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Weekly Gardening Thread – 2011 (Vol. 31) August 12
Free Republic | 08-12-2011 | Red_Devil 232

Posted on 08/12/2011 5:28:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232

Good morning gardeners. There is not much garden news to report from East Central Mississippi this morning. I am just trying to keep everything watered and alive and picking a couple of peppers and a zucchini every once in awhile.

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.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: garden; gardening; recipes; weekly
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To: TASMANIANRED

Sorry. Wish I could have prevented my problem with a pellet gun.

1” diameter hail probably wiped out my entire garden 8/9/11.

Melons, cucumbers totally defoliated. Almost all tomatoes knocked off of plants. Most peppers damaged. Pumpkin plants gone. Some corn blown down.

Not all, as I plant it in trenches and “hill it up” so I still think I will have a decent corn harvest, if it cools off. It has been so hot, the corn matures before the ears fill completely. I think it is a failure of the pollen to be fully effective.


101 posted on 08/13/2011 1:39:21 AM PDT by tdscpa
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To: Bean Counter

After I watered them yesterday, we got a huge rain last night! No rain was predicted and there was not a cloud in the sky yesterday. I mowed all day (over very dry ground, which is why I set a sprinkler out in the veggie patch), and then came the deluge. I’m sure it doesn’t matter. Will add my last 2 bags of garden soil this afternoon. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter. The soil needs to go into that bed anyway.


102 posted on 08/13/2011 1:43:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tubebender

Well, we see our neighbors (the farmer neighbors) since we have no relatives around here. We had a wild Siberian tiger at our fair this year. That was different, but I seemed to be the only one excited about it.

The tiger came with a “wild animal show”. I didn’t see the show, but I don’t think they ever allowed that tiger out and on the stage. There was absolutely no protection for the onlookers. I think that they just displayed this 15 month old tiger in its cage which was like a super large dog kennel.

She certainly was beautiful, however. I saw her every day, since her cage was positioned next to the parking lot as you entered. You could peek into her cage at the corners where the tarps covering the cage split open. Although there was a double fence around the display, it was just made out of cattle panels. That cat could have leapt that fence in a single bound, had she escaped her dage.


103 posted on 08/13/2011 2:00:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: hattend

Well, Max is a large dog! I’m sure size makes a difference. :^)


104 posted on 08/13/2011 2:25:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

My hometown paper’s garden editor wrote this piece about eating corn smut, the fungus on corn ears. I always have found his column interesting and still read it though I am 500 miles away now. This one seems a bit out there, but FR gardeners may prove me wrong, again.

http://blog.al.com/living-press-register/2011/08/delicious_corn_smut_makes_a_bi.html


105 posted on 08/13/2011 3:37:26 AM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: rightly_dividing

Well, that is the most colorfully and artfully rendered discussion of corn smut I’ve ever read! Thank you for the information. Did you remember that my corn patch was infected with smut last year? It was really disgusting, and I couldn’t have eaten it. I won’t do well in survival training.


106 posted on 08/13/2011 5:45:03 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ApplegateRanch
How's your skunk situation? Why yes, yes it is...
107 posted on 08/13/2011 7:13:01 AM PDT by tubebender (The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
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To: hattend

Trinidad is a great place to camp as there is so much to see north or south. Did you hike down to Agate Beach and look for agates? Troy Nicolini is the head of the local weather station and is a great guy and has done a lot to prepare us all for the eventual Tsunami. His wife twists my wife’s hair at the Juniper Beauty Saloon


108 posted on 08/13/2011 7:23:20 AM PDT by tubebender (The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I dug a hill of Yukon Gold and a hill of Red Gold for my granddaughter yesterday and they filled a plastic grocery bag. Must have been 6 or 7 pounds...


109 posted on 08/13/2011 7:27:08 AM PDT by tubebender (The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Next year, plant 3 basil plants next to each tomato plant. Basil is supposed to be a skeeter repellent.
110 posted on 08/13/2011 7:55:51 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Red_Devil 232; All

Just got in late last night from vacation. Garden is about the same. We did get some rain while I was gone.

Hubby gathered vine peaches and green beans. Still no tomatoes. We do have a few green ones. Most of the flowers did not set fruit during the heat wave.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.


111 posted on 08/13/2011 8:12:27 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: hattend

Many plants will not grow well within 50 feet of the drip line of a walnut tree. Tomatoes for one. Can not remember the others.

Corn, beans, and melons are tolerant of walnut toxicity. Can’t remember the rest.


112 posted on 08/13/2011 8:16:11 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: who knows what evil?
When I lived in Tennessee (sigh...); my wife was picking sprouts on Christmas Day...they were planted in mid-May.

Yikes, I'm in Connecticut. I could be digging them out of the snow if I have to wait till Christmas.

113 posted on 08/13/2011 8:22:18 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: tubebender

I’m trying to remember where we went. Down to the Trinidad harbor for lunch, to the Trees Of Mystery because we had never been there before, Patrick’s Point (of course), took a lot of pictures of the big migrating Elk herd there, went to Crescent City and walked around downtown. Clam Beach, didn’t make it to Agate Beach.

It was a nice 2 days and got us out of the 110 degree heat of Redding.


114 posted on 08/13/2011 8:31:54 AM PDT by hattend (The SEALs got Osama. The only thing Obama killed was our childrens future - NoLibZone)
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To: KosmicKitty
That's a possibility... :-)

Actually; a couple of good frosts really improves the flavor.

115 posted on 08/13/2011 8:32:23 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: greeneyes

We grew our tomatoes last year in two “topsy turvey” planters. Surprising, it worked pretty well and didn’t take up any garden space. My wife planted tomatoes this year in the raised garden and they are doing fine.


116 posted on 08/13/2011 8:35:15 AM PDT by hattend (The SEALs got Osama. The only thing Obama killed was our childrens future - NoLibZone)
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To: greeneyes

Basil is in that bed and in several other beds. Probably not enough, though.


117 posted on 08/13/2011 10:05:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: KosmicKitty

I think Brussel Sprouts take about 7 months..seriously..


118 posted on 08/13/2011 10:33:08 AM PDT by cherry
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To: tdscpa

Weather has not been cooperative at all this year..

Too much early, too little late and then hail.

Sorry about the hail storm.


119 posted on 08/13/2011 12:51:00 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Saw news there was rain today around DFW. Was hoping to read here that someone(s) got some relief.

So I have this Black Beauty Eggplant, which I actually planted about a year ago for last fall, but it never really went anywhere until this summer. I got three big fruits off of it, then nothing. There’s several dozen blossoms on it. I’ve read about hand pollination but that hasn’t produced anything.

The seed package says “produces 5 to 7” fruit. I assumed this meant “at a time”. But now I’m starting to wonder, is there such a thing as a determinate variety of eggplant? And if that’s what I have, why is it still blossoming? Is is just messing with me?

I don’t have a lot of room in the garden (massive understatement), and this thing is huge. If I need to cut bait, now is the time. But if not, I’d love to get it producing again. Anyone point me in the right direction here?


120 posted on 08/13/2011 12:51:47 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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