Posted on 05/09/2020 7:08:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Thanks for posting that!
Gobs of great and very timely information!
You betcha. Glad you like it.
I was going to do this back in 2010. Had several tires in the garage, and thought it would free up some space in the garage and make the most of a small area for planting.
Hubby nixed it-said the tires were too good. Here we are-10 years later and those tires have never been used again. They were studded for use in winter, and I don’t think we even have the vehicle anymore. I retired a few years earlier and no longer drove to St. Louis for work-hence no need for studded snow tires.
nice memories...
It’s been cool here in Central Missouri over the past week. Cool enough there was a bit of frost in some of the low-lying areas a couple nights ago. I moved my tomato plants into the potting shed for that.
Planted two varieties of cucumber seed on Friday, and tossed some dill seed on the ground in a corner of the garden. I usually have plenty of volunteer dill, but it invariably comes up in a place that I want to plant something else and winds up getting plowed under.
We pulled the cannas and elephant ears out of storage and have been sticking roots in the ground all over the place. I put ten or a dozen cannas on the pond dam. I want to put some iris out there too, but I need to wait until they’ve finished blooming to move them.
The new rhubarb looks good a week after being shoved into the dirt. I’ve not had good luck getting potted rhubarb to survive, so this time I used some rooting hormone. It’s still too soon to know for sure if it’s going to go, but it looks good so far.
Mrs. Augie and I were supposed to be on the beach in sunny Florida right now, but the covid panic wrecked that, so we’re having a nice stay-cation here instead. We’ve taken the boat out on the Missouri River a couple times, and caught a nice mess of bluegills out of a neighbor’s farm pond. Might go boating again today. Waiting to see if it’s going to warm up enough for it to be comfortable on the water...
New record low set this morning: 33 degrees (previous was 36). Fairly substantial frost on the ground. Tonight should be a low of 48, colder Monday night at 41, higher 40’s Tuesday night, nice temps of 52 Wed night, then low 60’s the rest of the week. Finally, we might see some garden-friendly temps.
Plastic will come off the beds later this morning & we’ll see what things look like. The only thing I truly care about is my tithonia/sunflower bed. Radishes - meh. I’m replanting tomatoes, so if my one remaining, sickly looking plant doesn’t make it, I won’t be grieving.
those bags of bark they sell....you know the "red" back that is supposed to be so attractive...
are the colorings in the bark bad for your garden generally?....I'm trying to be more organic as I go along....
Anyone have any thoughts on the concept of cooking pie pumpkins and eating them like squash, rather than making pies out of them?
Iron Oxide is what is used to dye the mulches different colors. It’s not toxic to people or plants.
That said, I usually buy mulch without any dyes. Dyed mulch is more expensive and they don’t contribute anything to the soil as they break down anyway, so why pay for it, other than it matches your house color or something.
My favorite mulch to use is Cypress because I can easily lift it and lug it around and it covers well. :)
And then, of course, you have those screaming that I’m destroying the Everglades if I use Cypress, but these are the same people that are anti-peat because they think we’re destroying the peat bogs in Canada. *SHRUG*
Believe me, I’ve heard EVERY complaint about EVERY product I had to sell from one side of the fence or the other. *ROLLEYES*
You know what? Do what you want. It’s a free country, LOL! Don’t like using peat? Don’t buy it! Don’t like colored mulch or using Cypress? Don’t use it! Want to recycle? Fine! Do it! Think recycling is a scam? Then don’t bother! Don’t want to compost because you’re afraid you’ll attract vermin? Don’t compost, then! But don’t complain about MY compost pile! ;)
All said with a huge SMILE, of course! :)
P.S. And the pros and cons of whether to use wood chip mulch for Vegetable gardens brings some people to fisticuffs, LOL!
The only difference would be the spices you use for flavoring.
Pie pumpkin flesh with butter, salt and pepper tastes like Butternut squash to me. *SHRUG*
I find pie pumpkins easier to process, but with a smaller seed cavity there are less pumpkin seeds to roast. :(
Two of my faves are, ‘Winter Luxury’ and ‘Rouge Vif D’Etampes’ (Cinderella Pumpkin) if you have the room. I think both are heirloom varieties.
Let’s ask The Pumpkin Queen, shall we? Ellendra? :)
So beautiful! :)
That last package has four fillets and all of the 'fish cheeks' which are like yummy bits of lobster. It was during the spawn so they were allowed two fish per man per day.
We’ve all made that mistake. Even in the greenhouse, my Peppers haven’t been all that happy. These next two nights I’m covering things even in the greenhouse just to be sure.
Don’t want my ‘babies’ to be the least little bit inconvenienced, LOL!
Year before last, before I had the greenhouse, I moved everything to our dining room table every night for a week!
I replied on the other thread, but I’ll post it here too, in case anyone needs to see it.
Pumpkins are, technically, a type of squash. Each variety tends to have a different flavor, but they can be substituted for each other. Your recipe might need to be adjusted for the varying levels of sweetness.
If you kept walking toward the horizon of that picture you would come into a busier area where the hotels, a beach and the restaurants are. That is the beach that is a closest walk to our house and where we parked this morning for our walk.
Another view of that same beach, but seen as if we were heading back to the house. When we are actually at the house all of that is blocked by the green hill, something we prefer. As you can tell by the people on the beach this was taken before the lockdown. Now everything is deserted except for walkers like us. Notice the trees at the edge of the beach? That is where the promenade is.
What a slice of Heaven! Keep the pictures coming! :)
We’ve got a few crossed threads here this weekend! :)
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