Posted on 06/13/2020 5:50:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Did you hear about the carrot that got run over by a car?
He’s going to live...but he’ll be a vegetable for the rest of his life!
Ba-Dump-Dump-TISH! :)
You win...
As previously mentioned, jackmanii is virtually impossible to kill. Shortly after we moved into our new house (12yrs ago), Mrs. Augie rescued a particularly sorry specimen from one of the box stores in town.
Then, in the ultimate act of kindness, she took this wretched plant and stuck it in the clay, in the bottom of the road ditch, next to our mailbox post.
It didn’t do much of anything for three or four years. I suspected that it had croaked, but it was just laying low while regaining strength.
Then one year it made it halfway up the mailbox post and put on a couple of sorry little blossoms. Then a little more the next year, and a little more the next, and so on.
We finally tacked some chicken wire to the post so it would have something to hang on to. Mrs. Augie hacks it down to the stump after it dies back in the fall, and it climbs to the top of the wire and beyond in the spring and blooms like crazy.
Thank you so much for all that information; so many different methods to try, sure will beat harvesting mottled tomatoes . . . not a pretty sight and definitely not something you want to sink your teeth into . . . Smile!
What’s worse than finding a worm in your tomato?
Finding HALF a worm in your tomato! (Chomp!) ;)
Where will I find Dahlia bulbs to buy this late in the season?
I’ve still seen some hanging on for dear life at Walmart and local Garden Centers may still have some tubers or have some potted?
I checked Jung’s and they are all out of stock. :(
I just literally found this a half hour ago and here you all are talking about ants. Diana you could have made a craft project out of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
I have nevber heard of “Marvel of Four Seasons” lettuce. Where can I get it?
I’ve used seaweed before in my garden. I highly recommend it. Washed it first to remove any little critters on the stalks. It eventually becomes excellent mulch and it is edible as well.
LOL! A Thing of Beauty!
Know why I will ALWAYS live WELL above the Mason/Dixon line?
Bugs. That is all. :)
It’s snakes for me. too many down south. Michigan not so many and pretty harmless.
Okie dokie ... I want marigolds in the garden. Bright spots of color, fairly easy to grow ... I WANT marigolds!!
After saving up seeds from previous years’ blooms, I planted a lot ... only 3 plants were the result. The seeds were ‘old’ and I noticed a little mold/mildew on some of them so I’m sure that was the problem.”Pro” tip .... save seed heads in paper lunch bags (which I did last year with great success). While I try to get the seed heads picked when dry, sometimes they aren’t 100% because if I wait until that happens, the goldfinches & other birds leave me with nothing to save!
So off to the store(s) I went, looking for fresh seeds - 2 of the 3 I went to had ZERO seeds. I know it’s late in the season, but “nothing”? Not even flowers/herbs? I did find some pots of marigolds, but at $4.49 a pot, too rich for my pocketbook.
Finally, good old Home Depot still had seeds. The display was totally picked over & a mess, but I did find some marigolds. I planted them last night in some 4-packs I’d saved .... I’m shooting for about 10 plants, planted 16 seeds, so we’ll see what comes up. I watered the seeds in with warm water & I find that tends to speed things along.
We’re getting rain ... temps are cool (60’s); however, we’ll be back around 90 with higher humidity by Sunday.
Im the CHAZ in Seattle they started community gardens with the intention of becoming self-sufficient.
They poured bags of potting soil onto the astroturf in the park then put veggie starts into that soil....no b.s..
Apparently the most famous drug addiction in Seattle Travis Berge ripped all of them up.
Someone also dropped off a living cow for the CHAZers to start their herd.
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