Purple Cornflower, Coreopsis, Scarlet Runner Bean blooms, Kale, Oregano, Sage & Asparagus fronds.
Posted on 07/04/2020 6:46:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Um, I don’t believe you’re a gardener.
You might be some kind of farmer instead.
:)
Wow, that’s a lot of trees!
Our tomato plants for last couple of years haven’t been much. And even the farmer’s market guys had trouble. I have hopes for my 2 volunteer plants —looks like they are the cherry size cluster style sort of like sweet million.
I had one of those in a bucket with a tomato cage and it grew up and over the top and drooped down. It was loaded with tomatoes and looked like a Christmas Tree.
Since our pool sprung a hole-wind blew some large tree branches down damaging the pool walls, we are dependent on getting rain this year—so we are glad for the recent rains.
sounds like fun!
We used to grow tithonia for cut flowers. Smaller sunflower but bushy and lots of flowers.
It was fun.
I’m a hybrid. ;)
I plant saplings and raise puppies. Not a bad life, all in all. ;)
Oh, they get HUGE! I planted exactly FIVE this season - I’ll have pictures later in the season. Butterflies just go crazy for them, but they do take up a lot of room in a garden bed.
One is in my Veggie garden and the other four are on the edges of our (ill-fated, it seems; Ragweed taking over) Wildflower area.
Purple Cornflower, Coreopsis, Scarlet Runner Bean blooms, Kale, Oregano, Sage & Asparagus fronds.
I was poking around in the garden yesterday evening and noticed that one of my black cherry tomato plants has completely croaked. It’s dead as a hammer, and one of the three that remain is looking sick.
I blame the covid. lol
Love the jadeite vase, Di.
FROZEN KEY LIME CRUNCH CAKE--could be ketoed down
Ing 1 box (6 – 2 bar packs) Nature Valley™ Crunchy Granola Bars 1/4 cup Gold Medal flour 1/4 cup Land O Lakes butter, melted 2 tablespoons Domino brown sugar 1 (8 oz.) container Cool Whip whipped topping 1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk 1/2 cup key lime juice 2 tablespoons lime zest Whipped cream, for serving
Instructions Preheat oven to 350º F. Place granola bars in a blender or food processor and process into fine crumbs. Place half of the crumbs in a medium-sized bowl with the flour, melted butter and brown sugar. Stir to combine. Press crumbs into bottom of a parchment-lined 8 x 8-inch baking dish to form the bottom crust. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool completely. Add the whipped topping, sweetened condensed milk, lime juice and lime zest to a large bowl. Stir well to combine. Spread lime mixture over crust and sprinkle remaining granola crumbs over top.
Freeze for 4 hours. Slice/serve with a dollop of whipped cream.
50-cent Thrift Shop find. ;)
You had me at Key Lime!
Wow........fantastic buy.
Wow........fantastic buy.
Ok, here’s a weird question - not really about gardening, but, where else to ask?
This Black Lab that adopted us has developed mange. The vet is a tough option — we’ve already spent more vet $$ than we have to spend on this boy, unless it is life critical. If we take him to a shelter, they are all jammed full, so he’ll likely get put down.*
We have tried treating him, and it helps a little, but not much because he just licks most of the treatment off before it has a chance to work. You’d think the stuff would taste too bad, but, this dog was a stray and judging by his behavior (scavenging most anything digestible, and some probably not!), there are few things that taste bad enough to deter him.
I thought of a muzzle for temporary use, say, an hour at a time, but all I’ve found so far allow the dog to drink, eat small pieces of food, lick, etc. I do recall seeing a medication of some sort, somewhere (not for mange, IIRC), that was made to taste very bitter to deter licking.
So... I’m wondering what might taste bad enough to deter the licking, but be harmless if consumed? Add that to the treatment...
*We’d hate to see this boy put down - he’s turned out to be a good, sweet dog except for being an egg robber (have to keep him away from the hen house!). He definitely deters varmints and, speaking of those, we feel safer with him here when our teenage daughter is home alone for a couple hours.
Thanks in advance!
I went and looked, because I had heard that Apple Cider Vinegar on the spots would help, and that might deter licking. You can also add it to their food (maybe mixed in with beefy wet food to disguise flavor?) or in pill form to get the ACV into their system, which also effects how their skin tastes to the mites that cause mange. Maybe add some to his water dish?
There’s also a dog bath recommendation here with a mixture of Borax (20 Mule Team) and Hydrogen peroxide.
How about a cone to keep him from licking? You can find them at a Farm Supply store, or the Vet, of course.
https://www.petswelcome.com/articles/treating-mange-naturally.html
And, a real garden question:
I still have some plants left in pots to transfer outdoors, and, of those, suddenly most of the sweet banana peppers lost all their leaves in a day. The other plants mostly look ok, although the bell & hot peppers look a little stressed - almost like they got root rot, but they have not. (I checked a couple of all types of the pepper plants roots.) Soil moisture looks good. They were not in direct sunlight. The Opo, cucumbers, and remaining tomatoes are all fine.
My guess is, because that spot (upstairs in house, no AC there) can get darn hot, is that it got too hot for the peppers, esp. the banana peppers, but not the other plants. Does this seem likely?
What air temperature maximum can sweet banana peppers survive well?
I moved the surviving peppers outside, and will put a thermometer upstairs to see how hot it really gets up there.
Thanks, All!
Hi, Diana! Thanks — I’ll try the ACV. If nothing else, the darn dog will probably lick it off, thereby ingesting it. :-)
My wife mentioned a cone too - I looked at our local “Rural King” store, but no luck. Will try Tractor Supply.
Well, I missed the peak heat of the day, but a bit later on it was 105 deg. F air temp where the sweet banana peppers had been...
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