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Posted on 01/28/2011 5:26:59 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Here in central Mississippi we are seeing highs in the low to mid 60s.
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Glad to hear the good report on your hub. I have been praying for him and wondered how he was doing.
sometimes...then I sober up...
Lucky you..we are a long way to spring ...I am just starting to garden dream
How are you using this?
Take care Dolly, I know you have a habit of pushing yourself, so take care, get lots of rest and get well.
Have you ever tried harvesting the new fiddle heads? We used to pick them and Mom would serve them in a butter or cream sauce..wonderful.
Has anyone tried growing celeric in TX? It’s probably a fall or winter type vegetable?
I’m not trying to grow sweet peppers anymore, I think. I may try a fall planting...I just cannot give up.
I’m getting ready to splotch paint my strawberry tube, it’s insulated and after the painting I’ll “plant” it in a larger round pot. I’m getting my area ready for my potatoe tires and tub. I’m ready and waiting for wallymart to get the potato seeds. I’m checking Lowes and Home Depot for the cocoanut coir, I’ll put those in my veg and flower pots.
thanks till. I have been mostly sleeping for over 2 weeks.
just going out for occasional more necessary trips & now & then for meal..
I spent a couple of hours this morning breaking those two blocks up into pieces and crumbling them up into pretty fine pieces, all into my wheelbarrow. It’s very dry and packed very hard, and it took about an hour to crumble each block.
Then I spread an even layer of dry coir over the top of the flowerbed I’m refilling. I lifted the few perennials in it earlier. Then I fired up my small rototiller and chopped all of the coir into the soil. It mixed in a lot easier than a larger volume of damp peat would have. I watered it lightly aftereards and am letting it get rained in over the next few days. Even dry it swelled the volume of the soil and as it absorbs more water it will swell up even more.
With the equivalent of two 3 cubic foot bales of peatmoss in there, this bed should hold plenty of water this summer. I usually grow a host of things, herbs and flowers included, and in February I’m planting Spring peas.
I’ll define gardening as growing things that produce stuff to eat.
I tapped one of my maple trees Wednesday to learn about when the sap flows.
Last night was about 30 and today is a sunny 45 degrees. The sap began to flow..... about a cup full. As the days get warmer it should be heavier. Then lots will be collected and boiled down to yummmmmmm syrup. Home made maple syrup is goood!
This is in East Tennessee, not the far north
Bert: Up here we tap the maples when the frogs start to chirp, which is late Spring. Got that right! Home made syrup is the best!
It’s way too early to tap the maples in Wisconsin, but that homemade syrup is really good when you can get some.
Thank you so much. God is answering our prayers. I just get tired of being the mean old witch (no, you can’t drive yet).
My Wooly worm.. aka my black lab is shedding her undercoat as if she were sheared.
I’m so hoping this is a sign of spring..
Ewell Gibbons showed me how to do that but the New Crop Asparagus hits the markets at the same time...
ooh..nice tip. Will use it in my beds in the greenhouse I’m putting up. Nearly free greenhouse 8’x12’x10’ at the peak.
Very interesting BC. I first heard of coconut coir down at the greenhouses at DisneyWorld. They were growing many things in nothing but coconut coir.
They pointed out that just 10 years ago, coconut growers were throwing away the coir as totally useless, but now it is almost more profitable for them than the coconut itself.
I’ll check my Home Depot too. I could use some good filler in my raised beds too.
You know how peatmoss quickly blends in with garden soil so you can’t really tell what’s peat and what’s dirt? Not this stuff. It stays that nice brown color and you can clearly see it disbursed through the soil. I watered it lightly today so it wouldn’t blow around, and it’s swelling up with water already.
We have rain coming again over the next couple of days so it should be well wetted by then...
The weed and feeds, as well as services like Trugreen, are simply playing the averages with what nutrients are needed. So those products and services may work for the average lawn, but might not work for yours.
A soil test will let you know exactly what your soil/lawn needs. Find your local extension office. They should offer the soil tests for a few dollars ($6 maybe?), and will give you all the directions you need for how to take the sample.
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