WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 16 APRIL 18, 2014

Free Republic | 4/18/2014 | greeneyes

[Marcella]

After my second eye was done, I looked on the net and there was a video of a doctor doing cataract surgery. I clicked on that and when I saw the doc take a knife and stick it in the eye, I clicked it off. No way could I watch that. As an EMT, I’ve seen lots of blood and worked on people in car wrecks and home accidents, but putting a knife in an eye, grossed me out.

[rightly_dividing]

My fav woodworking site has 2 sister sites, one being a garden site. It’s exactly like the woodworking site, except for subject matter. It has project pages of user posts, various forums and other cool features. It has 16k+ gardeners/members. Their 3rd site is home improvements site. The WW site has about 7k pages of just projects, 12 per page, which I have looked at all. I have over 300 favorites!

http://gardentenders.com/

[rightly_dividing]

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In my younger years, my best bud was an EMT. He was on the crew that picked up a guy that had his head run over by a city bus. It popped like a zit, so he said. Yuck!

I did warn ya’ll!

[greeneyes]

Interesting site. Thanks.

[Marcella]

Words having been read cannot be unread.

[rightly_dividing]

LOL

[rightly_dividing]

Your welcome.

Their ww site has 88k+ members. That’s pretty big.

Some things are double posted, like greenhouses, plant stands and raised beds, to both sites.

[rightly_dividing]

Peppers, banana and hot peppers. Please disrequard the wreckage in the background, I am demolishing some old display cabinets for the oak and maple wood in them.

Free range Legend mater. I have the container plus soil to give each free range mater twice the space, but that is still short of what they need. When I first had the idea of a raised free range mater container, I was thinking of 4ft x4ft or 4ft x 6ft wooden boxes made from pallet lumber, about 30" to 36" from the ground.What I want to know mostly is whether I can grow maters without stakes at a confortable working heigth.

Free range Boxcar Willie mater

The ground level garden maters, various varieties, 2 on rt hand row are potato leafed maters. variety I don't remember. The tag is by them but I can't read them from 6ft away.

Everything except the free range maters have flowers or tiny fruit(peppers ARE fruit, ain't they?)

[greeneyes]

Nice pictures. Thanks for posting.

[rightly_dividing]

Yea, fresh ones, still warm.

[Marcella]

I don’t have signs of a sweet or hot pepper growing yet. Peas are gradually adding more peas and there are small green blackberries that I hope grow, but all plants have a long way to go. Don’t know how big this deck corn gets before it decides to grow an ear of corn.

The two foot tall cucumber plant with blossoms is the plant I see that will be next to start growing something. I would faint if I saw a blossom on a tomato plant.

[rightly_dividing]

It’s still early for blossoms, yet. Just be patient, they will come soon.

[rightly_dividing]

Thanks. I guess I should get out to the back 40 and get pictures on my wifes 100’s of zennias about 3” or 4” tall

[greeneyes]

Yep, maybe get them on the thread for tomorrow. I had 1 picture left on my camera, so I took a picture of Mr. Tomato through the patio door.

Somethime this summer, I am going to have daughter post some pictures. It takes some nagging, and she’s a procrastinator, so I ain’t holding my breath.

[rightly_dividing]

I am hoping to get in the shop tomorrow and sling some sheetrock mud on the dings and bruises on one wall in the shop and try to get it primed and painted this weekend. I buy mis-tinted paints from Lowes and have enough $5 gallons to do the shop. I want a nice looking place to play. On another wall, at a later time, I am going to have a desk w/wifi and laptop, along with my many auto and wood magazines, and a music/preaching sound system. I have a lifetime of various memorabilia to go on the walls and some antiques that I picked up traveling around the country. Little by little it is coming together.

I hope you have a great weekend planned, too.

[greeneyes]

Watering. A good rule of thumb is 1 to 2 inches of water per week. It takes approximately 60 gallons of water for 100 sq. feet to equal 1 inch.

My gardens are divided into 3’x4’ sections. So it's easy to know about what is needed. Then I just watch them, and add more as needed. If they look a little thirsty, I stick my finger into the soil (finger is 3 inches long). If the soil is not moist, it's time for a little more water.

[greeneyes]

We are having a nice little rain here. Started about 30 minutes ago. Are ya’ll getting any of this precipitation?

[rightly_dividing]

I test my soil for moister just like using the toothpick in checking baking. If if comes out clean, add water, if it has soil clinging to the finger, it is okay. YMMV

[Eric in the Ozarks]

At about 3 pm, we had a big blow. One inch of rain in 15 minutes. All is OK now.

We went to dinner with neighbors and watched the rain come and go from the lower windows at Michael’s Restaurant on the Lake of the Ozarks.

A big table had been set for some high school administrators. They ran out of prime rib...

[greeneyes]

Sounds like a nice dinner for you guys. Love to watch the rain.