[Diana in Wisconsin]

Pinging The List!

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Question for the Southern folk, is it good or bad to cut the berry stalks from a palm tree? IIRC, it was recommended but I’m not sure now. Have a blessed Memorial Day weekend.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

FYI: I will pop in when I can this weekend. Beau has been working full time, and WAY out of town, so I need his help badly to get a LOT accomplished this 3-day weekend.

Anyhow, suffice to say, our To-Do List is FOUR pages long, so we’ve got our work cut out for us. Supposedly, 24 hours without rain - which is a first for this entire month! Things are pretty soppy-wet and no crops have gone in yet. :(

Stock up on corn and soybean related foodstuffs while you can - that and the price of meat (grow your own!) might get ugly by this fall!

Later! :)

[left that other site]

Thanks for taking care of the thread! :-)

[Psalm 73]

"'Greeneyes' has been FOUND"

Praise God! (I once was lost, but now I'm found - but that's a little different).

Konnecticut - finally stopped raining and dried out - most of the gardens went in last weekend, (and the lawn got mowed. The neighbors cheered.)

We found a strain of sweet potatoes that will/should grow up here, so we planted those - other than that we've got the same old tomatoes, cukes, eggplant, peppers, squash, etc. we always grow.
THIS is the most wonderful time of the year!

[tubebender]

Yahoo/Flickr updated their servers on Wed and now I’m locked out of photos and code for posting here. I hope to get my daughter or granddaughter over here to rectify it...

[painter]

Update on my garden. I have a garden plot in the Missouri river bottom In Jefferson city Mo. It is now under 4ft. of flood water! I do have my tomatoes, a couple of pepper plants and a cucumber plants in double buckets at the house.

[who knows what evil?]

D-R-Y in East Tennessee...no rain in sight. Container gardening rocks!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, it was a Herculean Effort with FOUR puppies underfoot, but I got 20 tomato plants in, today - and no plants or puppies were harmed! (Oneida would NOT get out of one of the planting holes, so he got a swat and hurt feelings - but that's a daily situation with a puppy who is in his TODDLER stage!)

This season I am growing these tomatoes:

Chef's Choice Orange:

La Roma III:

Heirloom Marriage Cherokee Carbon:

Black Cherry:

Defiant:

New Yorker:

Bella Rosa:

I also put in an extra Early Girl and an extra Bush Champion, as I grew those out for a friend who gardens in pots.

All of my tomatoes this season are Determinate, with the exception of the Cherry, which is in a pot and the Chef's Choice Orange and the Cherokee Carbon 'marriage.' I want to see how much space I can save with Determinates, because my tomatoes usually take up WAY too much space in the garden. All have great disease resistance needed in what I predict to be a cool/wet growing season, and all were from seed thanks to Jung's or Totally Tomatoes (also owned by Jung's!)

I did put in ONE Bonnie Brand plant and that was a Cherokee Carbon - I wanted to see how their variety did versus my home grown. To me, THIS is FUN, LOL!

This weekend I will plant out my Peppers and show you pictures of the varieties I'm planting.

[ApplegateRanch]