Posted on 09/13/2013 1:04:36 PM PDT by greeneyes
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If ya dont have any luck with the PB, use their favorite; sunflower seeds, we'll give you some fer bait.
Didja plant all the Zennias seeds? My wife is the zennia guru, talk to her about them.
Well, baby comes first!
Now that’s some great looking produce! Thanks for sharing the pics.
You might try taking it off in the daytime while you are up to keep an eye on the bushy tailed rodents. Then, cover it back up at dusk?
I have a small hand grinder that grinds to a fine mesh. It’s more of a backup for when the electric goes out for several days, which does happen on occasion. I think I paid about 50 or 60 bucks.
Most stuff a course grind is good enough for me.
Wow
Just so delicious, wonderful, pretty.
Jealous I am.
If I get 4 cherry tomatoes a week I am thrilled;)
I grew the Zinnia seeds under the grow lamp. Think I transplanted two in each of two grow bags so I have plenty of extra seeds. They are “Benary’s Giant Zinnia Mix”. Envelope says, “A mix of purple, coral and orange fully double 4-5” blooms on long, thick, and exceptionally sturdy stems. High yield of cut flowers and a long vase life.”
These are heirloom plants.
“I attempted to go to bed with my wife earlier, but can not stand the pain just yet.”
Yeah, wives cause lots of pain. :o)
I’ll be glad when you can sleep in bed instead of the chair. I don’t know how you do that.
I hope I can bring you a “dang killer” squirrel soon.
“You might try taking it off in the daytime while you are up to keep an eye on the bushy tailed rodents. Then, cover it back up at dusk?”
I wouldn’t see the squirrel if he was in that area in the daytime. I’d have to go out there to see that area. He could have that planter torn up in between times I looked. Will have to get netting over them somehow tomorrow. Neither he nor his friends are going to eat my walking onions.
Guess I didn’t phrase that too good, huh? I made it all night in the bed last night, but was dead tired and drowsy when I when in there, and in big pain when we got up at 4:45am. Its gittin better, tho.
Thank you for posting the pics of your beautiful tomatoes. I thought I had a good crop, but seeing yours, I feel like a miserable failure :)
Re: squirrels, Have you seen those motion dietector barking dogs at Walgreen’s..would one of those, or maybe ten of them scare the squirrels away?
Probably not. I know around my house some of the squirrels chatter, and gripe at me, but then, my cats usually have the final word with chatty squirrels.
Had a scare last night when the temp dropped to 34 degrees around 4 AM, but it bounced back before anything got hurt at sun up. Had no idea it would get that cold. No freeze/frost warnings from media or the govt weather station!
All the signs are pointing to a hard Winter up here in N. MN... Trees starting to turn, seeing V patterns of geese and ducks already! Guess Farmer's Almanac is saying the same thing...
Marcella, don't have anymore hints on your "killer" problem... Our cat keeps our redoubt killer/critter free! An option?
Now the bad news. I have HORNWORMS!!!!! In my entire life as a gardener, I have never had hornworms in my tomatoes! And, because of my work schedule, I have less than 5 minutes of daylight in the evenings in which to do most of my gardening, so there isn't a whole lot of time to go hunting for them. I did decapitate 2 of them so far, but there's evidence of a lot more to go.
Tomorrow's schedule involves hornworm hunting, laying plastic out on my land, and starting a batch of 2-Day Spaghetti Sauce, not necessarily in that order.
Umm, the potato fruits may be poisonous, but you aren’t eating the fruits.
Potato seeds can be cleaned and grown in much the same way as tomato seeds. This is where new potato varieties come from.
I’ve got some delicious peppers out there that I have been waiting to turn red, hope the plants survive!
She sows them direct in the ground in springtime, with 1/4” soil over them, water well for a few days.
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