Posted on 01/03/2014 12:19:51 PM PST by greeneyes
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Almost as good as the “E. Coli Bodega” in the Spanish Section of Jamaica Plain in Boston MA. (I think either E. Coli” was the proprietor’s name or there were some letters missing on the sign.
Little to no wrenching here when it hits zero... even with the Mr. heater going full blast! Gettin old... emergency work only til Spring!
Shhhhh! Don't let my better half hear you... She might make me get out into that frozen waste land to do just that!
Actually, we've outgrown our small greenhouse and a new INSULATED greenhouse is in the planning stage... IF it ever warms up again! I'm having my doubts!
HaHa. That’s good one too. Soooo Bad.LOL
Back in the day, people didn’t have cell phone cameras with them all the time to immortalize these things!
Thank you for the links that was interesting.
Plant them 1-3” deep. Shallower in the North, and deeper in the South. Soil should be warmed at around 50 degrees before planting outdoors.
The potato should have at least two eyes. The size should be about half the size of a large egg. Larger potatoes are cut up into chunks of this size.
Well now, there you go. Just take that planning stage for the insulated greenhouse, and attach it to the house, and you’ve got a garden room.
Add a lawn chair or two with padding. Close your eyes and bask in the sunshine.LOL
Lol, I just didn't want you selling your soul for a jar of relish.
Continued from last week’s thread about seed catalogs and seeds:
Marcella said, “I have already bought seed so I’m afraid to look through the Bountiful Gardens and Burpee and Burgess and Terroir Seed catalogs. If we have no more room to have plants, do we just buy seed and put the envelopes around the room to look at?”
That’s always the question, isn’t it? LOL!
I know that some seeds should be planted each year in order to have viable seeds after a time. But others will last a while. Not always sure which is which. I’m trying to obtain seeds and/or plants that I’m not readily able to buy locally. Or which I hope will, with proper storage, last a while.
Gardening, I’m finding, is just one experiment after another. If I invested my emotions in it as deeply as I am tempted, it would be so frustrating I might give up!
I will say, though that when I get to see that okra plant produce like Topsy, and that Mammoth Sunflower bow to her king, I get pretty happy, and find it’s all worth it!
Besides that, Santa brought me a new wagon! That ought to keep me going for a while!
Not just any old wagon..A wagon with a dump feature..I'm jealous.
“Soil should be warmed at around 50 degrees before planting outdoors.”
Not planting in dirt. Planting in the containers (those 3 for $12 ones) from that container/garden supply company. I got two sets, so the two big containers will be one for the regular potato sets and the other one for the fingerling potatoes that will be sent to me at the right time.
Forget about regular dirt and me - that isn’t happening.
Ideally, the best container for potatoes is soft-sided, like a sack, with sides that can be rolled or folded down for the initial planting. Seed potatoes are planted in ~4 inches of potting mix. The container sides are folded down to allow sunlight to reach the young plants. As the greens grow six inches tall, add more potting mix, repeat this process until either blooms occur, or green growth fades.
Whatever-the growing medium in your pots should be able to be reliably maintained at 50 degrees. You asked the question, I tried to answer it. Sorry to be so unclear as to use the term soil.LOL
There’s also the number of plants grown to insure genetic viability. So much to remember-I can’t-have to continually look stuff up.
“...maintained at 50 degrees. You asked the question, I tried to answer it. Sorry to be so unclear as to use the term soil.LOL”
Sorry, thought you meant regular dirt. It would be warmer than 50 degrees before plants went out there. I still think March isn’t a problem for over 50 degrees but will make sure the temp is high enough.
Yikes. Just heard the weather report on the news for St. Louis. Frigid Winter storm coming on Sunday. As much as a foot, and high winds equally blizzard conditions.
MoDot is calling in extra machines to deal with the situation. Tomorrow is supposed to be 40 degrees. Better make hay on Saturday and hibernate for a few days after.
I’m in the NW. Was given an Amaryllis many years ago, it bloomed, then I read all the material about how to get it to bloom again. Anything that takes that kind of timing of darkness in closets and right temperature can just forget it...not going to happen.
So, it is in an East facing window, in same pot, watered once a week and blooms every year. It is in a place where lights are not on in the evening (this is one of the instructions to get them to bloom again). Leaves are big and bold throughout the year. It has multiplied and provided many gifts and filled lots of pots. I’ve never planted them outside but will try it. I think they might rot in our wet soils. This past summer I did put them out on the deck and they loved it. I need to repot them again as they are chock a block.
Three dog nights. Brrr!
37 here, 34 at the airport at 6:30am
Heading out to Lowes, a Saturday routine it seems, maybe breakfast out, too. Gunna be a long day in the shop today. Need to get a propane heater for the shop since we insulated the attic above the shop last month. You wouldn’t recognize the shop now. We moved all the shelf units out to the other building over New Years, so I have lots of room now. Also, when you visited, my old car may have been in there too. It too is in the other building. The only things in here that aren’t going to live here are two 8ft pencil cactus in 100lb containers and a BBQ grill, all of which leave in springtime..
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