Posted on 01/03/2014 12:19:51 PM PST by greeneyes
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Convallaria majalis, a rhizome with dainty white flowers and entirely poisonous, is a cool climate plant. It thrives in USDA Zones 2-5, and struggles in Zone 7.
Pieris japonica is an evergreen shrub with cascading white flowers. Native to Japan, Taiwan and eastern China, recommended USDA Zones 4-8, with light shade needed warmer climates. This is also a toxic specimen, leaves and nectar are harmful when ingested.
I need another seedling shelf so was giving one of “my” garage shelves the once, twice, three times over yesterday. Don’t know if I can manage to put what’s on it out of hubby’s way though. The next warm day, I’ll see what I can do. There’s a little cabinet son dumped here that will hold some seedlings. At Christmas, we told the kids that they’ll have 6 months after college graduation to move their stuff to their own places or else. I can’t tell that they’re elsewhere because their stored stuff outgrown their old rooms and has moved into the livingroom, the porch and the garage. This last summer, daughter dropped off her little bit of gardening supplies so they’re mine!! now and we’ll talk when and if she ever gets a place where she needs them.
We finally brought in all the cages and what not and pulled up the dead plants this week. I should have put in a fall garden but wasn’t able.
Yeh, I really fell down on the job this fall too, just didn’t have the energy I usually have.
Our neighbors this past summer, didn’t even have a place left in their living room to be able to sit down, since both kids came home from college, and dumped it all there because they didn’t have room in their bedrooms for all the stuff.
Guess you heard the Green Bay vs Forty Niners are going to play in sub zero there on Sunday! Don't think even the hardiest GB fans are going to enjoy that.
Looks like our thaw is going to be mid Summer this year... We haven't been above zero for weeks now. Sunday is supposed to be around forty below with -50 or less with the windy chills! They are still forecasting sub zero for the next ten days or so... UGHHH!
Guessing our garden will planted around July 4th, gardening Alaska style here in N.MN!
I was telling my daughter today that tobacco seeds had to be sown at the end of January, because it's about 90 days and stuff will be going out in the big garden.
/johnny
I have searched since you posted and can’t find any evidence that mequite grows in the Piney Woods Region. I looked at many pictures to see what the look like, and don’t recall seeing any until west of Houston by some mileage. One site has a map and PWR was not included in the mesquite area. But what do I know, I’ve only been here 3 1/2 years. I would like to find some locally, though, for BBQ
Rebel tobacco plant this evening. Beer can for scale. They gave me a beer for babysitting. ;)
That plant is now in a one gallon container and shows no sign of slowing down.
It's a bit droopy because I didn't water it before I left the house this morning. I'm going to have to watch the water and fertilizer more on this potted plant than the ones I had out in the big garden.
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I watch a youtube channel where the folks are in Union Maine. They have about 3’ of snow on the ground and all over their cars and trucks. He needs his truck but the bed is full of snow. He was in his garage working in -10. Not me.
You have pecan trees the your area? I wouldn’t have guessed that. I have lots of oak for cooking, but like to add some mesquite of hickory, but have to buy those in pricey little bundles around here.
I found this article that should scare the bejeebers out of people on how little nutrients (focusing on antioxidants) are in all those hybrid/improved/GMO picture perfect fruits and vegetables on the grocery shelves - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-the-nutrition-out-of-our-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&;
and the accompanying charts at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/26/sunday-review/26corn-ch.html?ref=sunday
I was looking at a few of the local farmers markets and confirmed they were selling mainly these pretty and sweeter hybrids. We knew this but the city folk (who think eggs are aborted chickens) who are plucking down $5 for a pound of tomatoes and eating $12 salads the latest hip gourmet “hand picked fresh this morning” restaurants don't. It's also very telling when you read that Chef Ramon (with a rolling “R” and accent, of course) buys his ever so fresh veggies every Tuesday, then it's not so fresh for the weekend crowd. “Organic” and “locally grown” has nothing to do with nutritionl value. Bottom line is, as Dr. Gregory House says, “Everyone lies.”
Neighbor has 4 each 70 ft pecan trees. I pull up a few baby trees every year when the squirrels bury the pecans in my garden.
/johnny
Give it 3 more weeks if you don’t want to worry about losing all your hard work.
Call a few nearby schools, day care/preschool, girls and boys club a YMCA or even a church group. Ask your radio station if they have a Saturday morning bulletin board show for people looking for some used whatever or giving away something free to the first taker. My kids brought home all sorts of seedings from preschool, the middle school’s greenhouse class sells plants, and the special needs kids usually have something growing in their rooms. Ask your local Master Gardeners.
The house that I grew up in(figure of speech, I never grew up) was built in an old pecan orchard of a plantation home. We had two in our small yard until hurricane Camille in 68 or 69.
I now have enough almost sprouting potatoes for a row of potatoes, and yet another clove of garlic that already has green shoots, that I'll have to find a spot for under the cold frame.
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We sit at the edge of an underground creek that can be identified by the row of cottonwoods that runs for a half mile through the neighborhood.
/johnny
HaHa. I spent one year in Vermillion S. Dakota. That convinced me to never live further north than Missouri.
When you finally thaw out, the warm sunshine will feel pretty good. Actually, if I were you, I’d have a big wall of thermal glass/garden room style or lots of thermal windows facing due South. So that I could lay down on the couch and take an afternoon nap in the warm sunshine whenever it happened to shine.
There’s no way I would be in a stadium at your current temps.
I have some nearly sprouting potatoes, but it is too cold to put in a row. I was thinking about sticking them into a pot indoors for an experiment.LOL
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