Posted on 03/12/2022 6:45:42 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Greeneyes was our Lemon Tree Expert, but she is no longer with us. :(
Here’s the basics that I found on growing lemons, which should apply to limes, too.
I saw that we lost Greeneyes. She’s very sweet and too young to leave us.
Thank you very much for the info.
:-)
Trees are budding down here in E. TX and I picked some asparagus day before yesterday.
How to Organically Raise pH in Soil
https://www.kellogggarden.com/blog/soil/how-to-organically-raise-ph-in-soil/
Lime
Wood Ashes
Baking Soda
30 baby pea plants will be going in the ground this week. No need to re-pot those into bigger pots. The other 42 seedlings are lettuce, cabbage and Komatsu(Japanese spinach) so those won't need pot up-sizing either but they need a little more time. Just now getting their first true leaves. I'm so rural we don't have municipal trash service so we burn it. Can't burn glass though so I've got lots and lots of jars I can use for covering baby plants on the occasional cold night we might have from here on out.
Just last year I learned about cutting celery.
Amazing and extremely hardy plant.
Well, my daffodils ont west side of the house were in full bloom yesterday, when it was sunny and in the low 60’s. Woke up this morning to 5 inches of snow, blizzard conditions and temps in the low 20’s, ;). And so it goes-early springtime in the mts. :)
And if I’m not on the ping list, would you please include me? Thanks.
It just occurred to me that all the peas I’ve grown have never made it inside the house. We eat them right off the plants.
I had never heard of 'cutting celery'; turns out to be 'Asian leaf celery'.
While looking around for more info, I checked Wikipedia for celery, and found this: Similarly, combinations of celery powder and salt are used to flavor & preserve cured pork[28] and other processed meats as an all natural alternative to industrial curing salt.[29] The naturally occurring nitrites in celery work synergistically with the added salt to cure food.
Big oops! Not celery salt. You need powder celery juice. Celery salt is from crushed seed; the juice from juiced stems & leave: totally different.
Cutting celery looks a lot like flat leaf parsley but it definitely has the nutty flavor of celery.
It probably enjoys the same growing conditions.
For those who plant by the signs, March is a MISERABLE planting month...’Ember Days’ on the 9th, 11th and 12th (during which you are not supposed to plant or sow seed of ANY kind), followed immediately by the killing sign of Leo thru the 15th (during which the same protocol applies). Many continue to sow seed during these astrological kill zones...it would be interesting to see if long-term veggie performance is actually affected, or whether this is just a ‘wives tale’...
It snapped off cold and dumped a bit of snow and ice on Central Missouri Thursday night. Warm-up started yesterday and is expected to continue for the next few days. We should be seeing daytime temps in the upper 60°s into the 70°s for most of the week.
Spent most of yesterday doing chores outside. Put out a couple round bales for the horses. Hung a brooder lamp and installed fresh cedar shavings in the new chicken house. Cleaned up the crumble feeder and a couple chick drinkers. Baby chicks arrive on the 17th.
I’m going to slop around in the mud today and see if I can get the wall panels up on the greenhouse. Seedling heaters arrived a couple days ago.
Thank you! I brought them inside.
Put them out just now on snow but good sun.
Q: the tag says “everbearing”. Nothing about hardiness or annual/perennial. Are there any hardy strawberries? I’m in mtns
You seem to really enjoy gardening. I do too but am not a natural.
You might be interested in this. My sister loves this lady on YT: red rose homestead. She’s a scientist
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+rose+homestead
Added! :)
“...or whether this is just a ‘wives tale’”
So many old weather sayings and, ‘Old Wives Tales’ are based on observing naturally occurring events, so I never discount them! :)
Besides, when we’re RIGHT about something, it annoys our ‘Old Husbands,’ LOL!
Wind from the East - Fish bite least.
Wind from the South - Blows the hook from their mouth.
Wind from the North - No Fisherman ventures forth.
Wind for the West - Fish bite best!
^ That one works, for sure! ^
Lovely peas! What are you using for starting mix?
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