Posted on 03/31/2017 4:36:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
Yikes. Lived in Peterborough for many year’s worked for the original Brookstone Company.
Two paste varieties and threee pepper types transplant into bigger pots but still inside.
Forecast is for low 30s next week. What happened to the 80 degrees we had in February?
Looking forward to the pics. Hard to believe that we are almost on another farmer’s market season here too.
Low 30s??? Hadn’t heard that one yet. Sigh. Well, it is Missouri and you know what they say about the weather: If you don’t like it, stick around it will change shortly. LOL
Before the excess rain commenced, I managed to get small gardens started at 3 locations on my rural properties. I put in 2 Stark Bros apple trees in both Wright Co amd Pike Co Missouri. I also planted anywhere from 50-100 onion sets in Wright, Pike, and Callaway Co Missouri, and a few broccoli plants in same locations. That’s it for now. The rain now has made everywhere a mudpit.
We are muddy here too-clay ugh. Hooray you just mentioned Stark brothers. I was trying to think of their name today, and looking for last year’s catalog and couldn’t remember it.
Now I can tell hubby and get the new catalog. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for the pics - always so pretty. We are collecting info on the green houses we plan to get. It’s not glass though it does look like glass. Can’t remember exactly what it’s made of right now.
Just curious to know about something in the background of this first picture of the strawberries. There is a what appears to be a raised bed divided into six sections by white metal bars?
So what’s up with that?
houses = house
I built that out of PVC and covered it with greenhouse grade plastic for a hot house to grow tomatoes but they outgrew the structure. I grow radishes and a few onions now
Nice to see your strawberries waking up.
My Flavor Grenade, Flavor King pluots are putting on a great show flowering as is the Santa Rosa plum.
Rest of the fruit trees perking up, except the sleepy head persimmon.
Thinking of planting pawpaws or edible bamboo.
Need to build a bed for the blueberries.
Is it too much to ask that the locals have their dogs not pee on my rose bushes?
Also, does anyone know where I can buy a Zanthoxylum Simulans Plant thats in stock?
Both US sources that I could find are out of stock.
Thank you :D
The dogs would probably stop if they understood.... its the self entitled dog walkers that take offence.
They are located in my hometown, Louisiana, Mo. They are the oldest nursery west of the Mississippi River. Are you in an Ozark co?
Welcome aboard. :)
Here in Missouri the wife and I are starting to cut Asparagus!
Ha...it’s been cloudy/rainy here since October.
We have an apple tree named Lazarus; it was here and ancient when we bought the house three years ago. The main part is dead, but somebody grafted on a different variety for pollination and the graft is still going strong. I planted two apple seedlings nearby, which of course had to be Mary and Martha.
Not expecting fruit this year from Lazarus, but I’ll be happy if it just survives. (On the other hand, last year there were three blossoms and this year there’s about 20. Progress?)
Are any branches of the original Lazarus tree still alive? Does it have good apples that you like? What about the grafted limbs? Do you like those apples?
If so - you can cut off the ends of branches and take the scions and graft them onto a new base. You’ll get apples in a couple years.
The internet has all the information you need. You can also find people who will graft them for you. I’ve used an heirloom apple guy near Charlottesville , VA. You mail him the scions in the winter and he graphs them in the spring.
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