Sorry to be so late posting. It's been hectic, and I'm just taking a break from chores, bills, and reading IRS compliance data and other regulatory updates related to my volunteer work.
I did get a chance to read all your comments to last week's thread, and want to thank everyone for their comments and sharing of pictures.
The lemon tree is starting to put on buds for blossoms and has 2 lemons left that are almost ripe. It is way overdue for repotting, but I still haven't found the exact pot I want for it.
Hope everyone is doing well. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend, and God Bless.
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Can your homegrown lemonade be far behind? Still have some tomatoes and swiss chard growing out back. Made a pannini out of them tonite for dinner. Last weekends drenching rains here in north Tx has the soil still damp but the real cold freezes have not hit just yet. Being originally from NY and having the garden still produce in Dec here is quite nice treat.
We still have a couple of little tomatoes left. Ripened & I
finally put them in the fridge. That’s about it now.
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 ?
Auto vent
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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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.
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.
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...
Twelve hundred miles from my garden. Not that it matters, it’s under a thick blanket of snow, last I heard. :-)
Otherwise still trying to figure out what to do with about 30 Poblano peppers on the one plant that summered over. It had a whopping 4 peppers in the spring.
Otherwise just hunkering down enjoying the more moderate Cen. Tx. temps; highs in the 60s and 70s. Nice to walk about the yard and not melt.
We have yet to receive our first snowfall of the season here in Massachusetts!
I’m not complaining, though. I need to order some seeds soon.
Hi, sent you a Freepmail.
The ground at my place is still to wet to get any plowing done, but if we make it to the weekend without rain I think it will be possible.
I picked up a load of firewood at the mill and dumped it off at Dad’s on Saturday. I need to get ahead of his pile now because I know I’m going to be busy next summer and fall.
I bought plexiglass for the two cold frame windows that were broken in the wind storm a couple weeks ago, installed it, caulked around the edges with silicon sealer and reinstalled them on the frame.
Planted a dozen cells of green salad and put them in the heated bathroom in my workshop. I’ll transfer them to the cold frame after the plants are up a couple inches. It’s really been nice having fresh lettuce this time of year. I’m actually thinking that I might build another one for additional capacity.
Yesterday Dad came over and we got five strands of barb wire stretched on one section of the new pasture fence. Between that and the firewood I’m feeling it today. After sitting on my biscuits in the office all week I should be good to go again next weekend.