Posted on 06/04/2010 5:00:06 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners! Wow June is here already. I hope all of your gardens are flourishing. Can you believe that last year at this time there were freeze and frost warnings for the North, Northeast and some of the higher elevations? This year the freeze warnings seem to be contained within a certain household in Tennessee. I just had to say that, couldn’t help myself!
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I’m going to just keep watering it all and see what happens!
Few years ago, I had a cherry tomato plant pop up in a crack in the driveway.
In that brutal environment it cranked out tasty gems all summer.
I’ve got about a dozen squash of some kind-might be butternut-and countless tomato plants.
One year, I strategically threw veggie trimmings, lawn clippings and dead leaves on the ground for about 6 months.
When it was time to plant, the ground was nice and soft.
I dug around and haphazardly planted a bunch of corn, bean and squash seeds to try and get a three sisters kind of thing going on just for the heck of it.
The squash died, but I got a little bit of corn out of it and quite a few green beans for such a tiny spot.
That’s what I was going to do with this little pile of stuff, but I got too many volunteers. I had to make a new pile of stuff because I planted an avocado tree in the old one.
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A crack in the driveway.
LOL!
Those things will pop up anywhere!
Sounds like it was a plan that came together.
I have a Cherokee Purple too. It is out growing the other 6 tomatoes I have. No fruit on it yet though. Seems strange considering I am in Louisiana. Can’t wait to try them!
I bought this Cherokee Purple at a roadside stand mid summer last year. I planted it and it really never grew. I knew a very cold front was approaching last fall and I dug it up and put it im a plastic container and moved it indoors. All of the larger tomato plants were killed in the freeze. This plant only started growing this spring. I will probably plant it in a horizontal trench shortly.
We had an incidental honeydew that DH swore was influenced by Palo Verde (nuclear power plant) in AZ.
I started six peat pots of herbs this week. They will be transplanted to 6 and 8 inch pots out side to eventually bring inside later on to put in my kitchen window under a grow light. I will do the same thing with cherry tomatoes later on.
Last year we planted 3 lavender plants - 2 outside and 1 in a pot which I took in for the winter. The one in the pot lived and the 2 outside died, so I figured I could have some success with kitchen herbs. I am going to snip it to make it more shapely, and try to do some propagation to see what works. The rest I will make into sachet packs for the closet and drawers.
I just can not stand those grocery store tomatoes. There is nothing better than a good ripe tomato(unless it's maybe an ear of corn-LOL).
Fortunately, frozen corn is readily available, but there is just no substitute for home grown ripened on the vine tomatoes.
The Strawberry patch has slowed down, we should get a smaller batch later this year from the ever-bearing group.
I have a start of lemon thyme that I babied this winter indoors. It has grown enough that I am going to snip off some ends to root, and then I'll re-pot it and take it outside.
I picked up some begonias, impatience and johnny jump ups to fill out our front flower bed and welcome planter. I am going to make a topsy turvey out of a couple of 2 liter soda bottles and see if the flowers will do as well as the tomatoes LOL. If not, I'll just get some hanging baskets, and plant something else.
I tried to find celery seeds or plants everywhere this year. No luck in any stores or catalogs. Anyone know about celery - is it really hard to grow or something?
Well that's about it for this week. Hope we get some home grown tomatoes soon. Hubby has a patch of 30 plants that are well on the way.
I discovered my first embryonic green tomatoes today! Huzzah!
[SW Ohio, Zone 6]
Google “square foot gardening” Mel’s website has a lot of Info available. My daughter told me about it. I am in the process of making a raised bed 2’x 6’, to experiment with, he uses a mix of equal parts of compost, vermiculite and peat moss. I’ll post results here later.
I called them to get the other light bulb. Long story short, they gave me a credit for the whole amount I paid which was $64.63 which included the kit and some other stuff I had ordered.
Hubby wanted another one, and some other stuff. So I called in and placed the order. It only cost me $2.32(Merchandise, tax and shipping totaled around $97). The lady said I qualified for a $25.00 discount, because they had a special for any order over $50.00.
So now hubby has his grow light, and I have one for me too, for about 2 bucks. I still can't even believe it! I'll sure keep on with these guys.
Interesting about the dial soap. We don’t have a deer problem, but squirrels are really bad. Do you know if it works on squirrels?
Yum!
I’ll have to plant one. Are they any easier than watermelon?
Hooray! (Mine are teeny tiny too)
I “feel your pain”. We have the same problem here. This year we ordered from gurneys and burgess, since we had those catalogs.
We plan on getting more heirloom seeds next year, so we can save the seeds each year.
Thanks for the ping, I have it linked on our thread.
Hello everyone. I am a fairly new gardner and tried growing white turnips. Things are looking good except a “stalk” has shot up about a foot and is putting forth flowers.
Is that normal?
Sounds like too much nitrogen (first number) in your fertilizer?
If you’re growing fruit-bearing plants (yes, that includes pumpkings), you need a high phosphorous fertilizer.
Which is why I wouldn’t hit a dog in the ass with Miracle-Gro.
"Water before the soil dries out; water is important to keep turnips growing as fast as possible. If growth is slow, the roots become strong-flavored and woody and the plant will often send up a seed stalk."
Sounds like you have a seed stalk!
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