I have a plethora of happenings to report:
First, DO YOU HAVE A RAIN GAUGE? WHAT KIND?
I had a very small glass one that was hard to see, plus the inside got dirty and I couldn’t get it clean. I dumped it. Today, I got one with great big numbers on it. It is sponsored by The Weather Channel (for whatever difference that makes). It has a plastic chip in it with “Weather Channel” on the chip and it floats when it rains and one uses that to determine how much rain has fallen. This thing is easy to see and put it on a small table in the middle of the deck. I can see the numbers when looking out my glass doors. I might have to step out on the roofed deck to see where that floating chip is.
Anyway, I decided it is good to know how much rain has fallen. LIKE YESTERDAY - I had a real storm yesterday. Rightly, I don’t know if this hit your place. The rain came down in torrents (didn’t have the rain gauge until a short time ago today) and the wind was so strong it broke short green limbs off the two oak trees behind my back fence and they are all over the garden.
It bent my one Tromboncino Squash in the barrel but it is straightening up and now has a fourth leaf.
Next: Just went to Walmart and picked up my 4 ft. grow lamp with stand. I don’t like going there but having this heavy stand/grow lamp sent to Walmart to pick up saved shipping charges.
The store is full of parents and kids getting ready for school. All kids should be put in prison until they are old enough to be drafted into military service - and we need to bring back the draft. :o)
The box is heavy and at least five feet long. I’m hoping the grow lamp isn’t broken. Right now, the box is on a couch that is shorter than the box - I haven’t tackled it yet. I don’t know where it is going to end up - somehow, it’s going in this room.
I will start putting seeds in paper cups tomorrow - oh, yes, bought two more bags of organic seed starter - and by golly, these seeds had better germinate and come up. Will plant another couple of Tromboncino Squash seeds in case the one I planted dies. The other four still haven’t come up.
Johnny’s weather right now is hotter than mine. Had a short rain shower here a while ago before I got the rain gauge out there. By the way, I didn’t want to spend lots of money on a fancy digital rain gauge.
I have used Jiffy seed starting soil from Lowes, for three years and been satisfied with the germination rates. After 3 -5 days, I feed(the seedlings, not me) with diluted fish emulsion after every few waterings.
Holycow! I bet that was your post before I got to the signature line lol! You actually planted the trombocinos this season? I thought you’d wait until next year. Power to the FReeper gardeners!
Hubby has a rain gauge. I may have seen it years ago. I have no idea what kind or anything. He tells me what it says from time to time.
I just leave a 5 gallon bucket outside, and use it to estimate small shower vs medium vs gully washer.LOL
It just occurred to me, did anyone warn you that that squash is a rambler? It can be trained to climb, but it really prefers to send vines out all over the place. When they get long it might be harder to move your barrel.