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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 30 JULY 26, 2013
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| 7/26/2013
| greeneyes
Posted on 07/26/2013 12:53:13 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Marcella; MissMagnolia
Got my cattle panels today for the Texas Prepper’s Greenhouse..well, okay, my gunsmith got them for me..but I had to drag them into the backyard.
Now, I just have to wait for some cold weather..November, maybe?
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posted on
07/27/2013 12:29:39 PM PDT
by
sockmonkey
(Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
To: JRandomFreeper
Oh. My. Goodness. I bet that was a painful, unpleasant learning experience......shudder....
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posted on
07/27/2013 12:42:38 PM PDT
by
murrie
(Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
To: JRandomFreeper
LOL!!! Cleared your sinuses, did it?
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posted on
07/27/2013 12:46:40 PM PDT
by
Ellendra
("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
To: murrie
That which doesn't kill us.... makes us weep like small girls.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Hey /johnny some time back you recommended a soak for seeds prior to planting but I cant remember fully. Seaweed mix I think. Do you soak all of your seeds and with what mixture/ ratio and for how long?
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posted on
07/27/2013 1:31:43 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: tflabo
I use liquid seaweed and liquid fish diluted per the container instructions. I soak all of the seeds that I can see, beans, melons, etc... for about 4 hours before I plant them.
Some seeds, like tobacco, there's no point, I can hardly see them anyway.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Danke /j man— going to try that out on some lettuce and basil seeds I harvested from the garden already. Only about half of my planted seeds seem to germinate so maybe this soaking method will improve the odds.
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posted on
07/27/2013 2:16:45 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: sockmonkey
Oh wow - I’m jealous!! That is what I want ... one of these days it IS going to happen! :-)
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posted on
07/27/2013 2:22:44 PM PDT
by
MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: tflabo
Almost forgot, I also use about 2oz of molasses per gallon of water, and include that.
My actual recipe (more or less) is 2 oz liquid seaweed, 1 oz liquid fish, 2 oz molasses per gallon of water.
That's the same mix I use to spray for foliar feed and put in the drip trays for bottom feeding seedlings.
Good luck. My basil self-seeds here, so I rarely have to worry about starting seeds, it's just back every year.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Ahhh the molasses, lest we forget..... I asked a young black employee at Walmart where they stocked it and he never even heard of it. Times have changed ay? Anyway I found it and brought it back to show him — everyday brings an education of sorts for us all if we are open to receive it.
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posted on
07/27/2013 2:34:44 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: MissMagnolia; sockmonkey; JRandomFreeper; All
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:00:37 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: greeneyes
Nope; me neither; only thing that still goes into the live traps is skunks, and haven’t got any of even them since May. That is NOT a complaint, LOL
I did spot a rabbit in the garden night before last, raiding the nearly ready to harvest wheat & beans. It had managed to force an opening in the chicken wire around the bottom of the fence.
Last night I waited for it to show up, and permanently ended its career of terrorizing poor defenseless vegetables.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:57:09 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: greeneyes
Have y'all seen this? What a great way to introduce people to gardening!
Nourishmat
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:26:44 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(You don't like the way I drive? Stay off the sidewalk.)
To: JRandomFreeper
WASH the knife after slicing jalapenos and before shredding the tobacco (like I didn't). I never sucked my thumb, but my brother did, and my Mom would "paint" his thumb with some kind of horrible burning stuff to make him stop.
You may have invented a stop smoking product similar to the old thumb sucking stopper.
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posted on
07/27/2013 5:15:48 PM PDT
by
sockmonkey
(Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
To: greeneyes
I bet you could can the stuffing! Mr. Sg canned a couple of his BBQ'd pork/bean/rice meals last winter (made sufficient quantity to serve as a meal and then can a couple of quarts). They come in very handy when you're exhausted and need solid, nourishing food that tastes good.
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posted on
07/27/2013 5:18:11 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(You don't like the way I drive? Stay off the sidewalk.)
To: sockmonkey
My parents tried that on my brother, he ended up liking it!
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posted on
07/27/2013 5:41:30 PM PDT
by
Ellendra
("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
To: sockmonkey
Why wait? You can plant vining plants and let them climb the cattle panels.
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posted on
07/27/2013 8:13:09 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
I just did something crazy and requested seeds from GRIN, the government seed bank! Eeek!
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posted on
07/27/2013 8:33:10 PM PDT
by
Ellendra
("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
To: Ellendra
I just did something crazy and requested seeds from GRIN, the government seed bank! Eeek! Well, now you will be on yet another government list..Will they let you plant them at the re-education camp?
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posted on
07/27/2013 9:54:59 PM PDT
by
sockmonkey
(Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
To: Ellendra
I just did something crazy and requested seeds from GRIN, the government seed bank! Eeek! Okay, now I had to go read about GRIN. I see they also have sperm..
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posted on
07/27/2013 9:58:30 PM PDT
by
sockmonkey
(Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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