Yes they are Stargazers.
Posted on 08/09/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Hi! It’s been raining a lot here too!
I had a couple of proto-yellow squashes die on me. :-( I was looking at a bottle of blossom rot stuff, and it described the condition as the proto-veg starts browning at the blossom end. Well, of course I have to be different! Mine were browning at the stem end and progressing toward the blossom. Don’t have a clue what to do. Actually, I guess at this point, I don’t care, unless someone just happens to know. I’m just keeping the plant alive with its beautiful blooms and enjoying the fact of it.
Better news: I’ve been harvesting the okra! Wow! It’s going great guns! Couldn’t be more tickled! Cucumbers are doing well too!
One of the mammoth sunflowers is over 9 feet tall. Amazing, and one of them is starting to open up. :-D
My very first ever carrots have sprouted! My 2nd batch of snow peas seem extremely happy. The 2nd round of scallop squash has sprouted and the acorn squash seeds from 2009 have sprouted. Have transferred the squash seedlings to their pots.
Some of our roses are blooming and just gorgeous! Darlin decided we needed to have a crimson red crepe myrtle, so we obtained one of them today and are pondering now where to locate it!
Amaranth is still alive and looks healthy, except for the holes in most of the leaves put there presumably by grasshoppers. I have been neeming it, but the rain keeps washing it off.
The garden beans and the black turtle beans are coming into their own and I’ve actually harvested a handful of green beans from each and were they ever yummy in my soup with the okra and one of the tomatoes!
The fava bean plant is still green and growing, but not sure if it is going to make another push.
I got up the courage to fertilize - but this time not the phosphate! I used the Miracle grow food, and we’ll see if that helps.
I have a lone tomato developing which is the first one from a plant I grew from seed. It is about the size of a cherry tomato, and I don’t know if it IS a cherry tomato or something else. There at the end of May, I was throwing tomato seed into pots willy-nilly and I have idea what landed where! The plant seems a little big for a cherry tomato plant, so we’ll see! I did sprout a little cherry tomato seed a few days ago, but it looks like someone chewed on it.
I’ve been wanting to get a stand of chamomile started, and have had a hard time getting any of my seeds to sprout. Finally I have 2 tiny little seedlings sprouted! Hope some others come up too!
I sacrificed my two parsley plants from Lowes to the Swallowtail babies. They’ve gotten nice and fat, and then disappeared. I have no idea if they got eaten, or if they managed to crawl off somewhere to do their thing. I haven’t discovered any cocoons anywhere. I even bought some parsley from the grocery store when it looked like the live plants were just about stripped. That seemed to buy time, because yesterday I saw the plants start putting out some more leaves. I never was able to sprout my parsley seeds and grow a parsley plant this past spring. Oh well.
I do have news on the rooting experiment. I think I last reported that the romaine stumps were doing well, and then didn’t make it. So I can start them, but don’t know/understand yet how to make them happy enough to stay alive.
I tried the root hormone experiment again with celery. This time I left a little more length on the stump. I was excited to find that not only did I get roots, but a little celery sprout started pushing its way up from the center! Darlin’ finally strongly encouraged me to take the experiment outside and plant it! So we’ll see if I’m able to keep this one alive. Any tips on celery from anyone?
Hope all is well with all of you!
blessings
texokie
-I live in town, for goodness sakes, where are the possums coming from?- Possums are city dwellers, also. I saw a well fed coyote near the fire station on 336N.
Thank you for catching us up! Mr. Sg put seeds and seed-growing mixture into teeny forms, and it seems to have limited the size and life of the winter squash, thyme, and a few other things. I wish I knew what we’re doing lol!
I find dill to be very delicate and not very adaptable to the hot tropical climate of South Florida.
However, Basil, Chives, Rosemary, and sage are thriving on my little balcony, and find their way into my cooking at least twice a day!
“You are using a different weather website than I do”
I get weather forecasts sent to me by email from one of the Houston TV stations - get them throughout the day. They are fairly accurate, as accurate as one could be.
Well, I for one don’t work in the heat. I stay indoors. We don’t have heat as bad as you do I guess, but I can not take the heat nor can I take the sun.
Did I mention my 20 minute exposure that led to swollen arms, legs, and fever when I was 20 years old? I love the sunshine from my windows.LOL
If I am awake early like at sunrise or so, I run out and do what needs done most for 5 or 10 minutes. Same goes for just before sunset, about 15 minutes tops. I do sometimes turn on the patio light, and do stuff to the raised beds that are around the patio.
I have placed other beds so that they are naturally shaded from the sun on the hottest parts of the day by trees. The beds not so placed, have pvc pipe or some other method of placing a sun shade over them to help them survive.
They won’t do much in the way of setting fruit etc. but they will survive till cooler weather, and then you can get a good harvest in the fall. I plant mostly indeterminate tomatoes and stuff, so I don’t have to replant for a fall crop as much as possible.
In late fall I plant a bunch of stuff that will survive the winter, so that I don’t have as much early spring planting when the weather is cold, rainy, and miserable.
Buy some plant dollies from Walmart or have your son build some the size you need so that you don’t have to be dragging heavy stuff around. I bought a wooden one from Walmart, and hubby made some using it as a guide, out of one by twos and some wheels he screwed on them.
I grow tomatoes in 1 or 2 gallon pots all the time, just so that I can manage them without hurting myself, and get them moved without asking hubby to help me.
You will give it some thought and find a great solution with out a doubt.
Now that is some great looking garlic! Do you braid them for storage?
Some...others get pickled.
Pickled alone or with peppers?
Those four are the ones that I have had best luck with too. Also managed to grow some tarragon.
Yes they are Stargazers.
We don’t, just vinegar and garlic and water-bathed.
Tarragon is wonderful! I had some of that too.
Good to hear about all your experiments. Something is eating the Amaranth that I was growing for grain. Don’t know what. It’s almost microscopic, not aphids, looks kinda like a little worm less than a 16th of an inch long. Kinda dark gray.
It’s not on the leaf amaranth yet as it has lots of peanut plants in between, so it’s kinda like a “catch” plant. I’ll be planning on something different to do with amaranth next year. Long gloomy winter days are great for research.
LOL. I don’t think that there would be any peaches on the ground here either too many squirrels.
Daughters subdivision has almost no trees, and no nut trees or bushes close around either, so her problems are not the same as ours in many ways.LOL
oky dokey then.
Those are gorgeous.
She’s got good taste!
What is the size of the planters that you have that need to roll outside or back inside? I have some leftover lumber and casters that I could make a couple of platform dollies for moving heavy container plants around. I would be happy to do that for you.
Well, fancy that. Go figure. If I had a garden like hubby, I would use that weed fabric too, but my little gardens have stuff so close together I get almost no weeds, and the texture is such that you can just pull them out by the roots easy peasey.
Good Luck.
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