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Posted on 03/22/2013 12:30:03 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Never grown it. I’m in Ohio, and Jicama is a tropical zone type plant, grown in Mexico. I think we’re both too far North for it to grow.
We had a volunteer sunflower once that grew to be 9-10 feet tall. Is that the height of your sunflowers or was it the result of living near a nuclear power plant?
You know what makes me almost as happy as gardening? Recipes for homemade bug sprays and cleaning solutions! Yahoo! You have made my weekend!
Definitely worth celebrating. Iirc, you have catz. I gather that your sunshelf isn’t in the house? If it is, how do you keep the catz from trashing the plants? We finally planted oat grass in six different pots so we could rotate them into and out of the greenhouse for recovery between cat attacks.
They only get into the plants when I screw up like that.
/johnny
Got two tomatoes growing inside. It is 12F outside this morning so nothing outside yet. Found seed potatoes at Walmart. Got some Yukon Gold and Kennebec.
We need more rain. My rain-water catchment system is very low for this time of year. And the seedlings really don't like the water from the city.
/johnny
Have a well here. No chity water.
The shallow water table is such that I could probably drive a well myself.
/johnny
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A small patch of kale.
A solitary celery plant. Does anything take longer to grow than celery?
A pot full of onions.
White Cloud cauliflower. After harvesting the main head, it keeps throwing up lots of little snack side heads. I'll plant that variety again.
My husband has been given responsibility for all tomato hornworm removal. I don’t even want to look at the hideous things. I can’t imagine touching one, even while I’m wearing gloves.
Sorry I’m late but I have been in mental rehab since Flickr changed their format and I can’t find the “Image Location” for photo posting in HTML on FR. Does anyone have a workaround for that?
We just had a helluva hail storm here in Dallas early this am. It left millions of little balls of ice all over everything, and shredded the new leaves of most of the plants outside. Sounded like the end of the world...lol. And it just had to happen days AFTER the first day of spring, right?
I started growing the root beer plant (Hoja Santa) in Houston for shading other plants. It grows profusely (spreads via roots like a vine) and is good for many things. The Mexicans use the leaves for cooking fish and tamales. You can also use the leaves, which get very large, for making concrete leaf molded garden accents.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=root+beer+plant&qpvt=root+beer+plant&FORM=IGRE
Lemon balm, citronella and various mints are other useful herbs. Being a chilehead, I always grow as many different varieties of hot peppers that I can. Once found a huge chile tepin plant growing outside my fence in Houston (the birds had drop planted it). You can find these pepper plants growing wild if you know where to look. The peppers make great hot sauce.
Thank you so much. I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
OH! Way Cool! Thanks so much for the link!
LOL! I don’t think we’re near a power plant!
We grew the Mammoth sunflowers. (That’s their name on the seed packet.) Yes, it was awesome, they did grow to be about 8-9 feet tall. They were prolific seed producers as well. We had a very dry summer last year and we were diligent to water them every day. I was fascinated by their stages of development. Highly entertaining! LOL!
The flower heads were the size of dinner plates, and one flower head per stalk.
You’re like my wife. She’ll stay at the opposite end of the end until I get rid of it. And I gotta tell you, even with gloves I dislike picking those things up so much, I don’t only make sure they are dead, but they have got to be DEAD dead.
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