Pinging the list. I can’t remember who pinged me, but I thought I would mention that their was an article posted last week regarding the dangers of composting, and I thank whoever it was that pinged me.
Someone located their compost pile too close to a wooden deck, and the pile got really hot and caught the deck on fire-so there’s a warning.
their = there
Word to the wise - compost with worms or bunnies.
“Someone located their compost pile too close to a wooden deck, and the pile got really hot and caught the deck on fire-so there’s a warning.”
That was a pile, not a separate composter contained unit, right?
Everything seemed fine in the garden when I checked it out before sunrise, so I'm happy. Cantaloupes should be ready by next week. I'm impatient for the tomatoes to ripen. Maybe next week.
I harvested LOTS of the NM chili peppers and am roasting and pureeing them prior to freezing them in portion control lots. They are real producers.
/johnny
I’m behind on everything again this year. None of my seedlings are in the ground yet. I hope everyone else is doing well.
Did you know that you can grow roses from cuttings?
Simply cut healthy stems, place them in large potatoes, and them bury them 3-4 inches deep in a healthy soil mixture of peet moss and top soil. The potatoes keep the stems moist and help develop the root systems. It's a perfectly simple way to multiply your rose garden without spending lots of $$$.
I’m a few days behind, but my garden is going well. My runner beans are taller than I am, I’ve got green tomatoes forming on 2 of my varieties, and the corn I planted out on my land is still growing, although it’s a little unnerving when the deer decide to nap right next to it.
Last February I ordered some popbean seeds. After a couple months I assumed the order must have gotten lost, but guess what I got in the mail this week! They’re a cool-weather crop, so I might be able to sneak a few in for fall picking.
(Popbeans are a variety of bean that, when parched in a dry skillet, will swell and pop like popcorn. It doesn’t form the poofy cloud-shapes that modern popcorn does, but I’d guess a hundred years of focused breeding could be the difference there. At any rate, they’re about the only naturally “instant” dry bean you can grow!)
The bunny in the strawberry patch is breeding. There are littler bunnies running around the yard now.
My black raspberries are getting close to ripening, one of them is a light purple right now. I won’t get any red raspberries this year, dad mowed the whole patch down. It wasn’t an accident either, he just decided he didn’t like it where it was, so he mowed it down. Have I mentioned how badly I want to move out?
My “house” is still just a hole in the ground for now, and not a very deep one either. With all the rain lately, the deer have been using it as a secondary watering hole. Lots of deer, I’ll be able to hunt without leaving the sofa :)