Posted on 02/28/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by greeneyes
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Is the front there yet? We have drizzle right now, then later...brrrrr.
Yowsa, I just looked at the weather for your area. Currently 29.6, with freezing rain, and 16 degrres tonight.
Cuddle with the cats, and the rebel tobacco..
I may as bring my portables in now, as opposed to waiting until it’s in the 30’s later on today.
/johnny
/johnny
“Later this year, I will send you cilantro seeds.”
I didn’t look for cilantro seeds. Their seed display is a long way from the outside gardening area. It’s inside the store close to a check out counter. That is a dumb place to have seeds. I’ll look at Walmart gardening to see if they have the plant and get seeds there if they don’t.
I just went to Wal-mart. When I went in the temperature was 67. When I came out it was 50 F, and a biting wind. I was hoping it wouldn’t get here this early..Not enough drizzle/rain for my rain barrel. I can’t even rmember the last time we had a rain where it was full to the top.
I clicked on the link and the price for those is really good. There is a picture there of a man and then two men, working to fill one and that stops me - I can't bend over and over like they are doing so the filling would do me in.
I have to get some of the 80 onion bulbs planted and have decided the best and easiest way for me to get them in potting soil mix is to plant them in the net room where I already have a number of grow bags with potting soil in them. Those bags have handles so I'll put them on a table out there so I don't have to bend over to plant them.
Because I used that soil last summer, I'll stick some Jobe’s spikes for containers in the bags to update the fertilizer in them. I had ordered a bunch of Jobe’s spikes and they came yesterday along with the Diatomaceous Earth. The Yorkie can't get in the net room so she won't be able to dig up the spikes. The lady from that company who sent me an email said the spikes smell like T-Bone steak so they attract dogs.
Those cucumbers I transplanted, “Homemade Pickles” do not look good today. I think today I'd better start more of those seeds and put them under the grow lamp. I have some different kind under the grow lamp now.
My latest forecast says 30 for tonight, but I'll get updates all day today. I hope that moves up so I don't have to cover containers out there because it is a lot now. I'll hold off planting the onions until tomorrow as I won't have low temps past tonight for at least a week more and I don't have the forecast past a week.
The engineer has to come to this area March 16 and he gets the job of placing all the containers in some kind of order out there as I'll have even more containers by then. I hardly have any room to walk out there. I see no point in my dragging containers around before I get them all out there.
He said for me to make a plan about placement and he would move them. Make a plan, sure, easy for him to say. I know the mind set of engineers, and he will scrap my plan if I make one. He is so analytical like engineers are, he'll likely measure the whole area, measure every container, then draw it with every container in a definite spot and tack the result out there for me to refer to if I should move a pot so I can put it back exactly according to the diagram. He has done that twice with other things around here.
Just to freak him out, I think I'll get a piece of paper and draw a square and fill it totally up with little squares in no order at all, and tell him that is my plan.
That is evil.
We finally got a dusting of ice pellets, but no rain. And even the ice pellets have stopped. I really need that moisture.
/johnny
I think JRandom, and I need to move our rain barrels to your house.
Marcella, on the smart pots, I have a little rectangular storage tub with handles. I fill it up from my big bags of soil, which are on an elevated surface( my garden cart), so I'm basically just knocking soil into the tub below, then I carry it over to my smart pots..It's very manageable.
I also like that the smart pots are made in our Next Door Neigbor, Oklahoma. I buy them from my locally owned Mom and Pop nursery. I wrote to ask if the flood tray liners for hydroponics could be used as a liner for square foot gardening..That looks like it would be really easy.
Okay, if you ever get your cucumbers going, and decide to resort to a life of crime:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3128697/posts
I think a random location, but I don’t remember for sure. What do you mean by SPASTIC?
Do you mean carrot? What’s Garret juice?
You’ve eaten wild hog? What do they taste like? I would sure want to cook it thoroughly.
I used to think all earthworms were the same, but I guess that some species are more desirable than others.
Here’s a recipe for Garrett Juice, a foliar feeding spray:
http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Garrett-Juice-br_vq2210.htm
/johnny
I had a baking question for you. I haven’t been able to get my bread to raise right for ages, even though I used to bake bread all the time. I had assumed it was because I couldn’t do much kneading anymore with my bad shoulder, but last weekend I managed to knead some dough for dinner rolls, and they still never raised. The yeast proofed just fine, and the room was the right temperature. What could I be doing wrong?
I did go online and try to figure it out, and came across hundreds of stories of additives in the flour that made it not raise right. Could that be what’s going on here? And if so, how do I find flour without additives without actually milling it myself?
Make sure you are using bread flour or all purpose flour, and not self-rising flour.
/johnny
I think I saw King Arthur’s last time I was in the store. I’ll check. Thanks!
And I’m pretty sure I was using all-purpose every time, but dad likes to consolidate things without reading the labels, so once in a while it might have been a mix. But it can’t have been that way every time.
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