Posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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What are the pink flowers in the last photo?
No. Never even heard of it. I like lots of asian type foods though.
LOL. I missed it on first read. I’m sure they are first cousins. LOL
Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination: Lecture with video
enjoy...
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THAT VIDEO.
It just wouldn’t post for me and I’ve never had a problem about that. It really is lovely.
New gardens sometimes take a while to get all the good bacteria etc. that they need. What sort of soil mix did you use?
Also see my post #50, it is specific to tomatoes, but kinda applies to other stuff to.
In general, if you are having good lucious growth, and just no flowers, then the issue is often a lack of phosphorus. Adding bone meal, or a fertilizer with phosphorus at least double the nitrogen could also be good.
I’ve heard of it, but I thought it was made with cabbage. What do I know? Not much apparently.
And that’s what I thought but I don’t like Kimchee that much anyway.
Limelight Hydrangea...they start out bright white.
IIRC, you are in the SA,, maybe NW SA area? What types of tomatoes did you plant? Tycoon and solar fire do pretty good here. The tycoons are bigger, but the solar fires are more prolific.
Tomatoes around here have a hard time setting fruit when it never gets out of the 90's at night. Now that the nights are cooler, I bet you will set more fruit. My fall garden in Central TX always does better than Spring.
We go from two weeks of Spring Like weather to hot summer for three months.
38 minutes to go, then I can hit the sheets. Last of the people corn is in the pressure canner. We had it all cleaned & cut off the cobs; the packing water was hot, and the canner was bubbling, when I went downstairs to get the jars. Uh-oh! WE WERE OUT. Turned everything off, and put the corn in the fridge.
Hard freeze tonight, so picked all that couldn’t withstand it this morning, before leaving for the day. Since we had to retrieve a repaired water tank in Rapid City, we also got more jars; and since my corn cutter broke, got a new one of those, too.
When we got home, we spent just over 2 hours shelling the speckled butterbeans from this morning; they filled an extra large sized plastic sack. I had no idea 25 or 30 bushes could produce so many! That is in addition to the fully matured ones I was picking nearly every day for the last 2 weeks.
By the end of next week, we’ll probably have everything out, except maybe the potatoes & Brussels sprouts.
While in Rapid, I also bought a couple of hundred pounds of chicken & rabbit feed; I went to town Wednesday, and got the nasty surprise that our feed store had gone out of business. Next closest is an extra 15 miles each way. Due to local politics, and old family resentments, the city zoning inspector (an A-H by any measure) had been giving them grief at every turn, ever since they opened.
As soon as the corn is finished, it gets turned off, and can sit inside the canner until morning; and I can ge to bed.
I am exhausted just reading about all you did. Sorry about the feed store. We still have ours, but we don’t have many businesses in our small town.
The only entertainment is the bowling alley, some bars, and an old drive in that will likely close due to new Federal regulations.
We lost both the ford and chevy/chrysler dealers in Obama’s takeover of the auto bailout. Our county is either number 1 or 2 in unemployment.
Lots of stuff we have to go to the next town for now.
Got turnip, lettuce seeds into the ground. I also have several types of onions and some garlic planted. Broccoli and cauliflower seedlings and some banana peppers as well.
I planted a few cucumber seeds and hope they make it before the first freeze. I did the same a few years ago and we had fresh cukes up until Christmas.
You are such a doer and planter and harvest so much and then can it. It’s amazing what you can do.
Neat.
“Tycoon and solar fire do pretty good here. The tycoons are bigger, but the solar fires are more prolific.”
Now, wait, you throw out the names of those tomatoes and I’ve never heard of them and you are in Kerrville so a tomato that grows well there, is likely to grow well here. Remember, I haven’t done this before and don’t know the names of many tomatoes.
Explain those two tomatoes, either one cherry? Estimate size for me, do you buy the plants or grow them from seed? How long from planting to fruit?
Mr. Stevia is still doing well.
The TX heat does a job on my tomatoes. I never get any until the fall. Well, any but the yellow plums which aren’t the greatest but better than nothing. Even those can freak out. The neighbor cut down a tree that had barely shaded two (my best two) but they immediately gave up the ghost. The garden is pretty shady but the ones getting the most shade near the house have done the best. Yes, normally tomatoes want the sun but hoo-wee not so much here in the summer.
After planting okra 3 times, I was getting excited that they were starting to put on. Ha, not so fast. Major slap down. The deer got them AGAIN. They got the corn, too. All I’ve done this summer is provide them with a gourmet buffet. There are too many houses now days here so the deer can’t provide me with a buffet. It’s a fight with them just to get out to the main road.
There’s another creature at the buffet. A GINORMOUS racoon. Feet as big as a toddler’s and is washing them in the cat’s water bowl. Every day, it’s ok what is missing from the garden this morning.
With the cooler temps 80/90s and a couple days of rain this week, another pepper is finally putting on. Can’t remember which variety it is because I went throught the same multiple replantings with them too so by the end I was shoving whatever seedlings I had left into the ground. What’s weird is it looks like a, um, peter pepper but I didn’t buy any of those seeds so who knows. Must be like that stink weed thing that grew from my lettuce seeds. Mother Nature sure has been having fun with this year’s garden.
What kind of pear is that, and is it a mini tree? Your garden is very pretty.
LOL.
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