Till then, Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. Sorry to post and run. God Bless.
Can anyone suggest a good soil tezter for acidity
Pinging the list.
Has anyone ever grown Chayote?
found a weird one this week, gonna give it a try. Milk is good for pastures and tomatoes and other plants.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/milk-and-molasses-magic-zbcz1402
not a big fan of Mother earth, I prefer the conservative Backwoods Home magazine but the milk bit sounds good.
started lettuce today for the outside towers. i will need a lot more as i have three towers with 15 pots in each. tomatoes are doing pretty well three inches on most.
Still too cold to plant anything...but that’s New England for you.
Got 4 raised beds ready, for lettuces and peas.
The weather in East Tennessee has been great for a few days so I’m hoping spring is around the corner.
Been cutting asparagus for about three weeks.
Finally, the weather is settling; able to get some stuff done. This week I bought a bag of “100” red onion sets, and today planted all 200 of them.
Just thought it was a fluke last year when my bags of “100 bulbs” had 200 in them, but same thing again this year. At least I learned, and only bought 1 bag instead of 2.
Snowdrops are blooming, and the iris, tulips & daffies are pushing upward. Also sawa shivering violet on the greening up clumps.
Started seeds inside lat week.
Pansies, violets, dianthus, and snapdragons all blooming nicely so I have a constant supply of fresh flowers in the house. Have been able to pick a small amount of lettuce every other day for a fresh salad.
Pretty excited today .... my next door neighbor (my brother!) got a nice, medium size Kubota tractor yesterday. It has a bucket on the front & a 3-point hitch on the back. The bucket is on arms so it goes from way up to down. He told me this morning he’s “ready to play” so that means a lot of stuff around here can get easily moved. The winter debris (some large branches) will be going to the trash pile in the woods, soon (I won’t have to manually cut them up & haul one small cart at a time). Also, I am eliminating the grassy areas around my raised beds and he is going to haul the shavings from the chipper piles we have in about 3 different places in the field. He can also haul topsoil to some bare spots that need it or top off my beds. In the winter, he can clear his long driveway and our even longer circular driveway, including the big, hard snow piles that accumulate at the ends of the driveway when the snow plow goes down the road. I actually dreamed about that tractor last night ..... it’s going to be a huge help around here.
Question about growing garlic.
The suggestion here is that garlic should be planted in the fall after the first frost.
How well can I expect it to work out if I plant some now?
I’m in Zone 5b.
We’ve gotten some badly needed rainfall this weekend in Central Missouri. I got a bit of cleanup done in the yard yesterday morning, then went to the sawmill and ordered posts and planks to build another 175’ of board fence behind the barn.
The afternoon yesterday was rained out, but I’ve gotten some cleanup done today in the kitchen garden and laid weed mat down on the path between the gate and the potting shed.
The radishes I sowed last week are starting to come up. The kale and rutabaga aren’t peeking out yet but it won’t be long now.
The late blooming orchard trees are in full song. Hopefully we won’t have any more of those bad cold nights this spring.
I took the week whacker to the asparagus patch this morning. Should have done it last weekend. I hacked off a dozen or so nice fat spears. Oh well...
Drain that swamp! Good luck with whatever-it-is. :)
I planted the cornelian cherries and honeyberry bushes that I ordered earlier as a Christmas present to myself. Honeyberries are supposed to be shade-tolerant, and I’m hoping they’ll expand enough to block Large Dumb Dog’s view of the gas station downhill from us; he is Large and Dumb but also Sweet and keeps barking in hopes the gas station people will come play with him.