Posted on 04/05/2013 12:36:13 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Holy cow. I’m impressed! We have some very accomplished gardeners here.
Ours got a goodly dose from what we dried for them last Fall. Shameful parenting, drugging the kids, then laughing at their antics.
Meanwhile, I’ve seen the first shoots from the main catnip clumps starting to leaf out. Had to get rid of some last year, and probably will again this year to keep that invasiveness under control.
Have another dish of cat-grass for them, too. One loves it more than fresh liver; the other can take it or leave it: take it, if the one is chewing it; or leave it if the other one isn’t around to dominate.
Thanks as always for this thread, greeneyes.
Just had a friend call to ask if I still had a garden because hers had been destroyed, too. Said on top of everything, the dogs had had a mud wrestling party in it so told her husband there’d better be t-posts and an electric fence up by the time she gets back home Sunday. She didn’t get the flooding or hail but her tomatoes, cukes and other plants are gone. Guess there will be several of us starting over.
Have to fix the flower bed - again - too. The river of rain washed the edging blocks out. You can tell where the water was from the debris left. Hubby was out sweeping it back because it was this close to coming in the front door and did get into the garage. I’m up for one more try but after that, Mother Nature wins. Truth be told, she has already won because the heat will be here before things get growing again.
I have cleaned up some around the house and they are starting to come out and take over in the front beds and around the house.
I have no idea what they are, but my neighbor across the street is into the flowers etc... and she says they are pretty.
Meh... I can't eat 'em, so I don't care too much.
/johnny
Of course, there's plenty of opportunity in the next few months. I've got plastic and supports I can use if I get out there in time, but mother nature can be a real.... witch.
/johnny
We’re going to attempt the Three Sisters method of raising corn, beans and squash this year. We bought and started the seeds before we thought of doing that, so the squash might not be satisfactory in terms of shading the ground and conserving moisture. We have no idea what we’re doing.
I’m sorry about your garden. :(
The cold and rainy weather has finally ended here in the SW Va corner. March’s elec bill is twice last years. Garden should finally dry out enough to till next week.
Got free Hazelnut, American Plum, and Chinquapin saplings at the County extension service Weds. The Red Mulberry was all gone when we got there just an hour after they started.
Got some Hazelnut from them 3 years ago and hope these are a different variety- as it turns out Hazelnut types won’t polinate themselves or other trees of the same variety!.Doesn;t make sense that a plant would survive with their weird way of pollinating: first they make the male pollen and later they grow the female flowers- after their pollen is gone.
So they all depend on different varieties- which produce pollen at different times- for pollination.That’s taking cross-pollination too far IMHO.
Chinquapin was mostly wiped out here by the Chestnut blight so I’m looking forward to having some for my mother who loved the nuts as a kid.
I applaud your effort. I have considered growning flax and weaving it into fabric, but decided to leave that skill to others.
Looking for USA made products has saved me money. I look at the made in China and put it back. I look at the made in USA and can’t afford it, so I put in down too.LOL
After reading all that you have done, I need to go lay down and rest.LOL
You have a lot going on.
Yes, we have frost troubles too off and on. I am just too lazy to take a chance on needing to replant. So I just limit planting to lettuce and spinach and cover with a row cover till better weather is certain.
You are welcome.
It should be ok. Sometimes, I even plant melons instead of squash.LOL
That’s a wise decision. I’m hoping that we have seen the last of snow here in Massachusetts, but a late frost is always a threat.
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The link didn’t work for me, but I did a search and found this-I think it’s the same. So here’s another to try. Thanks for the information.
We have walnuts and butternuts, but have been trying to get some almond, english walnuts, and hazelnuts going. So far they don’t make it through the season.
You must live south of me - I'm in Conroe. I was supposed to get that high destructive wind and the hail, had warnings it was coming, but I only got the rain. Houston and points south did get it, so maybe you are in that area.
I am so sorry about your garden. In terms of an emergency, one has to have food put away in case they lose their garden to weather. Anything here that was planted in 2011, died - that was the worst I have ever been through with those many days, over and over, of 105-107. It broiled my climbing roses, killed them all. A lot of money went into those roses and now that back white wall is bare. I haven't gotten out there and cut down all those thorny bushes and vines. My son will visit in May, so he can do it.
There is nothing to say that will make your garden come back. I grieved over all those dead roses so I know how you feel about your garden.
I am so not good at this gardening stuff. I should have moved the pots with tomatoes and put them under the roofed deck out there and I didn't even think to move them. If I had gotten the hail they said I was going to get, they would have been destroyed. The next time I have bad weather coming, I will think of you and move those pots under the roof.
Well, like I said it’s borne more of what some may call laziness rather than wisdom. One of my distant relatives used to call it dropsey and heart trouble.
She said, “I drops down, and I don’t have the heart to get back up!”LOL
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