Posted on 07/25/2014 6:35:12 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper
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Praying that Greeneyes is feeling well soon.
My tomatoes are just starting to look good. I grew some hillbilly tomatoes this year, the plants are kind of strange looking. we’ll see. I used horse manure in my garden this year, and had a lot of bugs, I had NO bugs last year. Don’t think I’ll do that again. My lettuce, okra, radish, and sunflowers suffered extreme attacks. I’m not one for dust or any of that.
We were in Montana this past week. Wow those people that grow cherries are serious about their crops. Gun drown for a poacher stealing their crop.
Wonderful State to see, we enjoyed every minute of it.
I give away most of them to family and friends at church.
Please be careful!
I want to be done with dangerous stuff too... This week I shot a 3 ft. long western diamondback, in my garage. I was most proud of my eight cats because they filed through the garage, passing the rattlesnake, and into the house (quietly and rapidly),so that I could have a clear shot. Cats and grandchildren: if you work with them and have great expectations, sometimes you can be pleasantly surprised.
I’m always careful; that’s why they call me Gimpy, instead of Stumpy! ;-)
Figured it was something like that.
Wow! Thanks for photos!
I've got Cherokee Purple, Marianna Peace, Azoychka, Coustralee, Eva Purple Ball and Stump of the World.
I wasn’t impressed with Cherokee Purples to be honest. After sinking your mouth into a lemon boy, everything else is less than.
Probably related to the Azoychka. Yellow with a citrus flavor.
Greeneyes .... hope you feel better soon!
We have been very dry for quite a while so it was a small relief yesterday to get maybe a half inch of rain via a couple of T-storms. The result of that rain was a major June bug hatch .... they’re flying all over the place. The crow family was in the field (where the garden is located) today, catching June bugs - it was rather comical, seeing them jump up and down trying to snag a bug. The two young ones were doing more begging the adults for bugs rather than catching their own. At least the bugs kept them occupied/distracted and away from the tomatoes. Actually, I’m putting up a ‘hoop house’ and have it far enough along to put netting over it - haven’t lost a tomato since the netting went up.
Thanks for hosting the thread and best wishes for greeneyes. We picked another 1 1/2 gallons of strawberries today that Lady Bender is prepping for Fellowship at Church Sunday. I like them warm right off the plants in the garden. I watered. the corn yesterday and it still has a couple of weeks to go.
Anybody besides me seeing signs of early winter?
Here in West MI, I’ve got BLACK berries ripening, mum’s blooming, birds flocking, fruit flies swarming, and several other late Aug early Sept flowers blooming for a couple of weeks.
Scarey, after last winter.
I have mucho nachos, and Gypsy. The Gypsy Pepper plants have done pretty well. In fact, I skipped picking some this morning as I was being lazy.
Not enjoying the Texas heat. We did get some rain about a week and a half ago. I thought my rain barrel was going to overflow, so flipped a plastic kiddie pool over to catch the excess..I thought moths were flying out from it..so I was shooshing them away, then realized they were yellowjackets. Oops, so lucky, they don't sting me, even when they should for chasing them from their nest.
Tomatoes seem to be getting their second wind, Cucuzzi, and trombettas don't seem phased by the heat. Armenian Cukes have tons of blossoms, but no cukes. I put tomato tone on everything yesterday, and have been injecting the tromboncino vines with BTK. I also planted some tycoons, and lemon boys for fall. I also finished digging up my potatoes. The last ones were the red, white, and blue ones..althoygh the blue looks more purple to me.
I live in Sarasota, Fl. Surprisingly, there are areas of a house which are difficult to populate with a robust, growing plant. Such was the case with the NW corner of my house which gets a lot of sun and the ground slopes so that the sand filled soil drains very rapidly.
I solved the problem with a Macho Fern which loves both sun and shade and thrives even in drought conditions.
I planted it two weeks ago and it’s doing great.
I would suggest you return mid-afternoon tomoroow (SAT.) for EXCELLENCE weather referral to "Joe Bastardi", climatologist, video @ weatherbell.com .
Earlier this spring, Bastardi stated that the winter of 2014-15 would be just like last year (2013-14 )
It will be interesting to see if he has anything new to report - if not ,I am headed South (Fla.) this winter.
I go through Seasonal Affect Disorder (SAD) and hunker down in the North like a big-ole-bear in hibernation, and get somewaht depressed by lack of sunlinght
so I NEED to head South , as did my parents who also had SAD even before it had a name .
Put up more wood, coal, or propane for the winter , and invest in wool clothing, or join me further South .
I have found Bastardi to be reliable and accurate. Check him out this Saturday P.M., video in the afternoon c/o Excellence.
Peppers were the only thing we harvested this year. Critters got every single mater. But they didn’t like hot peppers. Had some cayennes, chilitepins, jalapenos, banana,and some unknown pepper. It was labeled Jalapeno, but was not. It grew longer and had 0 heat, and no flavor, so I threw some in a jar that I was making Pepper sauce just to bulk up the jar a little for looks. I am cutting these off tomorrow, and transplanting the rest of the peppers into containers and going to clear the garden of all these useless plants, leaving a patch of nothing but mater stakes.
The Lord bless green-eyed lady. It has been a bin-buster year for squash, cukes, peppers, and beans in Missouri. Tomatoes are looking good except for fungus and the danged chickens. Corn is also outstanding but I have to watch for the coons. I woke up at 3 a.m. And had that feeling, so I grabbed the 20 gauge, exited the back door and found 3 coons in the front yard. They scrambled for the brushy border but I downed one. There is an endless supply. Last year I killed 13 in the yard and garden.
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