Weekly Garden Thread - May 7-13, 2022 ['Capability' Brown Edition]

May 7, 2022 | Diana in WI/Greeneyes in Memoriam

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[LibWhacker]

This artist's concept shows what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical planet around a star tossed out of an ongoing four-way collision between big galaxies (yellow blobs). NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted this "quadruple merger" of galaxies within a larger cluster of galaxies located nearly 5 billion light-years away.

Though the galaxies appear intact, gravitational disturbances have caused them to stretch and twist, flinging billions of stars into space -- nearly three times as many stars as are in our Milky Way galaxy. The tossed stars are visible in the large plume emanating from the central, largest galaxy. If any of these stars have planets, their night skies would be filled with the monstrous merger, along with other galaxies in the cluster (smaller, bluish blobs).

This cosmic smash-up is the largest known merger between galaxies of a similar size. While three of the galaxies are about the size of our Milky Way galaxy, the fourth (center of image) is three times as big. All four of the galaxies, as well as most other galaxies in the huge cluster, are blob-shaped ellipticals instead of spirals like the Milky Way.

Ultimately, in about one hundred million years or so, the four galaxies will unite into one. About half of the stars kicked out during the merger will fall back and join the new galaxy, making it one of the biggest galaxies in the universe.

You saw it here! One of the largest galaxies IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, in the making. :-)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

So, you can now buy Ivermectin OTC in Tennesee...for your horse of course! :)

[Qiviut]

We had 90 degree weather week before last! This roller coaster temperature stuff really plays havoc with planting plans.

[Pollard]

I suck at planting aesthetically. Haven’t done much of it here but tried back in FL. OCD. I tend to end up with rows of things and am unable to do free-form organic design.

Rows works for veggies though. Just brought everything outside and anything that’s big enough is going in the ground this afternoon when the sun is low.

[Augie]

It was another wet and cool week here in Central Missouri. Finally saw a bit of sunshine yesterday. Garden is ankle-deep mud.

Yukon Gold spuds are up. Beets/salad/kale/radishes are up and looking decent. All the baby plants in the greenhouse are badly needing to get out of their pots/flats and go in the dirt but it’s just too stinking muddy to do it.

Hopefully my Nephew will be able to keep that stuff from croaking while Mrs. Augie and I are out in sunny kansas visiting the grands next week.

[MomwithHope]

Congrats! Hope everything sounds smoothly.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I know. Maybe get a few row covers for the early stuff like spinach and beets and turnips.

Cant help with the flowers, but Textile Art is still available!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I know. Maybe get a few row covers for the early stuff like spinach and beets and turnips.

Cant help with the flowers, but Textile Art is still available!

[FamiliarFace]

How exciting for you! Congrats!

[Albion Wilde]

Congratulations and safe travels!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

As soon as possible I am going to get some folks from the extension office in Kerrville to come do a site visit.

I want to pick their brains on where abd what to grow with minimal need to alter the landscape.

[Pollard]

Yep, went up to 60 yesterday and the day after tomorrow, 90. My little garden area out front here has a bit of a grade to it and the soil drains fairly decent for MO Ozarks soil so I can walk on it. Helps that I’m far from being a heavy person. Hoping I can transplant some things into it this afternoon but might have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I need a pond and a Palladian Bridge to fish from and I’ll be happy! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I like the TWINKLE in his eye and his smirk. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ve never heard that term used either, but I’m thinking it’s those little styro-looking pellets that show up sometimes with a big rain storm.

At least, ‘up here.’

Glad you liked meeting ‘Capability.’ I was reading the latest Martha Stewart Living mag the other night and she mentioned him in an article on her garden book collection, so of course I had to go look him up. :)

[metmom]

I was checking out the garden today.

The onion sets are coming up and doing better than the onions I started from seed, but that’s probably cause some critter dug up my seed started ones and I had to replant them. That set them back some.

My garlic is a foot high already. Still on the lookout for my asparagus. I found evidence not mouse burrows in my asparagus bed so am hoping they didn’t eat the roots and destroy the plants. This is the third year for that bed and I was expecting a harvest from it.

Joe Bastardi is expecting a “torrid” summer. It’s going to be very warm here, but I am still cautious about setting out cold sensitive plants.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

SO HAPPY FOR YOU! Keep us posted when you have time. I am so happy you are making this move to a more SANE way of life!

Yeah, yeah - some Growing Pains along the way but you’ll make it. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! Thanks, Pete!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Founding Gardeners’ is on my Wish List for books to read one day. All of Andrea Wulf’s books look interesting! I also like Amy Stewart and her garden & plant-related books. (I’ll leave it to you to look her up if you’re not familiar.)

My Great Grandmother’s name (English, on my Dad’s side) was, ‘Lavinia Thankful Jennings.’

I like to think I carry some of her with me because if nothing else, no matter how much I complain about Mother Government on other threads here, I AM ‘Thankful’ for all of the many, many Blessings I have been given, just by being an American by birth. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Usually on clear August nights, we can see The Milky Way from our front porch. If you don’t KNOW where we live...you don’t KNOW where we live! And Good Luck finding us in the dark, LOL! We have NO ‘light pollution’ at all.

I always look forward to that and in 100 million years, it’s going to be even MORE spectacular, so thanks for the reminder! ;)