WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 16, APRIL 19, 2013

Free Republic | April 19, 2013 | greeneyes

[greeneyes]

Whoo Hoo! Looking forward to the pics.

[Sarajevo]

We seem to be a little shy on pictures tonight, so I'm going to bore you all with a bunch of mine :)

Sweet Peppers:

and this one is already bearing:

Potatoes

Onion; the Mrs planted over 150 sets:

Peas and carrots. These will last until the advent of hot weather.

Tomato bed. We're growing Black Krim, Beefsteak, and Golden Jubilee this year

My hydroponics experiment. Tomatoes didn't grow well, but lettuce and cabbage are doing fine:

The crazy papaya. Last year, it froze to the ground, then returned and actually bore fruit. What you see here is the trunk after I lopped off the freeze damage from this last winter. It's been growing in the greenhouse since 2006. Not bad for a plant that's only supposed to live for 2-3 years.

Eeyore, the farm duck:

I planted these peach and plum trees last fall. I'm hoping they'll bear fruit in a year or two. The cages are to keep deer away. They are a real pest in my area.

The Mulberry tree. We harvest our first quart of the year yesterday. It usually bears until the middle of May.

[greeneyes]

My lemon tree is loaded too. It never seems to rest. After I harvested the last bunch, I was going to repot it, but didn’t get a chance, cause it just had new fruit before I thought it would be possible-never took a break.

Course, I do have to bring mine in for half the year.

[Marcella]

Thanks for the suggestions. Just as all top soil is not equal, each garden is not equal, so I have to do it another way than most. The bags for deep roots would fix that problem.

[Old Sarge]

Thanks, Sarmajor!

Greeneyes, could you add both me, and The Bride, to the ping list?

[greeneyes]

I really enjoy having fresh herbs to snip. This winter, I only brought in the basil. Now that I have an additional grow space in the kitchen, I may bring in a pot of each of the ones I use most often.

Frozen and dried ones from last years harvest have been a good second choice though.

[left that other site]

You can Freeze ‘em?
tell me more! :-)

[Mears]

My DIL is Asian so usually uses it in Asian foods.

I’m a basic meat and potatoes cook so I’ve never used it.

Googled and found this.

http://www.food.com/recipe-finder/all/lavender

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the pics. They are great! Someone a few years back called garden pics Food Porn. LOL.

Anyway they are NOT boring.

[left that other site]

Thanks!

I’ll check it out. :-)

[greeneyes]

I too just like to do it differently to suit my situation. If it works I continue, if it doesn’t - I learned something new and nothing ventured nothing gained.

Where’s Johnny today? You heard anything from him. Hope he’s not on a roof somewhere.

[greeneyes]

Will do. Look for the posting on Friday afternoons, and we just keep posting to it until the next Friday.

[greeneyes]

Not much to tell. I just snip off some chives, basil, tarragon whatever. Pull the leaves off the stems as needed. Put them in a zip vacuum bag and vacuum the air out of them.

Add them as needed to soups and broths.

[left that other site]

Sounds so easy, even I, a humble bass player, can probably do it! :-)

[left that other site]

I mean...VEGGIES!

[Arrowhead1952]

I am lucky to live in an area that a blanket and maybe a 100w bulb will keep citrus trees alive during a freeze. IF all the oranges turn into big fruit, I don’t know if the little branches will support the weight.

[Arrowhead1952]

You can learn a lot of gardening tips on these threads. I’ve been gardening since my years on the farm and don’t mind sharing old wives tales and secrets about gardens.

[ApplegateRanch]

Another spring day, another snowstorm in Dakotas

We're 50 miles south of Rapid city, in the lower reaches of the Black Hills.

[greeneyes]

Oh yeh I do wash them off and drain/blot them on paper towels. Yeh it’s easy. LOL

[murrie]

April 2013