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Posted on 12/16/2011 5:47:03 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I hope all of you are doing well and wish you a Merry Christmas. Today’s thread will be the last one I post as the host of the gardening thread. Thankfully the thread will continue to be posted by Freeper JustaDumbBlonde. Not only is she is a very experienced gardener, she and her husband run a large acreage family farm growing corn, cotton, wheat, soybeans and various other crops. Her large kitchen garden is so successful she has set up a roadside stand to sell her produce. I am confident the Gardening Thread will be in very competent hands. She gardens and farms in Northeast Louisiana and has been a member of the gardening thread since Freepers gardengirl and Gabz started the original thread in January 2008.
It has been my great pleasure to host and post this thread every week for the last couple of years. I actually learned to garden from this thread and have enjoyed my garden and reading the posts and meeting new Friends on this thread every week. I will continue to read and post on the thread if I think I can add to the conversation. I hope all of you have very successful gardens next year.
If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.
My butternut squash bisque is pureed in the blender, so mushy isn’t a problem. The onion, carrot and apple in the recipe are fresh. I think I will try it and see what happens. Thanks!
God Bless you and your wife on your next adventure in to this wonder life.
You are so kind to the dumb blonde :)
I have Cherokee Black heirlooms in a global bucket that I moved into the greenhouse. The fruit that set late will be ripening very soon. It’s actually a larger crop than I had in the summer!
Gotta love those global buckets. Especially since for me they were free from local bakeries!
I would like to thank all of you who have wished my Wife and myself good luck in our move and new endeavors.
I do not intend to abandon gardening or posting to this thread. We are going to have to rent or lease at first and a real garden may not be in my near future. Will have to see what happens.
I don’t think we will make a complete move until late March, a lot will depend on our $. Rent $ has not been in our current budgeting. Peggy will be staying with one of her sisters and using her time off to locate a house. One of her brother’s wife is a real estate agent in Longview, Tx and will try to help out in locating a house in the Marshall, Tx area, which would be about 20 miles (location dependent) from her new store.
I don’t intend to sell our current house at first, because it is paid for and a good fall back position if TSHTF. I will have to make periodic trips back here to maintain the house and property.
Again, A very Heartfelt Thanks to all of you for your Best Wishes and kind words.
William, the Red_Devil
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My God Bless and Thank you for your service for our Country RD...
Why don’t you post your pretty photos in the thread?
I tried 3 or 4 times, I could not get it right so I just post the link!
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It took me 2 years of trying and lots of help to get it right and that is wearing two hearing aides and tri-focal glasses...
Well, that and 2 or 3 jumps off the tailgate of the pickup. Now you’re a pro at posting photos, as well as a magnificent gardener and chief maintenance officer at the Bender Estate. I don’t know how you do it all. Makes me tired just to read the things you do in one day. Lady Bender trained you well.
You have done a teriffic job.
Very appreciated.
Thanks for the link.
Praise like that will get you far in this forum and beside you’re a little better looking than Red...
How are you pollinating them?
You can generally pollinate Tomatoes by simply shaking the bush lightly. There is also a product called Blossom Set that you spray on the flowers that is supposed to help pollination.
On a side note, we still have cabbage, brocolli, mustard greens, and cauliflower producing in the hoophouse. The greenhouse is pretty much covered after the last freeze in an effort to save the remaining warm-weather plants.
New heirloom seeds have come in for next years' planting. The Mrs went hog-wild, so I'll probably need to extend or build a new hoophouse.
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