Posted on 11/02/2019 6:09:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Will have to find out how to protect my grapefruit plants during the winter. So far they’ve survived but I need better protection from frost.
But here inside my abode, lettuce is growing in a jar. Hydroponics....it works.
I would like to be added to this list.
Had to cover the tomato plants last night... Seems odd still harvesting tomotoes in November...
Done! :)
I have pea flowers!
This past season I grew 'Sugar Magnolia' shelling peas and will grow them again, for sure. Useful and Beautiful!
Gotta cut them down and cover the bulbs and shortened stems until we dig them all up.
Last year we tried to leave about 500 of them outside all winter in the ground. We covered them extensively ... yet they rotted and died over the winter.
These lilies are beautiful all year but they sure are a lot of trouble.
Oh well, a labor of love, I guess. (Now, if I can only get my wife to help did them up.)
;-)
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Our red ones this year (not these) reach up above the gutters of the house.
Big.
Beautiful! And I agree - I’ve grown them a few times, and they are a TON of work. I like the yellow ones with the tiger-striped leaves. Can’t remember the variety off top...
:-)
Nowadays it is known as a place to go to relax and the site of a prestigious classical guitar competition, but once it was a scene of nearly unimaginable horror.
In October of 1592 King Philip II of Spain had gathered a fleet in Málaga to relieve Spanish-held Oran, under siege by the Ottomans. 28 ships set sail loaded with soldiers and, since it was to be a long term assignment, wives and children also packed the ships. They set sail from Malaga on October 18, 1592. A strong easterly wind took the fleet by surprise so they decided to take refuge in La Herradura harbor until the storm passed. But during the night the storm shifted and on October 19th the winds changed direction, bashing the trapped ships against each other and the rocks along the sides of the harbor. Between 3,000 and 5,000 men, women and children drowned that morning and 25 of the 28 ships were destroyed.
News didn't travel as far and as fast back then as it does nowadays but the disaster was still famous enough to be mentioned in what was to become the first known novel ever written, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, who wrote of a lady “… who was daughter of Don Alonso de Marañón, gentleman of the town of Santiago, who drowned at La Herradura…”
Moving my furniture into the garage and putting my pots against my brick building, I am debating on whether to try wrapping the pots or covering them. Depending on how harsh December or January go, I should shorten the time I go without fresh herbs from the outdoor garden. Indoors I have chocolate mint, rosemary, lemon verbena and dill. I want to find a small leaf basil plant. I have really good western windows.
On a non-food related note, I have successfully cultivated Christmas cactus cuttings and created kocodama, or Japanese moss balls. These are pretty and easy care. It was a fun winter project when my main Christmas cactus stopped blooming last year. I have four I can give away as gifts (although I will probably keep one).
Thanks for sharing that! :)
“...kocodama...” Interesting! Had to go look; is this what you’ve created?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as7Cd00cFDs
Yes. That’s it. I have them sitting in shallow dishes rather than hanging.. I have one sitting in a depression glass candy dish/nut bowl and it looks great.
I used regular potting soil and you can also use clear fishing line if you don’t like the twine look.
P.S. I meant to add that all of my Christmas cactus plants are have bus and I am beginning the bloom watch.
Mine is ready to rock, too. She should be blooming in a few more days. :) I’ve had this one for 15 years. Peach, in color.
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