The rescued Easter Lily
I have done diddly squat on gardening this week, trying to get all in good order for upcoming medical procedure. Have to leave shortly for the lab for some additional stuff, so won't be able to do much responding.
I hope to be able to get on line at the hotel, but if not, I should be able to respond by Wed. or Thurs. next week. Prayers up for Johnny and Arrowhead. Have a great weekend y'all. God Bless.
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I was shocked, I live in a area where we cannot plant outdoors many things. We get snow 6 months out of the year. So last year I planted a chili pepper plan in my house. I noticed 3 day ago I have a chili pepper!!!!
I also have a oregano plant which is growing well. If I want to use some of it what do I do? Just take a leaf off and use it for cooking?
Beautiful up here to your north in Iowa, too.
Trying to finish my garden up for the year. I only have about half my potatoes dug. It’s a bumper crop, so it’s a lot of work. Especially since I’m still healing up from the arm I broke a few weeks back. Still trying to get my onions in too.
Tomatoes are starting to peter out, although we’re still getting some. Lots of peppers still growing, but we’ve had so many I’m not sure we want more. lol...
Still have a few watermelons out in the patch that have been slow ripening.
Still trying to finish putting up the mountain of apples we got this year before they all go soft.
Other than some sugar beets and carrots to dig late, that’s about it.
It was a very good season overall. Both freezers are full, and the canning jars are almost all full.
Best wishes for bountiful health in the bodies and in the gardens for all our FReeps. Nice sunny day in North TX-— can walk around midday with out getting the scorch. Tomatoes making a little rebound but smaller fruits. Got one small volunteer watermelon growing out of a 10 gal bucket. Vines everywhere but only one melon. In other small containers growing seedlings then harvesting them as sprouts for the green smoothies or salads.
Getting chilly here in west Michigan. I have potatoes to dig, yard long beans, carrots and second growth broccoli and some chard left, not much else. Hubby started chemo yesterday. 3 days a week, every 4 weeks for 6 months. The prognosis is fairly good. He has small lymphocytic lymphoma. It’s just me as far as support. Spiritually we’re both in a good place. Seeing God’s hand in all events. I was waiting yesterday for them to bring him across the street from the hospital were he had his port put in. He went straight from there to 6 hours of his chemo. So I was waiting for him for about an hour and a half, watching all the patients and caretakers come and go. Just as hubby came in a blind woman who had been waiting to be called back stood up and broke into a beautiful rendition of “Oh What a Beautiful Morning”, the chorus and 2 verses. She was just singing to us all, and her husband who was also blind. She had the most perfect voice. Tim just had the biggest smile. We all applauded.
This is a great youtube channel if you haven’t seen it yet:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iXA60vSVfHtl_csAjknww
It’s the Seed Savers Exchange channel. LOTS of really great and infomative videos there.
One in particular was highly useful for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wikhr33AEc&feature=youtu.be&t=4
Hand pollinating corn for seed saving (how to use the little baggie thingies for tassels and silks)
We’re still harvesting over 100 little cherry tomatoes each week and have been drying them into little poker chips in our dehydrator. I want to make “sun dried tomatoes in olive oil” and have looked at a few recipes.
One recipe included a worrisome note about food poisoning.
Anyone know about good techniques? Is this liking canning ?
Tnx !
This question could be answered by anyone with the right info-
It’s getting chilly here & the leaves are turning but slowly-it was a long hot summer unusual for my area of the country.
My lush (i will have to say that ) Montauk Daisies are slow blooming because we’ve either had rain or chilly days with little sun which means no bumblebees!-they seem to help in opening up the blossoms when the sun shines on these guys.
Ok, here’s my question- I have a indoor greenhouse called an “O-GROW” it’s empty now but would like to start filling it up with some geraniums.
I have have the geranium seeds and all the starter mix,etc... On the pkg it says “start in January” indoors.
Could I possibly start these NOW from seed or is there a growing pattern I need to respect with geraniums?
thanking you in advance!
The stuff that summered over is doing great. So far 4 fruits(?) on each of the eggplant and I counted at least 30 peppers on the single Poblano. Far more than I got in the spring.
We don't freeze often here in Central Tx. but we do freeze and I like to try and protect my citrus. Always had a heck of a time getting stuff covered before I figured out I could drive some rebar in the ground, slip PVC pipe over the rebar and bang, I had a perfect frame that I could easily adjust just by the length of the PVC. Come spring just pull up the rebar and put it away for next year.
This may be common knowledge but I felt very, very clever.
We’re having a great fall after a memorable summer. Carmel and Santa Cruz Ca had nothing on the Humboldt Bay region but we had cooler temps to enjoy being in the garden. Tomatoes are winding down after another great year but salad cukes continue to produce as I picked another 40 today.
Prayers to everyone !
Joining you in prayer for our beloved FReepers.
(((HUGS)))
Good luck and God bless on you med procedure.
I have a weed/wildflower question that I would like to float for all you plant lovers out there. I have found a seemingly common weed or wildflower growing wild locally (Central TX Austin area) that I am trying to identify- it seems to be in the daisy family, with very sparse foliage, small profuse 3/8 inch yellow flowers with 8 petals, and the plant is about 6 to 18 inches tall, growing on dry rocky ground on vacant lots and roadsides. It forms a vase shaped plant with about a six inch “trunk” and then splits. Almost no leaves, the ones that are there are about 1 to 1.5 inches long, and at most 1/8th inch wide. It also has a very small root ball, about 2-3 inches wide, and shallow. It’s woody main stem looks like it might be a perennial. Any clues to it’s identity will be appreciated. I have searched the internet in vain. The small flower is entirely yellow, no dark center.
The rescued Easter Lily
It was another dry week in Central Missouri.
I got a bit of work done on the pond, but the bearing on the outboard end of Nanner’s steering cylinder shelled out Thursday evening, so I’m down until replacement parts arrive.
Transplanted the salad greens that I had started in flats to the dirt in the cold frame and hauled water to all of the far-flung orchard trees on Saturday.
The fall greens are rocking. Mrs. Augie has already started picking on the kale. The late tomatoes are making more than we can eat. Amazing for the first week of October.
Went fishing yesterday. Brought home enough crappie to make supper tonight.
I’d have preferred to spend the weekend moving dirt, but it wasn’t bad.
