My wife has a large out door pot with Hens and Little Chicks.
If they were in the ground I would have covered them with leaves for the winter.
In the pot I have no idea how to keep their roots from freezing. The pot is far to large to bring inside.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Good Morning, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Pale green gift paper. Green burlap wired ribbon.
Paper doilies at edges. Joyeux Noel gift tag. (Merry Christmas in French).
This will probably be our prettiest post, yet! :)
Thanks for the ping. We’ve had lots of snow here-no school all week. Brought most of plants indoors. Still have some chives and turmeric in the greenhouse.
Good news arrived in a Christmas card-my niece has moved out of California and back to Missouri.
As usual for winter, I have been canning meat specials. This week was beef arm roast. I also found some short ribs and made a great big batch of beef and bone broth in the crock pot.
When the beef was falling off the bone done, I chopped it up and froze some and had beef stew and beef casserole with the rest. Then I returned the bones to the crock pot to make the bone broth. It makes a good warm drink for lunch-sometimes I add a spoonful of cream to the cup.
Hope everyone is doing well. God Bless.
Still getting tomatoes from.the greehouse and we have not had a hard frost...at least not one that has killed my outdoor salad greens herbs or beets and green onions
I wish everyone on the Garden Thread a very Blessed Christmas/Holiday season and a very Blessed 2020.
Good morning to you. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to the group.
Merry Christmas to all, and happy Solar Minimum Gardening next year!
'Lost crops' could have fed as many as maize
Make some room in the garden, you storied three sisters: the winter squash, climbing beans and the vegetable we know as corn. Grown together, newly examined "lost crops" could have produced enough seed to feed as many indigenous people as traditionally grown maize, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
But there are no written or oral histories to describe them. The domesticated forms of the lost crops are thought to be extinct.
Writing in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Natalie Muellert, assistant professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, describes how she painstakingly grew and calculated yield estimates for two annual plants that were cultivated in eastern North America for thousands of years—and then abandoned.
Growing goosefoot (Chenopodium, sp.) and erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum) together is more productive than growing either one alone, Mueller discovered. Planted in tandem, along with the other known lost crops, they could have fed thousands.
Archaeologists found the first evidence of the lost crops in rock shelters in Kentucky and Arkansas in the 1930s. Seed caches and dried leaves were their only clues. Over the past 25 years, pioneering research by Gayle Fritz, professor emerita of archaeology at Washington University, helped to establish the fact that a previously unknown crop complex had supported local societies for millennia before maize—a.k.a. corn—was adopted as a staple crop.