Posted on 04/16/2022 6:55:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Most of the worms I see here are pale 1/8” pencil lead sized and 4 inches long in soil that ranges from gray to yellowish brown. Where I fed hay to the goats one Winter, under all that leftover urine & manure soaked hay, I found huge red, well fed worms 1/4” x 8 inches long in black crumbly soil. Then there’s the microorganisms/microbiology. Millions in a Tbsp of healthy soil. Mycelium too.
Immaculate design that us humans try to outdo.
The only solution I've found to the sideways pic thing is to flip them in my phone before I upload to photobucket.
Gorgeous! Is there anything hog/cattle panels CAN’T do? LOL!
There is one thing they won’t do - they won’t go to the farm-n-home store and buy new ones for you when you run out, and now I’m out. lol
Ok that’s a little strange.
In memory of Weber:
I have a question for all of you. We are headed on vacation next week and I have 30 tomato plants about 4 inches tall that I am debating on whether to plant.
The lowest temps at night the week we are gone will be 48 for two nights. We thought about planting and putting black plastic around the plants to keep the ground a bit warmer. But then I think we have to come up with a drip system and not the sprinkler. No rain is forecast. I was thinking we need to do this anyway because we have had problems with blight the past few years.
The other option is to keep them in their trays with the warming mat under them and rig up a plastic cover to give them a mini greenhouse. The only concern there is they are in my sunroom and I do not want them to get too hot.
We also do not have anyone to come in and water them.
Third option is to take them camping with us, lol. Crazy but we have taken baby chicks on a camping trip!
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
We can’t live without them around here - but, I’m sure we’ll run out one day, too. And Beau will be very, very sad!
I’d think they could tolerate those temps. Have they been hardened off? Sturdy stems? Not leggy? If so, I’d plant them.
I would plant them as deeply as you can, though, leaving the leaves above ground, of course! They will put out roots immediately from the stems, resulting in stronger plants.
From what I remember, the Amish around here plant their tomatoes and never water them. I mean, they ARE from the tropics to begin with, though I couldn’t do that to my ‘babies.’ ;)
It was mainly for my Sister. She wouldn’t even MEET Weber while he was growing because she knew she was going to eventually eat him.
My Mom? Farm girl. Nothing phases her. But she laughed. ;)
Add row covers inside the low tunnel and quite a few things will survive winter. Would probably need to flop the row covers off on most days or open the ends to ventilate.
Yep, get them hardened off, plant deep and water thoroughly. They’ll be fine for a week since it’s not hot yet and moisture doesn’t evaporate from the soil fast like it does in July/Aug.
If you get freak cold weather after you get back, you can cover them outside with some hoops and plastic.
Last frost date for me is May 6th so I’m waiting a few weeks before putting maters & peppers out.
Thanks to both of you! They are pretty strong, this year I didn’t water them as much and they have much stronger stems it seems. I have been putting them outside during the day and in my sunroom at night which gets around 60 degrees.
Well, the garden is apparently being put on hold for the next couple weeks.
We are expecting a significant storm tomorrow here in the northeast and according to Joe Bastardi, he’s expecting a colder than average May. He says we are not past the last frost date by any means.
It’s in his Saturday Summary here…..
Might be list pingworthy.
*PING* to Post #95.
Weather update from Joe Bastardi at Weatherbell. Not looking like a warm-up anytime soon for a lot of us. Grrrr!
May 15th is my ‘supposed’ frost free date. Might be JUNE 15th this year! I usually wait until the end of May for Peppers and Tomatoes, which are my most useful and precious crops.
Everyone else is on their own, LOL!
You're right, I almost put on a long sleeve shirt this morning!...............
I can’t find the Saturday Summary there. Do I need to create an account?
Ugh, I am sick of winter. Today is gray, cloudy, a little wet, and chilly. I am wanting to get my planting outdoors started soon, but it will probably be end of May this year, or else doing a lot of protecting for fragile plants.
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