Posted on 04/15/2011 5:07:49 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Today is NOT tax day! Y’all who file last minute can put it off until Monday the 18th. Why? In 2011, Washington, D.C., will celebrate Emancipation Day on April 15, a day earlier than normal, since April 16 falls on a Saturday. Emancipation Day marks the anniversary of the day that President Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act. The Act, which was "for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia," freed 3,100 slaves in the District, making DC residents the "first freed" by the federal government.
Ok back to gardening. Looks like I will be getting rain today. There is a line of strong thunderstorms to the northwest and west of me. I had planed to rent a tiller today and till the garden plot. I will have to wait until the soil dries out now. Drats, another delay in planting! Some of my tomato and squash plants are begging me to get them in the soil. Received some nice seeds in the mail yesterday from Freeper Black Agnes. Thanks again. I should have the opportunity to get them into some soil and flats today!
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Wonderful wonderful, and still more wonderful!
Goodness gracious! That was a funny story.
That recipe sounds like a keeper!
Hello! The last okra plant that I seeded came up yesterday, which makes about 3 weeks on germination, but I did end up with 100%. I had given up on about 5 of the jade in the little paper pots, but I hadn’t had time to replant yet, so they sat and finally emerged yesterday. Can’t remember it ever taking that long, and the warmth and moisture have been there! Be patient with yours. :)
After we get a few things done around here, my wife and I will get together a list of shade friendly flowering plants. We had to learn a whole nother way of plants since moving to a tree shady homestead. The flowering stuff is her department, I am just the construction and landscape maintenance manager around here.
Wow ... there have been far many more ideas and recipes on the thread already than I could have come up with! Good job, Red!
Check out the book, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, by Steve Solomon. I have the 5th ed. but I think there is a 6th by now. The entire book is geared towards gardening without pesticides and with organic fertilizer. For each type of vegetable, its suitability for "dry gardening" is described.
I'm a dues paying member of that club but it keeps me in eats and clean clothes because I flunked to test for Domestic Engineer.
Question: Anybody have info. (planting & uses) on goji berries?
OK — apologies! I came in in the middle of this thread. What are you using 20% vinegar by the gallon for? Is this a weed killer? A soil amendment?
Also, I noticed that someone mentioned Round Up as a “soil killer”. I’m glad that it kills something. Doesn’t do a thing for my weeds.
It’s cold and miserable here. The only day that was nice last week I had to go to work. I’ve gotten nothing done in my garden yet.
I’m not enthusiastic about okra either, except in gumbo. My husband, however, had southern relatives; an he loves it. He rolls it in corn meal, or bread crumbs, and fries it.
Lovely picture. Three times this past week I’ve spotted some kind of very tall heron, or crane in the adjacent fields when we were on the road for my husband’s daily appointment at the hospital. I’m going to look them up in a picture book. These cranes (?) were about 3-4 ft tall and a brown color — same as the dry grass around the ponds. I also saw one in flight.
I’ve been watching a nest at the hopital from the lunch room and expect to see ducklings any day. Not sure what kind because they are pretty far away. I saw the father relieve the mother on the nest last week. They could be ordinary mallards, but I don’t think so. It looked like the mother had a dark head too.
I’ll have to remember to bring my binoculars on Monday (our last radiation day).
That salad bar garden is just gorgeous. You are an inspiration. It is freezing cold and wet out there today — maybe tomorrow.
When we lived in TX in the 1970s (Quail Valley, Missouri City on the SW side of Houston) they used to pack it in ice and bring it up from Galveston -- fresh caught -- and sell it from trucks by the side of the road. Or, the fish mongers would drive through the neighborhoods and sell it door to door.
Gubmint probably passed an ordinance preventing that. I bought a lot of Gulf shrimp that way.
According to a web search 20% acid vinegar is about the only thing that will kill the dreaded Wild Onion that propagates by the bulbs and a zillion seeds
I have never used Roundup because it is so high priced. I have used other brands with pretty good success. The last several seasons, I have used the stuff in the black gallon jug, it's Ortho I think, total vegetation killer, and when I used it on fence lines, there is an 18" path of total desolation, absolutely nothing living, probably no insects either, but I'm not sure of that. I would always read the labels and it seams that all use different active ingredients. I ALWAYS buy the concentrate rather than the watered down ready to use stuff, and dilute it myself.
I'm a dues paying member of that club.
Was I supposed to be paying dues? It's not a union is it?
Round Up does work, I use it often. Takes some time to see the results.
It will warm up!
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