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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 25 JUNE 21, 2013
Free Republic | June 21, 2013 | greeneyes

Posted on 06/21/2013 12:40:17 PM PDT by greeneyes

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To: afraidfortherepublic

Yikes! I’d be afraid to mow after that, too! Poor thing.


101 posted on 06/21/2013 7:49:31 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: greeneyes
The plant had obviously been cut with a knife.

GRRRRRROAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, had to get that out. What kind of damage is it? Are they hacking off whole limbs, or just slashing at the skin?

If it's the latter, you might be able to make little bridges from the inner bark to cover the gap and give it a chance to heal.
102 posted on 06/21/2013 7:55:01 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: Ellendra

It’s hard to beat Roma for paste tomatoes. You will have to fight off critters to get strawberries in my experience.


103 posted on 06/21/2013 8:19:18 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Ellendra

Most of these are newly planted and have the main stem cut about a foot to 18 inches above the ground. We don’t know yet if it will recover, there are no leaves left on the remaining stem.

The first time it happened, it was to a plant from last year that had survived the drought better than anything. Hubby just assumed that one of the large stray dogs or a coon or some other critter had done it and didn’t really look at it.

It is showing signs of shoots coming out of the ground. Since the others were not well established, it is hard to tell we’ll just have to wait and see.

These plants were mulched and very plainly not weeds, so it’s just pure ole malice and disrespect. Since my grand daughter’s ex husband’s grandmother lives across the street, that’s a suspect, but we also had some teenagers that live several blocks over away from the subdivision that could also be the perps.

Grand daughter came to see me one day for a few hours, and while we were downstairs and couldn’t see, someone snuck over and loosened the wheelnuts on the truck. She had a one year old in the truck with her. That’s pretty low down in my opinion.


104 posted on 06/21/2013 8:27:46 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Marcella

I have that cookbook too. I really like it. She also gives advice on long term storage for balanced nutrition and planning.


105 posted on 06/21/2013 8:56:12 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Marcella

You have made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!


106 posted on 06/21/2013 8:57:02 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: greeneyes

Can you install cameras with a recording system? We had a meth lab across the street from us when we lived in the desert, and when we gave the police a tape with the recording of a shooting in our cul de sac, the meth lab was shut down, the house decontaminated, and decent people moved in. It was rather comical since we only wanted to support the leos in an officer-related shooting, and they only incidentally used the tapes to nail the meth people.


107 posted on 06/21/2013 9:16:34 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: greeneyes

My main beef with Roma is that it’s determinate. It ripens all at once and then it’s done. With my health issues, indeterminates are a better match. I can process them a little at a time as they ripen, and if I’m out of action for the wrong week I won’t lose my harvest window.

Besides, I like being unique :p


108 posted on 06/21/2013 9:37:47 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: greeneyes

Look into wiring a alarm for when your Freezer goes out. It’s generally a red light that goes off when the freezer fails


109 posted on 06/21/2013 9:56:27 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: greeneyes
I posted a similar photo that was dated June 8th last week and this is what it looked like yesterday I am amazed at the robust growth of the potatoes this year.…

IMG_4373 Mama Bear and the 3 cubs were back last night and rearranged this stack of potting soil by the garage…

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110 posted on 06/21/2013 10:21:21 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: greeneyes
These strawberries ar a variety called Sea Scape and I have grown them for several years and while they have been very good producers we have never had fruit this large. The only discernible difference this year is the fine Pine Bark mulch that I posed a link to a youtube video awhile back. I think it was called the Garden Of Eden...

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111 posted on 06/21/2013 10:34:04 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: tubebender

They are red throughout with great strawberry flavor and the core was left on the stem when I pulled them. Pine bark is a little pricey here due to the shipping costs...


