Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 07/29/2011 5:22:39 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. This past week here in East Central Mississippi has been great, weather wise. There have been numerous and very beneficial pop-up T-storms almost every day, which have helped keep the temperatures down and my garden watered.
I hope TS Don will give some relief to those of you in drought stricken Texas. Forecasts are for it to dissipate in about 36 to 48 hours after landfall.
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.
I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
You just got to love it when garden fresh tomatoes are in the very near furture!
Try poking around in the soil a bit, sometimes water doesn’t penetrate very well and then there’s a dry layer that effects their growth. At the other end of the spectrum, if the soil is too soggy the roots start to rot away, causing the same symptoms.
Oooops I forgot the cheese! I have a big ol’ wedge of Parmesan and some Cheddar to grate and add!
I love ‘em salty! Usually add salt and pepper just before eating.
Is that the glass container that you sometimes see in the doctor’s office, full of cotton balls or tongue depressors?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
I never have enough mulch, and can't afford to buy the stuff. Hence soil moisture fluctuation problems. From now on and hereafter, I'm going to mulch with cardboard and newspapers --- I can get that for free! And then make sure the watering gets through the mulch into the root zone.
Thanks - I’ll try that.
If my front yard looked like that, I would never get rid of the deer. Come to think of it, my front yard could never look like that because of the deer.
That zuke is lookin’ real good, Red :)
I have the One Green World catalog. It has lots of unusual varieties of fruits, nuts, bamboo, etc, and they are good strong plants, packed very well for shipping. They are, however, very pricey for those of us on strict budgets.
The blood orange I ordered from them 15 years ago is still alive. It’s a bit stunted for a number of reasons, mostly a lack of light, but it survived the time I was laid up with a back injury and couldn’t water my houseplants for over 2 months!
Agreed with the water/heat/dry bit. We’ve had that problem in the past and just assumed that was the issue last summer. Little did we know. I use a soaker hose on top of the newspaper/mulch and it gets through just fine. Ditto rain. And the great thing about newspaper with hay on top (or whatever you use) is you can get in your garden after it rains 1.5”. YOu’re not up to your knees in mud and muck. Weeding is a cinch, too. You don’t have to!
We let our grass grow longer than those in HOA probably could as we’re in the sticks. Hubby then sweeps that up with a leaf sweeper and that’s free mulch. We also offer to leaf sweep neighbor yards in the fall and bag those up for use.
I try to keep tomato/pepper/eggplant/potato plants and parts out of my compost pile to stop disease spread. Those got in a separate area of the yard if they look healthy (under some oak trees) as I hate to toss good organic material. If they look suspiciously diseased in any way, they get tossed in garbage can. I might try burning them this fall though. I’ll have to read up on that.
Nope. This one is bigger. Glass lid. I think Wal Mart sells the type of jars you are thinking about too.
It will look better stuffed and cooked!
Be sure to pick them on the smallish side. The pods start to get tough when they get past 4” long.
Sorry I wasn’t here earlier, but we were out on the water.
This was Pony Penning Week on Chincoteague Island, VA and we were on a friend’s boat watching the ponies not sold at auction yesterday swim back to there home on nearby Assateague Island, VA.
It’s hot as blue blazes here, and while we are in no where near the dire straights of our Texas FRiends, we could stand a bit more rain. Thermometer reading when we left the house at 6:30 this morning was 87.
When the thermometer reads 92 on my friend’s screened in, roofed and shaded porch on Chincoteague - we know it’s hot, because it’s a minimum of 7-10 warmer at our place 15 miles in on the mainland.
I’ve pickled them before, easy and tasty.
Awesome! I’d skip jap-a-lenos, and use Anaheims, as I’m not all that fond of heat either.
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