Posted on 04/25/2020 6:49:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I love hanging clothes out on the line. It’s one of my favorite things about summer besides fresh produce. (I’m so old fashioned!)
I planted pea starts where I took the nasturtiums out. They’re on a fenceline and my daughter and I put chicken wire on the fence for them to climb up. Before planting, we let the ground dry up and went on nightly snail hunts to try and get rid of them. I am using extreme caution when I water-just trying to water in the AM, right where the plant is and keeping the mulch dry as a bone so they can’t move around too good. So far so good but haven’t planted anything really tender and yummy like lettuce yet.
Not much space in my yard but trying to make veggie areas bigger now and planting some things I haven’t planted in years like corn and potatoes. Since space is so limited I might mix the corn and beans.
I love lilacs. Are you going to post pictures if they bloom?
My son was hit by a drunk driver at the beginning of the year and his 22 y/o small pickup was totalled. He was working and dealing with the insurance company and trying to find a replacement. All of a sudden the insurance company called and said they were sending the tow truck to pick up his truck.
My daughter and I hustled over there with cleaning products, a vacuum sweeper and a Bissell steam cleaner. I figured he would get a better check from the insurance company and as a result we’d have to cosign on less borrowed money.
It worked-he got much more than you’d think for it. It doesn’t take that long to clean something and it’s worth it for a better price. Heck, a lot of times cleaning is all it takes to fix something so you don’t have to replace it, so yes, it’s very hard to understand why people don’t clean stuff.
(He hates credit cards so he had no credit. Only way to get a good replacement quick)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoSH43zg06Q
Migardener video about a 15+ year old asparagus plant he dug up on the lakeshore.
Good heavens, I’ve spent the last four hours watching Youtube videos! There are a million methods and schemes for building or buying raised beds. Last year I built my own using purchased boards and hinged plastic corners designed specifically for raised beds. Those corners were shot after a year and a half, just cracking and falling apart. So this year I bought two smaller — 4’ x 6’ I think — galvanized steel beds. They cost less than those dang plastic hinges! As always, however, the problem with raised beds is getting them filled. Our desert soil is largely useless for growing veggies and such, so decent soil, compost, amendments, etc., have to used. Hopefully all of this can be reused for several years, with minimal annual additions. We’ll see . . .
Mini Glazed Raspberry Crescent Rolls
ING can Pillsbury Crescent Rolls tb softened butter 3-4 Tb raspberry jam.
Glaze:Tb melted butter, cup conf, 1 1/2 Tb cream, tsp vanilla
METHOD Unroll dough; pinch seams (some stores carry crescent sheets). Spread w/ softened butter then jam.
Roll up like jelly roll; cut 8 rolls. Bake golden in buttered pie plate 350 deg 20-25 min. Cool few min, then glaze.
SERVE warm.
GLAZE whisk melted butter, conf, cream, vanilla til smooth and pourable.
OK, I want to make a raised bed for some veggies.
What’s the least expensive material to use?
Specifically for asparagus.
There’s a lot of difference of opinion over how to plant it.
Parts of our garden tend to be wet so I’m thinking a raised bed for the asparagus would be best.
And can I get them in the ground and then transplant them later?
"Since space is so limited I might mix the corn and beans."
Do a 'Three Sisters' planting and put your summer squash at the base of the corn/beans or use decorative gourds and leave them trail on the ground. (Just a few hills!)
I can do that! The Lilacs are leafing and budding out now. I still have a few suckers to prune out, but I’m hoping for a good display this season! :)
They are beautiful varieties: The old-fashioned Chinese, (pale lavender) ‘Beauty of Moscow’ (pale pink buds/bloom white) a shade of deep purple and one is a rosy-red - still trying to identify that one.
Fingers Crossed!
Breakfast is saved! I have a can on hand, so thanks! I’m going to use up some Cherry Jelly that has been languishing. I’d think the vanilla frosting/glaze would go with just about anything. :)
Cherry filling would be great. Happy eating.
Treated lumber from your local Menard’s or Lowe’s or Home Depot. They no longer treat wood with arsenic, which was the problem in prior years. If you can make your beds 8’ long and 4’ wide, that’s the best for ease of use, plus you can have them cut the boards for you and it’s easy-peasy.
It’s what we use - no problems; most of ours was salvaged lumber from de-construction jobs Beau was on, but those new beds he built for me around the greenhouse are treated lumber. Pine.
A few of our older beds have needed repair at the corners, but that’s 5-10 years in.
Asparagus don’t like ‘wet feet’ so a raised bed would work well. I have mine in a raised bed, but my old patch was in the ground.
Why would you need to re-plant them if you’re building a bed for them?
You may run out of time, this year. Asparagus crowns are selling out all over the place. Can you make the bed this season, then plant them in the fall (if you can find them) or next spring?
If you already have the crowns on hand, keep them in your veggie drawer to keep them dormant until you can plant them. But don’t wait too long!
I just got the crowns today in the mail.
They are going in the ground in NH but we need to make the bed and I was thinking of just getting them in the ground and covered up so they don’t dry out and die.
Because our garden there tends to get run off from the hill to the east, parts of it can be wet.
For the potatoes, I did the mulching method. And we have old leaves lying round everywhere. Plus the previous owner left composted manure, and I do hear from mr. mm, a pile of mulch and wood ships.
I was wondering how doing the composting method for asparagus would work.
Maybe just a few inches of soil in the bed and then mulching the heck out of it.
If I keep them in the veggie drawer, should I wrap them in a damp paper towel?
Anyone have experience growing table grapes in the Northern zones of the USA?
I am in Zone 8B, have already purchased two varieties that are good for my zone....I am going to throw up an arbor in my backyard, laying it out with the opening facing North/South in a southern facing backyard.
am accepting advice on transplanting them from 1 and 2 gallon pots...and any others age wisdom you all have.
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after spending the entire day (and another half day) clearing out a new raised bed area I am enjoying many songbirds, and the flock of Bluejays who have nested in a tree on my property, as I enjoy two Bodihzafa beers.
I am going to start bringing my camera outside when I relax with a beer after along garden day....so I can capture their beauty
Asnai was typing this a variant if a woodpecker began his pneumatic hammering somewhere nearby.
Since you enjoy the wonders if nature. :)
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