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.

[tubebender]

I should abstain as I may be called as a star witness to the mayhem from one side of the fence or the other when the bed of bamboo spreads and starts a border war with a neighbor as happened up the street from me.

[Elle Bee]

thanks

I have it surrounding most of the outer perimeter of the yard - between cement and sidewalk - but I just cant seem to clip and root anything

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[rightly_dividing]

I was surfing another subject on the net and saw a link to this and immediatly thought about this subject from last weeks thread. I hope this gives you some good ideas.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Natural-Pest-Control/

[ThePatrioticArtist]

Thanks for the link! They have some really creative folks on there!

[tubebender]

Will they let you take photos from inside the Church?

[tubebender]

May I draw your attention to the results when a sick mind designs a outdoor living space...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2584149/posts?page=457#457

[rightly_dividing]

I don’t know if I could have gotten in the church or not. In the times that I have been downtown, I had never seen anyone around it, but I never ventured into downtown very much. I took these shots as I was downtown one afternoon taking shots of old houses and buildings. It is 500 miles away from me now.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I've been unable to root cuttings from bamboo

You're lucky?

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the link. I have bookmarked it. The recipe for all purpose insecticide is almost the same as the recipe I made and used all summer to deter bugs in the garden.

[Elle Bee]

You're lucky?

LOL

I have a ten foot perimeter around the lots where the bamboo is contained by concrete pads

Though many say it's impossible to make go away, I'm having the opposite problem I can't get it to root - I've tried cutting above and below the knuckle - no luck LOL

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[afraidfortherepublic]

I was just kidding. We’ve discussed the travails my 97 year old mother has had with the neighbor’s bamboo roots acting as conduits to transport termites into the walls of her house.

[Quix]

When canning like peaches . . . in a hot water bath vs pressure cooker . . .

pre-heating the jars—simmering the jars/heating the jars for 10 min . . . that would be in about 2-3” of water, right?

[Red_Devil 232]

When preparing your clean jars, lids and rings for packing your peaches they should be immersed in hot simmering water not boiling water. In water bath canning your packed jars they must be completely immersed in the boiling water with at least 1 inch of water over the lids.

[Quix]

THX THX. MUCH APPRECAITED.

[tubebender]

I don’t think todays glass artists can capture the subtleties of the work done by our ancestors in the old Churches.

[Tatze]

I was up in the VA mountains a little wile back and saw lots of backyard gardens (at just about every house) and many, if not most, had some very large sunflowers (6-7ft tall). I started to wonder if there was some beneficial effect of the sunflowers on the rest of the garden. Any ideas?