,still remember the planes flying over the nite before she hit and the wind , we cut 30-some odd trees off the fences .
Posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:57 PM PST by greeneyes
For cheap /free inexpensive mulch and compost , check out your local municipal town offices, town supervisor, or road supervisor .
They are the town employees who pick up tree trimmings ,leaf mulch , and frequently they are in piles that are already composting at the "town garage".
Also , tree service companies generally have a 'wood lot' where they store debris from the tree chippers at low cost , or no cost if you are willing to transport the material yourself.
Free ..makes it worth the inquiry !
Got my seedlings under the fluorescent lamp and a few more unsprouted pods on top of the water heater. Been cold here too in DFW and gotta have those seedlings in their ‘incubator’ for a backyard gardener like me to get a head start this year. My cilantro and mustard tendergreens are covered up out back under the tree ring waiting to be liberated when the warmer weather shows up.
Appreciate all you fellow GT FReeps and the info shared.
I’m in beautiful Indian Trail (outside Charlotte) it has been cold, cold here.
Going over the symptoms and my history, he thinks I have had it for 15 or twenty years, but it only got really bad recently. Here I am 10 docs and twenty years later, just thankful to know why my energy level just kept going down so fast.
I have read that learning to play a didgeridoo can help strengthen your throat muscles so that the apnea isn't as bad too. I was thinking that maybe a flute, clarinet or saxophone might work.LOL
For the first time in twenty years, when I wake up, I don't feel like I need to mainline my coffee. Now, if I could just get my circadian rhythm to a more normal schedule...
,still remember the planes flying over the nite before she hit and the wind , we cut 30-some odd trees off the fences .
Thanks for the update. You’ll be chomping on garden produce way before us folks to the north, so we’ll be depending on you and the others in southernly locations to keep our heads filled with visions of sugar plums and carrots, etc.
Consider using some bottom heat for seed germanation.
While the "Cole crops"(brussle sprouts,broccoli, cabbage,etc.)plants are known to be cold hardy , the seeds germanate better with heat.
Whats in the tree ring has been planted in the Fall and a bit protected by some railroad ties stacked about 3 high. I mulch it and cover them up with the cold weather. I’m pleasantly surprised they survived the cold so far even with my coverings. Its probably more of a chore in colder Mo. where you live to keep outdoor greens alive in the cold winter. I lost some asian greens though that weren’t well established but oh well thats what seeds are for. Lettuce doesn’t seem to like transplanting preferring direct sowing to the soil from my experience.
My Better Boy tomatoes are 2 inches high with a 1000 watt metal halide in the basement. It’s a cold 36 here in philly so i just go down there and get a tan for a while. Peppers are coming up and i put the cabbage, lettuce and onions in the shed.
Yes, that’s true. I have successfully managed to maintain a salad garden outdoors the last 3 years. The retaining wall absorbs heat when the sun shines, and releases it at night.
I also fill milk jugs with water to surround 3 sides and provide insulation. Also, water gives off heat when it freezes. It faces the southwest, so gets plenty of winter sun, and then the row covers, and straw.
However, the challenges are just too much this year, so I am not expecting much when I finally go out and look at it.
No, I don’t transplant lettuce, but I do grow it under grow lights most winters. Then I use a leaf or two for salads. Same with spinach. Usually have some tomatoes, but I didn’t get them out of the garden early enough this fall, and then they had an aphid infestation, which spread to my pepper plants.
The one tomato plant that has survived, now has some flowers on it, and I need to pollinate it, but have lost my paintbrush, so I’m going to try a q tip.
The lettuce is in my garage so the temperature ranges from the mid 60s during the day to the low 50s at night (estimated). The nutrients came with the hydro kit so I don’t know if they’re any good or not, but maybe I can add some real nutrient mix. That may be an issue. It also came with coconut fiber as the base instead of soil or sphagnum moss.
As for the chill hours on the plum tree, probably not. Maybe during the winter, definitely not during summer or fall. Perhaps I should have gotten an avocado tree instead. Oh well. I’ll plant it and see what happens. Worst case scenario is I learn a lesson.
Atta Guy! The same thing happened to us. We got the first grow light, and then we just had to have another, so we have it set up in the kitchen.
Our oldest daughter gave us another one when she moved, but it’s 4 feet long, and hubby will have to put a shelf under the window in the utility room for it.
Meanwhile my kitchen light in the basement won’t work. Wanna guess what I am going to replace it with? LOL
I don’t remember the winter, but I do remember the summer. Hot as blue blazes, and dry as a bone. Granny and Grandpaw carried the double bed outside, and we slept under the stars with a fan blowing on us.
The house was just too hot, even with big old window fans.
Well those plastic containers sound good. Nice banner. I had some nice hearts and stuff, but couldn’t get the copy feature to work, so I had to settle for Enlarged Caps and First place billing.
Yeh, that’s why they changed the words to Climate Change. Like who is fooled by that? In the 60s and 70s they told us to get ready for the next ice age.
Now they want us to believe that Globull Warming causes all this cold weather. Well, the more they talk, the more I think, I need to buy a pair of hip boots to wade through the BS.
The CPAP will help if you can keep the face piece on. I tried at least a half dozen designs but always pulled them off during the night.
CPAP will also help with joint pain. When I went to a Rheumatologist, his first question was had I ever had a sleep study. It did not help me that I could notice, but I have severe osteoarthritis in every joint they Xray.
/johnny
Lettuce will depend on variety. I’ve only grown Simpson Black Seed, which is quite “leggy” and looks nothing like the big round Iceberg heads. I’ve seen it grow a foot or more before starting to develop a head. I pick the lower/outer leaves for use, and it continues to grow new inner leaves upward.
had giant ice chunks on the INSIDE the morning it got down to 8F.
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LOL. That reminds me of when we lived in Vermillion South Dakota-in a trailer. I used to get up and chip the ice off the door so we could go outside. Most of the trailers had a makeshift enclosure on the porch to help keep the heat in.
One nice thing we had dairy delivery, and never had to worry about getting up late-the milk was always very cold, and the insulated box kept it from freezing.
My parents house had an open floor furnace in the corner of the living room. You could stand on the grate and warm up. The kitchen had the oven, and the bathroom had a little heater.
Usually the furnace was the only thing turned on. All the rest of the house was closed off either with doors, or quilts hung over the entry way. So if you wanted to be warm you hung out in the living room-not your bedroom or the kitchen, and you used the bathroom real quick too.LOL
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