Posted on 11/22/2013 12:40:12 PM PST by greeneyes
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/johnny
That’s great! I am a native Missourian, but I did spend 1 year in Vermillion, S. Dakota. It was interesting experience, and a very long, cold, and snowy winter. Snow was built up on the sides of the roads taller than our trailer.
I walked out to the mailbox one morning and sank into the snow drift up to my shoulders. Couldn’t wait to get back to Missouri Weather. LOL
Which varieties of Tomato do you plant?
/johnny
Southwest Missouri where I grew up was “Reagan Territory” and my town was protestant with plenty of Baptist’s, so big fan’s weren’t around there either. But the idea of killing the President was not something that we thought would happen in our civilized age.
It was not about the man at all. Turns out he had more feet of clay than we realized at the time. It was that it could still happen in America. And never forget-That day handed LBJ the presidency and ushered in the Great Society.
Well, I didn’t really want to innundate the thread. Sorry. Yes, it sounds like you need to bring in those peppers before it gets even colder.
It’s been raining here in Phoenix since last night so my garden is wet, soggy and muddy. No pictures today. Rain is in the forecast until Sunday. At least the rain didn’t wash away or beat down the turnips and bok choy that were just coming up.
No overnight freezes here yet - those usually don’t come until mid-December to January for us.
Just waiting for the rain to stop and things to dry off!
I DO have a couple of pepper plants I started from seed indoors that I’ll be experimenting with. I’m growing ancho and a Korean pepper plant under lights indoors. Right now the ancho is about 3 inches tall and the Korean pepper just sprouted. We’ll see what they do and if they actually bear fruit off season.
Meanwhile I’ve been browsing eBay for seeds.
I think we would be better off, if we had smaller schools and children could learn at their own pace, and read, read, read if they got their work finished early.LOL
We sometimes have winters like that. Really cold and several snows before Thanksgiving. Prefer the warmer weather. LOL
Methinks video games and hanging out are cooler these days, than reading. OH well.
Here’s chokecherry jelly on your donut! lol
I just check my rain gauge and had 1 3/4ins of rain. I was at Lowes by 8:30 then on to HEB. Temp dropped 21* in three hours from 71 at 5-5:30 to 50 at 8, when the winds kicked in. It was a miserable, cold, wet trip into town. Was not raining at home when I left, drove through rain almost all the way, then none at Lowes or HEB. But now I have the hardware for my current project in the shop, also a $5 gallon of paint, and we will have baked taters for supper with really fresh wheat rolls from the bakery. It was worth the trip.
One of my wife’s Christmas presents came today, now I will wrap the first present before even putting up the fake tree.
Puppy is growing, working on house training, now she has discovered her barker. I tell her if she barks at everyone, she will have no friends. :)
I was going to take Prissy to the groomer today and have to get her there by 9 but I left a message to them about 7:45 that I wasn't taking her there. Next Monday has 80% chance of rain so my message was I would take her Tuesday. Now, that forecast may change by then.
I think I will use my Lantana flower plant in its pot for a Christmas tree or I'll use the Hummingbird plant as it is in a pot. Just put it on the coffee table and have instant tree - won't have to get out fake tree. I won't even do that if the sister-in-law and husband don't come.
I am starting a new bed with about 20 curb-picked big paper leaf bags from the next town over. Reading the seed catalogs already, and have a couple of Amy Goldman’s books out from the library, one about heirloom tomatoes and the other about melons.
What catalogs do you all recommend, for good seeds cheap? I like Pinetree, and sampleseeds dot com, and cherrygal seeds, and I think I’ll splurge a little on Baker Creek. I thought food gardening was supposed to save money but I always want to try new varieties, even when I save seeds from varieties I like!
I save all my nursery pots. When were getting blueberry plants and blackberry plants etc I collected quite a few and continue to use them. I do like the straight pots, because they can be set closer together.
However, I also have a bunch of those round self watering containers that I use on the patio, because they have the water resevoir in the bottom.
My indoor herb plants I plant in 6” pots with the resevoir too.
It’s a blistering hot 15 degrees and snowing outside. sposed to cool down to 3-5 degrees tonight... no a.c. needed lately!
I have grown peppers from seed as well as transplants from the garden. They both do well off season indoors. They are in front of a glass patio door facing south west, and have grow lights for dreary days and extending the daylight.
I keep the grow lights on after dark to extend the daylight hours to mimic summer time. They bloom pretty well, and are self fertile. I do plant them in smaller pots than I would if they were outside. The fruits tend to be a little smaller is all, but the perfect size when making a stir fry for two.
Well, I daresay my grandkids would agree. However, since video is conveniently available, reading works well for them at school as an incentive to finish the work and not dwadle.LOL
I have had sample seeds from wintersown.org that were quite reasonable. That is neither a recommendation, nor an endorsement. They do have an interesting site, and some how to articles.
I now save most of my seeds, but set a budget and order some new varieties from Baker Creek Seeds(Missouri Business Headquarters close to my home town LOL). I also like to order a few things from Bountiful Gardens. They almost always have something interesting to consider, as well as some very interesting books to read.
Neither is cheap. I have had some good deals from Burgess, but they are a pain to deal with, if you have to contact them for replacements or to straighten out an order.
No A/C indeed. What sort of heat do you rely on?
Us southern gardeners won’t be much help. It’s hovering around freezing today and won’t be improving any time soon. We’re in a winter storm watch. Roads were closed yesterday because of more flooding. It’s either drought or flood here.
I diced up all the peppers yesterday. Froze some and saved some out to make jelly but am being too lazy today to make it. Saved the seeds but am still curious what one is since it wasn’t anything like the picture on the package.
Added some grocery store Anasasi beans to the seed collection.
I should have done that too. However, I was knee deep in moving furniture necessitated by Hubby finishing putting the bookcase together, and ready to bolt it to the wall.
So I had to clear out the space, since the original space I was going to use was deemed by him to be unsuitable, and would require building a whole new wall.
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