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Posted on 07/31/2009 4:00:03 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. The last day of July and I am wondering what August has in store for us weather wise? One thing I do know is the weather will continue to do what it wants and the only thing you can do about it is to accept it or move somewhere else. Of course once you move the weather there will change.
Glad you got all them free cukes and ‘maters. Now everybody else can have free food if you would just .... ah ..... sell it at the Farmers Market! LOL
Good Morning RD,
no sunshine, only overcast and rain here all week,
cukes are lost.. most corn blown down, blight setting in ..
thankfully have cabbage,squash, 1 unaffected tommytoe plant, 2 pods of okra and couple of peppers..
half runners soon..
Have grown Brandywine tomatoes in Alabama for about fifteen years. Usually get a good crop from first few weeks of fruit set, ready to pick in early July, then that’s the end of it. This variety does not set new fruit in mid-90s weather. But this year, due to an unusually mild July (mostly mid-80s to low-90s), I have vines full of new fruit set and tomatoes from dime size to couple of inches in diameter. June was fairly hot, so I have full size tomatoes ripening and those small ones and nothing in between.
First time in fifteen years to have this mid-summer, new fruit set.
Half runners ...?
Oh. My. God. That video was physically PAINFUL to watch, LOL!
I grow other varieties, also, but always grow a few Brandywine because I like the flavor. They are usually finished by late July where I live, but this year is very unusual.
Yeah it is PAINFUL but I did learn one thing - Food Is Free - all we have to do is pay the farmers and pay for the land - and maybe we don’t have to pay for the land - it is all new land, why pay for it?
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Half runners ...?
Sorry,... white half-runner green beans, the string ‘em kind.
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Good morning.
Hello slave!
Made my first batch of homemade salsa last night and this morning I’m having some on my scrambled eggs.
I LOVE her concept of FREE food. Eggs from my hens, salsa from my garden...
And all of it was FREE! FREE, I tells ya, LOL! I didn’t pay a DIME for my farm, my land, my hens, their feed, my tomato and pepper seeds and water runs FREE from my well! I pay no taxes on my land, either!
I’m going to be laughing about that ding-bat all day. :)
Can you grow mangoes there?
Slave???????? LOL!!!
Oh Man I wish I could grow mangoes and papaya but it gets to cold in the winter for those tropical trees.
I finally got the garlic in. The bulbs aren’t huge but they look nice.
The tomatoes flowered nicely when we got some warm weather and while none are ripe yet, I’ll be pretty busy when they are.
Too funny!
I’m relying on everyone else’s reaction to the video as they don’t work for me on dial up :(
We were supposed to go to the beach today.........but alas it is definitely not a beach day.
It’s really amazing what difference a few miles make. While we did get a lot of rain earlier in the week, just 15 miles away on Chincoteague they got more than 10” in a bit over 24 hours. And then a few more inches on top of that. I’d say we got at least 5 since Sunday, but at least we don’t flood where we are. The flooding on the Island earlier in the week wa unreal.
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