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Posted on 01/18/2020 7:47:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
We have to work with what we’re given.
I’m great at growing things, but if I truly had to provide all of my own food, it would be a challenge! :)
Ain’t it the truth?
If I had to rely on me, I’d be a lot thinner than I am now!
I think I feed more deer than people.
“overwatering”...the leading cause of drowning for houseplants! LOL.
Too much lovin’ can be a dangerous thing! (I feel a song coming on!)
Are those ‘Walking Onions’? Is this some new planting technique?
I need to grow Leeks this season...and Brussels Sprouts - though I’m the only one that likes them. :)
I had a customer who had some mental issues. She had a ‘handler’ that would bring her in to my Garden Center with every houseplant that she owned, just DRIPPING wet at all times.
We couldn’t get through to her that she did NOT have to water her plants every day. Or 10x a day! OMG! She’d call us, too.
It was incredibly ridiculous. I mean, I felt for her because she had some sort of memory issues or head injury but how much TIME could I spend on a troubled person who never bought anything from my store, and always left MAD because I couldn’t save her plants and couldn’t remember what we told her from day to day?
Not good P.R. at all. :(
On the bright side - it’s no longer my problem! Yay! :)
Oh My.
“My Holly bushes in front are doing well and loaded with reddish berries. A nice sight in the winter.- Tom”
When we moved to East Tennessee, we inherited numerous holly bushes growing wild in the forest. I love those things! Had no idea they even grew here.
I tried transplanting some babies, but none of them made it. I might Try again.
“Raccoon hunting ends come February; that’s when they’re having their babies - which makes no sense to me, but trust me - we will NEVER run out of raccoon...or rabbits!”
It doesn’t make sense that hunting season ends when they’re having babies or having them in February?
“I think I feed more deer than people.”
LOL, I think we are feeding all of nature at times. First year the deer got into the garden. 2nd year the crows. Last year, Believe It or Not, coyotes! They loved the corn. We saw them several times at dawn, taking down a corn stalk and dragging it into the forest. And they ate every single kernal. The forest was littered with empty corn stalks. I’m glad we got to try a few, they were right it was delicious. Very sweet.
The arugala and kale are still growing, strangely. This might be their last weekend, since it is supposed to get in the low teens for two or three nights. I’ll throw some sheets over them, give them a chance if they decide to try to make it.
They are... shallots!
An absolutely wonderful veggie that I recently discovered!
I have about 5 Hollys out front.
One is in a life and death struggle with a bittersweet vine that is growing in the middle of it.
The Holly seems to be winning. It is about a third larger now than the other Hollys there and has many more berries.
Hollys seem to be alive and active year round, but the bittersweet vines shut down for the winter. I think that gives the Holly the edge for survival. -Tom
Lady Bender will have a hip joint repair soon and then perhaps a knee repair so we will have a very skinny garden this year. I will attempt to spade and plant a potato patch to preserve the seed stock for another year
Having babies in the dead of winter always seemed odd. I can’t think of any other mammal that does that, can you?
I mean, granted, the mama can feed them milk, but what other food is there out there in February - other than garbage cans, LOL!
And the females get pregnant, go into a light hibernation, then wake up with a liter of mewling brats to tend to!
Not a good plan, IMHO. ;)
Oh, sure. I see that now. Duh. Shallots ARE wonderful.
Oh, no! Give her our best!
I’ve had years without gardens. It’s not that awful.
Well... gotta say this somewhere!
Gave some ‘Beefsteak’ tomato plants to a neighbor a cfew years ago.
She gets ‘true’ volounteers every year.
And I get some of the crop: just terrific!
Lot of Beefsteaks are labelled without regard to fact IMO.
So share with your neighbors everyone.
You don’t even have to tend a crop to get results LOL!
(Seriously, I do get some of the volounteers and plant them. So great to be able to rely on a variety.)
Got a couple holly sapling=sized trees in the back.
But I want to ask if a certain type of bird cleans off your berries in the late spring?
A neighbor has a big holly tree and it’s regularly and suddenly cleaned of berries- but I can never see it happen.
3 grand for raspberries? Wow!
How much quantity was that?
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