Posted on 06/28/2013 1:01:56 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Things are growing! I’ve got a nice, tiny patch of snow peas - which I have actually picked from. My hens love them too.
I have 15 decent tomato plants, all heirloom and from seed - in various stages of growth. No real action on them yet, but they do look healthy. Green peas, tiny abundant patch, flowering and now podding. Tiny patch of carrots-ready to thin. Variety of of bell peppers - which I ended up purchasing due to my late start - some have tiny peppers. Couple dozen cucumber plants, heirlooms, all from seed - tiny yet but look strong. Pole beans, 1/2 foot tall, look real nice so far. Beets should be up soon - short season crop so I am not worried about them having enough time.
There are some hot and some sweet peppers on my Hubbys side, and salad. Also bush cucumber and an eggplant. The only things he has from “home started” are the herbs and such.
LOTS of rain in this region in the past 10 days - and more expected. But we have been lucky to get breaks in between the storms, so that helps a lot.
I was able to take Fluffy, my faithful hen, to the garden today for some one-on-one bonding and weeding. She’s always a source of amusement and helps keep my mind off how miserable weeding is. I’ve trained her to follow me from the “fort knox” of all chicken coops over to my garden - also of the “fort knox” variety. Man, I am like a proud mama every time she runs along beside me all the way to the garden gate.
Does anyone know how to induce a cactus to grow an arm? The cactus I am interested in is a one foot toothpick cactus, (Stetsonia coryne). I think I saw one for sale once, about 18 inches tall, with at least 4 symmetrical arms. The price was $90, and this was 10 or 15 years ago.
This cactus will eventually put on arms naturally, as it matures.
Lets hope so; but even if good old Mother Nature gives me another whammy, you know what they say “NEVER EVER SURRENDER”.
In the shade here at our place we have 105* and rising.
In the ground surrounding this house, especially in the back yard I’ve not seen a worm, it’s mostly black clay AND even my compost has worms that live only in the bottom of it. All I’ve seen in my compost, when I turn it over was one snake and it was pretty perturbed when I flipped it over. Luckily I didn’t stab it with one of the tongs on the pitch fork. Now that we have no critters in the pasture, I’m going to turn part of it into a garden, especially the feeding shed, there should be lots of worms there. i’m going to try some winter gardening in it.
Full cream or half & half in your cuppa?
Where did you get that pepper?
One of the best items to stop a burning mouth is milk, but I like your idea better, ICE CREAM, I love ice cream. No water
“In the shade here at our place we have 105* and rising.”
It’s 4 pm and my indoor temp teller says it’s 105.2 outside. It’s 77.7 inside and I have the thermostat upstairs set on 75. A ceiling fan not far from my chair is on low and I’m comfortable. I’m not going outside.
I’ve tried planting garlic & onion starts and darn if the starts just sat there and so did the garlic, the garlic did put out pretty greet stems so did the onions, but NO BULB! So this year I’m planting some onion bottoms in a syrup pot. I might have better luck with them. I’ll try just about any thing. My tomatoes are doing very well, as I take off the ripe ones some are turning kinda orangy. The first year I’ve had tomatoes from my pots.
Full cream would be glorious if you have it. Half and half is superior, of course, to powder. Thanks so much for asking. :o)
RED! Semper & Fi are still babies, and those German Shepards are big ??? to them. Wait...they’ll give those Germans a fit.
Happy you’re HOME. Take your time unpacking..LOL..when we moved I was always in a hurry to unpack.
/johnny
Were these from the Hoop House? Oh, we screened my keyhole garden day before yesterday and the soil temp was 93 degrees, my friend keyhole was 113 (this garden wasn’t screened) and her other keyhole garden in her back yard semi under a tree was 88 degrees. These gardens are very interesting. I’m going to tear down my 16’x4’x2’ high and put in 3 keyhole gardens, they are so easy to maintain. I’m going to put some red wigglers in one.
LOL, I didn’t notice that...LOL. I have a stem in a flower pot, waiting for the roots to start. But I saw a really pretty rose next to a post office in a town nearby, so next time I’m over there, I’ll do the spud trick.
I like this barrel and trellis - I can see bean plants having a blast growing up, plus blackberries, and squash.
Having these containers that are easily moved, will allow me to move the plants into shade for a period of time to keep the boiling sun off them when it's the hottest.
I’m going to plant some snow peas in my fall and winter gardens also carrots and fennel.
It’s going to hit 105 here in Southern Oregon on Monday.
I want to set up an overhead sprinkler, get some evaporation going so my maters and peas don’t die. Does anyone know if it’s bad to overhead water when it’s 100 degrees?
Thanks!
Ed
We just got a nice little rain shower here in Central Missouri. And it was good timing as I’d finished up the garden work for today and turned on the whirly-bird sprinkler to water. Dug one row of potatoes. Got 10 gallons from a 30’ row, best yield I’ve had since I started this garden. Got the garlic all out and got most of the weeds pulled thanks to my buddy Nick and my nephew Stephen who came by this morning to help out.
My thornless blackberries are just starting to ripen and were going to need some sprinkler time in the next day or two and now thanks to Mother Nature I won’t have to do that. What a difference from last summer. I was watering the blackberries twice a week and they burned up anyway because of the heat.
I know so little about plants and temperature/sun. I know my beans are dead with their vines on the hot trellis and with the sun beating down, but what is the susceptibility of plants in sun and extreme heat? Do they all die or what? My tomato plants are dead. I did get tomatoes for a few weeks before they died.
I’m asking a serious question here - are all the plants going to die in extreme heat/sun? If not, what plants can live through it? What do we do to keep plants alive if they can be kept alive? I DON’T KNOW AND I NEED TO KNOW.
I seems to me if I sprayed water on the plants in the heat/sun, they would boil to death. Mine, however, are already dead.
You experts need to educate beginners like me. Help. :o)
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