Posted on 10/08/2010 5:23:06 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. The weather continues to be beautiful here in Mississippi. We could really use some rain but there is none in the forecast. I removed my landscape fabric from my garden and distributed what was left of my mature compost pile on the garden a few days ago and added the straw that I use as a cover on top of the fabric to my new compost pile.
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Daisyjane69 sent me a link to an article about Indoor Winter Vegetable Gardening that some of you may be interested in.
My experiment with square foot gardening was pretty successful, except for the tomatoes.
We had a 4’ X 8’ bed of green beans - canned 85 pints, have about 2 quarts in the freezer and have been dehydrating them. They were Burpee Blue Lake seeds, will plant the same next year!
The tomatoes gave us onesies and twosies, but never enough to can.
Everything (carrots, squash, peppers) except those ‘maters did fairly well. We are sold on SFGing!
that is simply gorgeous ma’am
She never needed anything more than fresh fluids (Amsoil) and filters in 136,000 miles and she sure knew how to shine with a little TLC. There was no way I'd ever sell her. She is the BEST machine I've ever had and end the end, she saved me from the lady who ran the light.
I know this might sound crazy, but if if she's fixable, I'd spend the money to make her new again. She has far more sentimental value than monetary value.
Thanks for letting me share...
I'm gonna brag on my leeks one more time...
Still Life with Rufus and Fall Decor...
Hey there.
We are in the community garden and they are requiring us to grow cover crop or interlayer compost due to blight in the soil this year. But, we are starting up early next year so I will get some more of the Spring/Fall crops early on.
We grow radishes, onions, greens of several kinds and lettuces for our cool crops. The cruciform vege takes too long for us in the community garden, but if I had a yard garden there would be cabbage, kale and broccoli for sure.
The last picture with the dog is awesome!
I NEVER see snakes around here, but I saw one the other day at work. It was hiding out under the metal disability ramp at the side door of the plant. It quickly disappeared under the ramp, but that steel door has some serious rust problems and it just as easily could have escaped INTO the shop. We have a new door on order. I hope that it gets installed before it gets so cold that the snake thinks the shop is warmer than the outdoors. Brrrrr. I don’t want to see him in my office.
For those in the south, Wisconsin snakes are not poisonous, except for an occasional rattlesnake in the far west. That’s a bonus for those who live here, but it doesn’t make me like them any better. If I had been Eve, I certainly wouldn’t have followed the commands of a SNAKE.
Planning for next year. Does anyone know of a good, thorough source of information on native herbs and their uses?
Oh, no! Now THAT is at true friend. If it’s ANY consolation, my Ex ran off with my classic Dodge Ram. I think he sold it too, the b@stard!
So, I am grieving a ‘loss’ the same as yours... :(
(But, we’ll get through this!)
my grandad...but if someone produces one, I would like to be pinged to the info as well please...
Keep your eye on the little devil broccoli...they are a magnet for critters.
Spray on schedule or....soak the final product in boiling salt water to eject the usual suspects. First time you do this, you’ll know what I mean. :)
I had the opposite experience. I had tomatoes up the wazoo, but few beans, cukes, etc. and no corn. I had 13 tomato plants and I got so tired of bringing them into the house that I left a lot of them on the vine. I gave basketfuls away, and my dog is still sneaking out to my garden and eating those that are hanging outside the fence. My tomato plants got so wild that I could no longer get around in my SF garden to pick them. Next year I’ll cut back to about 10 plants and give them more room.
Thanks. Sorry to hear of your loss. If people knew that what goes around eventually comes back around, they’d be more careful. Sounds like he’d better keep looking over his shoulder!
Oh NO! Thank God you are all right.
Thanks to the people in Fremont, California and to the engineers at Toyota for building such a fine machine!
Hmmm...your ‘chocolate cherry’ look like my ‘black cherry’...what’s the difference?
Glad you are all right! That damage looks like the insurance company would total the truck.
So could you start all of that stuff right now?
I had some ornamental cabbages in a planter on the deck last year, and the one Boston Terrier took a liking to them. Dang that dog!
If it were fixable, I'd have to buy it from the salvage yard and have someone put it back together. It would have a salvage title, but I really never planned on selling it anyway. I looked at some new trucks yesterday, but don't see one I'd rather have than that Tacoma.
My dad, who just died last week, helped me drive it here from Arizona when I moved to NC. The truck and that adventure were some of the few things we shared once we had gotten beyond our earlier rocky times and became friends.
Too many personal losses lately, but life is like that sometimes. And, with that admission, I'll stop dumping on you and your thread now! :) Thanks again for letting me share.
Did the locomotive derail after it hit you?
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