112 posted on 06/21/2013 10:38:58 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: greeneyes

Slow slogging, after a cold Spring. Corn will be ankle high by the Fourth of July. etc. We have gotten a few strawberries, though; and the fruit trees are looking productive. The wheat is heading up nicely. The transplanted rhubarbs are doing well, as are the asparagus seedlings.

Put in second plantings of carrots, radish, and spinach; added a small plot each of Toy-Chow, a ‘miniature’ bok-choy; coriander (cilantro grown for seeds rather than leaves); okra; pattypan**; pie pumpkins; and 2 other varieties of corn. Potatoes got their second hilling, after I moved the volunteer leaf lettuce that was in the way.

Most of the short* day, after normal chores, was taken up with hand watering & weeding the 3 oilseed sunflower rows: 400 gallon tank in the pickup, gravity fed to a garden hose.

It was the water left over from doing the same last night to the 5 rows of Sugar Snap peas, which are now in full flower; should begin harvesting next week.

Naturally, having watered, we got an unforecast rain after we left for the evening: we’ll take all the moisture we can get, and the hail missed us again.

Stopped at a grain elevator on our way to Rapid City Wednesday, and they’ll sell us ‘wheat cleanings/sweeping’ at 11 cents a pound, once the commercial harvest starts to come in: cheap chicken feed!

They’ll also order us a 50 pound sack of winter rye seed for $24. I calculated that we need 14 pounds to plant; we’ll put some into long term storage, use some in the kitchen, and feed some to the chickens...and we’ll get straw next year. That should give the birds pumpkins/seeds; black oilseed and Grey Stripe sunflower seeds; wheat; rye; and corn to supplement commercial feed this winter.

* It was a short day because we had to go to an early dinner at another couple’s house, then go with them to an evening melodrama in the next town. Back to their house for coffee & dessert; just got in about an hour ago.

**I found my last 2 original “Benning’s Green Tint” seeds from 2011. Last year, we planted from saved seed, and got some, but the weird weather kept the selected squash from fully maturing, and so those seeds didn’t germinate this year.


113 posted on 06/22/2013 12:36:51 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Marcella

We got 50 of those last year in the “yard waste” section of the local dump, and planted them. Doing great; forming the topsets now, and really looking healthy. Makes me want to sing, “Walk like an onion...”.


114 posted on 06/22/2013 1:13:29 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: greeneyes

Any friends that hunt and could loan you a game camera or two? Cutting plants is bad enough .... loosening wheel nuts is malicious.


115 posted on 06/22/2013 5:57:29 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Silentgypsy; greeneyes
I ordered a GE digital camera from Walmart a few days ago. It was a package deal over the net and has the camera, a memory card and a camera case. It wasn't expensive but it takes pictures and can load them on my computer and share them. I've never been into cameras so didn't have one. If I manage to grow something worth a picture, I'll have a camera. I've also wanted one to take pictures of my Yorkie. She is so beautiful after going to the groomer.
116 posted on 06/22/2013 6:27:07 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: greeneyes
I think loosening wheelnuts is attempted murder. If a wheel came off, the ones in the car could be killed. If that happens again, don't touch the wheelnuts and go to the police. They can likely get fingerprints off the nuts and hopefully find the boys and charge them with a significant crime. When I read your first post about that, I immediately thought attempted murder. That is like putting a bomb in the car. The bomb will go off just like the wheel would fall off, both causing bodily injury or death.
117 posted on 06/22/2013 6:33:06 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: greeneyes

My kitchen is a wreck. There are tomatoes, getting ready to dehydrate, squash getting ready for the freezer, but what do Everything seems to get ready at once.


118 posted on 06/22/2013 6:37:34 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: Sarajevo

I really like picklers with onions in sweetened vinegar. YUM


119 posted on 06/22/2013 6:40:07 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: Sarajevo

We’re thinking of putting in a hoop house in our community garden. The one we tried with pvc flopped over in the wind. What kind of braces are you using to hold the cover?


120 posted on 06/22/2013 6:43:31 AM PDT by tillacum
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