Posted on 09/09/2011 5:02:47 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It has been beautiful weather here in East Central Mississippi. We received about 3 inches of rain out of TS Lee on Monday and the daytime highs have been in the mid to high 80s with overnight lows in the 50s. It is 50 right now. This is quite cool for this time of year for us. My garden is basically done for the year. I bottled my first batch of beer yesterday, 30 quarts. Now it is wait for two weeks and maybe up to a couple of months, while it conditions, until it is ready to drink.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
My wife and I are going nuts...as a result; I still haven’t figured out a way to tell her that I am really interested in another twenty or thirty tomato varieties that I recently stumbled across for next year. :-)
Damn...that pie had drool running down my chin until I realized it was the saddest waffle I have ever seen. Wife is right...time for new glasses...
Thank you Arrowhead 1952 and Racehorse.
I’ll try some of these plus radishes plus some jalapenos and salad greens that died in the beginning of summer. Hopefully we’ll get some good salad greens. I lost so many plants, plus about 5 roses. This adeinia is just one horrible weather mistress. I wish she’d allow her husband to shed a bit of rain on us. We really nead some moisture.
Thank you Arrowhead 1952 and Racehorse.
I’ll try some of these plus radishes plus some jalapenos and salad greens that died in the beginning of summer. Hopefully we’ll get some good salad greens. I lost so many plants, plus about 5 roses. This adeinia is just one horrible weather mistress. I wish she’d allow her husband to shed a bit of rain on us. We really nead some moisture.
How about some winter squash, does that do anything here? I love hubbard squash.
Good friends are always good for life, Diana. Take it slow and have a bunch of fun.
I live in North Georgia and am looking for fall crops. I’ve never grown collards before, but I do love eating them. Any suggestions or recommendations for fall? I have a planting row that is contaminated with the fungus that causes early blight on peppers and tomatoes, so I am looking for something else to put there next spring.
As long as you keep lifing things and moving, you won’t have to worry about bone loss. I life weights, 81 and have good strong bones, I lat pull 85 pounds. Whenever our truck needed a little help getting whatever hubby put in it, our grandsons, said, “Call Gramma, she’ll get it out” Like you, I’m 5’2” and strong as a little bull. lol.
Ok. Our okra was great. I’m letting them go to seed now.
That’s good to know.
There’s a Peach Pie in there! Clean your glasses, LOL! And yes, my waffles were a disaster. But I shall overcome!
Great pictures thanks for sharing!
You Go, Girl!
Thanks for the pep talk! I’m feeling stronger every day. This little setback has really steeled my resolve to take even EXTRA better care of my body.
Heck, I need a place to keep my soul and keep it movin’ for ANOTHER 50 years at LEAST, LOL! :)
*SMOOCHES*
Baker Creek Seeds in putting on a Heirloom Seed Exposition in Santa Rosa Calif this week and it will be huge according to what Jerry Baker said on a radio Garden Show this morning. We would go if we weren’t in the middle of having our hardwood floors refinished as Santa Rosa is only 4 hours south of us on highway 101..
http://theheirloomexpo.com/events/about/
http://theheirloomexpo.com/2011/05/168/
...and I suppose if I cleaned my glasses I would see the peach crumb cobbler sitting on Mr. Wonderful’s breakfast plate???
That was ‘The Great Waffle Disaster of 20-Ought-Eleven’, LOL!
We have plenty of seed pods, if you would like me to send some to you. All you need to is ask. :)
My wisteria actually does a better job of sending up volunteers than the trumpet vines, and after the initial full bloom in the spring, the wisteria blooms off and on all summer long (maybe when it has adequate water, but that is a guess on my part).
I have a large wisteria specimen in the southern quad of the yard and it has been there for at least 50 years. It stays beautifully green until the first hard freeze (which is generally after Christmas here). Our trumpet vines have really suffered in the heat and drought this year.
Wisteria
In California my folks had a wisteria that grew over an arbor like a grape vine and was GORGEOUS!
In the South they grow to the tops of pine trees, the main trunks are huge, and destructive. They will destroy a chain link fence.
IMveryHO, wisteria is gorgeous where it has lots and lots of room. Trumpet vine endures a lot of pruning and shaping in a small space.
Wisteria get lots of water in the South. The California wisteria got medium water and was a reasonable size (large grape vine.)
They endure cold, but the one I know of that survives on low water has never outgrown the large container it’s been in for years.
My trumpet transplants are not thriving, but surviving high heat, and dry soil.
Great fun isn’t it!
Have you ever transplanted an Apache Plume? It get’s mad if I water it, and then stays mad when it dries out. I’m hoping cooler weather, and magical spring renewal will bring it back.
Why do they thrive in the cracks of blacktop roads?
The trumpet vine sounds like a good idea the more I think about it. The spot it would go into would definitely limit its ability to send out new plants. I had one at another house and new plants would pop up every year, some 30 and 40 feet away from the main plant. I could pull up the newbie and the root and follow it clear across the yard to the momma. I’ve seen trumpet around Missouri in red, orange and yellow.
I will eventually build an arbour or pergola behind our house over an old, concrete pad. I intend to put wisteria there and let it grow over the top. There is a house about a mile from here with one like that in front and they use it for a carport. It would be great shade for the back, west side of the house. Plus, the wisteria would be right under our bedroom window so the fragrance would be heavenly.
Thank you all so much for your kind advise. I leave the house before the garden thread is posted and come home way late. RedDevil was a real sweetie to do this for me.
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