Posted on 03/28/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Spring was from 11am to 1pm yesterday. It's now early summer.
/johnny
You have an unfair advantage...
Could be. I would trim off leaves from the bottom, and bury more of the stem if it was me.
However, when the first small blossoms appeared, I thought it would be better to snip them instead of bottom leaves. I'm not sure blossoms are a good idea in our little greenhouse. Snipping seems to have stimulated more flowers.
Transition from inside to out is at hand !
rightly, we just went through thunderstorm warnings with possible tornado winds and hail. I got wind and rain but not bad. It’s now over toward Kingwood, then Liberty county.
I saw a colored section of east Texas today from top of east Texas to below Houston that is possible tornado country today, tomorrow and don’t remember if it was still us on Sunday. This is tornado season now.
Well, blankety, blank, blank..I read ..depending on the garden sites at which I looked to be sure to soak them from one to three days before planting..
Finished my chainsawing on the right side of the yard. Tomorrow I will do the left side..then I will wonder what to do with all the danged piles of brush, and wood..
The radar is showing the bad storms at you and already rushing through Lousianna. That’s fast. At least it’s not hammering down in one place though.
The first of March was the beginning of tornado and hail season.
I have two small chainsaws. The 025 Stihl with a fresh chain nailed all four. I bought the saw in Minnesota in 1995 or so. I also have a 35 year old Pulan that starts and goes every time I need it for backup.
Some things just work.
Could not sleep in the bed again tonight. Another night in the recliner. Gracie loves it. She brings her baby doll to play every couple of hours.
My recliner is a La-Z-Boy. The one I had before was a non-descript name and it had a blank space between the chair and the foot when laid back. This La-Z-Boy is solid from the top through the foot. It lies down nearly flat like a bed. I can turn from side to side in it. I have slept in it and it is comfortable but certainly not like my bed.
I would have to be able to turn from side to side, staying flat on my back won’t do it.
Beat me to it. This is the truth. Nearly 90 (or maybe it was) today. Local tv websites were all DramaDrama about some allegedly severe weather expected this AM. I laid a sheet of polyflute over my green babies & didn’t get back outside till after lunch. By then it was HOT. I mass murdered nearly a whole grow bag of carrots, the big turnips & a couple of spinach. For nothing.
Dogs aren’t happy about this heat. :-( We lost our failed foster Tuesday morning. She was very old & senile for several years, but really loved her food & hopped out the door like a young pup. She’s only missed 1 meal in the 7 years we had her & she went on the next morning.
I am sorry for your losses. Especially the doggy. Our dog is 9 or 10 I can’t recall exactly. She had a bad spell this winter. I think she ate something that made her sick, and it took several weeks before she returned to normal.
She seems ok now. Very peppy to go outside and chase the critters.
We have a herd of 7 deer that visit every couple of nights. Gardening is going to be problematic once it gets warm enough to get some plants growing.
This morning started off with some excitement - had a live trap near the garden baited with peanut butter/sunflower seeds to catch a renegade squirrel. Forgot to shut the door for overnight & caught a skunk. Actually got him/her released without getting sprayed - used a drum liner over the trap, dressed in another drum liner just in case, and using a heavy duty bungee plus a stick, got the door open. The skunk took a few seconds to come out, then bolted across the field. I figured one of these days I’d end up with a skunk in the trap and wondered what I’d do - now I know. :-)
Glad you were able to avoid the skunk spray. Hubby was trying to catch something that was eating his grapes a couple of weeks back.
Next morning the trap was broken. We think it was a big coon. Later, we caught a smaller one and hauled him off, but we think big ole coon is still around. He had lots of protection last year to defeat big ole coon, but some sort of fungus or disease ruined the crop instead.
I hope we get some grapes to eat one of these years.LOL
I'm sorry, but I know she had a good life with you, and she was loved, and cared for by you & your spouse.
Yeah, on the heat. I think I may have lost some lettuce seedlings, and Toy Choi when I forgot to open the vent yesterday on the greenhouse.. They were just tiny, but some seem to just have disappeared.
The Profusion Zinnia seedlings, which were in there, and like some of the seedlings, also had a dome over them to hold in moisture didn't seem to miss a beat.
I caught one once, and didn't go right out to off it..I could hear it chrping, and chattering. Darned thing called the other raccoons to come, and they opened the trap, and got their Mommy out.
Last time I caught one, I went right out to dispatch it, and it's friend was out there. It backed off maybe 20 feet, but the dang thing was growling at me, and acting like ti was going to charge me. I fired a round into the ground, and it hightailed it.
I'm pretty sure those raccoons are stronger than I am.
Urine from human males around the perimeter of the garden deters deer..Urine from females has the opposite effect...at least with Texas White Tail Deer, that's how it works.
The resistant grapevine was purchased as a cluster of grapes at the grocer. )I have the habit of sticking any old seed in the ground to see what I'll get)
This is kind of strange since I have a couple wild grape vines growing on my property that appear to be unaffected by Pierces Disease.
I hear that East Texas got rain.........
I am soooo envious.
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