Posted on 03/07/2014 12:18:07 PM PST by greeneyes
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I ventured to Home Depot yesterday, and bought sharpies, and plant tags.
Today, I went out and watered the open garden..It was so cold and windy, but figured the wind was sucking the moisture out of everything. Checked the greenhouse, and forgot to look at the temp in there. I sure hope Wunderground is right, and it only gets to 38 tonight, and not 32 like the SA weather stations are reporting.
Today is the last day for Free Shipping on alll seeds from Park Seed. Also, a bunch of their seeds are 60% off. Not like I need any more seeds, but Free Shipping is so enticing.
Thanks, sockmonkey.
It’s 52 and a bit windy, headed down to 35 tonight, but that’s not bad. I may bring in the young plants we have outside sunning on a table awaiting planting. We will probably plant Sat.
http://ruhlman.com/2010/03/corned-beef-how-to-cure-your-own/
Of course, that goes with out saying. Have done it.
I wasn’t too thrilled with my neurologist either, but I at least got the MRI done, still waiting for results.
rightly, that wind blew in last night and took the row cover off some of my plants - I put that on every night so squirrels can't easily get to plants. It is 54.6 in the garden now.
The engineer called cause he is coming for another school so will get here Sunday unless his company changes its mind and sends him somewhere else. The thing is, he is going to help me move containers around so he was talking about that. I told him I had bought more quilts to keep plants from freezing. One never knows what is going to set the engineer off to make a project.
He told me about his father, an inventor, making his own swimming pool and the way he used parachute material to put a top over the swimming pool. Engineer said a top like that, using his father's system of doing that, could be put over the entire garden due to having the brick walls around the garden and that would make the entire garden have a greenhouse effect and nothing would be subject to freeze.
Nothing is safe around the engineer if he gets an idea to build something. He is never here but a few days at a time and is gone all day to these schools, so he doesn't have the time to transform much around my house so I think the garden is safe from transformation. I do hope he comes so he can help me get the containers arranged. There are so many out there, I can use the help.
I have more blossoms happening on the strawberry plants, but not all of them yet, so I hope more plants will blossom.
Lol, show him that mobile garden cart, and ask him how he would do one "on the cheap"....then you can tell me.
I went out to check the 34 onion bulbs I planted in fabric grow bags yesterday to see if watering them had caused the soil to shrink lower on the bulbs and since I planted them with the tops showing, I might need to punch them down just a bit. Can you say “Magic Onions”? They have already started putting up growth SINCE I PLANTED THEM YESTERDAY. They were just bulbs when planted with a bottom and top and now those tops have got growth as tall as 1/2 inch and one is 1 inch and every single one of them did that.
sockmonkey, I went to Park Seed and I’m going to get seed that was developed for containers. There is seed for baby cabbage and I was not going to deal with big cabbage due to my limited space, so I will get seed for baby cabbage suitable for container growing.
I especially want this small sweet pepper (looks like a chili pepper in many colors), as it’s good for canning whole and is good for containers. One customer comment said she cans these using a bread and butter pickle recipe. Here is info on this pepper (25 seeds is $1.00, can’t beat that and there is free shipping today and tomorrow):
http://parkseed.com/sweet-pickle-organic-pepper-seeds/p/05927-PK-P1/
Sweet Pickle Organic Pepper Seeds
Just 2 inches long and packed with sweet flavor, they’re super for salads, garnishes, and pickling!
The red, orange, yellow, and purple fruits look like Christmas tree lights!
The perfect pickling pepper, Sweet Pickle looks as good as it tastes with colorful “Christmas tree light” fruits of yellow, orange, red, and even purple! Now available as Certified Organic seed, this little pepper is so charming that you should plant an extra bush or two in containers just for the eye candy!
These peppers are about 2 inches long, tapering to a blunt end. Thick-walled and very sweet, they hold up beautifully on the plant, and keep their color, shape, and texture nicely when pickled. So appealing as they ripen into warm shades in the sunny garden!
Easy to grow and very heavy-yielding, Sweet Pickle plants reach 12 to 15 inches high and wide — perfect for containers or a low edging around the veggie garden! Or dot them among your sun-loving flowering annuals — they’ll keep some pests at bay, and they look terrific! Pkt is 25 seeds.
