Posted on 08/09/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Wow!! Beauuuuutiful... I didn’t ever get around to planting many pots this year. Best laid plans and all that. In years, past I have planted in lots of containers when I ran out of room in the raised beds.
I actually like it. If it’s too sunny, you don’t have to mess with rigging shade cloth move the pot. Weather gets too cold, bring it indoors.
I ran out of steam and left 2 raised beds. Made them into compost piles till fall. Then I’ll plant some rye to turn under in the spring.
You are using a different weather website than I do. Mine updated Sat to full sunny, and 30% Sun w/ iso showers with the next best chance being Wed. These little light rain showers are small and often never rains here at our place or not nearly enough to help. We haven’t had any rain in two weeks or more. Two weeks ago I used the garden auger to drill some holes for a street number sign and at 20in it was still turning up dry sand. We will survive it.
LOL. What a wise aker you are.
Thank you, I will search that.
Love flowers. Thanks for the pictures. Gotta make sure Johnny sees these.LOL
Thank you much, Marcella, for the Paul Harvey on that. My inquiring mind was wondering. :)
OMGosh, these are awesome, and what type of camera are you using? Talk about quality images!
Great looking tomato and kid. Thanks for sharing the picture and the tip.
I found out that mushroom compost works great for growing lettuce and spinach too. Best crop ever this year was planted in a bag of mushroom compost.
Hi Everybody!
My herbs are doing quite nicely here in the tropics!
Rain every day, then bright sun.
Thanks...the camera is just a little digital, a Panasonic DMC-TZ5.
I found out that mushroom compost works great for growing lettuce and spinach too. Best crop ever this year was planted in a bag of mushroom compost.Thanks greeneyes... The lettuce and spinach were grown only in mushroom compost?
Beautiful!
Thanks. As I told my doc I am not back to baseline, and I simply must get there, since that baseline of sooooo much less than it should be.
I haven’t felt like that since 1992. My blood count was so low the doc told me that I needed a transfusion, and they would have given me one in the 50s. However due to HIV risk, she was just going to treat it with pills and shots.
I should have a few good years of decent energy left, and I am determined to get the entire cause nailed down and fixed.LOL
He said you are a hoot, but he came up with an additional game plan.LOL
Incredible!
There is a lady somewhat near here named Esther. She has a field of categorized day lilies that she sells for 5 bucks a plant. She is a great resource for lily lovers. I’ll ask about the Madonna’s.
Watering at ground level in pots can still lead to harmful salt/mineral buildup.
When I am stumped, and not sure about stuff, here is, what I do. Treat with pyola both sides of leaves, good dose of 15 30 15 or 15 15 15 water soluable for quick results or use similar organic stuff like blood meal, bone meal. Add long term release granules such as osmote or other brand.
Switch to steady watering via ceramic gizmo and plastic soda bottle. Sometimes I also treat with fungicide. Cut off infected leaves. Pick the plant with the least fruit, and repot it giving a good inspection to the roots.
That’s all I can think of. I surely don’t know why they are doing well.
/johnny
LOL. Good for you. Our peach trees are not doing well, dying in fact. Daughter’s peach trees have produced well for 3 years, but she never gets around to treating them, so they have worms.
Usually I go over and get some, cut out the worms and have a pie or something. This year I didn’t know they were ripe, so they just all fell on the ground and deteriorated.
Next year, I am going to have hubby spray them around February or early March, and burn any of those white bags off before the fruits start.
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