Posted on 04/21/2017 1:29:08 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Just looked - it is actually the Miracle-Gro cherry tomato pod I rec’d as a gift. Hmmm.
Yes. I miss him and Johnny too. Also those who left this site-Marcella, and Rightly to name a few.
Wise thinking on your part.
If you don’t have a row cover, you can throw an old sheet over the plants. Or just take a chance and replant if it doesn’t turn out.
It’ll still be fun, but not as breezy. LOL
Hmmm.
I’m rooting sweet potato slips this weekend. Started my ‘slip pot’ back in Feb with good looking taters from last years crop. Will put those out this coming Tuesday. Have a bunch of peppers of all kinds and a few tomatoes that survived the ‘great dampoff of 2017’ (my fault, didn’t sterilize my trays before I started them). I’ll probably start more maters even though at this point they’ll be ‘Fall’ maters.
Starting my winter squash tonight along with cucumbers and a few melons and zucchinis.
Got my ginger planted (10 containers). Thinking of adding about 10 more with a couple really nice hands of ginger I still have from last year’s crop.
‘Mary Ann’, aka turmeric’, will go this weekend.
The 10000 fingers banana plantlet I got from Baker Creek last year is 8ft tall and happy to be out of my garage. It’s put on 3 or 4 leaves in the past couple of weeks and sent up 4 pups so far.
Hubby got me a ‘red fleshed navel orange’ (Cara Cara) from Walmart that’s loaded with yummy smelling blooms and a bunch of little fruit. It will join my Persian Lime and Calamondin in 25g containers. AND, I found a video on youtube that shows how to root citrus using ziploc bags. I have 5 NEW Persian limes and 2 Calamondins from prunings. Wheee. We made 6 or 8 jars of Calamondin marmalade from this past years crop back about a month or so ago. Delicious. More of proportional instructions rather than a recipe I found. Works with all citrus too supposedly. I can send the link to anyone who’s interested. Only used my citrus + sugar. Simple enough even I couldn’t screw it up.
1 tray of short season cool tolerant rice seedlings will go out this weekend along with some corn, dry beans and my fast lady northern southern cowpeas. Love love love those. Make fast and don’t get all the snake hiding runners a lot of other cowpeas put put. Also about 30 okra seedlings.
All is good at my house with the garden so far.
I’m trying to convince hubby to make one of the following:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Better-Strawberry-Pallet-Planter/
https://www.upcyclethat.com/vertical-pallet-planter/
Planted about 60 krim and better boy maters today.
Got another couple dozen to plant in the morning.
I want to get these mulched before starting on everything else (okra, butter beans, peppers, cukes, etc).
Not sure we’re going to be drought-free this summer.
A blog site suggested to water, water, water heirloom maters to help delay the on-set of wilt. I put down about 120 pounds of crushed lime, too, to help with the wilt issue for the heirlooms.
I’m down to a year’s worth of canned maters (harvest year 2015 remaining).
I have but a couple packs of frozen okra.
Mercy..! I need maters. Last year was horrible for maters!
Just brought in the Bush Early Girl (most expensive), the Sweet Basil, and three buckets of pepper starts (including California Green peppers). There are at least 60 pepper plants starting in there; maybe 100.
The good Roma tomato seeds are still out there in a long box (but not too long). Gonna try to grab that one too. That only leaves one bucket of store pepper seeds out there which I can cover with something. It’s just barely starting (one plant kinds peeking up). We’re not to freeze at 32, still.....
You’ve been very busy. Thanks for the links. Both look very nifty.
No, that’s can’t be. no one would sell you all female root stock!
Where did you buy them, and what Zone are you in? How old is your patch? Did you just plant it this season? It takes a good 3 years to have a nice first crop! I’ve grown asparagus for-ever; just need a few more details to help you out! :)
I used to LOVE my gardening chats with Arrowhead. He was aces in my book!
Corn is pretty resilient. Unless the leaves were ‘shredded’ they should recover with some dry, sunny weather. :)
Hi Kids! Happy Friday!
Reporting in from Elizabeth, CO.
We remain in a moderate drought.
We’re down 30+ inches of snow for the winter and already down 2 inches of rain for Spring.
I have 35 acres and both my ponds are dry. Been dry since July.
Nevertheless, there is grass popping up everywhere.
We are at 6640ft altitude on the Palmer Divide and on a clear day, well, Kansas is out there!
OK pulled the Roma starts inside too. At least tonight, maybe tomorrow night if I can.
Turned a large bucket over the one remaining bucket of pepper seeds (where 1 has barely started). Put the removable base liner (with feet on top of the soil in the bucket first. Almost a little double protection. Here’s hoping.
There’s a hole in the bucket about 1 x 1 inches on the bottom (which is now the top). Still, I hope it works.
He was managing our local garden center when he fell.
Pepper seedlings poking along.
New plantings where we took down an ANCIENT Cottonwood tree. Whitespire Birch Clump, Virburnum (All That Glitters) and a Red Twig Dogwood. The Fraser Fir was Beau's B-day gift this past fall and went in first.
I get my new Zero-turn mower in another week, so if you think the lawn looks shaggy, that's why!
Those look like Black Krim at the bottom of that one rack. I had one volunteer in the rock garden a couple weeks ago.. of course he stays. If something unplanned pops up somewhere entirely inappropriate for its area, it was God’s idea and I just watch over his stuff :)
It was a terrible year for maters last year. We are also hoping for better. I’m going to plant several in 5 gallon buckets.
Better safe than sorry that’s for sure.
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