Posted on 05/21/2022 6:57:35 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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My wife has a coupe of Sun Gold tomatoes ready to pick, and my cabbage is just about ready.
Another week or 10 days for the apricots.
Greetings from the Big Valley, zone 9b.
More rain here in the Ozarks and this one is bringing in a cold front. Lettuce, peas and brassicas will love it. Maters and peppers not so much. Low of 47 tonight. Lost electric a couple of times in the past few days. Was windy the first time but yesterday just rainy. Unhealthy trees getting waterlogged and falling over. Happens every Spring.
My tomato plants look good too. But I was out of town for 12 days.
Grass has set in and spending day tilling grass out of garden with walk behind tiller. Home grown tomatoes are worth the effort.
https://www4.uwsp.edu/biology/courses/plantid/cp-dicot-a/cp-dicot-a-063pitcher.htm
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/pitcher-plants/growing-pitcher-plants.htm
"Types of Pitcher Plants There are around 80 types of pitcher plants found in the genus names Sarracenia, Nepenthes and Darlingtonia. Not all of these are suitable for outdoor growing, as Nepenthes are tropical pitcher plants, but purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) has a zonal tolerance of 2 to 9 and is exceptionally adaptable to a wide range of areas. The northern pitcher plant is another name for the purple type and grows wild in Canada. It is suited for temperate to cool regions.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Growing Pitcher Plants: Learn About The Care of Pitcher Plants https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/pitcher-plants/growing-pitcher-plants.htm"
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Not sure how bad the newly released monkey pox will be, but this is an interesting article;
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rediscovered-native-american-remedy-kills-poxvirus/3003420.article
Sarracenia purpurea
"Herbal medicine used to treat smallpox in the 19th century found to halt viral replication in vitro
An old herbal remedy for treating smallpox that is thought to have been used by native Americans in the late 1800s has been rediscovered and found to kill the poxvirus. Smallpox has been eradicated, but the finding offers a possible treatment for poxvirus in the unlikely event of a bioterror attack or increased incidence of similar poxviruses such as monkey pox. .... Snip....
The team made extracts of S. purpurea and found that it was highly effective at inhibiting the replication of the virus in rabbit kidney cells. They then looked at the replication cycle of the virus and found that the herb inhibits mRNA synthesis, halting production of proteins vital for replication. ’Other drugs are being developed against smallpox, but S. purpurea is the only known therapy that will target the virus at this point in the replication cycle,’ says Langland.
’The extract blocks early transcription appearing to have a distinct mechanism of action from that of two other antivirals currently in clinical trials,’ says Mark Buller, a virologist at Saint Louis University, Missouri, US. ’The results are very compelling, and support the need to further evaluate the purified active ingredient in small animal studies.’
’With smallpox, it is obviously impossible to see if this herb is effective in the human body unless a bioterror release of the virus occurs,’ says Langland. ’We are in the process of doing animal studies to confirm our results in at least this type of whole animal system.’"
More at link.
Not being a Herbalist I cant really say how someone would process this...Tincture maybe?
Hi, thanks for checking in. I thought if you just the other day. Glad you explained why no pictures. Nice of you to plant tomatoes for someone else.
I don’t harvest any spears less than a pencil thick and several of them flowers and I had little red berries all over the place. Would well composted manure and wood ash work, too?
I know it takes a few years for the plants to become really well established. It’s just so frustrating waiting for that.
The new owners of our NY house are enjoying a fantastic asparagus crop. Glad for them but not for us.
If your patch is new, just go with the 10-10-10. Compost is all nitrogen, and I don’t know the ratio to mix that with wood ash. Also, remember that these crowns are BABIES - you can do damage by over-feeding them, too ya know!
You think YOU left behind treasures at your old place? I had a well-established 40 foot row of asparagus that I had to leave behind, as well as all of my mature and producing fruit trees, raspberries, blackberries and all of my gorgeous Hydrangea. (I added 5 here this season; more to come!)
That’s the only bad part of leaving a farm of 25 years - you can’t take all the good, mature stuff with you! However, I sold my other farm within days due to the 25 years of effort I put in there. ;)
Pee on your plants: human urine can be used as an effective and sustainable fertilizer
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4065190/posts?page=1
Since almost all cases of monkeypox (and there haven’t been very many) are “men who have sex with men” I think the vast majority of us are safe unless GatesofHell/etc intentionally release it via another vector.
My son recently purchased 18 acres in east Texas.
I have been watching gardening/off grid/homesteading videos like a loon!
Even to water glassing eggs!
Looking forward to moving there in a few years. He's already started a well.
Fake--Picture of Monkey pox = picture of Shingles?
Just some advance just in case information.
Thank you! That is worth knowing!
" What varieties did you plant?" 4th of July and some Big Boys from last years plants. But sometimes I get seeds mixed up. The cherry tom seeds (in the bag marked as such) are larger than the 4th of July and Big Boy sees so I am not sure!
"(Will you be releasing another squash plant on him?)" Yes, though I just started them this week. But the Latino residents want the baby stage squash for pupusa (many variations though. And the soil is not exceptional (stones are NE best crop).
Thanks, for asking, and for God for what we can do as workers together with Him in Christ.
In late June the Hardware stores should start to sell their left over seed packets! That might be a good time to go out and get some new tomato seed and squash seeds at a reduced price.
Here is somethings I tried this year with my patty pan squash. The bottoms of the little cups are cut off and pushed down in the ground and I plant the seed inside. Keep the top up off the straw and the bottom in the ground. It keeps the sow and pill bugs from destroying the seedlings until established. Someone gave me the little cups. I think larger ones would work just fine. Pollard had something like this with sawtooth cuts that he pushed down into the dirt to protect his plants from them.
I covered it with a couple of $1 colenders that I bought at the Dollar store: They protect against hail, wind, and excessive rain and keeps the squirrels and chipmunks off your squash for a few days until its up out of the ground and established. (Then I put chicken wire around it!)
(Note... I had cut off the handle and rim to use for something else, but these were left over so I repurposed them.)
What a great idea!
“Speaking of buying plants, I checked a couple places for pepper plants, like Lowe’s and some garden centers. What ridiculous prices. Lowe’s didn’t even have the 6 packs. They had individual plants for $4 each!!!!!! $4 for one tomato, one cucumber, one squash, whatever. And they were pathetic looking things.”
I lucked out that my local Southern States co-op plant prices were about the same as last year and nice looking plants too. Our Lowes seems to be the last stop for the plant truck. ;)
Got the tomatoes and peppers all planted today. It seems to work best for me if I plant a variety, so I put in some Early Girl, German Johnson, Mortgage Lifter, Red Brandywine and Romas.
Beans and corn are coming up. Potatoes are hilled. Now, I’ll have a couple of weeks to play with flowers and herbs before I have to start weeding.
For tomatoes I got some heirloom seeds, so I could save them.
I have Heinz sauce tomatoes, Old Brooks, 10 Fingers of Naples, Slava, and a grape variety called Red Pear.
Most of them are indeterminate and have good blight resistance.
The Heinz are determinate and the blight tends to get them every year, but they are great sauce tomatoes. Great flavor and they ripen pretty much at once time, so you get the crop in, can up the tomatoes, and then can pull up the spent plants.
I put them in super early so should have a good crop.
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