Posted on 05/31/2019 6:16:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Our 'Greeneyes' has been FOUND, but she is STILL having computer issues, so I have been asked to keep the Weekly Garden Thread rolling until she returns.
That said, I will be posting once a week, and I will TRY to stick to her schedule of a Friday Night/Saturday Morning Weekly Post, but it depends upon what is going on here at MY farm. (It's Spring; it's BUSY!)
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You are right!
I haven’t heard any proggie filth utter the words “Grand Solar Minimum”.
It’s been going on forever and they can’t blame it on people.
That would be perfect!
No space at all here.
I love nasturtiums. I have them all over my yard. Sometimes I have to pull them out to make room for veggies though.
What are the poles with bottles for?
He who does nothing makes no mistakes.
They are not poles, but hollow PCV pipe (from a broken soccer net a neighborhood kid gave me) which is pushed into the (wet) ground, into which water goes in order to get it closer to the roots, rather than evaporating on the top soil. The bottles fit (and hot glued) into the pipe so as to hold more water.
And since it cost the landlord over $400.00 a month for water, in the back of the garden are 64 gal trash barrels filled with rain from the roof (via a tarp system since the center drain that flat roofs usually have does not work or something, and there is no gutter). The barrels are covered with mosquito netting.
And I have a cheap 12v DC, 110GPH pump, powered by a 12v computer power supply, which pump I plan to connect to a long length of some old hose, plugged at the end but with different size holes in the holes which will be routed to the plants, and so the water can pumped to the plants. A work in progress.
Thank God for what we can do, and for rain. It took Noah 120 years to get the Ark done, but this project is nothing like that size (plus the city will not let us even have a cow)!
Other faves are 'Peach Melba' and 'Mahogany.'
This kind FReeper alphabetized our Gardening Ping List for us so it will be easier to add/subtract names going forward.
Thank you SO MUCH, Albion Wilde!
I should have put my bottles on pipes too so I wouldn’t have to bend over.
I love those things. They come back and come back and they’re hard to kill.
Perfect for a brown thumb like me.
;)
Not in Wisconsin! In my entire Gardening History (40+ years!) I’ve only had ONE self-seed...and that was last year!
But, it is what it is, and I will gladly buy seed and grow them every year just to have them. :)
Oh my gosh?
Really?
I’m in the SF Bay Area and mine drop seeds all over the place. I dig starts out of the lawn and cart them over to my mom, plant them everywhere and I harvest the seeds too.
I can’t remember the last time I had to buy seeds.
Usually the winter will finish them off and they grow back but a couple of our winters recently didn’t have hard frost so they actually made it through winter too.
I am just plagued with slugs so I have those all over to pull them away from the other areas and I don’t water the areas in between.
I used to try so hard to grow grass out back but we have some kind of yellow sorrel clover looking thing that chokes out the grass and it’s impossible to get rid of.
Sometimes I have to cut it back because it takes over.
I read somewhere that they thrive in crappy soil without fertilizer so they really are perfect for me.
Cali:
Burying them probably does work. I think I would rather bring them in to a dark garage or storage area.
Here are some other methods of preparing for winter on a site with very pricey figs!
https://frenchfigfarm.com/new-gallery-2
(You can also see a way to protect your figs against birds and squirrels in this link. Use tape on the end of the fig to keep ants out! Buy the types that do not need wasps to pollinate!)
https://frenchfigfarm.com/care-of-your-fig-tree
Growing in pots: (This guy has all types of Fig videos!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9lgn8sEh0
This guy in Seattle also has all sorts of videos on figs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Km4Kxp9-PY
1) good fruit for old guys to grow...can get fruit in a year or two while you are still alive!
2) If you have to move to a different house you can take your trees with you!
Good luck!
Good gardening, everyone!
Welcome. And you have a lot of good quotes on your home page. But what a "garden" the USA has become!
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/grand-solar-minimum/
Is a grand solar minimum something we should be worried about?
Is another little ice age approaching?
(I’m fearing food shortages over this)
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