Posted on 04/02/2010 5:48:46 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all Freeper gardeners! It is finally April and hopefully most areas in the USA are experiencing warmer weather. Let get gardening!
To all Freepers - If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. There are many Freepers from all over the Good Ol’ USA that are willing and eager to help. The only way to become a good gardener is to get out there and start a garden. Dig in the dirt.
Does anyone grow pineapples? I brought back a bunch of pineapples from Maui and I’m considering planting a few of the crowns and trying to grow our own “Maui” Pineapples. I’ve been reading a bit online how to do it, but thought I’d ask here if anyone had any personal experience.
Thanks in advance!
LOL, I bet.
Well lookie here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2322538/posts
Nice links! Thanks!
Lookie what I found with the way-back machine...
Hello all, and Happy Easter!
Spring has sprung here. Bradford pears are losing their blooms and turning green, the red maples look like they’re on fire, the oaks have donned their gauzy bronze and gold spring outfits. Wisteria and jasmine are hanging everywhere in the trees, looking like gold and amethyst adorning a spiffily dressed woman. Everything—EVERYTHING—is covered in yellow dust. The pine trees are being overly generous this year, coating every surface, inside and out. Clouds of pine pollen can be seen blowing around like dust in the Dust Bowl. My Pepsi can blue Trailblazer has turned a neonish green, the puddles are rimed with it, my dining room table and stovetop are gritty with pollen.
We are so busy—WHAT RECESSION?—at the garden center it’s unbelievable. We sold out of seed potatoes last year, despite having ordered more than we ever had. Ordered even more this year and sold out last weekend. We’re almost out of some types of plants, luckily squash, cukes, etc, so we can sow more and they’ll be ready in a week or so. Did I mention we’ve been busy? We have a stack of empty web flats taller than my head—5’ 5”—that represents what we’ve sold in the last 4 days. Customer asked Sat if we were open Sun. I looked and him and said, “There won’t be enough left of us Sun to be open.” LOL Think I’ll be awol here for awhile. I didn’t turn my computer on for 4 days last week. That’s a record for me—I thought oxygen came in through the puter. LOL
Did go to church yest. We sang a few nice songs, then they did some kind of play. I guess it was nice. They turned all the lights out and did something with white gloves and black lights. You KNOW what I did! LOL I don’t guess I snored any b/c no one poked me! Sit still for 2-3 hours in the dark?! BWAHAHA
Will check in when I can. Y’all enjoy your spring and gardening.
Red—don’t know about “chicken waste”, but DON’T eat anything that contains “mechanically processed chicken.” I would hope that chicken waste would just mean anything they’ve scraped up off a chicken house floor, but...
MPC is blenderized whole chicken, legs beak, feathers, guts and all that is flash frozen, shipped to Russia/China made into “chicken nuggets, patties, etc” and shipped back to us.
fanfan—I’m not sure it’s quite a WHOLE week with no crazies! LOL Not sure there is such a thing anymore!
Afraidfor the republic—Ladybugs eat aphids, so check the underside of your plant leaves. :)
Yep the pine pollen in the air has this area looking like there are a million smoldering camp fires drifting up a yellow smoke.
You take care GG. Wife and I spent a couple of hours in the greenhouse today transplanting Marigolds and Schizanthas into 6 packs for a total of 15 flats plus the 10 we did the other day. The rain refuses to go away...
Unreal. The pollen is always bad, but this is...insane. Saw the first bat this evening!
Lisa, my cohort, and I, can do a flat of 48 in about a minute and a half. If the seedlings are the right size. :) It hasn’t rained here since last week. I think that’s a record for the last 6 months. I feel for you. And the retards at the weather channel are still saying “We’re so many inches below normal for the year.” Ok, what about the tens of inches we were OVER last year? Dummies.
“We are so busy—WHAT RECESSION?—at the garden center it’s unbelievable.”
Same here, GG! Same here. :)
These are 72 cell flats and my wife can do almost 2 to 1 for me. I caught her looking at real green houses on line today so there is hope she is softening her no vote to a maybe. The zipper on the tent is a pain to deal with and it is just not inviting to enter...
We use 48’s b/c 72’s get too crowded too fast and the plants get too leggy.
Good luck with your greenhouse! I love mine, but it’s like a baby—always needs something done at one end or the other! LOL
Is business better this year than last year?
It is currently 20F and snowing like crazy. The garlic is still buried under several feet of snow. I am ready for spring already!
Just to show how insanity can creep into ones life I was about to say I’ll trade you 6” of rain for 2’ of your snow and then I thought of my Garlic flourishing in the garden...
On the other hand there is a FReeper in Oregon building a deck in a blizzard and wearing shorts and floppers...
This is the first time in my life I’ve had a compost pile.
It’s coming along fairly well, but today I discovered at least 1 fire ant colony in the bottom of it - right where the “good stuff” is forming.
What do I do to rid the compost pile of fire ants? This has to be a common problem.
What I have done is move the pile and sprinkled fire ant killer on the ground where the pile sits. Then a day or two later moved the pile back and while doing that added plenty of green to the pile to get it heated up pretty good. I guess the heat drives the ants out. I turn it often after doing this because I don't want it to get too hot!
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