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Sorry to be so late to the party. I never thought that I would be this delayed in getting back to the computer today.

It's been raining all day today and lots during the week. Hubby has not been able to work construction, so he's been busy harvesting during the temporary cessations of rain, and produce has been busy producing like there is not tomorrow.

Hope you are all well. Have a great weekend, and God Bless.

1 posted on 08/09/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Glad you are getting rain, not so here in SE Texas.


2 posted on 08/09/2013 3:15:05 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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Hi! Heading out for fish Fry.


3 posted on 08/09/2013 3:16:51 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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I need some help with my Ghost Peppers. They are not doing well.

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I put some calcium on it and a little nitrogen, but they don't look any better. Help please!

4 posted on 08/09/2013 3:17:53 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: greeneyes; Diana in Wisconsin; gardengirl; girlangler; SunkenCiv; HungarianGypsy; Gabz; ...

Pinging the list.


6 posted on 08/09/2013 3:20:36 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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I don’t know how I managed to get Brietbart in there, and I don’t know if it’s possible to take it out. Please feel free to ignore it.LOL


7 posted on 08/09/2013 3:22:25 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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Peanuts are about the only thing in the main garden that haven't been harvested. Soon, I put the fall tomato plants in the ground, they look strong and healthy in their pots.

We need rain, and it's been hot. We saw 109F one day this week. Supposed to be a chance of rain over the weekend, and we need it. Badly.

/johnny

9 posted on 08/09/2013 3:24:32 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Pretty good year in SE Wisconsin. My Contender green bush beans barely survived getting chewed on by little white flying things. The Roma style flat green beans were not affected at all. All the other veggies are doing well.


10 posted on 08/09/2013 3:24:36 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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Hi greeneyes! Thanks for posting the thread! We ended up planting all of our herbs and vegetables in containers this year, but it's not such a bad thing. This is one of our most interesting results:

This is a new one for us. :)

It's sitting on our kitchen counter at the moment, but I think my husband may be cooking it tonight.

12 posted on 08/09/2013 3:28:58 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Everything is doing well here in Western Washington state - corn and tomatoes ripening and we are buried in green beans.


15 posted on 08/09/2013 3:30:56 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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My wife is a lily lover and has a gorgeous garden. This photo was taken minutes ago...

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23 posted on 08/09/2013 3:37:54 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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1st red Brandywine, 08-2013Our first "red/pink" (heirloom) Brandywine (about to be enjoyed by our son) was gathered last week. Our daughter partook (of our second Brandywine yesterday) stating it was the best tomato she had ever eaten, smooth and with a sweet aftertaste. As a tip for those only getting a few fruits off of this variety (as per someone's tip online), I placed mushroom compost under the plants and shook them (to move the pollen around) three to four times a day, and after about 7-10 days, all these baby maters started to appear. :) Life is good! Also, for an added taste sensation, we slice most all our veggies on a Himalayan salt slab leaving them on the block for a couple of minutes before indulging. Very yummy!
25 posted on 08/09/2013 3:38:20 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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FYI It is August 9. My brain transposed what I was thinking between the brain and fingers.LOL


28 posted on 08/09/2013 3:40:54 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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I got a peach! One whole peach. But I am happy to have deprived the woodland wildlife of that, let me tell you. It was a wonderful peach, fragrant, juicy, sweet.

The tree had been LOADED this year, second year of producing really. I was unable to save any fruit last year, so this year I experimented with using tulle as netting, and clothespins to hold it in place, protecting select fruit on a handful of branches. Didn’t work.

But one day last week I found one decent sized peach that seemed close to being ripe-so I picked that peach. There were about a dozen smaller ones left still. Next day there was not a single peach on that tree or on the ground beneath. I carefully ripened that one peach, and today .... I ate it.
Bwahahahaha!


36 posted on 08/09/2013 3:50:11 PM PDT by Ladysforest
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My mystery 'mato.

I bought a package of mixed heirloom seeds. I've been watching these tomatoes, but they didn't seem to be getting ripe. Well, it finally dawned on me that maybe they were meant to be green. Sure enough, they're green sausage tomatoes!!

Can't wait to try one. My Black Russians were spectacular!!

Finally - will used kitty litter - the non clumping kind - keep rabbits out of the garden if I spread it around the edges? I've got one little bunny thoroughly enjoying my bush beans and I;d like Mr BunBun to move on to some one else's yard.

38 posted on 08/09/2013 3:51:48 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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We have gotten more rain in the past two months than we normally get during the entirety of our wet season , almost what we get during an entire year .

I normally start my fall tomatoes and peppers this time of year in sunken beds to catch water . The beds are now flooded with standing water and are full of tadpoles. (wish I had planted rice in them lol )

I have a bunch of 55 gallon barrels that were given to me so I think the tomatoes and peppers are going in them for now .

Seeing all this rain it is just hard to fathom that some areas of the country are still very dry.


