Those are second and third growth Redwoods across the street. Cut and come again...
Posted on 12/04/2015 3:42:18 PM PST by greeneyes
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I got a couple double rows of garlic planted two weeks after Halloween, and I’m now starting to see them poking through. Had a cold snap that slowed them down. Still hoping to get my winter wheat cover planted before the ground gets too cold for it to germinate. I’ve been noticing deer tracks in the garden. They’re wondering where their wheat grass is that they love to munch on nightly all winter long.
Can y’all talk about green houses a little?
8x12 maybe?
Hail resistant, poly carbonate ?
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Brand names?
My grandad grew roses for my granny year round, said it was cheaper to grow love than buy it...
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If you have to eat supermarket tomatoes, we’ve found that
the ones that are still on a vine are just better than the
hot house ones. More expensive; but not much more and worth
it.
Only a few tabasco peppers left on the plants, not sure if I’ll get any more or if the first good freeze will hit first.
I think I counted 9 garlic came up, and a small bunch from one I missed this year.
Time to start on a new layer of mulch. Leaves have been falling, I thnk I might have enough to go over them with the mower and chop up, then onto the garden.
If you haven’t tried it, definitely start using mulch. Only way to go. Get some earthworms underneath it, they do the tilling, the mulch helps insulate and keep the soil cooler in summer and warmer in winter, the lower layer turns into fertilizer, and I spend 20 minutes a week pulling weeds while everyone else spends 2 hours a day.
Only thing bad about it is...oh yeah nothing bad about it...
Just chop up leaves with the mower after they fall, rake it into a wagon and off to the garden, get it at least 4 inches thick and you’re good to go. Put a few earthworms underneath, you never have to till again, the worms take care of that. Just pull back the mulch where you want to plant in a circle about the size of a dinner plate. I use a little foot long garden trowel to plant, didn’t crank my tiller for 6 years or so except to do a neighbor’s garden, before I got rid of the old eyesore altogether.
I have a question about pine trees. Do all pines produce pine cones, or is it a male/female thing? Basically, I have a pinus pinea, or Italian Stone pine, one that is commonly sold at Christmas time, and it’s about 30 years old now, and has never put on a pine cone. Is that normal? I’m in Central TX zone 8b.
Praying for you.
Tomorrow is Alabama football, after that we have a beautiful week of weather for North Alabama. After being laid up for three months due to foot surgery my to do list is a mile long and that doesn’t include the honey do list.
We finally got a good hard freeze last week that killed the weeds in the garlic patch, I need to fertilize with calcium nitrate and water it in this week.
This fall and early winter has flown bye, its hard to believe in three weeks it will be time to start planting flats of early season vegetables in the greenhouse. I will be starting 500 tomato plants around 15 Jan for my friend to plant in his hothouse around the first of March, I have never started tomatoes this early so I am hoping all goes well.
Well, the heavy freeze of last weekend only damaged those plants who were past their prime. All the winter crop plants continued unabated
First week of December.
And, we’ve used up the last of the tomatoes that I picked green just before frost. They ripened in paper bags in our garage and this has to be the latest fresh tomatoes I can remember...
Those are second and third growth Redwoods across the street. Cut and come again...
Make sure you don’t wear any clothes that look like bugs. LOL
You are welcome. I can imagine that. We moved into our home 40 years ago, and we do tend to hang on to stuff. I decided to start going through, and getting rid of some things-make more room for food storage, and less clutter in the family room and computer areas. I decided to just start in one corner of the basement and work my way around each 2 foot area every other week or so, and also sort through one storage box a week to discard, and label what’s left.
I never did get my wheat planted. I think it’s too late now, but at least I got the garlic in.
I don’t know much about green houses, except I want a sunroom type over my patio similar to the one at this link. Sometimes, this site has some good sales. They do have some commercial ones, but I kinda like the hobby sunroom since we have a huge back patio to put it on.
http://www.wayfair.com/keyword.php?keyword=sun+rooms&ust=&command=dosearch&new_keyword_search=true
I agree, and that’s what we do too, when they are on sale.
I am a fan of mulch. I have raised beds so my weeding isn’t much any way usually. Hubby put all the leaves into a big round bunch circled by chicken wire in the fall. Uses it up come spring.
Not sure, I’ll try to remember to ask hubby after I get home tomorrow.
My list is long also. Twenty years of going downhill, and no energy has led to a lot of clutter - mostly stuck in boxes and closets (think Fibber McGee).
Fifteen minutes of surgery to remove two benign tumors and all of a sudden I’m feeling better than I have in more than a decade. My strategy is to hurry up and get as much done as I can before I start to feel old again. LOL
That’s good news.
That’s great that they all ripened.
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