All of the plants I started last week have at least one (some have more) that has produced some teeny green leaves barely poking through the seed starter.
So I went to see the Governor today, at a nearby town, and was able to give a brief comment. I focused on the success in maintaining our AAA bond rating. And challeneged the state government to continue to be fiscally responsible.(Enough of the politcs on to the gardening).
Since this town has a Lowe's I was able to swing by that store to get some mushroom compost at a reasonible price. Of course I also ran across some large bags of vermiculite, a gardening book on Gardening in Missouri, and some slow release fertilizer granuales to restock my dwindling supply.
Mr. Tomato Plant in a six inch pot has grown two main branches. One is about 3 1/2 feet, and the other is at least 6 feet. It's water requirements are such that I am now watering it 3 times/day. Will be rigging up a ceramic holder for watering using a 1 liter soda bottle, so that it gets a continuous supply daily.
Lemon tree has some large lemons that are still green, some pea sized lemons from the last blooming, and is now putting on more blooms, so the air will be heavy with fragrance soon.
Here's a link to a thread about planting tomatoes, in case anyone is interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3142431/posts
Have a great weekend. God Bless
Pinging the List:
Ahhh...How nice to have a gardening thread here. Such a nice, benevolent break for the incessant politics. This site is FreeRepublic, which is what America is created to be. And after all, America is really what the joy of gardening is about, much more than what an out of control federal government is about.
My tomato plants that I set out three weeks ago have doubled in size. Most of them have a few blooms.
My green beans are about 3 inches tall.
I planted three hills of cucumbers and only two plants came up. So I replanted.
My purple hull peas weren’t coming up so I dug them up, watered the seeds and re-covered them. They’re now coming up.
For some reason only one of the two rolls of okra came up and it won’t need to be thinned.
I guess it just hasn’t been hot enough.
That's one guzzling, high maintenance 'mater plant. What river can you tap into when it really gets hot? (;
Plus we wound up utting out 4 other pots and 3 whiskey barrells. We have everything out and growing. The cucumbers, tomatoes and carrots have really sprouted. All are about 6" tall after 2 weeks. The only thing still under ground are the poblano peppers. The leeks, rosemary, sage, thyme tomatillos (we had to go plants as the seeds wouldnt germinate)are all growing well. Our Lemon tree has put on about 10 buds. Its still pretty small only about 4 feet tall. Hopefully we will get some fruit this year. Will post some pictures when I get out from behind this coporate firewall :)I’ll be caging the tomatoes this week. Some are close to two feet tall. A few are budding and I expect blooms later in the week.
The new peach, pear and plum tree have little fruit already. My original pear tree is loaded. It’s close to 20 years old, so I planted a new one.
Beans, turnips, cucumbers, spinach, squash and other veggies are doing great. If only I cold keep the cats out of the garden. They hunt for grubs in the dirt.
I turned over some of my garden the other day and there were still ice crystals in the soil.
However, we are in for a warm spell and the soil was thawed enough that I put in my lettuce and peas.
What with the way spring is so late, I figured I’d need all the head start I could get.
Zucchini seeds are going in the peat pots tomorrow.
Ping!!
Thank you for the info! Here’s something on gardening that’s off the beaten path, but it should be interesting and also informative.
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp
The formatting on that page is a little funny, by the way, so you might need to scroll down quite a bit to get past a gap early in the article. There are videos toward the bottom of the page, too.
I just got my very first Chiltepin Pepper sprout today!
These little fireballs are very hard to germinate.
Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary might be of interest to your ping list.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3143712/posts?page=3
I was hoping to get out to my land this weekend and get more landscaping fabric pinned down. But, I managed to catch something a couple of days ago and decided to stick near the house. I was able to get that last rabbit fence moved, though. Tomorrow I hope to get the wall-o-waters out and get the backyard garden beds planted.
I scored a nice strainer on shopgoodwill.com this week. Normally $80 or higher, I got it for $23. I’m hoping it will make my canning easier.