Posted on 09/09/2011 5:02:47 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
I was going to comment that you really landed on your feet fast, but I thought better of it. I figure that this is not the time to make jokes about your feet! LOL.
All kidding aside, I hope your foot gets better fast, but don’t rush it. You look tiny in your pictures. Does osteoporosous run in your family? Do you take calcium? I’ll add you to my prayer list.
Major thanks DR! I will thank you more in the morning. I happen to like greens and they freeze well after blanching. They are a huge power house of bone and blood healing gifts from nature. Tampa is just due West of where I’m from (Seminole County)
Thanks again FRiend! Off to rest since this huge medical ordeal. Every day is better.
That is so great! You going to raise them until they are ready to release? Take them far down the road if you do.
Cut the Squash off the vine with hand pruners to save the stem. You might try sealing the scar with hot wax or some type of glue...
We have Mealy Bugs here in coastal northern Calif but I don’t think they jump. I just mash em with my fingers...
Thanks for your thoughts & prayers. Nope. No osteo problems in my family - I’m just a shrimp, 5’1” and holding. My bone density test last year was fine. I’m a Dairy Girl. I drink milk, eat cheese & yogurt and take calcium supplements every day. Don’t smoke; never have (which really sucks the calcium out of your system...)
I take after my Grandma Rose who was a scant 4’10”. Mr. Wonderful is 6’3”. YOU do the math, LOL!
It’s up to momma rabbit to raise them up enough to leave the nest. Couple more days and they’ll be big enough to get out on their own.
You’re right these aren’t mealy bugs. I’m going to OSU extension and see what I can find.
Bless you and your bountiful gardens!
I’m thinking of some salad greens, turnips, radishes, pepper cress. What else is good to plant in central Tx for the fall? I’m even thinking of heirloom tomatoes, from seed. Think they’ll grow?
Our stock tank it absolutely dry. The lake on the golf course is about half it’s normal size. The grass is beige, except on the greens. Our town is on black clay, so the fairways have huge and deep cracks everywhere.
No. DE is made of limestone from the shells of fossilized plankton. It dissolves on contact with moisture unfortunately. Takes a couple of days to kill bugs so I try to check the forecast for rain before applying.
I usually plant cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli in the fall. All of those do well in central Texas fall gardens. Bell peppers are also a good crop for fall.
Georgia Collards, Ichiban Eggplant, cabbage, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, and Waltham butternut squash did very well in last year’s fall garden.
Yes, heirloom tomatoes from seed will grow. I start mine indoors. For San Antonio, our average first frost arrives around 15 November. Find your average frost date and keep it in mind.
I’m not planting heirlooms for the Fall. Hybrid varieties I’m planting are 4th of July (49 days), Tycoon (75 days), Phoenix (60 days), Celebrity (72 days) and BHN 444s (76 days).
I’ve had a heck of a time keeping transplants alive in this heat. About half the Celebrity and BHN 444s shriveled up when moved from 1 gallon to 15 gallon pots. After moving them they seemed to develope some kind of powdery mildew and shortly thereafter passed on to that big tomato box in the sky. They all had flowers. —sigh—
Pretty much the same fate for the first 18 cucumber seedlings I transplanted in two attempts. Practically overnight they shriveled up and died. My General Lee’s, however, are now two feet long and climbing with flowers. —fingers crossed— Got about 12 more seedlings in three varieties waiting to go into earthboxes (cucinas, soyu long, and MCI hybrid).
Had outstanding luck with the baby cucinas and soyu longs during the spring. The cucinas are minatures and the soyu long produced cukes almost two feet long. Both have great taste.
Good luck.
Oh, I forgot. I don’t grow them, but my father-in-law down the street always gets a bumper crop of okra.
Let us know what works for you.
diatomaceous earth does not dissolve in water it is 80 to 90% silica, from diatoms. It does wash away though. It is used in some hydroponic growing systems. and as a growing medium for bonzi trees. It retains water and nutrients, while draining fast and freely, allowing high oxygen circulation within the growing medium.
OMG!!!! I just counted twenty Brandywines on one plant; each one a monster...my freezers are FULL of tomato sauce, now we are working on a freezer at an alternate location. My kitchen is still full of tomatoes, and there are hundreds more outside. If that weren't enough; the hot peppers and bell peppers are just about ready...OMG.
By the way only use food grade DE on your garden.
I envy you!
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