Posted on 05/10/2013 2:41:33 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Have you ever tried growing black seed leaf lettuce? I grow that year round. I plant just enough every few weeks so when one patch is grown, the next is ready for harvest.
We grew peanuts commercially. They like dry sandy soil and lots of neglect.
I don’t know what I did to tick off Mother Nature but she’s shown her wrath again. The storms came through last night with with a fury. It didn’t last long but long enough to gully wash everything and throw the few cages that had struggling plants from the prior storms in them all over the yard. And messed up the herb garden rock edging. Looked like a raging river through the yard. Ok, time to start Garden 2013 v4.0 when things dry out but when rocks continually get moved then it’s time to cry uncle on the edging.
Your tummy trouble sounds a lot like gall bladder problems. They’ve improved the surgery since I had mine out when they sliced me open half way around and I was in bed for six weeks and had trouble with it many, many years later. My elderly mother had laparoscopic surgery for hers and she left the hospital the next day with a little bandaid and headed off for vacation. The doctor thought she was having a heart attack and tested for several things when she went to the ER until I insisted he check her gall bladder. He was contrite when that’s what it was.
Oh to have a tree free area that large. Redwood trees are legendary but they are a PIA to gardeners...
I’ve been in Chicago all week. I will be very happy to get out of this filthy stinking cement zoo and back to civilization.
Mrs. Augie said it mostly rained all week at home. Good for my potted plants I think because she would have forgotten to water them. LOL
Improving weather is making everything grow well. I can hardly wait for the lilies to bloom.
The video at the link was great! Thanx for posting it!
Your garden looks great,too. I really like the idea of metal panels to surround the hay bales.
This is a first replacement. It was my MOTHER who suffered a broken leg last year. She’s 99.
OMG! Is that your place? Could I borrow you for the summer?
If you can get to your library, or to your grocery store, and look up this month’s Better Homes and Grdens, they have some neat planting ideas that look like they’d challenge you. I read this at the hair cutter’s yesterday.
There was an article about planting vertically. One of the ideas was to take half a pallet (the wood kind often available for free outside the loading docks of manufaturing plants). You line it with landscape cloth and fill it with potting mix. Then you plant different kinds of lettuce and herbs in the slots and hang it on the wall. Very pretty and handy.
The one thing about knee surgery is that they really dope you up with drugs, so you don’t remember the worst of it. It’s sort of like child birth. If we remembered every minute of it, everybody would be an “only” child! Happy Mother’s ay!
Wow! That’s magnificent!
I have entirely different gardening conditions in Wisconsin, but I’ve had great luck with the “baby” watermelons. They are just the right size for a couple, or small family, and they ripen in our short summers. So sweet! I’ve had them self sow and come back a 2nd year.
Last summer the heat wave hit in May before the plants could get established. This year the cool weather is holding things up. That’s why I started the stuff indoors this year, hoping that by the time to transplant, they will be at a decent size, and the weather will not be too cool.
Also, I have through experiments settled on the Sugar Baby Watermelon as my main watermelon due to rather short days to maturity of 75 days. Plus it doesn’t take up too much room in the Refrigerator, and we usually don’t have leftovers after cutting into it. Great flavor is of course the first requirement.
The Minnesota Midget is a 60 day to maturity canteloupe that has done well for me. The vine peach grows like crazy, but it is rather bland to eat as is. Better when worked into a pie or something. Both are just right for an individual serving. A larger canteloupe that I like is Iroquois.
Of course these are all heirloom/open pollinated.
I have grown black seeded simpson leaf lettuce. Is that what you are talking about? If not, then the answer is no.
I am not a big fan of leaf lettuce, but I do plant some to mix in with the romaine and spinach.
NEGLECT???? Perfect!!!!!! Sounds like my kinda plant.LOL
The tummy problem is not mine. It was Ellendra. I have silent stones. Hubby had a cardiac cath the first time, and I did think that it was Gall Bladder then. After about a year, Hubby had the laproscopic surgery to take out his gallbladder, but had complications. Three years later and he still has trouble eating.
My girlfriend went in for laproscipic, but they wound up switching to the regular surgery. Then she was in and out of the hospital for the next 6 months and at deaths’s door at least 3 of those times.
It is not an easy surgery for many of the people that I know who have had the laproscopy and even worse for the other way.
You are so right on those baby watermelons. I probably will plant watermelons. We will also plant okra again out in the other spot when it gets hot enough, in June. I wish I had a few cotton seeds, just for something different to do.
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
LOL. St. Louis is bad enough. Chicago is the New York of the mid America. LOL.
Yep the lettuce and spinach have taken a big step this week.
Thanks, maybe I’ll check that out, if I ever go to the store.LOL.
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