Posted on 09/26/2014 12:43:51 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I wish i could have just one afternoon without those tropical thunderheads, so I can ride my Harley!
Well, I got a few bags of cow manure compost and wanted to get it into all layers of the garden. I will be planting some leaf lettuce and turnip seeds tomorrow. We love fresh lettuce for sandwiches.
I’m not really up on flowers, but maybe someone else can help here. I can tell you that I have chopped off limbs of tomato plants that had flowers or green tomatoes.
Pulled leaves off the bottom so that several knobs are exposed,Dipped them in rooting medium, and buried them in a pot of dirt. Roots will form at each nodule. Most of the tomatoes formed roots and continued to grow.
I was able to transplant them to the ground in the spring too. The tomatoes were all indeterminate types.
Planing on planting some winter squash and spinach soon.
Too bad you can’t shift that rain to drought areas for that time on the Harley.
I love having lettuce and spinach at home too - especially in the winter.
I would do it gladly...minus the spider lightening. I would not wish that on anyone!
Wife and I toured Shaw Nature Reserve at Gray’s Summit last week. If you are in eastern Missouri, it’s worth a visit.
You could use the old “hot bed” method to keep some cold hardy stuff going, or a nice window of herbs indoors, or just relax, drink tea, and drool over the seed catalogs.LOL
Put a bag of Miracle Grow potting soil into a black garbage bag.
Poke holes all the way through both bags so water can get out.
Cut 2 or 3 holes in the top and plant your peppers.
Place them where they will get the most sun possible, and water them a little each day.
The sun will heat up tghe black plastic and make the roots put off more Capsaicin. I did this with some Jalapenos and Habaneros one year, and they were the hottest peppers I'd had for a long time.
That’s on my list of nice to do someday. So far we haven’t been able to do it. I am hoping that when the great grand kid get a little older, to convince my grand daughter to do visit some of this stuff on weekends.
Thanks for that tip. It sounds like a great idea. I have approximately 100 sq ft of raised beds that are too close to the walnut tree, so peppers and tomatoes won’t grow there and other stuff that is tolerant doesn’t do as well as it should.
I bet setting black bags along the fence row would work though, so it’s something to try.
Yes, I do fertilize them, probably once a month or so. I tend not to water them too often, perhaps once a week to once every week and a half or so. I also cut them back a bit every 8 to 10 weeks. Christmas cactus is also a plant I’ve had good luck with. Mine blooms 12 months a year. I’ve always wanted to grow fragrant geraniums inside, but they’re expensive.
I do love the seed catalogs. :)
ME TOO. Best winter time activity - drink tea and drool over seed catalogs, and sketch out new garden plans.LOL
I always buy too many seeds, but that’s all right. :)
Me too, but I give them to hubby, and that means at least some of his produce is heirloom and GMO free.LOL
Our most prolific and healthy produce was heirloom. I think that Mr. T. was finally convinced. :)
Glad to see you here. Haven't seen Sarajevo on the Gardening threads since Monday, July 28. I know he was supposed to have an MRI that day..I worry when people disappear from the gardening threads.
Next year, you have to plant those cucuzza seeds you bought. Those things practically grow themselves. My vines look half dead. They really thrive in the heat. Our nights have been in the high fifties and low sixties lately, so I thought mine were done for- the vines are browning.
So, today, I count six new cucuzza squash hanging off the cattle panel out back. From the two seeds Iwas able germinate, and put in containers, I have been in cucuzzi for months with enough for friends and neighbors, too.
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