It’s chilly and windy today, but tomorrow is the average last freeze date for here. I’m ready for spring.
/johnny
Here’s what I would use if I wanted a mobile garden cart. It is metal, but light weight. I have two, one holds my welder, so it is stout. You would need to drill some drain holes, but if you can build a green house, you can handle it.
http://www.harborfreight.com/16-inch-x-30-inch-steel-service-cart-5107.html#.UyC1zIUtpw0
The store usually has these in stock.
Yes it is. Bought it last spring. Mrs. Augie decided that being snowed in with me for three days isn’t her cup of tea. LOL
I’m going to get most of what I paid for it back by not paying Dirt Guy to clean out the pond, and it is a superb back saver. I don’t know how we got along without one as long as we did.
Or this one for more $$$ but it is plastic.
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200443625_200443625
Like Harbor Freight, they have a store in San Antonio.
I like that one..It reminds me of one my gunsmith has, but his is stainless steel. I forget how much his cost..Thx for this as it's more in my price range, plus with Harbor Freight's perpetual 20% off coupons..I think I'll get one.
It’s 67 in my garden. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I started moving equipment from under the roofed deck into the storage room that engineer cleaned out a while ago. I say cleaned out but it was throwing away what wasn’t needed so there was plenty of stuff left in there. Anyway, I put large pieces of medical equipment that were in black bags in the storage room and finally got down to two items I can’t move, so the engineer will get that job.
That mess on that deck was driving me nuts. Now, engineer will have a fit that I didn’t wait for him but I had to made decisions about what to do with stuff and he couldn’t do that and now he just needs to move two things. One is a heavy duty aluminum ladder that is folded down into three pieces and that dude is heavy. Another is a heavy piece of equipment to load to move things but that is meant for a muscle man to use, not me.
Anyway, I had sworn an oath to myself that when it warmed up, I was attacking that stacked up stuff to give me room on that lower deck. When a hurricane comes through and power is out, that covered lower deck that is enclosed on three sides, is the “sitting room/dining room” and I could barely walk through it the way it was.
You know what - if you have a blank space you tend to fill it up and that’s what happened to that lower deck.
Johnny, I’ll clean out that long wood planter in the garden tomorrow and fill it with new potting soil mix and plant that long lettuce strip and squirrel/bird proof it. I also have more plants under the grow lamp to transplant into larger pots. Think I’ll wait until tomorrow to transplant those, too. Then, there are plants in the greenhouse that are ready to go in their permanent big pots.
My outside area is small, but there is enough work out there to keep someone busy every day. I don’t know how all of you with big gardens keep it together.
I have that red cart one. It is outside under the roofed deck with a portable grill on top of it and still has space on the top to sit food. I have two bottles of propane in the bottom section. That cart is strong and well made and I’m sure it came from Harbor Freight. You can’t go wrong with that one.
I didn’t think about that cart but rightly thinks of everything if it is TOOLS/MANLY stuff.
—rightly thinks of everything if it is TOOLS/MANLY stuff.—
Aint that why you girls keep us around? Making things, fixing stuff, and making your ideas come alive? :)
It comes unassembled. Both of mine are at least 20yo.
I have heard that some other stores like HD or Lowes will honor an HF coupon, but it is a store by store call.
I have a 10% off entire order coupon code for my favorite woodworking equipment company, and I have been carefully filling my cart for 2 months. I am fixing to pull the trigger on that coupon sometime today, or tonight, after careful review. That will negate the shipping charges, plus lower the pre-shipping tool cost.
On another post to Marcella on this thread, I said I wasn’t cheap, but maybe I am. :o)
“Aint that why you girls keep us around? Making things, fixing stuff, and making your ideas come alive? :)”
Yes, and tell your wonderful wife if you weren’t married to her, I’d kidnap you and lock you in your woodworking shop to crank out dollies for under my containers and anything else I could think of for you to build. I’d put a cot out there for you to sleep in and deliver your food. I’m sure “CHILD” PROTECTIVE SERVICES would bring me up on charges for keeping you jailed in there.
I keep looking for a husband that is like you and Johnny and the engineer and no one measures up. :o)
Room and board to do woodworking, huh? Hmm...
LOL
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