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Posted on 06/11/2010 5:02:26 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It looks like from all the pictures and comments that most of your gardens are coming along great. My garden is about three weeks behind where it was last year at this time but all is well and it is coming along fine.
If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.
If you have a question about gardening or just an observation to share please feel free to stop by and participate. There are no stupid questions, just honest ones.
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I left my onion in the ground over the winter. Mine are starting to flower. It's harvest time!! :-)
I have a gardening question. I live in the Florida panhandle and for the last 2 years I have tried to grow corn in my garden. I get stalks about 2 or 3 feet high and tiny cobs. I planted the seeds about 1 and 1/4th inch deep and about 1 foot apart. I have a drip watering system. The garden is on the north side of my house/yard. Any ideas how I can do better next year?
When did you plant?
What were the temperatures when the corn made a tassel?
Did you feed any nitrogen?
Planted in late April. Had to go to Utah until late May. Tassels were already appearing when we got home.
Oops. Planted early April.
into this:
Hot garlic dill pickles, full and slices. I can't wait to try them after a week or so in the fridge soaking up the pickle brine. A bunch of firsts. First cucumbers grown. First attempt at pickling. First attempt at canning. All seems to have gone smoothly.
I am sure some our gardeners who are successful at growing corn will and can help out.
I will gladly take some of those hot garlic dills off your hands if you have too many.:)
Corn needs Nitrogen and lots of water. Fertilize when you plant and then every 3 weeks or so and dig down to check soil moisture in 3 or 4 spots to make sure the roots are getting what they need. Do you know the variety as there are types that grow short plants and are early maturing...
http://www.creativehomemaking.com/cooking/garlic-dill-pickles.shtml
I haven't even tasted these yet, but I'm already planning a greatly enlarged cucumber planter for next year. I'll have to get a different variety of seeds though.
I did not plant any cucumbers this year. :(
And to think, planting cucumbers was a last minute addition to my garden this year.
This is what has been happening in my area recently. Not my town, but a couple of towns over.
A black bear climbs a tree in Port Washington on Saturday. The bear was tranquilized and taken away by authorities.
Port Washington bear tranquilized, sent packing
By Sharif Durhams of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: June 5, 2010
A black bear sighted in Port Washington on Saturday morning was tranquilized and transported to northern Wisconsin.
Authorities received a call just before 10 a.m. from the 900 block of Noridge Trail, where residents said they saw a bear.
The bear was shot in a tree with a sedative about 11:40 a.m., said Lt. Tom Barbuch of the Port Washington Police Department.
It was unclear whether this is the same nomadic bear that's vexed Sheboygan County officials in the past week.
Authorities there tracked a 300- to 350-pound bear from near Random Lake south along the shoreline toward Oostburg, according to the Sheboygan Press.
On Saturday, a sharpshooter trained in shooting wildlife with tranquilizers was called to the scene, Barbuch said. Tires and inflatable bags were placed on the ground to soften the fall, he said.
Onlookers were cordoned off about two blocks away.
Earlier, John Kuntz, who lives on Briarwood Lane, said he was pruning bushes in his backyard about 10 a.m. and bending over when he saw something black flash out of the corner of his eye.
He backed toward his house and away from the bear and called to his wife through the patio door. "I wanted my wife to see him."
But the bear took off before his wife was able to snap a picture. About 15 people had gathered to look at the bear, scaring it off.
Wisconsinites have had a number of bear sightings this spring outside the animal's core range in Wisconsin. Sows with cubs are increasingly being found in central and southwestern Wisconsin.
Laurel Steffes, a spokeswoman for the Department of Natural Resources, said Saturday that meandering bears are usually young males that have been pushed out of their family group and are looking to establish a territory.
"This is the time of the year when they start wandering and checking things out," Steffes said.
The DNR doesn't tranquilize bears, she said, but relies instead on a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In many cases, a sharpshooter is not needed, she said. If left alone, bears usually climb down from a tree and walk away.
I’m surprised (but happy) we don’t have more bears, but we do have Moose.
Ottawa Police officers have killed another moose.
Around 8:20 a.m. Saturday, one was spotted near the Queensway in a fenced grassy area in the Triole St. and Tremblay Rd. area near St. Laurent Blvd.
Insp. Mark Ford, who was in charge of the situation, was the same officer who oversaw the incident last week in an Orleans park when one of two moose was shot and killed in a residential area.
According to Ford, the moose was shot just before 10 a.m. Saturday.
“We tried to corral it into a wilderness area, but there really isn’t one nearby,” Ford said. “We have no mandate or capacity to tranquilize.”
Ford tried all his options, first contacting the National Capital Commission, which does have a mandate to tranquilize. He was told NCC staff have no jurisdiction on non-NCC lands. So he called the Ministry of Natural Resources and was informed the provincial officers have no mandate in this part of the province.
“We even tried some private contractors, but they didn’t have the right equipment,” Ford said.
By this time, he said the moose — younger and smaller than the ones in Orleans — had become “very agitated.”
“It tried to jump the fence once and we thought it was a significant safety issue,” Ford said, referring to the close proximity to the busy 417 highway.
“As you know, moose and cars don’t mix.”
He said that’s when the decision was made to put the animal down.
“No officer feels good about this,” he said. “It’s a beautiful animal, in a dangerous location.”
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http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/06/12/14365531.html
300 to 350 is a big bear for the west coast. A federal trapper and a DF&G warden told me it is futile to relocate a bear because you are releasing them into another bears territory and one or the other will lose. They trap them around Humboldt Bay and take them out in the country and shoot them. Bears are a plague since PETA got a law passed banning hunters using dogs from tree bears. When the city had to close the local dump a few years ago it put 43 garbage bears on the food dole at one time and Eureka had bears rampaging through garbage cans, sheds with dog food and even garages with a few being shot by homeowners. It got so bad that the garbage company had to discontinue nighttime pickup so we could put the cans out in daylight and everyone keeps their cans in the garage or secure shed...
I just planted onions yesterday after I pulled up the spinach that went to seed due to a really hot day a few weeks ago.
My question....
Do you plant the top or bottom of the bulb 1” deep. Don’t laugh, that’s a big difference. Well, OK, laugh if you want. ;-)
I planted the tops 1” deep.
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