Posted on 05/10/2013 2:41:33 PM PDT by greeneyes
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If you are throwing up after taking your pain med-consider changing pain meds. I have horrendous nausea for about 36 hours with half a grain of codeine. No way will I take anything related to codeine. Possibly a different pain med would be better.
Except for tomato starts. You can bury them up to the neck and they do great.
The new kid on the block is the grafted tomato-(and peppers if I recall) the Backyard Farmer program from UNL says the grated are not planted deeply like we do the regular plants. The idea of grafting of course is to get the best of two worlds. Pest and disease resistance of one and bigger production with the good taste of the other. I have not tried grafted yet.
Thanks for the ping.
Hope your health improves.
You are welcome. I am already a lot better. The C2 is almost back in place, and I can walk up the small stairs, and put on my socks.
That leaves pedicures, and 3 other vertebra, the big stairs, and upper body strength to go.
/johnny
Keep us updated.
/johnny
I don’t even have blossoms on tomatoes yet. “sigh” I do have some bell peppers and fooled you jalepeno’s growing well though.
Still have a few leaves of Romaine left for sandwiches. Garlic is doing well should be ready mid june for harvest. I have 1 yes 1 carrot left from last fall’s planting, grown over the winter so that they are mature early spring.
/johnny
Fruits from Gardens Alive:
Blueberries 5
Blackberries 5
Raspberries 4
Strawberries 5
The rest of the fruits they either don’t list, or if listed, don’t rate.
Hi Johnny. Couldn’t resist. I’m still trying to learn how to post picks. Got two posted. Can’t seem to get the others uploaded. Oh well I’ll figure it out. Greetings from a wet Tennessee. It has rained so much and often that I’m a month or more behind It is worrying me to no end. Weeds everywhere. So much work to be done and it just keeps raining. But it is not good to complain or worry. Next weekend is looking like it might be dry enough to till and get things in the ground. Sure enjoy hearing about everyone’s gardening adventures.
I studied up on “ingesting” it.
I figure if they can give it to million-dollar racehorses, it couldn’t hurt me!
I opened new garden space this year and it has bermuda in it. The stuff will be there and I'll be fighting it for the next 2 years.
I spent part of today dealing with that.
But my tobacco is so very, very happy. I've never seen tobacco so short, but the leaves are getting gigantic.
/johnny
Thanks for the picture of the yellow rose. Yellow IS my favorite color doncha know?
The raised beds with Mel’s mix are not really bothered too much with the rain. It drains off so quickly, you can get right back too it pretty fast.
The resto of the beds have enough clay to be a real pain when blessed with rain.
Lovely pictures Alice. Thanks for sharing.
This area used to be a beach back a million years or so ago.
The 2 yards of fine tree mulch that my son-in-law brought in made a heck of a difference in the hydrology of the garden. I've only used the drip irrigation once this year, and that was for the peanuts, which can't have landscaping fabric or heavy mulch around them.
/johnny
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Oh— and it’s supposed to start getting into the 100’s here next week, which is about right on schedule for our long summer to start. For us, the end of the Spring gardening season is getting very near the end.
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