Posted on 07/02/2010 5:03:50 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
You will have even more options than I have. Right now I have hostas, hydrangeas, lilys blooming.
3 minutes in is a true hug!
there must be some sort of inside joke that I’m not inside on...
We live dead center, in Texas. It’s hotter’n blue blazes and we had a “cold” winter.The peaches are so sweet and juicy. I’m going to pick some, after we clean up the ones on the ground. The peaches have little pin point brown spots. I’ll have to try and see what we can do to prevent that from happening “next year”. My mini peach tree has tiny peaches too, I think the wild peach tree pollinated it.
The house where we are moving to has a number of flower beds already, so it should look pretty good after she has a year or so to plants things and tidy up the place. It was loveingly attended by a 90 yo lady that just could not keep it going any longer. I think that she will be proud if she is able to see it in a year or two.
Harvested most of the onons and garlic earlier in the week. Picked the first batch of beans last night. It’s in the crock pot. Dad’s radiation therapy is right in the middle of the day (7 wks 5X wk), so I’ve been bribing him by eating a late lunch at the restaurant of his choice.
Will have the beans tomorrow, with beets and salad from the garden. No therapy for three days. woo hoo!
My son is in Texas for the next three days. He’s playing drums (and pickle bucket)for the Big Damn Band (all three of them). They’re featured on the WARP tour this year.
Which is ironic cause they’re a country blues band: Slide guitar, washboard and percussion.
From the sounds of it he’s gonna be glad to get home. On the positive side: he’s got a job, and it’s a dream come true for him,plus more money than social work.
Dad bought him a “Reserve Parking for Rock Star” sign. They’re having a lot of fun!
Sounds like a good deal for all!
My sweet peas are starting their second flush, I got 3 pods today. And my cucumbers have flowers on them. The tomatoes are taking their sweet time growing, but they are growing, so hopefully this won’t be another dud year. Haven’t been out to the land this week, hopefully tomorrow.
I’ve been experimenting with soda-bottle planters for a while, and I think I figured out why they weren’t working. There’s so little airflow that the soil starts fermenting, like an anaerobic digester. Smells like swamp gas. I cut some larger drainage holes into the sides of the bottles, the smell is already gone. Now to try planting in them again.
I’ve gotten a couple of books on medicinal herbs as a cash crop, so this summer I’ll be pinning down more landscape fabric to carve out lots more planting beds. I’m thinking german chamomile, pyrethrum, and red clover. My goal is to grow enough that the land pays at least its own property taxes, although I wouldn’t object if it made more than that!
On a side note, I’m getting the hang of this tailoring thing, made mom a new shirt that fits her perfectly and looks good besides. People keep telling me I should start my own tailor shop full-time. Might try that, but for now the ren faire will be starting soon, and there are costumes to make.
No cherries? Are they sweet, pie, or bush cherries?
I have a cherry bush in the back yard, this year it was covered with cherries. They aren’t as sweet as bing, but they were sweeter than pie cherries. Last year there were only a few and they were very tart.
The apple trees around here seem to be covered too. Strange.
Wow! What is your secret? My tomatoes are very small, even though I didn’t plant cherry tomatoes, LOL. We haven’t had much rain at all here, and the sun is brutal in Florida.
What are some good veggies to plant in the fall in north Florida (I think I’m in zone 9)?
The cucumbers have provided plenty of refrigerator pickles. I have about 8 quarts today to try out some new recipes for water bath canning.
Hubby got the square foot garden constructed, but failed to take into account the width of the landscape timber, so he shorted the inside by 3 inches on all sides. Net result, I only have about 21 square feet instead of 24; 6 squares are only half the size (6” x 12”). One square will be for chives, and cilantro and another for beneficial bug mix.
I have a tentative plan on paper, and will plant it Saturday. Still no tomatoes to eat. We have some green ones though, so I am impatiently waiting.LOL.
I got my tarragon and thyme re-potted, and herbs planted in pots. Basil, Peppermint, Dill, Parsley. My corn appears to be doing well. It is almost 3 ft tall, (it should only get about 4 ft tall).
Have a great Independence Day weekend everyone.
I grew it once years ago, but not recently. We’ve moved since then and I don’t have the same gardening space. Also found out I have a very mild soy allergy, but my dad likes it.
What variety of Romaine did you plant. Is it nice and crisp?
Double the wine intake, and maybe you won’t notice the lack of variety for food. LOL.
Same problem here. And then the lath I used for dividers (grid) subtracts a little more space. But, I figure that it is flexible. Messed me up on my tomato trays (red plastic that goes around the tomato plant at the base) since they were exactly 12" square -- they wouldn't fit. So I put them on alternate tomato plants. I can't see that they made a difference at all. I wouldn't bother with them again.
Hubby knows better, he just wasn’t thinking. The neat thing is that when I drew up the houseplans for my house and my daughter’s house, he was always telling me I didn’t allow enough for the walls. LOL.
I’m thinking about next year. I’d like to do heirloom seeds but I will need to start them somehow. I have an old kitchen table in my basement that will hold all the flats of peat pots that I will need. However, I will need a light source. Does anybody have any suggestions for cheap light sources? And I can’t stress cheap enough. Grad school is expensive for this documented worker.
Et tu, Wita? At least the latest rounds of hail missed us; ours just got pounded in the first week of June.
So far this year, I be happy if we'd been able to et even one tomato, let alone tu. Blooms; and one grass-green plum tomato, on the plants so far.
So glad we live in SD's "banana belt"!
corn? "Ankle high by 4th of July," seems to be the truth of it.
At least we're eating plenty of peas and lettuce; and the spuds are doing great.
Now if I could just get all the water came into the basement this year, onto the garden for the rest of the summer, I wouldn't have take the truck into Hot Springs for any more weekly garden-water runs.
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