Posted on 11/21/2020 6:48:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I love trees too. Agree they would be an awesome gift. I am partial to evergreens. Have planted many dozens in the last 30 years. 🌲🌲🌲
How about the snow! ❄️❄️❄️ The rain has not arrived to wash it away yet.
Monster poinsettia! LOL!
She’s been in that pot a long time. She likes the un-glazed clay as it dries out quickly.
I feed her all year ‘round using my trick of filling up a just-emptied milk jug, leaving the last dribbles of milk still in it.
Also, I don’t move her, other than to rotate her whenever I remember to. The spot she’s in is a south facing window and the slant of the sun changes just perfectly starting in late summer; less sun triggers her bloom cycle.
Re: Pictures. I think those of us that can should all share our Christmas Decor. I want OVER THE TOP, Martha Stewart, Country Living Magazine-worthy Christmas decor this year! :)
I was like a kid at Christmas when I woke up this morning and looked out the window! Overnight snowfalls are my favorites. Mainly because I don’t need to be out in it, anymore, LOL!
I’ll post some pictures in a bit. :)
Wow! Gorgeous cactus!
As far as holiday decoration I will enjoy looking at everyone's pictures but I have no such plans. I made it out to hobby lobby yesterday to get that silver paint and spent about 45 minutes in there just looking around. It was a nice break from being so homebound.
Would it be expected that seeds from a grocery-store butternut (or acorn) squash would produce proper butternut (acorn) squash if planted?
the 2020 poinsettias
LOL
that is beyond perfect
thanks for the laugh
we needed that
I only decorate on years we’re hosting. I’m glad my turn fell on 2020! :)
It all depends upon what the squash was planted near while it was growing. The seed could’ve crossed with another squash, so you may get a hybrid of something.
Also, hybrid seeds (most seeds are hybrids, unless they specify they are ‘Heirloom’ or ‘open pollinated’) will give you SOMETHING, but it’ll be a throwback to the male or female used to make that cross in the first place.
So, if you’re willing to not care what you end up with, as long as it’s an edible squash of some kind, go for it!
I once had a zucchini cross with a winter squash. I ended up with a zucchini that was as long as a baseball bat and twice as hard, LOL! I think that thing sat in the corner of the kitchen for a year or more - and never rotted.
Since we had our first SNOW today, I decided to play inside and make Suet for my Winter Bird Friends.
Diana’s Suet Mix
2 Cups Oatmeal
2 Cups Cornmeal
1 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Cup melted lard (bacon grease, bear fat, real lard)
1 Cup Peanut Butter (crunchy or plain)
In a big bowl, mix all ingredients, together. It takes a little muscle power. Mix should hold together firmly, about the consistency of Chocolate Chip Cookie dough.
Using a cookie scoop or tablespoon, put scoops of the mixture on foil-lined cookie sheets. One recipe fills two standard cookie sheets; makes 20 per sheet. Press them down and out so they’re about 2” wide. Put in the freezer until frozen, then put individual pieces into a zip lock bag.
A standard square suet cage holds 4-6 of the pieces, per fill. If you’ve been saving those square containers that purchased suet comes in, you can also press the suet mix into those and freeze.
My birds LOVE this stuff! It takes them about 5 days to eat a commercial suet cake; the homemade is gone within the day, once word gets out. ;) I alternate between purchased and homemade, depending upon how much lard I have on hand. I also always ask my family to buy me ‘birding supplies’ for Christmas, so I get suet cakes that way, too.
Homemade Bird Food Recipes - Old Farmer’s Almanac
https://www.almanac.com/content/homemade-bird-food-recipes
We go through 3-4 cases of suet cakes a winter. 12 in a case. I had to get a birdola sized cage a few years back because it was hard or the pileateds - other cage was too small.
My last tomato plants froze out last week - what do I receive in the mail today?
Catalogs for Totally Tomatoes and Vermont Bean Seed company...
It’s a conspiracy I’m tellin’ ya’...
Now getting excited about next season..!
Thanks for the info ... hadn’t thought about the possibility of cross-pollination from a non-squash plant.
My wife’s Xmas cactus is about 7 yrs old and doing well although not as sprawled put as yours....she calls it a Thanksgiving cactus because the blooms start early on it.
“Now getting excited about next season!”
I’ve already got my ‘Totally Tomatoes’ order in my hot little hands!
Consider these varieties, because I am going back to all of my ‘Tried and True’ varieties next year. No more goofing around!
Tomatoes:
Chef’s Choice Black
Chef’s Choice Orange
Chef’s Choice Red
Bella Rosa
Italian Goliath
Juliet
La Roma III
SunSugar
Peppers:
Gourmet
Alliance
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