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Weekly Garden Thread - March 28 - April 3, 2020
March 28, 2020 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

Posted on 03/28/2020 6:12:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you.

If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located.

This thread is non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked.

It is impossible to hijack the Weekly Gardening Thread. Planting, Harvest to Table Recipes, Preserving, Good Living - there is no telling where it will go - and that is part of the fun and interest. Jump in and join us! Send a Private Message to Diana in Wisconsin if you'd like to be added to our New & Improved Ping List.

NOTE: This is a once a week Ping List. We do post to the thread during the week. Links to related articles and discussions which might be of interest to Gardeners are welcomed any time!


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Hobbies; Outdoors
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; All
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21 posted on 03/28/2020 8:45:29 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

Thanks very much !


22 posted on 03/28/2020 8:47:24 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Thank you for the ping. Well, learn the hard way. I wanted to give my 3 week old (from seed planting) Early Girl toms some outside sun, and since it was finally sunny and up to mid 50 then I put them outside aroud 11AM to about 5PM, and about half died, and did not revive.

But these were started too early any way, and I still have a lot of seeds I saved, and some 4th of July tomatoes a neighbor gave me, so this week I hope to start them, and have them in the garden about mid May. Thanks and glory be to God.

23 posted on 03/28/2020 8:49:29 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Redleg Duke
Greetings from southern New Hampshire where winter returned and left in the span of three days! We got at least 6” of heavy, wet snow on Monday night. It started to melt on Tuesday, and there are just a few piles left. I raked the planter out by the road, yesterday. A few iris shoots shoowing. I need to do some serious planning and planting, there. It appears that our remaining bee colony collapsed. Not to saddened as they were the most aggressive bees I have ever had. I am getting ready to assemble three swarm traps and about one hundred frames. Then, I will build the first of I hope several insulated horizontal hives. I cleared the old muck and foliage from the bog filter. I also repositioned the east side of the duck pen and moved the electric fence to match it, while rerouting the electric fence to bypass the bog filter.

iris shoots aggressive bee colony and duck pen while swarm traps old muck and foliage bog filter, and then the house roof melt[s]! Man alive, you have had quite a early spring.

24 posted on 03/28/2020 8:57:23 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: mad_as_he$$
This is a mining area, for lead mostly and the mine supply up the road, used to sell dynamite.

Almost out

LGD watching and patiently awaiting livestock to guard, besides chickens

Here we go. Still need to hack a couple of roots down below 6 inches below grade so the tiller won't hit it. The rest can rot. Those little trees in the background will be transplanted soon. Technically should have done that in the fall/winter. They're wild cherry and persimmon.


25 posted on 03/28/2020 9:27:26 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: Pollard

I beat the rain by about 30 seconds


26 posted on 03/28/2020 9:28:30 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: Pollard

Knarly! Good job.


27 posted on 03/28/2020 9:44:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: tubebender

Maybe you answered me the first time and I just didn’t see it. Your username, tubebender. Is that in reference to neon?


28 posted on 03/28/2020 9:48:26 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: Pollard

Now THAT was a lot of work!

What breed of dog? Great Pyrenees? I need one!


29 posted on 03/28/2020 11:25:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes, Pyrenees.


30 posted on 03/28/2020 11:44:13 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: Pollard

Not neon but I have friend who does that. I used a Huth bender in exhaust work...


31 posted on 03/28/2020 1:10:20 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Now that we just got a half inch of rain and I can’t do anything in the garden and also can’t dig any wood post holes for the perimeter fence, I’m off to pound in some T-Posts. More fun. I do have the four corner posts in and bottom high tensile wire stretched and that gives me my lines. Fencing in 12 acres, something else the dog is patiently awaiting. He came from a 400 acre sheep farm and he’s in an 80x80 pen so he’s quite bored I’m sure.


32 posted on 03/28/2020 1:17:39 PM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: tubebender

Ah, ok. I was in the electric sign business for 25 years. I did also do some exhaust work and have used a bender. Did quite a few cat back Flowmaster setups.


33 posted on 03/28/2020 1:22:03 PM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It was another wet week here in Central Missouri. Bad hailstorm 30 miles south of here last night. Car windows busted, vinyl home siding shredded, roofs destroyed, etc. No damage here, just had a lot more rain that we don’t need.

Nothing going on in the garden. Can’t even walk across the lawn without sinking in the mud.


34 posted on 03/28/2020 2:01:52 PM PDT by Augie
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To: Augie

Don’t worry, Augie. I’m sure a drought will be in store for you this Summer, LOL!

That’s the way my gardening year always goes, but the drought of 2012 was nearly a killer!

I still had a successful garden because I had a 300’ well and could water it, but for some odd reason that was also the year of the FROGS.

*SHUDDER*

Those HUGE big old Bullfrogs decided to hide anywhere and everywhere at my place where there was the least little bit of moisture. Watering cans were their favorites and they made all sorts of ‘dens’ in my raised garden beds. I have never before, or since, seen frogs that big!

*SHUDDER*


35 posted on 03/28/2020 3:19:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We’re thawed out, but getting rain & snow mix once or twice a week, keeping things too muddy to work the soil.

Thanks to the Wu-Flu, I have at least 1 extra hour/day to get out & do stuff; if business doesn’t pick up, we may get a further cut in hours. In any case, I plan to be out there more this year, so should have a more successful garden.

I have early, mid, and late season seed potatoes; I plan on planting about 25 of each, a much more manageable amount.

As soon as it is dry enough, Green Arrow peas will go in. By then, I should know if the onions & garlic that were not worth harvesting last Fall overwintered, or need replanting.

In addition to our saved long season half-runner butterbeans, I’ll be putting in both bush green beans, and Yard Long pole beans; Also on hand are half-long carrots, Muncher cucumbers, spinach, midseason bicolor corn, and saved squash seed. New for me this year is seed tape for beets; I’ve grown beets several times, but always have trouble keeping the seeds properly spaced.

All that, plus the asparagus & rhubarb should be plenty for us, while still remaining manageable; not having the chickens & rabbits any more will help, too.


36 posted on 03/28/2020 4:54:15 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Those HUGE big old Bullfrogs decided to hide anywhere and everywhere at my place where there was the least little bit of moisture. Watering cans were their favorites and they made all sorts of ‘dens’ in my raised garden beds. I have never before, or since, seen frogs that big!

*SHUDDER*

Ummmm! FROGS LEGS: taste like chicken...only better!

37 posted on 03/28/2020 5:13:58 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: tubebender
Back in my mis-spent youth, I owned a 1957 Mk. VII Jaguar sedan. The 3.4 motor was kind of tired so a 3.8 from a wrecked E type went in its place.
I put on a set of duel exhausts with a pair of Midas glass packs.
The Jaguar had a four speed transmission with electric overdrive. I could get five or six levels of “burrrr” on down shift.
38 posted on 03/28/2020 6:14:33 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I have had Frogs Legs and I agree. Delicious!

I just wasn’t mad enough to kill them all and let Gaia sort them out, LOL!

I had my Dock Manager come over and catch a many as he could, then he released them in a nearby pond.

I’m sure we screwed up the Eco-System of that pond for a decade or so, but they should be over it by now. ;)


39 posted on 03/28/2020 6:18:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Looks fantastic!!


40 posted on 03/28/2020 6:31:33 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Unlike Bloomberg, I have said "Fat broads"and "Horsefaced Lesbians" but cuz I luv them both.)
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