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Posted on 05/29/2009 5:08:50 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning Freeper gardeners. This weekend marks the end of May and I hope everyone’s gardens are doing well. I know some have had to delay planting due to weather and we all hope conditions have improved for you.
So far this weekend is looking like a good one, weather wise, all across the Nation except for some lingering rain in the extreme NE. Lets get gardening!
Hear, hear! Maybe we could join forces and do a sort of area related gardening advice thingy! LOL I’ll get the deep south if you’ll do the frozen north!
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I just LOVE the textures and various shades of green and gold and blue-green combined. :)**
Me, too! Altho we have a lot more “evergreen” stuff here! LOL
Yes, Sevin seems to work in my backyard garden. The guys growing soy and cotton in the local fields apparently don't use anything so benign.
Hey, let’s do this!
Entrepreneurs!!!!
Obamanomics or NO Obamanomics!!!
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Thanks Red! I’ll try. Just need some uninterrupted time. HAHAHA
My garlic gets planted in the fall and most are harvested by June 15. I dug the small Vietnamese 3 days ago and there is a real trooper as my First Wife is still able to use last years crop while the others turned to powder. I grow 6 varieties now but at one time I was planting 10. Some are soft neck and some are stiff neck. Chinese Pink matures very early here in Eureka Ca. but I lost the seed stock last year and must buy new bulbs again soon.
The weather is a little cooler here this season and the sun is not heating the soil. I found a 12# bag of Lily Miller 5-10-5 at a Do It Best lumber yard a few weeks ago for about $10. 4# boxes are not cost effective here. At 76 I find it hard to get motivated and get things accomplished like hooking up the drip lines and timers but the soil is holding the moisture of early May’s rain...
Mount Olive?! LOL No wonder your lettuce is still going! I’m in Newport. It’s a whole nother world, climate wise! LOL Ours was great while it lasted. I had a spinach bowl, and a bowl of red sails, buttercrunch, and green ice.
Sounds good to me! Since we’re all in different areas, we could pick up the s;ack when one of the others is swamped! LOL
What is a Japanese Tomatoe Ring? My patty pan squash is coming out some look like patty pan, some look like small hubbards, strange. I’m getting ready to move my tomato plant into the shade, I noticed, yesterday it looked wilted, but had been watered. My hanging tomato in a pot is doing well as are the yard long beans I planted in the top of the pot. The pot is a commercial soap bucket.
Quite a garden! Wow.
I’m allergic to a lot of green leafy stuff, i hate it!
Your asparagus?
Here along the Yukon, we just put tatoes in, 350 lb this year. Got carotts, beans, and brocculli in. Had a lght frost this morn, but didn’t hurt anything. About every other summer, we get a hard frost (20 degrees) around mid july, lose alot of tatoes; but keep at it. Alot different than back east in Pa. We do cukes in our greenhouse, miss the tomatoes alot.
Please add me to your ping list too! woohoo! I didn’t know FR had such a list, so I’m excited! I’ve read through alot of this thread and have to fully admit that I know NOTHING like most all of you. I just know I love to get dirty in the garden and marvel at the things planted that actually make it! LOL I’ll be in Gardening 101 here as I follow all you pros. Thanks so much!
All of my gardens are raised (4), not long, not real wide, just about 2/1/2’ x 8’ and one that is 2/1/2’ x 16 feet. We’re going to put another together for next season, TX, and it’s going to be layered. I have lots of shredded paper and will use it too. Last night dinner was from out garden..squash, radishes, peas, lettuce. No asparagus, one of my favorites.
At 76, my FRiend, you are my gardening hero. You are the same age as my dad, who is still going at it just as you are!!!
It was a person of your vintage and wisdom, that led me down this crazy path of green leaves, evil bugs, beautiful flowers and delicious fruits. About a hundred years ago, when I was a tot, I was blessed with a grandpa. I thought this man hung the moon, and I still do. He remains the smartest man I ever knew, despite his sixth grade education. He instilled in me a love of nature and of science and a relentless discovery ethic. He taught me to always ask “but why?” And I’ve been doing that over 40 years. After I finished a “vocation” at 30 years old, I later entered an “avocation” inspired by him.
The youngsters of your family are truly blessed to have your example.
Just think, the ones who seem like the most lost of all causes.... (!) They are going to be the ones to surprise you how they turn out!
(Like I most certainly would have surprised my grandpa. LOL)
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I am in awe of compost. The best thing I did as a novice gardener was to start one.
Me too!
One thing about us gardeners (especially us “so-called” experts)...
We’ve KILLED more plants than anyone. Just ask us. lol
I worked with a gal who was a PhD in Horticulture AND Zoology. Someone walked in our nursery with a plant and asked her to identify it. After about ten minutes of examination, she said “I have no *#(*&$ idea what this plant is.” LOL
Nobody knows everything, my FRiend. My grandfather once told me that the more you learn, the more you realize that there are things you don’t know. I agree with him.
You might think you know nothing, but I promise you...I’ll learn something from you. Bet on it.
Welcome, fellow plant nut! :)
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