Posted on 07/02/2010 5:03:50 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
WI is beautiful but I’m afraid I would not be able to stand the politics.
Oshkosh at the end of July, hosts the largest airshow in the world. It is a week long fiesta of flight, patriotism, WWII memories, and aircraft by the thousands. We come camp with other thousands and enjoy. If you haven’t driven by the airport on US 41 in Oshkosh around that time of year, and aren’t an aviation nut, you may not know about it, but it is big, really big, huge, colossal, gigantic, one of a kind, and they aren’t making any more of them like it.
Yeah we shall see. It is a pay for the privilege setup with a long waiting list. We have enough rules as it is and I hate to see more, but one person can infect a whole garden. We had several people drop out last year so we shall see.
That's my problem with New England, although I don't think the countryside is that nice anymore... :-(
Shade plants are great. I have a wooded lot as well and have my woodland garden going and mature now. I have something blooming at all times now even in the shade.
Where are you located?
Interesting. Peaches (store bought) are an interesting story as well. We know good peaches, and rarely if ever except for a very narrow window of time, do you get good ones in a store.
We usually by in the late summer from the Seventh Day Adventists who truck them in from Colorado or Utah. Haven’t seen a South Dakota peach although there may be some. Amazing that you have sweet ones so soon in the year.
Not so fast there RD! I have lost more taglines to the Tag Line Virus than I can count and there is apparently no cure for it...
And a video
“Introduced here in the U.S. from Czechoslovakia in about 1976. Pronounced ‘stu-peek-a.’ Produces very well in northern climates.”
I wasn’t up on my ‘conversational Czechosolvakian’ until I started working for Seed Savers, LOL!
Regarding your question about the Sunflower transplanting>
It sounds like your seed may have been multi-blossomed varieties as you said the seed was very small? A few of those plants can grow quite large so I wouldn’t be to concerned about transplanting them but I would thin them to several inches apart. Perhaps DiW can better answer this...
Yes, and more expected today. The rain bands have been coming in every few hours. We’ve had close to three inches already.
I have okra and squash in. Been picking them for the last couple of weeks. Corn may be ready as soon as next week. I picked an ear this week to check for pests. Luckily, it was free of critters. I went ahead and cooked it even though it was young. It was still good, just not a lot of it. Nothing like the taste of fresh corn. Zucchini plant died, though.
My source had it as ‘stu-PEECH-ka’...in any event; I didn’t even have the right amount of syllables.
Thanks for the thread Red.
I put some blood meal in the 2nd bed, as everything was looking a bit yellow to me, and then yesterday I watered both beds with MG.
The bean plants are getting greener, and are covered in little white/yellow flowers. We are still harvesting snow peas, romaine and leaf lettuce, but we are expecting high 90’s this week, which may put an end to the lettuce.
Onions, carrots, beets doing well, and every tomato plant has green fruit, and lots of flowers.
Zone 4b, Eastern Ontario.
I went with friends one time when they flew out from WA State in their own plane. We had SUCH a good time because we had passes to get down on the flight line. It's been a wonderful memory. BUT, shortly afterwards (a couple of months) our friend upgraded his plane to a twin engine and crashed it in a severed fog in Arlington, WA one his first flight in it. I haven't had the heart to go back to the EAA. I just can't. Any production with the words "Experimental" and "Aircraft" in its title requires a modicum of discernment, and I'll pass, thank you.
Please be careful!
I'll send you the same video I sent tubebender: Hugs
OK, save me a search to figure out where your garden is located (stae, region, zone). THanks.
BTW, the garden home page looks beautiful.
The new place is just north of Houston a few miles. My wife likes blooming plants year round and need to learn up on shady stuff. Our present home is very hot sun on the entire property all day.
That was nice! I want one too!
Georgia, north side of Atlanta, Piedmont region, zone 7
Sorry, Mr. Bender, I just plain forgot about Tag Line Virus. I think that is what got my last two tag lines.
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