Posted on 02/05/2022 6:01:07 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
A person I knew who lives in Denver had a large, mature rosemary plant on his CARPORT. I doubt if he kept it there year-round but that’s where it was when I saw it in late summer when it was starting to get cold at night.
The Denver Botanic Gardens also had a large rosemary that went everywhere. It was very woody and sparse-looking, on the other hand.
I appreciate all the advice!
Thank you so much! 🥰
https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/H221.pdf
Herb Spiral. Allows you to use custom soil as many herbs and spices are better suited for sandy soil and not very rich. Many also don't like wet feet and any sort of raised bed will drain well. They can be rustic or tidy in design.
You also end up with micro-climates using a spiral.
Garlic: Store, Preserve
WE have consumed all ours from last year. When it gets near the end, I make roasted garlic heads and squeeze the contents into a small plastic container. It will keep in the fridge for weeks, although it never lasts that long.
I have a garlic mandolin and sliced and dried a bunch of garlic one year. Still have some of it. I did it in the oven on the bread proofing setting.
Being able to open the windows during the process is a MUST! It was burning our eyes out.
RIP, dear greeneyes. We’ll miss you.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire. Well, our swayback hoop house survived the ice and snow storm. I went out a couple of times to knock the snow and ice loose from the inside, and it slide merrily off…I could hear tiny little “WEE” sounds.
We have a couple of bare root Honey Crisp apple trees now planted in pots, downstairs in the garden launching pad. Right now, it is over run with coleus. I have to get the plumbing finished down there.
Bad news. It looks like my pellet stove in the shop has committed suicide. I have to call Englander service on Monday. Apparently, the auger jammed and the fire went up the pellets in it, charring the chute and melting the nylon gasket at the top. A local service guy said that the whole stove is shot. I just put in new glass in the door and a new blower. I am going to the horse’s mouth. I am wondering if this guy is just trying to sell me a new stove.
We will be sitting down to list seeds we need for the garden. I noticed at Lowe’s that the seeds are out and selection is great. I remember driving all over, looking for pole bean seeds, last summer. We had a terrific harvest in the fall. We had 21 lbs of beans that Barb put by in the freezer. Still enjoying them.
Good morning!
Yes. I tossed som heirloom seeds I had in the shed in a pot outside around March. In this area that gets a little freeze followed by spring. It grew a healthy bush for the year. I dried a bunch. Some of it went to to seed and I pushed it into the dirt in the pot. See what next year brings. I have plenty saved to make my Shepherds pie next month.
I would scrub that stove out and see if the gasket could be replaced with that rope stuff that’s used on the doors of woodstoves. But why did the auger jam? That might be the bigger issue.
(Ignore this if doing your own repairs would violate an agreement or void a warranty that you don’t want to void.)
I spent part of the day sorting seeds. Not even the ones in my seed bank, just the ones I’ve bought in the last 3 years but never really sorted, and I only sorted them into “hope to plant this year” and “maybe later”. I really need to get my whole seed bank sorted out. I haven’t done a real inventory in far too long.
The “hope to plant this year” seeds filled two 4-gallon buckets and an Imperfect box. To be fair, I only went by type, I didn’t separate out quantities. So, If I was planning to use 5 seeds out of a gallon-sized ziplock, the whole ziplock went into the bucket. But still, I need to cull my plans again.
Yep, I-70 through CoMO is a disaster every time it gets slick.
The section between exit 111 on the west side to exit 133 on the east side is a giant demolition derby track.
I live close enough to exit 133 that I can hear the truck traffic when the wind is out of the north.
“I noticed at Lowe’s that the seeds are out and selection is great.”
I’m going to start making my rounds in the coming weeks. My local Walmart is gearing up for SPRING - so my Farm & Fleet and Tractor Supply won’t be far behind!
I got my leaking Transmission Fluid line replaced in my Escape, so I feel safer venturing further ‘out among the English’ these days. ;)
Now, to avoid getting ‘Chicken Fever’ this spring. Those little fuzzballs are so dang CUTE! :)
I had an Herb Spiral at my other farm, and it was a lot of fun to build and maintain.
My boys were young at the time, so it eventually had a lot of plastic dinosaurs added to it, because herbs look ‘prehistoric’ and then we started adding status of Mary and Jesus, so it was quite the sight to see! :)
So Friday was a high of 65 degrees .... early spring ‘work on the garden’ type weather, except it was raining almost all day making everything a muddy slop & around 4:00, a front (with downpours) came through & dropped the temp a quick 25 degrees to 40. Yesterday & today are cold (wind literally howling around the corner of the house yesterday) - too cold to want to go outside and do much of anything. Milder weather is coming this next week, so that will be ‘go outside’ weather.
So what to do while inside? No TV ... don’t watch any more. I’m majorly into listening to podcasts while I do crafts, strip petals/seeds off of last summer’s zinnia blooms, organize things, etc.
Yesterday, I found a podcast that I am very much enjoying - it won’t be for everybody:
Tooth & Claw: True stories of animal attacks
Hosts: Wes Larson, wildlife biologist (known for a lot of ‘bear work’), Jeff Larson (Wes’s brother & sometime helper) & friend Mike.
The goal is not to demonize animals, reptiles, spiders, sharks, etc. but to go through situations & look at the behaviors during attacks. LOTS of good, scientific info from Wes - he tries to be scrupulously accurate on his info. Jeff/Mike are just ‘nuts’ a lot of the time. What you end up with is very informative, serious due to the nature of what happens to people, entertaining/funny due to the conversations between Wes, Jeff & Mike. I’m bingeing the episodes and really enjoying this podcast.
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So Wes was asked what podcasts about nature he would recommend. He had two, but the one I found most interesting was:
Ologies with Alie Ward
I haven’t listened to any episodes yet, but here are examples of the titles that are interesting me the most at first glance:
Myrmecology (ants)
Indigenous Cuisinology (Native Cooking)
Procyonology (Raccoons) 2 episodes!
Smologies #7 (Cats)
Forensic Ecology (Nature Detective)
Smologies #6 (Wolves)
Smologies #5 (Veterinary Biology)
Ciderology (Delicious apple beverage)
and on & on it goes ... turtles, crows, possums, firemaking, wildfires, bees, toads, plus plenty of topics that apply to humans (pain, bad knees, happiness, etc) ....
I think I’m going to like this one.
“Tooth & Claw: True stories of animal attacks
Hosts: Wes Larson, wildlife biologist (known for a lot of ‘bear work’), Jeff Larson (Wes’s brother & sometime helper) & friend Mike.”
SJackson: A podcast that might be right up your alley!
how do you feel about Coco coir?....I bought some at Costco today...I mainly have raised beds and need to supplement the now and then, plus I’m getting a few more beds this spring, compliments to hubby and the free pallets we find.
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