Posted on 04/28/2017 6:38:46 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I finally got some potatoes, and I transferred them to a box to warm up. Will plant when the rain stops. We are starting to clear off the back patio where we will put up the green house sometime this summer or fall.
I have been doing research on solar heating green house information to incorporate into the space. Hubby has potatoes, onions, and beets planted. He planted a lot more beets this year - pickled beets are his new favorite food.
Hope all is going well with everyone. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Well...I’ve started my herb seeds!
Joy, joy, joy. Our peach tree recovered from the late frost that took the forming fruit from her and she formed20 or more baby peaches from newly emerged blossoms. The five peaches she gave us last year were delicious, and sweet beyond belief. Very rewarding from a self-pollinating tree from Tracor Supplu.
TC
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Good for you.
That’s good news. Our newest peach tree is also self pollinating. It also is more tolerant to freezing temps.
I use a full spectrum High intensity light. I ordered it from one of the catalog’s on sale. IIRC, Jumpstart lighting kit. Has a stand for the light, and I put it on an old micro wave table in front of a patio door.
Looks to be a fruitless year. :-(
Hard freeze this past week, about 22F. This morning, we woke up to no power and a few inches of snow, and still falling...sideways. Our neighbor measured 8” at her place, between us & the county road: I called in & went back to bed.
No power also means no water. Outage lasted between 5 & 6 hours; our co-op posted pictures of one of the snapped poles they had to replace.
Hi greeneyes!
Dayglored here from Upstate NY (Ithaca area). My wife is an avid and experienced gardener; me, not so much, but I do love all the wonderful “li’l green growin’ things” she manages to get going around the homestead.
Would you be so kind as to add me to the Garden Thread Ping List (I’m the FReeper of the family), and I’ll happily relay comments and questions.
We’ve got tons of daffies and tulips coming up now that the snow is over (knock on wood!), the little spruce trees she started last year mostly made it through their first winter, and a lot of the beautiful flowers and ornamentals appear to have escaped total devastation by the local rabbit population.
So it’s looking like a good year ahead, and I look forward to sharing with you and the rest of the Garden Thread crew.
Thanks and God Bless,
Dayglored
Wet, wet, wet in Central Missouri this week and if the weather guessers are right there’s more to come over the next few days. I was hoping to build some board fence this weekend but I think I’ll wait for things to dry up a bit before I start on that.
I mulched half of my yukon gold taters with wheat straw after work yesterday. I need another four bales to finish. I’ll pick those up at the feed store tomorrow morning.
Picked a few radishes today. The asparagus patch is going crazy. I’ve been picking every three days for the last three weeks. The cabbage/broccoli/cauliflowers that I set out a couple weeks ago are starting to look happy again. They weren’t very happy at first. I don’t think they’d been properly hardened off at the nursery.
I’m pleasantly surprised by the amount of fruit that’s set on my orchard trees. A couple of the plum trees got frosted and aren’t going to make anything, but the peaches and the nectarine are loaded. The apple and pear trees are super loaded.
Things are looking up.
Hope you have a good amount of water stashed somewhere. We can do ok without electricity here, but water doesn’t get out of the well without the pump, so we keep a stash.
One of the first things I do is to drain the pipes into containers for water to drink before someone forgets and flushes the toilet.
Sure will add you. I only ping once a week on Fridays. We check in and post during the week to the same thread, when time allows. Look forward to hear from you, and maybe you can post some pictures. I love to see the pics.
I think we have some cherries. Only one of our apple trees survived, so there is no pollinator for the one that’s blooming. Some of the blueberry bushes are blooming, so crossing fingers.
We need to change our crops to rice. Under water here with more coming.
Rice is a nutritious option.
I’m using Lady Bender’s laptop as my new Mac won’t be here until Thursday so no photos for a while. The rains have stopped and the sun came out here on Humboldt Bay but now we are having typical strong spring winds which will help dry the soil a bit. I pre sprouted 200 corn seed 4 days go and planted them into Styrofoam Speedling trays in the greenhouse this morning. I hope I didn’t jump the gun as I normally transplant to the garden until the end of May...
We do have a stash, too, potable, grey, and distilled.
Also, I can directly tap the cistern tanks, if need be.
You can that again.
Ameren appears to be taking the lake down a bit, but with Truman full of water, I worry that we’ll have a repeat of the floods of last July.
Two more inches today, another inch tonight and maybe two more on Sunday.
Our raised beds could be converted to a rice paddy if this keeps up.
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