Posted on 04/03/2015 1:24:44 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Sounds like Klondike Gourmet potato. Have heard of them, but not too familiar with it otherwise.
Thanks for posting that. I had forgotten.
OMG! That all looks so beautiful. I have all those tools, but I have nothing planted. If I get anything in this year, it will be from plants I buy at the local nursery. My skeleton is just not up to heavy gardening any more.
I have few Daffodils to go with my purple hyacinths, they got beat down too, but they are not totally on the ground.
We continue to enjoy asparagus almost every day as well as supplying neighbors. The biggest treat was a bacon/asparagus omelette.
All trees are leafed out and the Redskin peach is a little light this year but the Sam Houston has over 50 small peaches. They all won't make but a good start. Plus a load of blooms on the lemon which yielded zilch last year.
But the biggest treat are olives on our 4 year old tree. Didn't think I'd ever see anything but there they are even if they're wee tiny things.
All the tomatoes are in the ground, potatoes are looking great and I'm behind the curve on getting corn in the ground but that should happen tomorrow.
A blessed Easter to all.
A couple of years ago, somebody on this forum recommended diatomeceus earth for some use in the home garden. I cannot remember what it was for. Pest control? Does anybody remember?
I was reading a novel where DE was mentioned for another purpose, and I am trying to remember its use in the home garden.
I've done that for the past 2 years. Where we are in a trailer park, I wasn't sure what I would be able to do with mostly limited sun, but I managed to find the "sweet spots" and am fairly confident this year. In previous years, I've gone small. This year, I decided to go big and do most of my own. Also trying out some of the odd things, like tobacco, hops, ghost chile and carolina reapers - stuff that not everyone grows year in and year out.
Yes it is good for all kinds of pest control. It is such a fine powdery substance with very sharp edges it actually clings to insects and eventually cuts them up. Some cattle ranchers mix it in with their feed to rid their cattle of worms. It would have to be a pure form of DE, not pool type of DE and not mixed with pesticides.
Here at lake of the Ozarks in Missouri we had over three inches of rain overnight and lots of erosion issues around the gravel portions of our driveway. All our plants were tucked in safely for the night.
We were planning to plant the tomatoes this weekend since they're nearly a foot tall and have blooms. Will wait a few days.
Aha! I remember correctly. Was the recommendattion to sprinkle it on the ground around the base of the plant for cut worms? Something else?
Yes on the ground. Or you can get hand held spreaders that will puff it out like a cloud of dust and spread it on leaves to take care of aphids and other leaf munchers and such.
There has been a lot of changes to labeling where it works with commercial distribution.
Personally, I use the potatoes like you bought, but most of that comes from being in a commercial kitchen and home cooks shouldn't have to put up with it.
Get real red potato slips if you want those. Personally, I plant chefs reds and white (which aren't white, really) from the grocery store because I'm sorta use to cooking hundreds of pounds at a time of those. ;)
Long story short... you are very correct.
/johnny
This is the side veggie garden that I'm actually working this year. I got work done on it today, too. That's where lots of the volunteers are.
Pretty perky for a guy that was supposed to be dead in Febuary.. according to some family and doctors. ;)
That and the front flower garden is what I'm going to work this year. No sense in overdoing it with the big garden here or the other 2.
/johnny
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I got a bit more cleanup and tilling done in the garden. Planted ~150 row/ft of snap peas and some onion seed.
The baby kale is almost big enough to stick in the dirt, and the first home-grown salad of the year will be enjoyed sometime over the weekend.
Peppers were just transplanted from smaller pots. All pots have been reused several times. Each time we sterilize the pots and the compost/soil mix.
Looks pretty good. What keeps that thing from blowing away when the wind gets up? Is it spiked to the ground?
You better wait awhile to set those tomatoes out. Mother’s Day is usually safe here in CoMO. You could probably push that up a week, or maybe even two depending on the micro-climate in your garden.
I noticed this evening that all of my plum trees, and the two Elberta peaches are starting to bloom. They’re probably gonna get bit by frost.
All the ‘matoes have been outside (in the little upright green houses with the flaps open) for about 10 of the past nice days. I'm thinking we'll try this on Easter morning.
I'll send a pix of the frost blankets and hoops from last year.
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