Posted on 04/25/2008 4:55:55 PM PDT by Gabz
I have had a week from Hades and will be perfectly honest with you all.........I completely and totally FORGOT about this thread yesterday. And so you all have my heartfelt apologies.
My brain is pretty much just mush at the moment and so I am just going to share some of my favorite links.
3 years ago I swore I should have planted rice, my yard and field spent almost the entire frowing season under water.
Whatever is going on ... sending good wishes your way for a better weekend! ;-)
I agree. The first time I saw it/heard it, it was about a politician.
It could also be used about reporters as well.
I say all that as someone that was a reporter and who spent 20 years as a lobbyist.
Welcome to the weekly gardening thread! Glad you’re here.
The fig was going to be my next post. As you know it arrived in great shape, leaves and all. After I got it into the ground the leaves started wilting slightly and over the last few days started turning from green to yellow, Touching the yellow leaves this morning they just fell off. Is this normal for a transplant? I know the roots have to start first ... maybe some more time is needed for it to root out?
Stress. It should leaf back out as long as the roots are ok. :) Give it some time.
Hey gardengirl! I have received the best gifts ever in the last two weeks, but they are going to require a bunch of work on my part. Eight mayhaw trees (between 1-2 ft.) and fourteen muscadine vines. I found some plans for a muscadine trellis system online and I have a friend that has a very beautiful muscadine system that has been established for close to 20 years. Figure that between the plans and an actual functioning system, I should get all of the guidance I need in construction. Right now just trying to figure out where on the property these things will get planted. We are really excited.
Your shredder-chipper sound wonderful!!!! I’ll get one of these one of these days.
Green beans and lima beans are going in tomorrow. I just don’t do flowers. My daughter does plant them and has her own space for them, but I stick with herbs and veggies.
I have to go to work tomorrow afternoon, but I plan on getting downright garden dirty until I’ve got to go!
I just discoverd the pictures of my Great Aunt's Garden and my Mother today. I had told my wife about this place where my Mother would take me that was just a mess of growth. Today she was awed! She liked my Mom's braids also.
Wowsers! I know nothing about mayhaws! 14 muscadines?! Are you planning on starting a vinyard? LOL Did you get bronze or black?
Did you know that muscadines have more antioxidants and other good things in them than almost anything else? Course, the good stuff is all in the hulls and seeds! A company in Duplin County here in NC dries and powders them—they’re a by product of some wineries. They capsules really make a difference with my arthritis and other people take them for lowering cholesterol.
Once establised, the grapes won’t need much care except pruning. Soemtimes you have to spray them for fungus or insects, but not usually a whole lot. What kind of trellis are you going to do? Fence type or overhead arbor? The old overheads are great for sitting under but after awhile, the vines get so thick the grapes will be ten feet over your head! Have fun!
Berries of any sort are not something you want to ask me about. I have lost more berry plants than I really care to mention :(
Hopefully, neither one of us did! Don’t worry too much. The ones here wilted, and will probably lose a few leaves, but they didn’t spend 3 days in the dark!
Those pics look so much like where I grew up. We kept a small space mowed for yard, but there were just paths to get to everywhere else. The barn and the garden and the pastures. Love your aunt’s bare feet! I hate shoes to this day!
Hey,
I do plenty of flowers (mostly perennials), but I also have tomatoes, peppers, and mega herbs. I love a beautiful garden, but I also like production for the kitchen. Fresh chives are wonderful.
From my grandmother, I inherited a love of the perennial garden, but my mother planted edibles. Both find a home in my garden.
Hey,
I do plenty of flowers (mostly perennials), but I also have tomatoes, peppers, and mega herbs. I love a beautiful garden, but I also like production for the kitchen. Fresh chives are wonderful.
From my grandmother, I inherited a love of the perennial garden, but my mother planted edibles. Both find a home in my garden.
EGADS!!!!!!!
You’re a better woman than I am.
My kid is (hopefully by now) up in New Jersey for a Girl Scout encampment on the Battleship new Jersey. I’m having a major MOM moment over it because while it is not the first time she’s been away overnight, it is the first time for an overnight with people she has never done an overnight with.
I can’t help you with the egg problem, but you absolutely have my prayers for your son.
If you’ve got a deer problem DO NOT plant cantelope - tiny cantelopes are apparently the equivalent to Snickers bars to the deer.
What great pictures, and wonderful memories for you.
Thanks for sharing!
I usually try to get the thread up and running on Thursday, but this week it didn’t work.
We’re a fun bunch, so just let me know if you want on the ping list.
It’s a pretty low volume ping, I do it for the weekly thread and will use it if I find a gardening related thread going during the week. I try not to “abuse” it!
I can tell when I’m getting over stressed—so far I’ve managed to not say anything out loud, but I’m getting to the point, like I do every year, when all these sarcastic comments are richochetting around in my head, just waiting for me to drop my guard for one second!
I hear you about the youngun! Daughter will be fine. you have to believe that or you’re going to drive yourself crazy! Been there, done that—3 times! if you think this is bad, wait til the grands come along! this is nothing! LOL I never worried half so much about my own as I do the gbaby! i think when your own are little, you have so much else going on—housework and bills and jobs and laundry and just everyhting, you worry, but other stuff crowds it out. you’ve got more time to worry with the grands! She’ll have a ball!
egg yolks
I don’t spray, but most of the ones I’ve seen call for egg whites.
The best remedy is a bit of lead poisoning and then put the deer in your freezer! :)
Prayers up for you and your son!
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