Posted on 05/22/2015 1:05:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Johnny is back home. He says he has a massive headache and nausea but he is eating anyway.
At least it is over and he made it through it.
Thank you.
THANKS for keeping in touch and letting us know. We love you Johnny, feel better soon.
Marcella
Thank you for keeping us advised about Johnny .
Glad to hear that he is home, even though he may not feel well .
But we all know him to be a warrior , and value him and his postings , greatly.
Vermiculite (heated mica ) does hold some water , but it has only a medium rated analysis on water holding ability.
Perlite is a sterile medium , holds no water moisture, but makes soil more friable (break up) , and is reccomended for seedling developement , or in heavy soils (ie.: clay).
In both instances , it is recommended to use with peat moss, or sphagnum moss for stabile moisture for plants.
In Western NYS, our frost warning has been upgraded to "Frost Watch" .
There goes all the tender crops !
Time to re-seed and re-plant, except for the peas and garlic .. !
Actually I have some aquilla 20 grain .22 ammo that fired trough a .22 rifle makes a sound quieter than a pellet gun but more lethal. I have not reached the point where it has become something I will use, but I'm getting close.
lmao !!!
Maybe , Johnny has a recipie for that !!
"Corpus delictii" at non combackibus !
Last year all my tomato plants in the lousy clay soil here (although I added compost and mulch) they produced zilch. I think the blight wiped them all out. This year I have a few in 5 gal buckets and my Tami-Grape variety is doing the best with about 10 small baby ‘maters. Blossoms look healthy too. Not much sun and getting too much rain here in N. Tx. I will move the buckets under shelter this weekend with the next round of Noah’s flooding rains predicted. The vine cucumbers are doing great too but no bees so far for pollinating.
Thanks Marcella for looking in on /johnny-— tell him we praying for his recovery and wellness.
One of my tomato seedlings was eaten my a gopher. 2 are growing, and the other 3 haven’t shown their faces yet.
My neighbor hasn’t plowed my field yet. I’m starting to wonder if he’ll get to it in time for me to plant. I’m already crossing off stuff that needs a long growing season.
My corn and sunflower seeds are sprouting nicely.
Not much else to report.
I have some sub-sonic but this is beyond that. I have quietly dispatched some squirrels where my non-garden neighbors would have had a conniption had they heard.
In that case, I’m definitely going to have to look for some.
It is amazing how quiet the rounds shot though a .22 rifle are negotiated. The hit on the targets is actually louder than the rifle sht.
Hi all. I am new to the gardening world, although I have to say it is fast becoming an obsession. I’ve recently moved to NE Tennessee, where the rain and fertile soil actually helps to grow things! (I’m formerly from the S. CA desert).
I have 4 small garden areas that I’ve managed to over-pack with seedlings from a can of nonhybrid seeds (the can is 7 years old, so I wanted to see if the seeds would sprout. Which they did marvelously!).
My question is - my neighbors, who all are avid gardeners, don’t appear to have heard of nonhybrid seeds. What is the advantage of them, vs. buying plants at Walmart, a garden center, etc.? Is it that the mass-produced plants will not create seeds that will grow?
Non hybrid seeds used to just be called seeds. And yes you can save the seeds from the plants you are growing now and use them for next year. Buying plants may be easier but if they are hybrids the seeds they produce will not get the same results. I stay away from hybrids. Welcome to the best thread on FR. Lots of very knowledgeable gardeners here who know a lot more than I do.
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