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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 8 FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Free Republic | February 22, 2013 | greeneyes

Posted on 02/22/2013 1:35:16 PM PST by greeneyes

It's a cold, cloudy day with plenty of snow on the ground. Not much good for gardening, but the kind of day when you want to put a stock pot on the back burner, and turn on the oven to bake bread, casseroles, and/or roasts. All to make you warm inside and out.LOL

I have been reviewing some of the heirloom grains this week and need to narrow the list down to 2 or 3 that I will order. Teff and Quinoa are 2 that may make the cut.

I will be planting some crimson clover this week or next as a soil conditioner in a few beds to turn under in April or May. The rest already had winter rye planted last fall.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.


TOPICS: Gardening
KEYWORDS: agriculture; asparagus; food; gardening; hobby; pictures; sweetpotatoes
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To: greeneyes

I remember reading years ago about scattering lettuce seed on the snow and letting the snow and seed melt down to soil as it will do, when the lettuce will sprout—which would give one a headstart on the lettuce. I have never had snow at any where near the right time of late winter, so I have never tried it. Right now I have a good foot on the level, but that will not last til real early spring, not where I live.


101 posted on 02/22/2013 7:54:08 PM PST by handmade
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To: JRandomFreeper
A winter view of the Swank Garden Office next to srrawling Bender Garden Headquarters building…


102 posted on 02/22/2013 8:02:38 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: mrsmith

Tomatoes Look for “determinate” for those that ripen at once and then are done. Look for “indeterminate” (both beans and tomatoes) for production until the plants frost. Indeterminants need to be staked, with beans they are the climbers. Seed packages and seed catalogs will tell you what you are buying. I threw in beans just be cause.


103 posted on 02/22/2013 8:04:00 PM PST by handmade
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To: tubebender

Wooppps. I hate it when that happens


105 posted on 02/22/2013 8:11:46 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender
Cool garden office. Sometimes, we call those doghouses, or hideouts, depending on the mood of the better half. ;)

/johnny

106 posted on 02/22/2013 8:17:16 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sarajevo
My trees are the great great great grand children of Redwoods just like this one or even bigger…


107 posted on 02/22/2013 8:17:19 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender

I’ve cut a lot of trees, and cleaned a lot of fish, but deciding how to attack that tree would leave me as baffled as trying to figure out how to clean & fry a whale.


108 posted on 02/22/2013 8:28:39 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I would like to have one of those boys show me how to sharpen a tool.


109 posted on 02/22/2013 8:33:25 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender

Oh, that’s easy! Turn it in to the guy at the tool crib, and check out another one!


110 posted on 02/22/2013 8:53:54 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks ever so for furthering my fund of info on the asparagus.


111 posted on 02/22/2013 9:34:40 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: greeneyes

LOL!


112 posted on 02/22/2013 9:36:48 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: greeneyes

I wish they would just pick out a time and leave it alone. I don’t understand why the whole nation (except Arizona) voluntarily goes through jet lag twice a year. It’s insane!


113 posted on 02/22/2013 9:48:24 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

LOL. Fantastic. Like I said, it doesn’t matter what color or gender. Smart people who love freedom and believe in the bill of rights and the constitution and God. That’s the main thing to me.


114 posted on 02/22/2013 10:44:59 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I HAVE to write stuff down, or put it in the computer ASAP, or I'll forget.

I have yeller sticky note pads in all common areas, and carry some in shirt pocket if I am gunna be in other areas. That will do till I get to the computer again.

in other news, we never made it to the big garden center just south of Houston last weekend, car died of alternator failure. That fun took up the rest of the day and part of the next, getting car and us back to the ranch and replaced. Fortunately the alternator is about the only part of the car motor that I can reach to change out. Dang front wheel drive cars.

115 posted on 02/23/2013 7:18:11 AM PST by rightly_dividing
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To: TEXOKIE

Space your sweet potatoes about 18” apart. Probably want to plant them in mounds of loose soil to make harvesting easier.


116 posted on 02/23/2013 8:55:54 AM PST by Darth Reardon
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To: greeneyes

The new job is going well enough that I’m giving myself permission to order a couple of trees this year. St. Lawrence Nurseries even has an apple that supposedly has a grapey flavor. I love the grapples that I find in the store, but I found out they were just regular apples with artificial flavor added, so they kind of lost their appeal.

Also ordering some runner beans. With those, I think I’ll have as many bean varieties as I can get without them crossing with each other. Except soy, because soy upsets my stomach.


117 posted on 02/23/2013 10:09:32 AM PST by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: rightly_dividing
Bummer on the car. I hate working on them anymore, because of all the crap on them.

Maybe you can make it to the garden center another weekend. Having a master gardener you can ask questions is a darn good thing to have in the local area.

/johnny

118 posted on 02/23/2013 12:01:09 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Best Damm Mole trap I've ever used and I've used them all. The brand is Cinch and they have been on the market for a 100 years, they come in 3 sizes, Large, Medium and Small and SMALL is what you use for Moles. They are available from Amazon or eBay and other sources and are about $75.00 for 6 which makes them $12 apiece. They are a little harder to set than a Macabe so I use the vice in my workshop and carry the loaded trap to the yard where I am placing them. Only the jaws go in the tunnel and the stamped steel portion sticks out of the mound at a slight angle from vertical or you can dig a plug large enough to lay it flat…


119 posted on 02/23/2013 5:29:04 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender
I'm less interested in killing them than keeping them out of certain areas. I know they do have benefits to the soil. But not in my herb/salad garden.

The kids showed up today and we did some garden shopping. I got my seaweed. I got some lumber for the expanded cold frame. And we made plans for next weekend to get finely shredded tree mulch (about 4 cu. yards).

And they brought me beer. ;)

/johnny

120 posted on 02/23/2013 6:01:17 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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