Posted on 09/26/2020 5:45:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Now that has real possibilities.....
Glad you liked it......
A real tender eggplant will cook in minutes.....just as the eggs are done.
One suggestion......use olive oil, instead of butter.
There s a area on the southern Oregon coast that grows Cranberries also...
Three 'Black Cherry' tomato plants I plan on growing as long as I can into the Fall & Winter in the unheated greenhouse. As they get taller, I can remove the shelf they're sitting on so they're not smooshed up against the greenhouse wall.
I bought three 50-quart clear storage bins (Mainstays brand, Walmart) and then three 1-cubic foot bags of potting soil, Miracle Grow. The cover of the bin acts as a tray to catch water. I poked holes on the back side of the bag of soil, then laid it on the tray and cut out the top of the bag. I will direct-seed salad greens into the soil and water. Cover with the 'bottom' of the tub to act as a mini-greenhouse until the seeds germinate, then off during the day and on at night. This SHOULD extend my growing season in the unheated greenhouse.
Those are nifty looking-and what a good idea! I used bags like that one spring-but outdoors & minus the bins for some salad greens just as an experiment to see which brand was the best.
My green house temp was up to 110 degrees today even with the door wide open. It’s still too hot to do much.
The nights are unusually cooler than normal, but when the sun shines, very warm inside.
I received a grow light today that I plan on using for the lemon tree inside the house by the patio door to add some sun to the natural light and add a few hours of sun daily. It has 3 bendable goose neck type lights and clips on my table. The grow light stand isn’t tall enough for the my lemon tree.
I am curious about your shelves are they metal? Where did you get them?
“I am curious about your shelves are they metal? Where did you get them?”
They’re awesome, aren’t they? Yes, they are metal - stainless steel; very strong but light - I can move them around as needed.
Beau was in Construction for - FOREVER. He scrounged anything and everything he could (legally & with permission) from job sites.
He helped build a lot of Water Treatment Plants through the years, and the shelving is the grates they used as the catwalks above the big old human waste digester units. (Ick!)
He cut them to size and I had lovely shelving that water would flow through.
However - don’t DROP anything - like a seed packet or the cap of a fertilizer bottle, because they’re gone forever, LOL!
Aha. Well they are perfectly awesome indeed.
P.S. The shelves sit on cinder blocks. The layout works well for me for now, but can be expanded UPWARD in the future if needed. I can add another layer of bricks and shelving.
I thought they looked like cement blocks. It’s great. We have 2 small greenhouses with the plastic covers like Eric has shown for his seed starting.
Would be ok for lettuce and stuff-but not much room vertically. I have an old wooden cart for just a little taller stuff.
When the shed is done, I want to replace the cart with some sort of adjustable shelving.
Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Polygonum orientale or Persicaria orientale) used to be very popular in the U.S. Originally from China, it was a particular favorite of Thomas Jefferson. As time went on and the popularity of compact, easily transplanted flowers grew, the kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate flower fell out of favor. It’s making a comeback now, though, as more gardeners are learning about its benefits.
Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate is a very fast-growing annual that self-seeds in the fall. Once you’ve planted it, you’re likely to have the flower in that spot for years to come. While the plant can grow up to seven feet tall and four feet wide, it rarely, if ever, needs to be staked.
The kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate flower blooms in three inch long spiky clusters that hang pendulously in shades of red to white to magenta.
Cool front moved in overnight and brought some badly-needed rainfall to us here in Central Missouri.
Still getting tomatoes and have a few butternut squash still maturing on the vine.
Made a run to KC on Friday to meet fish guy. Brought home smallmouth and hybrid striped bass and stocked them in my pond. All that’s left to stock now are the walleye.
Most fun I ever had catching a fish was a Smallmouth Bass. What a fighter! I let him go; he deserved to live to fight another day. ;)
Smallmouth are a blast to catch.
Hybrids are even better, and they get big. 10lbs+ is not unusual in a small pond environment. MO state record is 21 pounds, 11 ounces out of Lake of the Ozarks.
Sign on country farmer’s vegetable stand: “We sell deer corn.”
What is deer corn?
Sign on country farmer’s vegetable stand: “We sell deer corn.”
What is deer corn?
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