Posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
Our Branywine and Cherokee Purple did well also this year. Someone on here last winter said they grew them and had success last year in Houston, that caused me to buy them this year as sprouts from Maas garden center south of Houston. I took cuttings from them a week ago and going to try some garage maters this year.
Thanks, I know where that is.
Thank you Marcella. I’ll be ordering them shortly. This is great.
Thanks for your phosphate discussion. I know I have a LOT to learn, and every little bit helps!
LOL! Your poor okra! Yes, you should indeed sweet talk them! They seem to respond to admiration. I had never seen the blossoms before and they are quite striking to a newby.
I had a lot of ants on our today which I neemed. We’ll see how they do tomorrow.
I got my Hi-Yield tri super phosphate at our Ace Hardware in the next town over.
I appreciate your pointers in how to use it. I intended to only scatter a little bit, but I got carried away. I guess it made me feel like a “gardener” to be messing with chemicals. LOL!
as to suckers, yes I do thin them out as the season progresses.....I read somewhere not to be too aggressive doing this because the leaves still help gather in mother sun’s energy....
Oooh, I am so excited, my pak choi, and toy choi seeds that I planted Saturday, and put under the grow light are “waking up”. One little pak choi, has two tiny little leaves.
The marigolds haven’t done anything yet. Bought some stuff at the lumber yard yesterday for my “will eventually be Texas Prepper’s Greenhouse”, and today my 6ml. clear plastic I ordered from Amazon should get here.
I worry that ginormous raccoon will tear the plastic on the greenhouse, once I put it t all together. I guess that means I have a few months to dispatch him before I need to put the plastic on it.
“The marigolds haven’t done anything yet...”
My Zinnias were the last seeds to sprout - maybe all flowers under the grow lamp will be like that?
That grow lamp on a stand was the best purchase I made. After squirrels/birds ate the seed I planted outside, I saw no reason to do the same thing again and expect a different outcome - the seeds or tiny plants from the seed were going to be eaten so a solution had to be found.
It was a triumph over the critters when the seeds were growing beautifully inside the house under the grow lamp - take that, critters!
I saved the boxes the parts of the grow lamp came in. After I was through with the lamp, I put the lamp that is now inside the part that holds it, in the box that held the part the bulb fits in. Tossed the rest of the boxes. Put the box with the holder and lamp in the laundry room.
I’m thinking where to put the green metal stand in the house. I don’t want it outside so spiders, etc., can build spider webs on it and mess up the cord that comes out of it, because this stand will be back in the house when it’s time for early spring seeds to sprout.
/johnny
/johnny
“I forsee squirrel stew in the near future.”
That reminds me - after these rains I’ve had, the peanut butter is gone from the inside of the squirrel catcher cage. It melted from the rain so there is nothing inside the age. I’ll have to set it again and will add whole peanuts as well as the peanut butter.
age = cage
I'm so glad you bought yours, or else I wouldn't have heard about the great results, and price..So, thanks for your reviews, and growing info.
Many is the time I started seeds inside in a summy window, but they never made it, so...woot, woot, January, I will be using it a lot. Just today, the toy choi, and pak choy are growing by the hour..
It was a triumph over the critters when the seeds were growing beautifully inside the house under the grow lamp - take that, critters!
This morning I saw that something dug up some of my 10-15 onions. I replanted them, but am going to have to trap and shoot..ugh, I'm not always in a killing mood, but it needs to be done.
The “T” Italian squash has to be 8 feet long now and has dropped so it's growing downward from the top since it ran out of plastic rods to hang onto to continue to heaven. No blossoms.
The little cherry tomato I bought (mainly to have the neat container), has that healthy looking one tomato on it that is already plenty large for a cherry tomato and today I see blossoms opening at other places. But, I did not grow this plant so will not take credit for the tomatoes that grow on there.
Still no flowers on tomatoes but I did move them more into the sun.
Pods are still growing on Sesame plant and there are new blossoms.
I'm thinking above survival food and the space I have in the garden/on the deck:
I can grow that “T” squash of that I'm certain because I have that big one and the baby one is growing fast. That squash can be eaten most of the year because it's spring and summer and fall squash. Plant a number of them
Surely, I can grow tomatoes, pick one that ripens early, one mid-summer and one for fall, and plant numerous ones of those types when they should be planted.
Walking onions don't die out. That's onions to have with squash and tomatoes.
Grow Deck Corn, staggered through the summer: That's corn, squash, onion, tomato. I have stored cornmeal and baking powder and baking soda and powdered eggs.
How about cornbread, corn, onion, tomato, and squash for survival food every year?
A dwarf fruit tree would provide fruit. Also Blackberries, hmm, right now I can't remember if those are perennial, I think they are.
Guess I need to throw in lettuce because I am growing that now from the seeds I sprouted under the grow lamp. I can grow lettuce.
Really, if I concentrated on the above groups, I could feed two or maybe three people if that was the only food available to eat. I would need to refine that list as to when to plant on a continuing basis to be sure I had some of each growing all the time.
I can't figure out how to have potatoes because I would have to buy seed potatoes and I couldn't in a survival situation. If I can get some of the sunflower tuber plants, those could provide “potatoes”.
/johnny
“You can save potatoes from the previous year, and cut them up so that each chunk has an eye and plant those. I never buy seed potatoes.”
Dear Master Johnny,
HOW DO YOU SAVE THE SEED POTATOES? ANSWER THAT AND I’M SET.
There isn't any special potato called a seed potato. All potatoes are potentially seed potatoes, if they have an eye.
/johnny
“There isn’t any special potato called a seed potato.”
I know that, but I don’t think potatoes can remain good (without rotting) between fall and spring. Are you keeping them alive during that time with just being in a cool, dry place? Since I don’t believe it, I will buy some potatoes next month and see if they last until time for planting them in spring.
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