I am a flower guy now, neighbor began giving me plants to prettify my yard, Hanging baskets and large flowering species like Canna lillies.
Got the plant/flowers app called Leafsnap, will identify anything, easily from phone, yay
This spider lily is from my neighbor's yard - these had been gifted to me but I didn't have time to plant them b/c I was going on vacation for two weeks.
I'm hoping she'll give me one or two bulbs.
I'm also slowly winning the battle against the white flies that destroy hibiscus, it's taking some effort. This one is recovering and doesn't mind the heat:
I also put a bucket in my shower to collect water while it heats up - but with a low-flow shower head, I'm not collecting much, but any helps.
Praying for rain ASAP.
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Hi everybody!
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The Full Moon by any other name... Corn Moon (Algonquin, Ojibwe), Harvest Moon (Dakota), and Ricing Moon (Anishinaabe) signify that this is the time to gather maturing crops. Along the same vein, the Assiniboine people named this period Black Cherries Moon, referring to when chokecherries become ripe. Sturgeon Moon referred to the time when sturgeon were most easily caught.
Historically, in cultures all around the world, our ancestors would use the draw and pull of the moon (which cause tides, sap, essential oils and overall strength of plants to be on the rise) to harvest and preserve the best plants possible to preserve for teas, tinctures, salves, ointments, essential oils, balms etc.
Leave time for steppin' out to enjoy a night of full moon revelry tonight friends...and don't forget to watch for the Perseid meteor showers too!
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I love the picture that was posted along with the info:
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Sorry to hear about your garden! I do not think that is the first time that goats have done in someone’s garden!
All is not lost. I saved snippings from Rosella, Yellow Pear and Chadwick cherry plants and am rooting them in water.
Also have four shisito pepper plants started and will be starting seeds this weekend for Fall veggies.
Does anyone know about a micro bee?
Buzzing around my zucchini plants in the high desert are tiny little bees about 1/2 inch long and 1/8th inch thick.
Thank you Diane for hosting and posting this gardening thread! A fun serious subject in these times of creeping socialist stupidity!
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/growers-library/calculator-planting-dates-fall-harvest-crops.html
The link actually goes to an xslx spreadsheet file. Plug in your first frost date here.
and the dates will change below
Like so
Too late for me for a lot of things unless I use row covering or build hoop houses or both but still time for greens and leaf lettuce. According to the xlsx text, add 2-3 weeks for hoophouse or 4-5 weeks for hoophouse plus row covers.
As has been said, here in the Ctrl MO Ozarks, we can get a frost in Sept or we might not get a frost until next year so planning calculators are a best guess.
Of course different varieties can vary in days to harvest. Baker Creek has 65 day cabbage to 120 day cabbage. I've got some 70 day Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage seeds here and 70 days from today is Oct 23 so I could probably get away with it.
Date calculator. Set a date and add or subtract days to get a calculated date. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html
It was a bit less hot than it has been over the past week here in Central Missouri.
I’ve had the summer kitchen in overdrive. I’m up to 70qts processed so far this summer. Had to pull off just a bit over the weekend so Mrs. Augie and I could make a quick run to Ft. Riley to visit #3 Son, DiL, and the grands. Son received notice two weeks ago that he will be off on a six-ish month deployment to a semi-bad place this week. Not really a good thing considering all of the stuff that’s happening out there right now.
After getting home yesterday afternoon I picked ~20lbs of roma tomatoes. Washed em, chopped em up, and tossed em into the fridge. I made spaghetti sauce from the last load so this one will be turned into salsa. When that batch is done I need to run a couple loads of tomato juice that I’ve squeezed out of the recent sauce runs.
I’m finished making cucumber pickles, but Mrs. Augie is still putting up some of the fermented variety. I’ll do another few loads of tomatoes then I need to get back to green beans and run a load or two of okra pickles.
My sweet corn seed arrived from Jung’s on Friday. I had the patch ready so was able to make quick work of getting some seed into the dirt. I expect to see that stuff spiking any time now. Hopefully I’ll get a good stand and not have to replant.
Still need to run peaches and apples but I’m not sure how to fit that work in with everything else that needs to be done.
Has anyone else out there noticed that their local ‘farmer’s market’ has been changed to a ‘community market’?