[Diana in Wisconsin]

Pinging The List!

Sorry I'm a little late, today! Puppy Training Camp 101 is taking up a lot of my time these days.

[left that other site]

Oooo...Puppy Training Camp!

Sounds like fun! :-)

[SkyDancer]

>here<

[tubebender]

Two Pingy Dingy. I’m going to a car show today but I will be here this evening

[trisham]

We have two corn plants growing next to our irises. From feeding the birds. :)

[MomwithHope]

Checking in - yes that was a good thread last week. I let some green onions go long, the bulbs were as big as a small onion in the store. Chopped them and froze them, man they were pungent and I had to fight back the tears. Normally we only buy sweet onions or vidalias at the store and eat green onions when young and fresh picked. This “baby bell” squash (Bonnie I think) is a bust so far. Listed as compact but the plant is mighty big and I’ve gotten one squash - potato sized. Not as big as the picture. Everything else doing good, starting to get some ripe tomatoes. Chinese long bean all flowering. Still picking green beans, swiss chard, dill and cilantro, and peppers. Lettuce all done. I may let one red and one white romaine go to seed. I can’t help myself. Although here in west Michigan buying plants is the way to go. Happy gardening this next week.

[ArtDodger]

” Puppy Training Camp 101”
So, did you get a passing grade? :]

[Silentgypsy]

Puppy lessons are soooooo worth it!

[metmom]

Another great summer for tomatoes.

My garlic is tall and ripening, so should be harvesting that soon.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The Chili Pepper is the state vegetable of New Mexico and the Chili Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University is one of the world's leading sites for researching and breeding Chili peppers. In 2006 one of their associates introduced the world to the Bhut Jolokia, at the time the hottest pepper in the world, ushering in the era of the superhot pepper. But they also work on things of more relevance to the state's farmers.

They did a survey and found that people would be willing to pay more money for colored peppers. With this in mind they developed the Jalapeno Orange Spice, the Jalapeno Lemon Spice and the Jalapeno Pumpkin Spice. This is my fist season growing them and I'm very happy with the results. My wife loves to scoop out the seeds, fill them with cheese, wrap bacon around them and pop them on the grill. Yum!

[Osage Orange]

Thanks for the bing.... I still have tomatoes coming in...and my peppers are doing great..!! Carrots and onions were hard for me to grow this year....

My young asparagus crowns are doing very good...

I've liked Bonsai for years...and have some plants. All outdoor plants...

Tried "air-layering" this year...have not cracked them open yet...maybe in a couple weeks. I did a Hibiscus x two...a Plum...and a Burning Bush.

Want to do a Crepe Myrtle, and a Sugar Maple......I think I could still get away with doing it now...The Myrtle will be the better candidate.

Anyway...thanks for the ping..!!

Good gardens to you all....

[Ellendra]

My squash, melons, and cucumbers are starting to catch up. A lot of them have blossoms already! I was really glad to see the watermelons are doing well. The melon I took the seeds from wasn’t quite entirely ripe, but I took a chance.

I can’t tell for sure if my eggplants even sprouted yet. There’s a weed that looks exactly like them at this stage. I either have a good crop of eggplants, or a good crop of black nightshade. Have to wait until they bloom to be sure. The eggplants are one of my cash crops, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. It doesn’t help that all the other weeds got ahead of me and are taller than the plants! I’m hacking through them as carefully as I can, trying to catch up.

My corn and beans are way behind, but they’re both fast growers. We’ll see how they do.

The deer and rabbits are fat, though.

[Augie]

A week of hot, dry weather here in Central Missouri, followed up by some very nice rain last night and into this morning.

I got seriously ambitious over the weekend and got into the garden with the weed whacker. It still looks like caca, but at least it’s not a jungle now.

Put new rear tires on the Kubota zero-turn. Mrs. Augie picked up a puncture while mowing last week and that was the last straw for the OEM junk tires that came on it. Installed a set of made-in-America Carlisle chevron-treads. No more slip-n-slide in wet grass.

Finished the last section of walkway for the pond dock. Got everything lined up and mostly pinned down. Need two more sticks of steel pipe to finish that job.

Normally I’d post pics to go along with the story, but tinypic.com is shutting down soon and new uploads aren’t possible. I need to come up with a new image hosting site that’s not photobucket. They suck, and they bought tinypic, and now tinypic is kaput.