Weekly Gardening Thread – 2010 (Vol. 32) September 10

Free Republic | 09-10-2010 | Red_Devil 232

[Red_Devil 232]

Good morning gardeners. This is the first year that I will have a fall garden. I have decided to try few broccoli and cabbage plants. I decided to visit our local County Co-Op a couple of days ago and they had starts of both and I bought a nine-pack cell of each. I hope they do well because we are still having 90 degree days with overnights in the mid to high 60’s. They also had starts for various types of tomato plants which kind of surprised me.

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.

[Red_Devil 232]

Wooops! Just read my post at 138 and had to laugh a little. Surprised I haven’t a big slap yet! LOL

[tubebender]

Garden and FReep is about all my wife and I do these days. I “work” for our son on Saturdays mornings which includes picking up a box of donuts and visiting with a couple of old FRiends in my closet “office”. Today I help a employee setup a booth at the Car Show in our Old Town District...

[billhilly]

Just a few tomato plants, plus some Basil. Most of our garden space is filled with flowers and shrubs. I envy those with enough space for large gardens.

[Duchess47]

Looking at the pictures makes my mouth water :) I can’t plant melons anymore as hubby is diabetic and has NO self control when it comes to these.

[Duchess47]

That so reminds me of an English garden. It is just beautiful.

[Duchess47]

Let me know how beans do. I have some bird netting that I was thinking of hanging in the second greenhouse (if it ever gets put up)for peas. I just don’t know how they would do in a greenhouse.

I think Accuweather is calling for a pretty severe winter in your area. Sounds like you’ll be able to put the greenhouse to very good use.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Sorry about Hubby.

I'm stuck at work today with niothing to do until somebody gets some shipments ready and gives me invoices to do. It's cold and rainy. Besides 9/11 memories, there is not even much going on on the Internet. But, I found this picture that I hope will cheer some people up. THese are sunflowers in Algoma -- a little town on the lakeshore about 50-60 miles north of here. The picture was taken by Irene Taylor of Port Washington, WI. Diana is a fanatic about including sunflowers in the landscape.

I planted mixed sunflowers along the edge of my SFG, but I won't do that again. They overwhelmed the bed, blocking the sun.

[wita]

and I hope to carry some vegetables through the winter.

Does that mean you have a heat source in the greenhouse?

other than the sun.

[Duchess47]

What a glorious picture. I provides some much needed sun to a gloomy day :)

[Duchess47]

I = It. ~sigh~ need a new keyboard here.

[Duchess47]

I have a small heater that has automatic temperature controls. The lowest setting is 60 degrees which is warmer than I like but I discovered that setting it next to one of the barrels on the floor works. It kicks on enough to keep the back of the greenhouse at about 45 degrees. It really helped last winter when we had temperatures at night of 4-5 degrees. I did have four barrels of water in it during the winter, two on the east side and two on the west side.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Charlie Wepfer of Delafield, WI took this picture which I think is appropriate for today. I don't know who planted this garden, but it speaks for itself and for 9/11.

[afraidfortherepublic]

See #151.

[wita]

I do have a portable heater that has temperature controls and it sets on the floor by the barrel closest to the door. I haven’t turned it on yet this year but it did keep me above freezing last winter.

There is the answer, just hadn’t read far enough. What is your altitude, and the normal day time high in January.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I meant #152.

[afraidfortherepublic]

And Carol Jaksic, in Oxford, WI, can boast a "picture perfect" garden.

All of the photos are from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel On Line Garden section.

[Duchess47]

I’m at 4100 feet here. I’m guessing my normal average daytime highs in January are in the 30’s. If I have a pogonip come through it is generally in the teens and occassionally it will get into the 40’s.

[Duchess47]

Now that is a cool garden :) I would love something like that in my kitchen.

[Duchess47]

It is beautiful and appropriate, thanks for finding that picture.

[wita]

Wanted to include you as addressee, but couldn’t figure out how that would work in the sentence “I thought he said full garden” addressing Duchess47, and including you. You, however, being the Marine, always on top of things, your thread for example, did a reverse workaround and found me out.

Now to the subject of watermelon eating dogs...