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Weekly Gardening Thread – 2011 (Vol. 51) December 30
Free Republic | December 30, 2011 | JustaDumbBlonde

Posted on 12/30/2011 8:33:35 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde

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To: Arrowhead1952

Congratulations! And a very Happy New Year!


21 posted on 12/30/2011 9:20:07 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde; All

Happy New Year to one and all. We have a great looking sunny day here in Missouri. I think it may get warm enough to slip on a sweater and harvest some lettuce from the outdoor garden.

I will be planting some indoor spinach, chives, and mint this week. Maybe harvest a lemon.

Now I have a question about rosemary. I brought in a nice plant, because hubby didn’t get the bed made where I intended to plant it(a sheltered location). It was nice and green, and has been turning brown. Is this normal? Does it get brown during the winter and turn green next spring?

Everyone have a great weekend. God Bless.


22 posted on 12/30/2011 9:23:10 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Gabz

Thanks. I just got three seed catalogs in the mail the past two weeks. My wife saw several - other than seed - products she is interested in and wants to order.


23 posted on 12/30/2011 9:30:38 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: tubebender

Yes, there’s been hang time but it’s been like that for several months for me. I have to have two FR windows open.


24 posted on 12/30/2011 9:38:38 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

My catalogs started arriving this week. I haven’t had much luck with ordering plants, rather than seeds, so this year I will stick with just ordering seeds and purchase any plants locally.


25 posted on 12/30/2011 9:42:48 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Red Badger

Pffft...I’ve seen jackalopes bigger than that.


26 posted on 12/30/2011 9:45:33 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

And the same to everyone! I will be putting the roof on our new deck connecting the house to the garage/shop this weekend! See my facebook for pictures!


27 posted on 12/30/2011 9:47:24 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

We are having very high wind here in the Colorado Rockies. It is making a mess with the 3 ft of snow that fell before Christmas. The highest gust measured near here was 102 mph. Lots of whiteout highway closures.


28 posted on 12/30/2011 9:51:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (Tim Tebow will never be successful in the NFL - Leftist journalists who have sold their souls)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

That WAS us about 0400 the morning of the New Year. We’ve slacked back a bit.

My neighbor and I are getting ready to till up the new area where we’re enlarging the pasture garden. We’re putting in compost and chicken and horse litter, we even have llama pellets that we’ll spread around and some of the hay the horses have spread around, plus turning over the garden that was put in last summer. I’m still waiting for the powers that be to release the lot next to the Sr Center for our beginning Community Garden. I need to get someone with a plow to root plow the area then just turn everything over.
Patience was never put in my cradle so I’m sitting here on pins and needles to get things started. In the meantime, I’m planning a stained glass table for the dining room. That takes up the unused energey from going nuts waiting for the start of the Community Garden.


29 posted on 12/30/2011 9:53:40 AM PST by tillacum
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Still no snow on the ground here in the People's Republic of Red Hampshire...bring on the global warming!

Looking at 135 different kinds of tomato seeds right now...now I have to find a place to plant them. :-)

Needless to say; I have no business looking at paper catalogs as they arrive...the internet catalogs and forums have got me in enough trouble.

30 posted on 12/30/2011 9:53:47 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
I got in the Burpee’s this week but that's the only one I've requested. I have too many seeds than room already so will just be looking at the pretty pictures. I'm really looking forward to starting the garden again. I'd like to increase the size a bit but don't know that hubby will go for it since I couldn't handle it as well as I wanted last year. Last summer, I just wasn't in any sort of physical shape what with knee problems to enjoy it and by fall it was just too much of a struggle. Things are much better now.

With the burn ban lifted, we've been clearing some brush. Haven't done anything in the garden but there's a couple broccoli making so might have some for dinner next week or so if we keep this sunshine.

31 posted on 12/30/2011 9:56:59 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Gabz

I’ve never received a Jungs or a Burpees. I have received my Baker Creek a couple of weeks ago. I like their array of goodies.


32 posted on 12/30/2011 9:59:55 AM PST by tillacum
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To: Red Badger

Holy Smokes, that is the biggest rabbit I’ve ever seen. WOW!


33 posted on 12/30/2011 10:02:33 AM PST by tillacum
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To: tubebender

LOL Gotta love that Ball Jar goblet! Is that fer real? That’s gotta be the best snooty redneck symbol yet!


34 posted on 12/30/2011 10:02:58 AM PST by CynicalBear
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To: Gabz

That’s what I do too. Wife ordered some heirloom tomatoes a few years ago. Only two of the dozen made it, so she called and they sent another dozen. Same thing happened, but the two surviving were a different variety. The next year, after I had the garden filled, they sent two more orders of the same tomato plants.


35 posted on 12/30/2011 10:06:08 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: tillacum

It’s Russian......


36 posted on 12/30/2011 10:06:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
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To: tillacum

I’d love to do stained glass for the dinning room windows that look out into the neighbor’s house. I’ve done some decent sized pieces but I don’t have the $ or the guts to go all out on such a large scale.

What type table frame and support do you have? What’s the pattern going to be? Pictures?


37 posted on 12/30/2011 10:07:20 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: tillacum

For some reason I haven’t received a Baker’s Creek in about 2 years.


38 posted on 12/30/2011 10:13:13 AM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Just harvested the last bushel of carrots in up-state NY!
39 posted on 12/30/2011 10:14:49 AM PST by 95B30 ( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their take logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Congratulations! I am approaching 2 years retired and will have an expanded garden this spring!
40 posted on 12/30/2011 10:16:51 AM PST by 95B30 ( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their take logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)
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