Yesterday, I was in Walker County which is the county to our north, about 25 miles away, and a thunderstorm poured rain and lightning, the whole ball of wax, for some time. I just looked at my rain gauge and there is a little over an inch in it. I don't know if it rained during the night, but it was raining this morning when I got up and still is although it is lighter rain. Just looked at weather channel and I have an 80% chance of rain today so the present lighter rain may stay here all day.
I went out in the light rain to look at plants. I would say the “T” squash is approaching 7 feet long. There are definitely 10 walking onions up. That is all that planter can hold when the onions start walking, in fact, it will be too small.
For spring, I need larger surface area containers, maybe like a square box. And, I need more of the 33” across barrels with the plastic tower to hold up vines, whether it is used for tomatoes or vining veggies.
I'm going to get Ouachita blackberry plants when they are ready for shipment and want a dwarf fruit tree of some type. The dwarf trees are ready for shipment from that south Texas dwarf nursery, in November.
And, I didn't know jack about plants last March but I know a lot more now. And, I could actually can something if I had something to can.
When I was growing up, we had fig trees and Mom canned fig preserves every year. We also had peaches and her canned spiced peaches were out of this world good.
I thought everyone had fresh veggies out of the garden at every meal, and always hot cornbread for lunch and dinner. I was so spoiled and didn't know it. When you grow up with something, you assume everyone is the same.
We got 1/2” of rain last night. I haven’t yet been outside to see what that big storm just dropped, but I bet it was an inch or two. Lightening hit so close I could hear the click before the pow!
Marcella—We got 1 3/4” rain in that storm a while ago. That give us 2 1/4” since yesterday, and over 13” for the month of Sept against an average of 4.46” for Sept.
All—Last weekend I pruned my biggest GhostPepper back quite a bit. I took the two largest prunings and stuck them in rooting hormone and then into a pot with fresh made potting mixture and today, the smallest of the two is showing life, the leaves have perked up and it is looking like it will make it. it had flowers on it and still does. The larger clipping is still not looking lively, but I am hopeful it will perk up. I still need to prune back some other branches on the big one, so it is good to know that cuttings from a Ghost Pepper will grow. The smaller plant that has been producing was transplanted at the same time, but it’s peppers have not continued to ripen, but it is growing new peppers, so I think they will ripen as that plant recovers from the re-potting trauma. It has so many peppers that I dont even try to count them.
I'm only growing the wheat in the area I opened up for my tobacco next year.
But yes, wheat grows in Texas. Texas grows quite a lot of it.
/johnny
Maybe you could put the pots with onions on top of the old garden area, and let them walk over the side and all over the old garden patch?
Marcella, where is that dwarf nursery? I’ve been looking for such a place. I’m thinking of setting up a small “in syrup
pots” orchard of dwarf fruit trees.
I know what you mean about growing up with everyone who had canned goods. Mom and her sisters spent days preserving meat, fish, berries and wild “asparagus”, fiddlehead ferns. Just about everything we had was canned, jarred, salted, smoked and dried. We kids kept out of sight and quiet. I have sisters who still do it.