Posted on 01/17/2014 5:49:09 AM PST by greeneyes
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This is still a single guy's house. Just a better organized singe guy's house.
I darn sure won't be working inside when the weather is better and I can be outside.
/johnny
I got a transplant from a nursery last year. I got two tomatoes out of it, but I think I planted it too late, so this year I started my seeds and will put them in the garden in a couple of weeks. Hubby and I both loved the flavor - deep and slightly smokey. Great on a burger. :-)
The link you sent said they are not real productive, but great flavor. Some of the commenters there said they had good production.
We're supposed to be up to 65F on Saturday. I guess I'll put them in the ground then, and see how they fare. Since they are freebies, I can only lose my time and effort.
/johnny
Yowsa, it’s 23 here, light snow, some ice pellets earlier, and predicted later. Supposed to drop to 21. I see they are closing the overpasses in San Antonio. Already had some wrecks.
Plus, we’ve had intermittent power outages here, but in San Antonio it’s worse. Last I heard almost 8000 homes without power because of winds and ice, and are expecting more outages.
We just aren’t used/prepared for this kind of stuff. Minnesotans must laugh at our inability to cope in such weather.
Trying to get organized? Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome, aka, CHAOS? I love this lady.
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It was 30* and light snow at 4:30, my wife said. She is going to work from home today. Suits me just fine because of the possibility of frozen bridges. It’s 55mi of Interstate and Payways with lots of high bridges and exit ramps to freeze. It only takes one to have a disaster.
I may have a plan now for grow arches. Lay two cattle panels out flat and tie the together with wire. Attach the boards to each end making the side pieces. Then stake one side to the ground and bow the unit into an arch and stake the second side.
I plan to grow from each side, tomatos on one side in the edge of the garden plot, the trombone squash and pickling cukes in large containers on the other in a grassy area next to the garden. I will build the containers myself out of shipping crates that I have access to. After the growing season, I could finish building a txprepper greenhouse from the arches and have a place for my peppers for the winter.
Just an idea. Plans/ideas often change; nothing is carved in stone around here. One problem that I face building anything here is there is no flat ground, everything is on a hill side, with the front being too steep for vehicles, or me.
Since the cattle panels can be slightly unwieldy..just because of their 16 foot length, I tied mine together after they were up.
Mine was an arch until after the first freeze when I decided I better get hopping.
On ther radar it looks snowy in your neck of the woods. San Antonio right now is a disaster with spun out vehicles, pile ups, and back ups where nobody is going anywhere. I'd say it was an epic fail on the part of TXDOT for SA. They knew this was coming.
/johnny
We got a little snow but it only stuck on the roof of the shed and small patches in other spots. The bridges are frozen around here and the next exit up from us. I dont know about Marcella’s area, 9mi south of here. I need to go to Lowes to return something and pick up something, so I aint going nowhere for a while. Maybe the sun will break though.
I just checked my wood deck..it’s covered with slick black ice. I screwed up my rotator cuff once trying to walk on it. Slipped, grabbed door handle, did a backwards slip, and yowsa mama on the rotator cuff as I didn’t let go of the door handle when I hit the deck...
On the news they just showed a car that got crushed between an HEB truck & another 18 wheeler. I’m staying indoors until about 3 o’clock.
I just have one jug of rainwater left. We need rain here, too, and none in sight.
It was 30 at about 9 am this morning. I won’t be going out and stepping on the upper wood deck because it is covered with frozen ice particles. Just before I went to bed about midnight, the forecast changed with it saying it would get to 18 last night with 70% chance of ice pellets and snow and it would continue today. I don’t see anything falling at this time. That ice is on the deck but I don’t see anything on the concrete outside my front door. The windshield of my car is covered with ice. So, this is not sticking yet on concrete unless it is clear ice and I can’t see it. I left the front metal door open (have a glass door in front of that one, so I still have a door when I open the metal one), to see if cars are going out and in here.
I don't know why Johnny would want a lady in the house. I mean, we are friends and I send him email so we can have conversation because we are both alone, so why isn't that enough? It surely is mystifying why he would want a lady there. :o)
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I find man logic mystifying, too. My gunsmith dropped off a big old heart filled with truffles..I figured it to be about 4600 calories..
Why is my gunsmith trying to make me fat?
Now, in other more important news, all my green bunching onions turned into brown sticks with the cold..Should I cut the tops off, and they’ll come back, or what?
My wife says “well, you had a good dog, but you wanted a woman too” and “Sometimes I think you love that dog more than me”
I tell her “That dog outlasted two women, then you come along and my dog dies”
She says “ I ain’t going anywhere, that dog knew it and gave up”
Your second problem:
“...all my green bunching onions turned into brown sticks with the cold.. Should I cut the tops off, and they’ll come back, or what?”
The owner of the website for Walking Onions, says on her website that the onions will die down in winter but come back in spring and she did not say to cut off the tops, so I'm thinking your onions shouldn't be cut off.
Maybe someone on the thread who lives up north could say what they do. I've pinged greeneyes as she lives where there is cold.
I didn't cover my Walking Onions as the net over them is up high so no way to get a blanket over them unless I unhook all that net which I didn't do. Since she said they would start back in spring, I left them on their own.
Hi from fellow Jerseyan. Do you have geographically specific suggestions for what I should be doing to get a garden started for this spring? Should I be doing something like started seedlings? I started my first darden last spring by buying plants at Home Depot. Wasn’t too bad, but a lot of trial and error and finally undone by groundhogs and deer
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