Posted on 07/20/2012 11:11:39 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning, FRiends, fellow gardeners, and yet-to-be gardeners!
Thanks go out to all that participated in the thread last week. Beautiful photos were posted, and info was shared that will make big differences in the gardening lives of our members.
If you can ... please remember to add keywords that will make our threads more useful when searched. I think that I was the only one that added keywords as the thread progressed.
My thoughts and prayers are with everyone that needs a good rain. Drought is an awful situation.
I am off to the back end of the yard to tend my bees. I have 3 new queens that came in the mail yesterday, and need to get them installed before they are stressed any more. Then, if I have the strength after the heat zaps me, I need to harvest honey. This will be the third harvest in a few weeks ... the girls have been extremely busy.
What is going on in your neck of the woods?
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It had crossed my mind to empty a can of starting fluid down a fuel hose into the run and lighting it off but my eye brows would not grow back at my age
Visions of Caddy Shack lol
If those don’t work you might consider getting some dry ice and dropping a few small pieces down the hole .
Gases only work on Moles if you can find the vertical shaft to the lower permanent chambers.
Picked a Cherokee Purple before evacuating tonight. 8,000 acres burning a couple of miles from us, and sherrif advised us to leave tonight. Staying with friends in town who helped us get stuff out all day.
Also, lost another air tanker today, though not an actual crash: had engine troble after take off at Rapid City, and had to dump the load of retardant...all over the runways!
Flights had to divert to Wyoming, as the airport was closed while the cleaned up the runways. The tanker, AFAIK, was able to fly empty back to Denver for repairs.
Garden looks great, considering it has been baking under triple digits for several days.
Shower & bed; then do it again tomorrow, if they have our road open.
Pray for rain!
That’s a very interesting post. Thank you.
I have not much of a clue what kind of lilies ... a guy in Arkansas that works on our cotton picker gave me a small bucket of them that his wife thinned out of her beds. Supposedly they spread rather easily. Seems like he said star lily, but I really don’t remember. They last forever as cut flowers though.
Gorgeous peppers!
I am going out back to spray my raspberries with roundup after seeing your beautiful photos. Mine don’t deserve to live.
Haven't done it yet, but you and Sir Bender are killing me with the kohlrabi stories. I have got to get some planted!
Your flowers are beautiful!
I really like you tree rings, and flag pole, too.
Here's a few of my wife's flowers.
And my latest project, please excuse the fuzzie photo. It is the bed for a three tiered fountain. I hope to finish the electrical work today and level out the existing soil so that we may fill it with some really good soil from the garden center. Then my wife will start the planting and make it beautiful. I am no brick layer, so working on that incline was an experience. Then it's off to the next hunny-doo.
Thanks for checking in! Creole and Arkansas Traveler are both varieties of tomato that thrive in the heat and humidity of the Deep South. I’ve never had them refuse to set fruit in the hottest summers.
Experiencing a pretty good thunderstorm right now. Our ground is completely soaked, but I am not going to complain about additional rain. Last year’s severe drought reinforced to me to never complain about rain that doesn’t cause flooding and damage. How I wish I could send some of it to our FRiends that are so dry.
The photos of your snap peas last week made me cry they were so pretty. You are one gardening guru dude.
Stay safe FRiend...
Your garden infrastructure makes me long to reset the clock back 30 years. Even Lady Bender caved and hired a lawn guy last month. The last time I had a mower in my hand I had a heart attract and a tripple by-pass. Gotta hit the road for my coffee club meeting.
We planted 3 peach and 3 plum trees last week. We already have a row of apple trees behind the greenhouse that went in the ground this past spring. More grapes are also in future plans.
JustaDumbBlonde - I think you really need to change your screen name. I does you no credit. Every time I see pictures of your accomplishments, I am amazed (and envious!). I really like the bed you erected around the tree. To tell the truth, you've motivated me to look for a larger property where I can expand my orchard.
Mr. tubebender - I'm drooling over your raspberry patch. ;)
Oshkalaboomboom - I had to look in my kitchen to make sure my dryer was still there! Those things are great! We've dryed or canned about 15 quarts of peppers this year. My Tabasco "tree" produces for 10 months of the year. We generally dry our tabasco peppers, but have had some start fermenting in a storage jar. Talk about yummy! We mashed them, added some vinegar and a dash of salt and enjoyed the flavor.
Food prices could get scary this winter.
Bookmarked.:)
Howdy all!!!!! a little late to the party - but with good reason.
Last Sunday was my father’s 75th birthday and my brother flew my daughter and I down to Florida to surprise him. Still not sure what surprised my father more - my brother showing up unannounced Friday afternoon, my daughter and I showing up unannounced Saturday morning, my having had all the dental work dad has been on me about for a year done before I got there - or the act that my brother and I - who had not seen or talked in almost 20 years actually worked together to pull off the past week!
I got home last night and actually have no clue what my garden looks like.
I did promise the folks here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia I would try to bring some of Sarasota, FLA’s rain back home with me - and danged wasn’t it raining here when I got off the plane yesterday!
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