Posted on 07/10/2021 5:57:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Getting rain & heat in good proportions finally.
Been eating carrot & beet thinnings/greens. Spinach is long finished, and just letting some go to seed.
Fist time in years, my corn really was knee high by the 4th of July.
I just came in from placing poles for my “bush beans” to climb! They’re starting to flower, and have put out (so far) 18-24” runners.
Potatoes are healthy, and almost bug-free so far. They’re 30+ inches tall, and very bushy. They were given low N, high P, moderate K fertilizer, about 2” below the seed pieces, and no side dressing when hilled. Onions leeks, beets, rutabagas, and carrots got the same tx at planting. The onions also got a side dressing of it about 2 weeks ago.
The leek transplants are ready for a side dressing & hilling; the leeks from seed are ready to thin & transplant.
I started okra in peat pots, and didn’t get it set out until late June. It now has the second set of true leaves, and is starting to take off.
I’m paying the price of only half hearted gardening while I was both working, and working on other projects: only about a 1/4 of the half-runner speckled butterbean saved seed from 2018 germinated. I’ll have to save most, if not all of the harvest to plant next year.
Only 3 of the 6 new rhubarb plants survived a couple of back-to-back 2-3” downpours soon after planting: drowned & buried. Completely lost the parsnip seeds planted at the same time. At least the survivors are strong & healthy.
Scarlet Runner & Blue Lake pole beans are just about to start climbing the fence.
Thanks to the 1970s Hippie commune, I still have a thriving “crop” of amaranth, AKA “redroot pigweed”. At least their burdock is pretty much eliminated.
They shouldn’t have believed everything they read in Mother Earth News & Rodale’s Organic Gardening & Farming about “new” wonder crops.
719mb of mostly pdf files on ‘Agriculture’ geared towards edibles, from nut trees to veggies to mushrooms with lots of supporting info on soils, pests, seed saving etc. There are 22 folders within the Agriculture folder with 21 of them having material sorted by subject and then there’s 1 Misc folder. When you’re in any folder, you can click the button at the top right to Download all files which will create a zip file for you. On individual items, click the three dots to the right of it and click download. I’m pretty sure I got rid of all copyrighted material, magic mushroom and marijuana stuff. I downloaded this as a torrent years ago and had never gone through it all until today but I didn’t open every single file. Just the big ones, apt to be a book and anything with obvious titles. This stuff’s not going anywhere soon so take your time and peruse the content and download what’s useful to you.
Wow what a place to live and garden in!
What is this database.....is it safe to download stuff?
THANK YOU! I’ve wondered for 60+ years what the stuff I found growing near a tiny marshy stream near a campground at Shasta Lake, CA was!
I have some teeny tiny white bugs on my Italian kale plants that are leaving behind sticky itsy bitsy stuff (looks line shredded paper pulp) but do not seem to be easy the plants. No signs of bites holes or shredding of leaves.
Any idea what these may be?
Copper spray is my secret weapon for any type of blight. Doesn’t necessarily CURE it, but it does slow it down to give your tomatoes a fighting chance to reach maturity. :)
Hey, Pollard! Big Ern needs your guarantee that all of this stuff is safe to download! ;)
I have some and will probably need to get more.
Here’s a recipe for controlling tomato blight that I found online. It’s a lot cheaper than copper sulfate.
3 Tbsp baking soda
1 gallon water
1 Tbsp cooking oil
3 Drops dishwashing detergent
Mix thoroughly and spray on plant morning or evening once a week.
If 3 Tbsp baking soda isn’t quite cutting it, up it to 3 1/2.
I didn’t know about it either until we had an exceptionally WET year (after the drought of 2012) and everyone and their brother was bringing in a piece of it for identification to our garden center.
I was still kind of a Newbie, so I asked the oldest guy on staff and he ‘splained it to me. He also taught me to recognize Black Locust when it blooms - it’s GORGEOUS, and everyone wants one in their yard, but it is a scrap tree and quite invasive to ‘good’ woodland areas.
Voted, ‘Invasive of the Week,’ LOL!
“Because black locust fixes nitrogen in the soil and spreads clonally by suckers, it can form dense colonies that overshade and outcompete native species.”
https://mbgna.umich.edu/invasive-of-the-week-black-locust/
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3974921/posts?page=102#102
Of course it depends on what the meaning of "safe" is. Safe from viruses, safe from copyright issues, safe from opening something and finding porn pics? I doubt there is anything to worry about aside from a copyrighted text that I missed when pulling those out but feel free to delete as soon as you see it. Other than that, no guarantees because as per my quote of me above, I have not opened every single file. There are a few books still there that I know of but the copyright has expired on them, just like most of the books I home-schooled my kids with. There are some pretty large files/texts that I left because I looked over the first several pages for a copyright notice and there was none. There are a lot of people in this area that like to put out info for the benefit of all. Maybe they got paid with a grant, maybe they do it just to do something good. It is possible that someone could have removed pages that originally had copyright info. I've opened a lot of them and never saw any crazy stuff. Everything pertained to the title. No bait and switch. Almost all in this batch of files I've uploaded are pdf files and you can view them before you download them and as I said in the post announcing the upload, take your time and browse them. The pdf files can be fully viewed prior to downloading and they're not going anywhere anytime soon. The definition of "anytime soon" is is variable. If some freeper shares it on a major social network and there ends up being thousands of people downloading everything, my web hosting will let me know that I'm going over my bandwidth and I'll have to do something about it.
Love it!
I love how the little white baby boy (I’m assuming) comes out at the end to help his mama.
Waiting for our copper spray we had to order it.
Impressive Cukes! What are they going to become?
I made Refrigerator Pickles (Bread & Butter) yesterday and can’t wait to dive in! ;)
That copper spray is magical stuff. You’ll never be without it once you’ve used it. :)
Zucchini is starting to produce in my garden. There’s no turning back, now!
Savory Cheddar Zucchini Muffins
Ingredients
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup butter, melted
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup milk
1 cup shredded unpeeled zucchini
1 clove garlic, minced
¾ cup shredded Cheddar cheese
¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
4 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
Directions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
Step 2
Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
Step 3
In another bowl, stir together the butter, egg, milk, zucchini, and garlic until well blended. Mix the flour mixture into the milk mixture, about 1/2 cup at a time, stirring between additions, until the flour mixture is incorporated. Fold in the Cheddar cheese, Parmesan cheese, and crumbled bacon, and pour the batter into the prepared muffin cups.
Step 4
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Allow muffins to cool slightly before removing from muffin cups; serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers.
Low carb! Link, below.
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