Posted on 03/14/2014 12:57:29 PM PDT by greeneyes
Posted on Friday, March 07, 2014 2:18:07 PM by greeneyes
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Hey those recycled containers dont look so bad. I’ve found discarded planters by the side of the road or elsewhere. Also 5 gal. buckets discarded are frequently available. Wash ‘em up, drill bottom holes and can paint the outside with spray paint to spruce them up. Rustoleum makes a spray paint specifically well bonded to plastic without using a primer.
Last year I painted 1 gal. plastic milk or juice containers with it. Looks great and the paint holds very well. I love the ceramic planters but whoa are they ever pricey.
Where’s the ranch for sale located at?
South-central Wisconsin. About a half-hour to 45 minute drive from the west side of Madison, although because it’s the side road off of the side road, it’s pretty well hidden.
Grow some good cheese in Wisconsin... (; Do some local farmers culture their own?
Silver Queen is a popular corn.
I get poorer every year.LOL
I don’t recall exactly, but it must have been pretty good or I would have remembered the failure.
My deck containers were back ordered, so I hope they get here pretty soon.
You are welcome. Glad to be able to help.
I only pitch them to avoid being buried in stuff. Gotta cull stuff out sometimes.LOL
We have collected a lot of plastic pots over the years from landscaping and edible bushes and stuff. So I actually have quite a collection, we just keep reusing them. I like to make do with what I have.
We got lots of rain yesterday. My rain barrels are finally full. Later this week, I’ll be putting some plants in the big garden.
I should have internet access back at the house later in the week. Until then, I’ll be scarce. Such is life.
/johnny
“We have collected a lot of plastic pots over the years from landscaping and edible bushes and stuff. So I actually have quite a collection...”
Last year when I started this container garden, I had no pots/containers - I started with zero. A pot meant nothing to me. Now, I look at pots/containers as gold. :o)
I was digging around, looking for a lost photo album and can across some seeds that may be 30 years old (yeah, I keep stuff.)
Friends from Iowa are driving down here today for a week at Lake of the Ozarks. Hope they make it on these slick roads. Tim & his wife brought down some really nice compost from Iowa the last time they were here.
I visited the local landscape guy, D&R Materials, and brought in two pickup loads of river bottom scrapings (Ozark topsoil) and this was mixed into the compost.
Tim is also bringing down a case of Leinenkugles Original which, for some reason, is not sold in Missouri. It's one of my last connections to the Northland...
Hello greeneyes and everyone!
This week Darlin and I went to Lowes to check out their early vegetable offerings. We bought one each of Cherokee Purple, and Red Beefsteak heirloom tomato plants, and for Darlin a “SuperFantastick” hybrid tomato plant. A couple of them have the beginnings of baby ‘maters blossom buds!
We are waiting to plant them since we don’t think we are quite out of the frost season. However, since it did not freeze last night, Darlin urged me to let them stay outside. It rained buckets, which was good, and I just checked on them and they do seem happy. We will bring them in if the temps nosedive.
The sprouted onion is putting out lots of leaves and I have been assured that it is time to begin trimming them back a bit for cooking! How exciting!
While at Lowes we began our examination of different trellis materials for our trombone squash and other climbers. We also found some blocks that may be appropriate for temporary raised beds.
The garden lady said that if we begin our seed sprouting about now, then in about 3 weeks to a month it will be a good time to plant in our area.
“I was digging around, looking for a lost photo album and can across some seeds that may be 30 years old (yeah, I keep stuff.)”
Could you plant a few of those 30 yr. old seeds and see if they germinate? I would be interested to know that and I’m sure others would, too. Do you know what the seeds are?
I’m sure some do, although I can’t think of any offhand.
In the South in recent years, Silver King has almost completely replaced Silver Queen corn, but everybody still refers to it as Silver Queen. I don’t see either in this part of Texas, though.
My neighbor grew two kinds last year, some kind of early corn, then the G-90 came in. It was a huge difference in taste. I asked him the other day when he brought me that mega-load of magazines, if he had planted yet, “No, it’s been too wet” Johnny can’t beg or buy rain, and we have an abundance.
When we moved, I had some 30yo gourds with seeds inside. I never thought to see if they would sprout. We were too busy preparing to move to think ahead.
I ordered some chalk board and dry erase board to make this for the 2 grandgurlz, another grand/unknown is due out of the oven in Oct.
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