Posted on 02/15/2013 10:46:41 AM PST by greeneyes
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I’m in the Pacific NW (Washington State, 40 miles north of Seattle in the foothills of the North Cascades). We’re low enough in elevation and close enough to Puget Sound that we miss most of the snow (lots of rain).
We’re just getting started in gardening. I know which end of a shovel goes in the ground, and that’s about it. We have some wild huckleberries that need to be moved. They are currently dormant for the winter, but will be leafing out soon.
Not sure fire: But I have had success with mel’s mix. Equal parts compost, peat moss, and vermiculite. Plant seeds in egg cartons, paper pots, or 3-5 oz dixie cups. Cover with clear plastic wrap (use a pin prick in center).
Have never really had any trouble with damping off using this.
200 varieties - yikes. We would never be able to keep them straight. LOL.
I rarely do whole roast duck, I generally do fancy restaurant stuff with them. Smoked duck breasts, roast duck and cured pork filo pastries... etc.
Is good to have a chef in the house. ;)
/johnny
We have that as a real problem here in Missouri. Warm temps and things bud out, then we have a cold snap.
You need catnip and oat grass. My cats love it and leave the rest of the garden alone.
I am going to have to try to grow some cauliflower this year. It is one of the few brassicas that I like.(raw not cooked).
In addition to powerful cancer fighters, any veggie or fruit with white flesh is good to help prevent strokes. My family has a long history of strokes on both sides, so I am thinking home grown would be good. Especially if I can get it to grow during an extended season under cover.
So how many tomato plants to you routinely grow? You could end up with quite a few doing a batch every two weeks. That sounds like a good system.
I’ve tried the buckets and upside down planters with the same problem...the (Gulf Coast) Texas heat. I’m going to try this plant-in-a-bag method in a somewhat shadier area. (Lazy gardening :)
A whole Roasted duck is fancy for us.LOL. I am a lazy cook. Not a chef. Just simple home cooking. My Daughter likes to do the fancy stuff. My grand parents and my parents owned restaurants, but we didn’t have chefs-just cooks.
My Dad made the pies and handled short order stuff. Mom did the lunch specials and waited tables. Everyone pitched in to do prep work and wash dishes. (Especially the kids).
I worked for my granny as a waitress and short order cook during the summers and weekends. At 16 she promoted me to weekend manager (so she could go to the lake).LOL
Here’s a couple of sites with info: The first is probably the best with respect to transplant info:
http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/edComm/pdf/BUL/BUL0821.pdf
http://students.washington.edu/jklm/Huckleberry_Summit_2007/DNR_Huckleberry_Report_121207.pdf
Of course, I'll have a few green as fried green 'maters, and some fresh ripe ones with salads, etc..
I do like having the extras in case I get whacked with a late freeze or cutworms (I do use foil) or something.
/johnny
I always plant cauliflower in fall or early winter. We got a miss marked package and had the cheddar and graffiti seedlings instead of just the plain white. Imagine going to the garden and finding yellow and purple heads inside the leaves instead of white heads.
Yellow and purple instead of white. That would be a shock for sure.
Short order is harder than it looks.
Best morning I ever had was a little over 600 servings of eggs to order for breakfast in Korea. I loved working the flattop. 5 or 6 orders up at once, keep 'em straight, and greet everyone by name (on their name-tape). Good times.
I'm too old for that now.
/johnny
Yes, I loved cooking on the grill, and breakfast was one of my favorites. I would like to have a small commercial stove, but they are just too expensive, and there is nothing wrong with the stoves that I have.
I do have a cast iron griddle that fits on 2 burners that I use sometimes.
Thanks so much for the picture of the tomato plant growing in the bag. That’s the idea.
My husband grew tomato plants in large buckets here in southeast Texas and we had tomatoes.
Hmm, maybe growing them in bags would be cooler than putting them in large plastic buckets. The buckets would get really hot but the bags might not get that hot.
“Pink? That’s just so wrong. ;)”
Would you rather have a PINK rifle or none at all? Would you rather have a 25 cartridge magazine with it or none at all after those get outlawed?
See, I was looking for the Ruger 22 Carbine so I’d have a rifle I could handle along with that magazine. I watched every company I could find on line every day, hunting such a rifle. One morning, one of those companies had that PINK one and I grabbed my credit card and zapped it before someone else bought it.
When Hussein’s men come around getting guns, he’ll take your black rifle but he’ll think this PINK one is a toy. Now, my PINK rifle makes more sense, doesn’t it? It’s hollow points out of a PINK rifle are just like hollow points out of a black rifle.
Besides, I’m a girl. You guys can have your ugly black rifles and I’ll have my pretty PINK one. :o)
This week, I have started some cool weather veggies under a grow light. I am going to direct seed the majority of these varieties later, but was getting itchy to grow something. I have tiny sprouts of Kohlrabi Purple Vienna, Orach Aurora, Red Romaine Lettuce, and Nero Di Toscana Kale.
You may get hung in a loop if you use Bing or google to search for pictures, but very neat heads. Luckily, I got a seed catalog the day before I was intending to throw away the cheddar heads.
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