Posted on 07/10/2021 5:57:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Poor Augie! UGH is right! :(
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“Temperatures here on the Nor-CaL coast and inland a few miles…”
Tubebender! Uhhuh, Explains why you are the owner of a garden instead of a nicely manicured Patch of brown lifeless plant material! :)
Ha!
A little morning glory goes a long ways, don’t it?
I want to go back up there and camp on Samoa Island or up around Crescent City.
Sure is beautiful up there.
I don’t want to jinx it but my tomatoes and eggplants are doing AMAZING!
My peppers are doing quite well also.
I started some brussel sprout seeds in the greenhouse which were supposed to take 2 weeks to germinate but it only took 3 days for them to sprout.
I am going to have a ton of eggplants, Kyoto & Beatice mostly, and elam looking for recipes and storage ideas.
I mostly eat them sliced and pan roasted with my breakfast.
I was shocked to learn that those beautiful flowers, Angel trumpets, are poisonous! Don’t think I would want to grow them anywhere near me.
“Who do you order your seeds from?”
It varies. I use them all.
Primary for beans and sweet corn has always been SEEDWAY.
The prices are best and quality is superb.
For salad greens an many others. Todd’s Seeds. Pricing is such. good, shipping costs suck.
I also order from Stokes, Johnny’s, and a few more.
Right now I’m searching for a farmer who grows alfalfa seed. 50 lb bags are over $5 per pound for untreated seed. Most are in the upper Midwest.
That may be the problem, there aren't any bees that I have seen around here.......
It stopped raining around lunch time today.
I decided to go ahead and harvest the garlic. It was messy going but I got it done. I’m glad I did. The outside layer of skin was starting to get slippery from all of the moisture.
Bumper crop.
Reminds me of the Kudzu I saw in Hawaii - it literally goes over the tops of trees and houses - and is apparently unstoppable.
The pup enjoying his grass is awesome!
😁
Park Seed has Bishop’s Children Dahlias. Since you like them, maybe I should try them next year. 😊
I’ll be on the alert for Kudzu. -Tom
What is kudzu?
Known as “mile-a-minute” and “the vine that ate the South,” this creeping, climbing perennial vine terrorizes native plants all over the southeastern United States and is making its way into the Midwest, Northeast, and even Oregon.
Once established, kudzu grows at a rate of one foot per day with mature vines as long as 100 feet.
With all of the rain we’ve had, in SE TX....kudzu is blanketing roadsides :-(
Really.. I don’t remember it being that bad down there.
Garlic: Bumper Crop!
Finally! Some good news from your garden! :)
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