NO it’s always the food safety excuse around here. Well, I know who I would trust to can food, and who I wouldn’t, and I don’t need some government dude or dudette telling me buyer beware.
I can beware all on my own.
I think I go one step forward and two backward.
1. Anti-squirrel pellets: If it rains, one has to put them down again - well, it's been raining almost every day, so they aren't down. However, I can't put them down until I get the white wire 14” tall fence down across front of dirt garden because Prissy, the Yorkie (any pet), can't be where the pellets are.
2. Bought the wire fence ($9 for 20 feet): Tried to stick the fence in the ground between rain showers, thunderstorms. I even have metal clips about 3-4 inches long to put in the ground to help keep the fence thin wire in the ground. Nothing would hold in the ground due to it was so wet, almost like mush. So, the wire fence is out there but not up. I have 50-40% chance of rain for the next few days and I just heard thunder. All that is put on hold until I get several dry days. Oh, there was thunder so loud, Prissy jumped.
I bought that fence this past Monday or Tuesday. Got that at Lowes and Walmart is there, too, so went in there. I was about to buy some frozen food and leave when I looked outside. The rain was so strong/thick, I couldn't see a car parked out there. I waited for a time until I could see the cars, then got frozen food and checked out. It was still sprinkling and I got the stuff in the car and was so wet I got cold when I started the car and air conditioning came on.
By the time I backed out the car, it was pouring again. I only live about two miles from there and I waited at home until the rain let up before I got out.
Tomatoes: I have these tiny tomato plants in the large tomato container with Miracle Grow Mix, but I don't know if I can grow a tomato plant to adulthood. I bought tomato plants already to plant earlier and those are through. I saw plants at Lowes, tomatoes ready to plant, basil plants, lots of other plants, and didn't buy them because I must grow them on my own from seed. So far, I'm SOL. Crap.
I have three little Sunflower plants also in grow bags that I grew from seed, but can I grow an adult plant? I know they should be planted in spring, but I wanted to see how they did planting now since we have a long grow season.
I did some research on Sunflowers and you can't mix up the different types. If you have black oil seed ones, they have to stay away from the striped eating seed ones. They will cross “breed” (it's that sex thing again) and the next year the seeds will be different than the ones you first planted. I couldn't find out for sure if the perennial ones that grow the editable tubers would cross “breed”, but I wouldn't take the chance to put them near the other hybrids. And, remember, those tuber ones will overtake the garden so they must be by themselves separate from the main garden.
WAYS TO GET SUNFLOWER SEEDS OUT OF HULL:
1. I put a cup of seeds in a gallon bag and spread them out so none were on top of others. I used the heavy marble rolling pin and it was a bust - it didn't work to crack the seeds. Now, these seeds were roasted and salted in the shell, so Johnny, would that roasting have made the hulls hard to get off? I'm thinking it might. The raw bird seed ones were on the other side of Walmart and I didn't go there.
2. There is another method to get the hulls off and that is to put the seeds in a baking pan, then put another baking pan on top, and walk on it. I haven't done that but the hulls are so stuck on these seeds I can't see it working.
I feel I am stuck in place with not much working in my favor - major depression, but while at Walmart I got a frozen daiquiri in a bag to freeze and try so maybe that will help my severe depression. :o) Which leads me to:
NOW, FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECT: FASHION IN THE GARDEN
I am most troubled about this. :o) What do you wear to work in your garden? I know Johnny prefers to be nude to do anything, but he must have something on to work in his garden - what is it? What do you all wear? What shoes do you wear? Do your plants respond to your fashion choices?
I recently bought a new fashion item to wear in the garden when it gets cooler. In honor of Zimmerman, I bought a navy blue HOODIE. Never had one in my life but they are cheap to put on to work in a cool/cold garden. I have a pair of heavy duty plastic garden shoes to slip on when I go out there. I wear jeans or light weight sweat pants every day in or out of the house. I have several shirts that are one size too big for me and I wear those everyday in the house/garden. If I have to go somewhere in town, I put on a shirt that fits.
What is your garden attire? :o)