Posted on 02/22/2013 1:35:16 PM PST by greeneyes
I remember reading years ago about scattering lettuce seed on the snow and letting the snow and seed melt down to soil as it will do, when the lettuce will sprout—which would give one a headstart on the lettuce. I have never had snow at any where near the right time of late winter, so I have never tried it. Right now I have a good foot on the level, but that will not last til real early spring, not where I live.
Tomatoes Look for “determinate” for those that ripen at once and then are done. Look for “indeterminate” (both beans and tomatoes) for production until the plants frost. Indeterminants need to be staked, with beans they are the climbers. Seed packages and seed catalogs will tell you what you are buying. I threw in beans just be cause.
Wooppps. I hate it when that happens
/johnny
I’ve cut a lot of trees, and cleaned a lot of fish, but deciding how to attack that tree would leave me as baffled as trying to figure out how to clean & fry a whale.
I would like to have one of those boys show me how to sharpen a tool.
Oh, that’s easy! Turn it in to the guy at the tool crib, and check out another one!
Thanks ever so for furthering my fund of info on the asparagus.
LOL!
I wish they would just pick out a time and leave it alone. I don’t understand why the whole nation (except Arizona) voluntarily goes through jet lag twice a year. It’s insane!
LOL. Fantastic. Like I said, it doesn’t matter what color or gender. Smart people who love freedom and believe in the bill of rights and the constitution and God. That’s the main thing to me.
I have yeller sticky note pads in all common areas, and carry some in shirt pocket if I am gunna be in other areas. That will do till I get to the computer again.
in other news, we never made it to the big garden center just south of Houston last weekend, car died of alternator failure. That fun took up the rest of the day and part of the next, getting car and us back to the ranch and replaced. Fortunately the alternator is about the only part of the car motor that I can reach to change out. Dang front wheel drive cars.
Space your sweet potatoes about 18” apart. Probably want to plant them in mounds of loose soil to make harvesting easier.
The new job is going well enough that I’m giving myself permission to order a couple of trees this year. St. Lawrence Nurseries even has an apple that supposedly has a grapey flavor. I love the grapples that I find in the store, but I found out they were just regular apples with artificial flavor added, so they kind of lost their appeal.
Also ordering some runner beans. With those, I think I’ll have as many bean varieties as I can get without them crossing with each other. Except soy, because soy upsets my stomach.
Maybe you can make it to the garden center another weekend. Having a master gardener you can ask questions is a darn good thing to have in the local area.
/johnny
The kids showed up today and we did some garden shopping. I got my seaweed. I got some lumber for the expanded cold frame. And we made plans for next weekend to get finely shredded tree mulch (about 4 cu. yards).
And they brought me beer. ;)
/johnny
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