Posted on 08/09/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/06/NYC-heThe Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you.
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I like the refrigerator pickle recipe with onions. Sometimes I make it with just the onions. I love them on salads makes the onions kinda sweet and not so much bite.
For those with limited space, here's a shot that depicts our "full" garden [from left to right] sunflowers, beets, mesclun greens, radishes, pots of herbs/tomatoes, marigolds, then peppers, heirloom Brandywine tomatoes, butternut squash, some borage, and three buckets of blueberry bushes. Plenty of good stuff can come from small spaces.You are so welcome! Been working on some other projects, so I’ve had limited computer time.
Knowing what to do is a head shaker! Because I’m such a newby, I just look at it all as a Grand Experiment, thanking my lucky stars that this affords me a lot of lessons...and even sometimes a side dish for lunch!
Well, whenever you learn something about the amaranth, please share! I’m just hoping that mine will make a seed head so I can at least sort of guess what a mature one looks like.
I haven’t seen any little tinies like you are describing. Maybe I should get my magnifying glass out there and take a peek.
Please, may I ask, what is the weed paper you are referring to?
I did have to use the magnifying glass to see mine, but I would probably have to have a powerful microscope like they use on CSI to see it well enough to identify it.
Nicely done. Very attractive too. Retention is a big problem for me right now. Research and read it tonight, and forget it tomorrow.
If I print it, I forget where I put it. If I make a note to remind me where it is, I forget to look at the note or lose it. LOL.
They say if you write it down it will help you to remember it. So eventually I do remember some stuff. I am still amazed at what my brain chooses to remember. It is often not what I conciously try to remember.LOL
Nevermind...just read post 116! thanks for the tip!
LOL. Okie dokie Texokie.LOL
Wonderful daylillies/lillies.
“Well, many experts say no you need at least 5 gallons.
I have never tried to grow a big tomato like the mortgage lifter in pots.”
I believe it was 5 gallons ones my son filled when he was here - think there are 4 of those.
The container the mortgage lifters are in is BIG, really BIG. When I take the others out, the two remaining ones in that container will have all the room they need to grow, plenty of depth and space otherwise. They won’t know the difference between the ground and that container except they will get better food value in the container than in the ground.
I have another one of the big containers so maybe I will fill it up with potting soil mix and put two of those tomatoes in that. That means bring in the big container (this one has wheels), and fill it up with potting soil mix in the house. I have a wood floor so at least errant soil won’t get on a carpet. That makes fill the big container and the tomato barrel I’ll use for the squash, in the house.
I think I need a gardener that isn’t me. Well, I have a date with an attorney on Sunday but he probably has no idea how to grow anything but law suits.
Some of the chickpeas I planted are sprouting, they're a pretty plant. I never realized that.
My grape tomatoes and cucumbers are ripening! Just a few here and there, but still, yummy!
My runner beans seem to have gotten a second wind. There are little bean pods all over the vines now, where before there were only a handful. Runner beans are a perennial in warmer climates, so I'm hoping they'll keep producing even as the older pods ripen. I want seeds more than green beans right now. The older pods are HUGE! They look more like catalpa pods.
There's a delay in my rabbit-keeping endeavors. I got permission, but I need someone to get the wire fencing down from the attic so I can build a hutch. I'm not strong enough yet to get it down myself because of the surgery. Every time I ask dad, he insists he already got it, and then he points to the squirrel trap. I know they're both made of wire mesh, but they really aren't interchangeable, dad!
Kinda reminds me of my last years at work. I also had reminders (in a file) not on display.
Sometimes I would get so frustrated. Then I would look at my retirement plan and realise that I could probably quit if I wanted. I’d just have to do without that special project.
Some how this made me less frustrated and more willing to go on. Just the knowledge that I was not stuck and it truly was a choice.
LOL. You are probably right about the attorney. I hope you get all heavy stuff done in the Spring next year well before the heat.
It makes life much easier if all you have to do is water, pick a weed or two, and pick your produce. This is the time of year that I spend about 10 minutes tops, unless we have a cool spell.
“Retention is a big problem for me right now. Research and read it tonight, and forget it tomorrow. If I print it, I forget where I put it. If I make a note to remind me where it is, I forget to look at the note or lose it.”
You probably didn’t see the article on FR about the new study done with elderly people and hot chocolate. I copied it and sent it to my friend in the Texas hill country since she has the same problem you do. Drink two cups a day of hot chocolate. I am doing it, too, although my memory is good this is insurance. Here is the study:
“In the new study, the team from Harvard randomly assigned 60 elderly people to drink two cups of flavanol-rich or flavanol-poor cocoa every day for a month.
There weren’t any overall differences between the high- and low-flavanol groups in terms of cognitive abilities, so the researchers looked a little deeper. They found that people who had compromised blood flow to the brain and white matter damage at the beginning of the study did show a difference after drinking the cocoa for a month: Blood flow in their brains improved by about 8%, and the time it took them to complete a working memory test dropped from 167 seconds to 116 seconds.
The problem is that not only do we not know exactly how cocoa does this, but we don’t really even know what compound in it is responsible.
While the authors don’t think cocoa’s effects have to do with the flavanols, they do say that in the future, “regular cocoa consumption may be a strategy to minimize (perhaps even reverse) cerebral vascular pathology in neurodegenerative disorders, regardless of its flavanol content.””
Hey! You rhymed me! LOL!
Yes, I had read some stuff about cocoa too. There is some place where they use it with water to make a cocoa drink good for brain and all manner of other stuff that I can’t exactly remember.
I do drink hot chocolate in the winter time, and other stuff in the summer. Cocoa can not hold a candle to oxygen. My brain needs oxygen, and REM sleep in the deepest 4th stage and it doesn’t get it.
I did indeed, and it was deliberate.LOL
I planted more of those yard long beans this week on my cattle panel hoop (which will eventually be a Texas Prepper’s Greenhouse). They’re already four inches tall. The heat doesn’t phase them.
I see green bean casseroles in my future..Too bad I don’t like green beans.
BTW, my okra is just sitting there. It’s the second planting as sow bugs ate the first..It’s been about six inches tall forever. Tycoon tomatoes are doing good. Eggplants look good. It’s just too hot for them to bear fruit right now.
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