THE FREAKING SQUIRREL WAS IN MY WALKING ONIONS!
Two green shoots were broken over but still okay. I chased him off, then brought in the squirrel cage that had no peanut butter left it in due to rain washing it away. Put gobs of peanut butter and stuck peanuts into the peanut butter and put the trap next to the onions. I hope he hangs himself to death somehow if he gets in there.
I hung out on the Freepathon thread waiting and waiting for news about Jim Robinson and other news about a friend and all that waiting got me ready to kill something and this squirrel today was the last straw. Plus I'm out of Bailey's Irish Crème - got no booze in this house.
The Lantana (is that the name of that flower I got at Lowes? Rightly, what did I get?) has new blooms, the Sesame flower has more new flowers and the pods are growing but not very fast at all.
The “T” Italian squash is approaching 9 feet, no flowers. I had to rescue Mr. Stevia as a tendril of the squash plant was too near him and it wrapped itself one time around a limb of Mr. Stevia. Managed to unwarp the one tendril and rolled (thanks to Rightly for the roll around) it away from Mr. Stevia. That plant is so tall and with half of it hanging down now, if I had to push it because there is no way to lift it without hurting the limbs, I would be in trouble. Rightly’s rolling platform for it saves that plant.
I think I screwed up with the tomatoes by not planting half of the plant under the soil. I may get no tomatoes from those plants but that's okay because I will have great tomatoes next spring since I screwed these up. The cherry tomato I bought has that one fine tomato and now has more blooms.
All the strawberry plants are growing and fine. The baby “T” squash continues to grow. Lettuce, and cucumber and Little Finger Carrot, and Brussels Sprouts, and Giant Zinnia are growing, and those Turnip plants are growing but I think I don't have enough potting soil in there for a root veggie. Bush beans have more flowers.
I have some seeds in I ordered for spring:
Golden Baby Belle Sweet Pepper
Sweet Banana Pepper
Pepperoncini Greek Hot Pepper
Fooled You Pepper (Jalapeno without the heat)
Cantaloupe Vine Peach
I'll order a red sweet pepper plant in spring that is for container growing.
Will definitely get Deck Corn seed when that can be shipped - I'm on their list to notify me.
I will get a Dwarf Fruit Tree of some kind from that south Texas nursery. They start shipping in November.
Will order Ouachita Blackberry 2 yr. plants when they start shipping.
When we harvested our winter squash on Wednesday, I tape measured one runner: that stem was 29’ long, was not the only stem on that plant; and it also had several long side stems! Also, a lot of the stem nodes had sent down secondary roots to both anchor it, and to help keep it hydrated.
I suspect Mr. T will do the same, given an opportunity. Keep up the great work, and the fun to read posts!
Please read my post 25. I forgot to put your name at the top.
You’ve got lots of good plans there.