The feral tobacco plant has put out flowers. I wish the other plants would hurry up and put on some growth.
/johnny
Posted on 05/23/2014 12:40:08 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Great to see you!
Have you grown San Marzanos before? They were all the rage on the Food Network.
Awesome!
We have two tiny tomatoes and one teeny eggplant.
/johnny
/johnny
Radar showed red/yellow/green spots over the house but nothing came down. Agreed, the garden and yard had sprinklers going today.
Lots of vacationers are out on the water.
The 6”+ rain that we got 7-10 days ago is gone. The hill is a dune again.
We do have some degree of rain chance starting Mon and lasting a week. At least that’s what it says tonight, subject to change of course.
/johnny
The feral tobacco plant has put out flowers. I wish the other plants would hurry up and put on some growth.
/johnny
I have not grown them before. Any advice?
Oh, they are darling!
Marcella’s off on a two-day jaunt with a mysterious gentleman!
Believe it or not, but that picture was on a gardening thread on FaceBook!
A cherry tree in zone 8-9! I’m impressed. I always thought they needed cooler weather.
I tell ya', after years of monotonous blue skies and drought, people here have gone crazy when it rains. A large truck was speeding and skidded off of the highway, so the police decided to turn everyone driving to S.A. around. I had to take a 30+ mile detour to get to the city. Of course, others there were driving like maniacs in the sudden showers and causing more accidents.
You'd think it had snowed around here......
/johnny
Great, informative post!
Getting palpitations looking at your garden.
My corn was growing! Some of it was almost 2 inches tall already! Given how goofy our weather has been, that's amazing. I think I'm the only one in that valley whose corn is up already, but then the variety I planted is more tolerant of cold and damp than most. Well, that and I didn't have to wait until the ground dried out enough to drive a tractor on.
On the other hand, my tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons are being slow. Of all the tomato seeds I planted only 2 plants have come up, and there isn't a single sprout in the cucumber/melon patch, unless you count the weeds.
The legume patch is a mixed bag. My peas are growing well, my chickpeas are tentative but still there, and my nunas have yet to show their faces. I just recently got the potatoes planted, so they haven't had a chance to show yet. I put off planting the potatoes because when I pulled the mulch away there were sprouts of something all over the place. It was where I had planted runner beans last year, so I got all excited thinking they'd survived and would come back. (Runner beans are a perennial if protected from frost.) But, a few days after they were free from the mulch, those sprouts opened up and revealed themselves to be violet leaves. As weeds go, at least violets are useful, but they're getting to be tenacious here. Violets are even crowding out the grass in the lawn now.
If anyone is looking for cool gadgets, try shopgoodwill.com. I've seen things like spinning wheels, weaving looms, treadle sewing machines, and grain mills listed there. This week I picked up a new/used meat grinder that I'm hoping will make pickle relish easier to make. If it doesn't, I'll see how it does with meats. Prices are getting higher, and after seeing the ginormous deer that hang out on my land, I'm thinking of getting more serious about my hunting next fall.
Do you harvest your own tobacco seed?
I think one plant can produce eight million seeds.
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