Posted on 04/08/2011 5:07:25 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I hope things are going well for all the gardeners. My seedling trays are over flowing with growth. I have heirloom tomatoes, Marion and Arkansas Travelers ready for repotting. Paste tomatoes and squash were repotted a few days ago. I Also have a few types of flowers also doing well. I will plant some hot peppers in my garden also. Hot peppers have always done well for me. Sweet Bell peppers I have always had problems growing but will try them once again.
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Could you offer your recommendation for a good field guide?
Google ‘mushroom spores morel’.
We used to have a favorite spore dealer but I can’t remember
the company.
I think the Midwest takes mushrooms for granted and the southwest hasn’t enough moisture to support indigenous growth, so they’re more of a delicacy, to the very few who know where to hunt them.
Seems like Cedar Elm? rotten felled branches are the best hosts.
A lot of us are doing Heirlooms this year, myself doing Russian Black Krim and Brandywine.
Doing some newish peppers, too: ancho, apache and mohawk.
Thanks, Diana. Sometimes, I think I’ve bitten off more than I could chew in a century. Well. at least it beat laying around watching soaps and eating bonbons.
The seeds I planted indoors are all coming up. Even the ones that are 5 years old!
But the big news is, BOTH owls were hooting in the backyard last night! That means the babies are big enough to keep each other warm, and they know not to jump out of the nest, so the mom is helping with the hunting. Birds that raise their young together can be heard talking to each other when out and about (with some species it even sounds like “Marco!” “Polo!”) It was fun to compare the two owl’s voices during the night.
Still no pictures, the nest is higher than the roof of the house, so I can’t even put a camera on a pole to get it up there.
I’m going to be keeping an eye out for when the owlets start out on their own. That’s when they’re most likely to starve to death. They can sometimes be seen, just standing on the ground because they don’t have the strength to fly, which means they can’t catch enough to get their strength back and it starts a vicious cycle. But they still have a nasty bite!
Such pretty owls.
The place I work for is hiring just about everywhere: http://www.alpineaccess.com
I noticed that when I decided to try sewing as a business. Suddenly it became a chore.
The Fataliis are terrible germinators. I got 5 out of 14 planted, the worst out of year old seed. They are tiny and slow growing too. My Datils are doing better than they are.
I have been trying to read up on the straw bale method but I would love to hear about your experiences before I try it. Any suggestions are welcome!
Happy Spring! Here's to a great growing season...until the feds take away our right to grow our own food, of course.
I play hard rock/metal for my seedlings...maybe that it why they seem to do so well...Saturday is ‘music day’.
I love the blacks...got Black Krim, Black Cherry, Black from Tula, Black Plum, Paul Robeson and Carbon seedlings chugging right along...I'm already working on my 'want list' for the 2012 season...
My wife says I need 'help'. :-)
“Well, at least it beat laying around watching soaps and eating bonbons.”
That type of life appeals to me for a few minutes out of every day!
Eh. I’ll be lazy when I’m dead, LOL!
Bump that! Sleep is for the dead...plenty of time for that later!
Thank you! I will search that thread out.
I heard about the straw bale method last spring and decided to try it. I wound up with lots of tomatoes and didn't have to worry about weeding. I did learn a few things...
If you are going to have two "rows" of bales, place them next to each other. Having a strong staking system in place is important, and the stakes need more than the bales of support them, they need to driven into the soil through the bales, so they will have to be longer than normal.
There are several videos on youtube containing instructions for applying the ammonium nitrate and the amounts per bale. I think it's important to add fertilizer midway, because toward the end my plants got weak and the tomato quality went way down. That may be typical but it looked like they were lacking nutrients, and I had only fertilized in the beginning.
Now that is just downright funny. My seedlings get dosed with talk radio during the week and country music on weekends, as that is all I listen to :)
A liberal, of course. :-)
Your description is pretty close...terrible name, but quite tasty. The 'Paul Robeson' name also enables vendors to sell this tomato to other liberals at inflated prices...maybe it was named by a capitalist, after all...hmmmm.
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