted, he got most of my Indian corn, some of my sunflowers.... I’m thinking fried squirrel and gravy. Damned tree rats!
Completely off subject—Know anything about publishing? Maybe we could work out a deal! LOl
When my wife and I moved to Texas from Louisiana we had bad Internet withdrawal! Dial up only. And when Earthlink shut down the only local number we were using every call we were making was long distance. We decided to go with HughesNet Satalite for internet and cell phones for our telephones.
I think it’s partly because we have so many of the stupid things! Hunters used to keep them thinned out. Now everyone thinks they’re cute and feeds them. They empty out my bird feeders faster than I can fill them. I have 3 rat terrorists and they loathe squirrels but they do more damage to the garden chasing them than the squirrels do digging. Besides, the squirrels jsut wait until we go back in the house.
Visit my homepage and you will see my two Irish Setters as they are today and the fence I put up to keep them out of my garden.
Great pics, and your gardens look fantastic! We fenced ours in one year—to keep the dogs out. Voles had a field day—they ate EVERYTHING we planted. Are you sure I can’t send you some squirrels or voles or nut grass? LOL
What does this nut grass look like?
Bears? Yikes!
I’m picking! Trust me, you don’t want any nut grass! It’s invasive and almost impossible to get rid of. Each piece of grass has a “nut” for the root. Unless you get the whole nut, it just regrows. The nuts can be way down in the ground and they’re almost impossible to get out. The only thing I know for sure will kill it, short of a nuclear blast, is fencing the area and turning hogs onto it. They love the stuff. Short of that, sometimes shade will kill it, so you can plant pumpkins or sweet potatoes, something with lots of viny coverage to shade it out.
I have stripped them of all their branches and shucked all of the brown outer covering off them (kind of like corn husks).
I do have a question. If I use them right now (as fresh and green as they are) do I risk them rooting? I do not want this to happen at all! I just want poles for support not a bamboo grove!
I have no idea if they will root or not! Know nothing about bamboo. Keep us posted!
When they closed the local garbage dump a few years ago they cut off the food supply of over 40 Bruins raised on the stuff so they headed for the nearest garbage cans. The garbage company had to go the daylight pickup hours so people didn't have to put the cans out the night before...
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