39 posted on 08/09/2013 3:54:00 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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Hi all - Now that the blistering days of June are gone, the garden has suddenly sprung back to life. It's still hot, of course (104-107), but in a humid and sometimes rainy monsoon-y kind of hot- not the dry 114's and 115's. Lot's of plants that like this weather (cucumbers, squash and eggplant) are producing bigger fruit than ever (just harvest a juicy 1-foot cucumber and had it on a salad for lunch today). 'Course that means the weeds are out of control too. And we were able to start using some of the compost from the compost container we started at the beginning of the Spring planting season. :)

I bought a couple of jalapeno plants yesterday at the nursery and have been watching some YouTube videos on pickling. I think I can do this.

74 posted on 08/09/2013 5:06:11 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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Hi! It’s been raining a lot here too!

I had a couple of proto-yellow squashes die on me. :-( I was looking at a bottle of blossom rot stuff, and it described the condition as the proto-veg starts browning at the blossom end. Well, of course I have to be different! Mine were browning at the stem end and progressing toward the blossom. Don’t have a clue what to do. Actually, I guess at this point, I don’t care, unless someone just happens to know. I’m just keeping the plant alive with its beautiful blooms and enjoying the fact of it.

Better news: I’ve been harvesting the okra! Wow! It’s going great guns! Couldn’t be more tickled! Cucumbers are doing well too!

One of the mammoth sunflowers is over 9 feet tall. Amazing, and one of them is starting to open up. :-D

My very first ever carrots have sprouted! My 2nd batch of snow peas seem extremely happy. The 2nd round of scallop squash has sprouted and the acorn squash seeds from 2009 have sprouted. Have transferred the squash seedlings to their pots.

Some of our roses are blooming and just gorgeous! Darlin decided we needed to have a crimson red crepe myrtle, so we obtained one of them today and are pondering now where to locate it!

Amaranth is still alive and looks healthy, except for the holes in most of the leaves put there presumably by grasshoppers. I have been neeming it, but the rain keeps washing it off.

The garden beans and the black turtle beans are coming into their own and I’ve actually harvested a handful of green beans from each and were they ever yummy in my soup with the okra and one of the tomatoes!

The fava bean plant is still green and growing, but not sure if it is going to make another push.

I got up the courage to fertilize - but this time not the phosphate! I used the Miracle grow food, and we’ll see if that helps.

I have a lone tomato developing which is the first one from a plant I grew from seed. It is about the size of a cherry tomato, and I don’t know if it IS a cherry tomato or something else. There at the end of May, I was throwing tomato seed into pots willy-nilly and I have idea what landed where! The plant seems a little big for a cherry tomato plant, so we’ll see! I did sprout a little cherry tomato seed a few days ago, but it looks like someone chewed on it.

I’ve been wanting to get a stand of chamomile started, and have had a hard time getting any of my seeds to sprout. Finally I have 2 tiny little seedlings sprouted! Hope some others come up too!

I sacrificed my two parsley plants from Lowes to the Swallowtail babies. They’ve gotten nice and fat, and then disappeared. I have no idea if they got eaten, or if they managed to crawl off somewhere to do their thing. I haven’t discovered any cocoons anywhere. I even bought some parsley from the grocery store when it looked like the live plants were just about stripped. That seemed to buy time, because yesterday I saw the plants start putting out some more leaves. I never was able to sprout my parsley seeds and grow a parsley plant this past spring. Oh well.

I do have news on the rooting experiment. I think I last reported that the romaine stumps were doing well, and then didn’t make it. So I can start them, but don’t know/understand yet how to make them happy enough to stay alive.

I tried the root hormone experiment again with celery. This time I left a little more length on the stump. I was excited to find that not only did I get roots, but a little celery sprout started pushing its way up from the center! Darlin’ finally strongly encouraged me to take the experiment outside and plant it! So we’ll see if I’m able to keep this one alive. Any tips on celery from anyone?

Hope all is well with all of you!
blessings
texokie


81 posted on 08/09/2013 5:31:32 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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I wish we’d get some of you rain. Our Brazos River is so low, the catfish have fleas. It’s terrible.


145 posted on 08/10/2013 5:19:30 AM PDT by tillacum
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Have you heard of this greeneyes?

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/10/mycorrhizae-plant-communication.aspx?e_cid=20130810_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130810
152 posted on 08/10/2013 8:54:20 AM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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Picked the last of our apricots today. Most of them went into a pot & got cooked down for sauce that I'll can later; but Mrs. AR saved the best ones for me to can. I put up 8 pints tonight, and of course they all sealed.

These are NOT 'orchard' apricots, but 'shelter belt' apricot trees, so they more closely resemble the wild types: smaller, less sweet, and somewhat drier, so I had to use a heavier syrup than usual for apricots to compensate; they do have a good flavor, though. We bought the seedlings about 12 years ago from the Farm Service Agency, through their Conservation Trees program. For one reason or another, they stayed in 5 gallon pots for 5 or 6 years before we could get them planted out.

They have a very short window between 'not ready', 'good', and 'bird food': they can go from sort of hard & dry to over ripe & turning brown in 24-48 hours, but they ripen over several days instead of all at once.

Some of the sauce, instead of getting canned, will be used tomorrow, along with left over juice & syrup from the cherries, and maybe with the addition of some of our fruit syrups, when Mrs. AR makes a "tuti-fruiti rabbit" for dinner...after which I'll be canning its littermates.

163 posted on 08/11/2013 12:31:39 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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