Posted on 05/02/2014 12:25:41 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Not me. I have no experience with that. Is any part of it edible?
whoops...
I read all that. It was very interesting, but my muscles started hurtin just thinking about all the work to tend all that stuff.LOL
Right now, I don’t have any more room for pots indoors, and I would have to bring it in for the winter. If I ever get a year round green house, I’ll be growing it.
What I'm reading calls for 100 days in the fridge before trying to germinate.
/johnny
Yikes. That’s a lot of days in hibernation temps.
It's already hot in my kitchen. I've wanted to bake a cake, but I don't want to heat the rest of the house up. I am tying to keep the electric bill down by not running the Air Conditioner. I did run it last week when it was in the 90's those couple of days.
I know of a lady who bakes weedding cakes, and she only uses turkey eggs. They're the secret to her fabulous cakes.
Nice setup! Thanks for sharing.
That’s awesome !
LOL! I hope I have the character to take them to completion. It truly IS a larger plate than I had really planned. Oh well. Since I’m potting a lot of them, perhaps if it appears that I may not be able to handle it, I might be able to share with my friends to get out from under...
and on top of that, we bought strawberries and two well-along garlic plants and a stevia plant with a couple of decorative border plants yesterday....
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Those are very neat photos. Thanks for posting them!
I am having Amaretto over ice so I won’t cut my throat. Everything was fine yesterday and I just went out to check everything. Some of it has gone to hell and I don’t know if I can get it back.
It would help immensely if I knew what I was doing, supposed to do, don’t do, etc.
My beautiful celery plants are all flat as a pancake. They were fine yesterday. I’ve moved then closer to the roofed deck so they won’t get a lot of sun and I watered them. They were so beautiful and now they look like s-—.
Some of the strawberries on top of the table I have out there, were looking almost flat but they looked sort of dried out. They were fine yesterday. I watered the whole bunch of strawberries.
I have small tomato plants in a number of pots and those looked dry so watered them.
What I know now about watering: You can’t water everything evenly if you are using containers as opposed to ground. The containers are different sizes and one has to also take into account which plants need more water than other plants. I have a question here - do cucumbers require a lot of water? Every cucumber in pots of different sizes, have blooms on them. Do they need to always be sort of damp? Hell, I don’t know.
All the small tomato plants in varies sizes of containers looked dry but the plants looked okay, so watered them.
The only good news out there is three of the four large tomato plants have blooms on them and the other one looks just fine - all four are a different kind. Johnny, these have strong bodies so I didn’t screw up like I did last year.
Some of my beautiful new Cilantro babies were also flat - damn. Carefully watered them.
Worked on the Walking Onions to put some of their shoots back inside the planter as they would have been on the ground within a day or two.
Then, to top it off, took down the hummingbird feeder to bring it in and if it isn’t exactly straight some water will come out - that sugar water spilled out on the lower deck right outside the glass door. Can you say “ants”? To stop that from happening, took out paper towels to soak it up but of course some of the water soaked into the wood but maybe not enough to draw ants, hell, I don’t know.
I’m glad a have a full bottle of Amaretto.
Wow! Even better!
I've never tried container gardening, so I've never had that happen to me before. Maybe someone can offer some advice. I'm stumped.
The best I can do is offer moral support.
/johnny
Do you grow cucumbers? If so, do you keep their bed damp?
I do know my containerized stuff (herbs mainly) are much more sensitive to watering than the stuff in the big garden.
I also am outside checking stuff up to 20 times a day. Twice an hour sometimes.
/johnny
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