This is the closest I could find, which doesn't have ends (ignore the right half of the picture). Seems everyone wants fancy and expensive these days.
Posted on 10/04/2013 5:36:16 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
Where's the weekly thread? Anyone have more members of the list?
LOL!
Check out the snow pics on this blog (not my blog so I’m not trolling for pageviews!):
http://somanymiles.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/day-163-a-temporary-stop-by-snow/
This is on the Pacific Crest Trail, North Cascades, Washington State. Evidently SAR has been busy rescuing some folks off the PCT due to the heavy snow.
Thanks, JR. I am draggin tonight. Don’t sleep well at home, and even worse out of town.LOL Gonna have to get off here and go get some rest. Besides, the bright lights in this room are about to blind me.
Catch ya’ll Late Saturday or Sunday.
Thanks, Johnny for the ping.
Ditto Johnny’s WOW! on your snow in contrast to us dripping with sweat here. It’s been in the 90s but did get some sprinkles this week. Maybe Karen will bring some rain and lower temps.
Woohoo! Finally getting the first bell pepper of the year. About time. Still waiting on the “other” maters.
We have no rain since Monday. Finished Sept of with 13 3/4 inches for the month, usually an average of 4.46”
The main veggie patch gets yanked up and cleared out for preparations for next spring’ tomato garden.
The ghost peppers are really making peppers now. That stuff is seriously hot.
My Meyers lemon has one lemon that is about large enough to ripen.
Gunna get final pictures of the ornamental beds and containers for my wife’s blog and Youtube channel.
I get to start cleaning up the attached garage so the I can make it into a woodworking shop. That’s a bigger task than it may sound.
THE FREAKING SQUIRREL WAS IN MY WALKING ONIONS!
Two green shoots were broken over but still okay. I chased him off, then brought in the squirrel cage that had no peanut butter left it in due to rain washing it away. Put gobs of peanut butter and stuck peanuts into the peanut butter and put the trap next to the onions. I hope he hangs himself to death somehow if he gets in there.
I hung out on the Freepathon thread waiting and waiting for news about Jim Robinson and other news about a friend and all that waiting got me ready to kill something and this squirrel today was the last straw. Plus I'm out of Bailey's Irish Crème - got no booze in this house.
The Lantana (is that the name of that flower I got at Lowes? Rightly, what did I get?) has new blooms, the Sesame flower has more new flowers and the pods are growing but not very fast at all.
The “T” Italian squash is approaching 9 feet, no flowers. I had to rescue Mr. Stevia as a tendril of the squash plant was too near him and it wrapped itself one time around a limb of Mr. Stevia. Managed to unwarp the one tendril and rolled (thanks to Rightly for the roll around) it away from Mr. Stevia. That plant is so tall and with half of it hanging down now, if I had to push it because there is no way to lift it without hurting the limbs, I would be in trouble. Rightly’s rolling platform for it saves that plant.
I think I screwed up with the tomatoes by not planting half of the plant under the soil. I may get no tomatoes from those plants but that's okay because I will have great tomatoes next spring since I screwed these up. The cherry tomato I bought has that one fine tomato and now has more blooms.
All the strawberry plants are growing and fine. The baby “T” squash continues to grow. Lettuce, and cucumber and Little Finger Carrot, and Brussels Sprouts, and Giant Zinnia are growing, and those Turnip plants are growing but I think I don't have enough potting soil in there for a root veggie. Bush beans have more flowers.
I have some seeds in I ordered for spring:
Golden Baby Belle Sweet Pepper
Sweet Banana Pepper
Pepperoncini Greek Hot Pepper
Fooled You Pepper (Jalapeno without the heat)
Cantaloupe Vine Peach
I'll order a red sweet pepper plant in spring that is for container growing.
Will definitely get Deck Corn seed when that can be shipped - I'm on their list to notify me.
I will get a Dwarf Fruit Tree of some kind from that south Texas nursery. They start shipping in November.
Will order Ouachita Blackberry 2 yr. plants when they start shipping.
And that is why no apology is necessary! We all knew somebody would post it if you couldn't; we just all tried outwaiting each other: I blinked first.
Enjoy your conference, and don't worry about it.
When we harvested our winter squash on Wednesday, I tape measured one runner: that stem was 29’ long, was not the only stem on that plant; and it also had several long side stems! Also, a lot of the stem nodes had sent down secondary roots to both anchor it, and to help keep it hydrated.
I suspect Mr. T will do the same, given an opportunity. Keep up the great work, and the fun to read posts!
“Also, a lot of the stem nodes had sent down secondary roots to both anchor it, and to help keep it hydrated.”
I have that. I didn’t know to call them stem nodes but there are cream colored strands that came out near the soil and have burrowed into the soil which I think is what you are talking about. My vine grew up the plastic stand with the tendrils wrapping around it to support the plant. Then, when it got to the top, it’s now hanging down and I think if I sat out there at night, I could see it growing because it grows so much in one night.
Screw hooks into the fence, then use 1/2 or 3/4” PVC, with elbows on the ends & Tees every so far, then attach long pieces into those sockets, to construct a lean-too frame, and cover with heavy gage clear plastic. Maybe use thin strips of wood (tongue depressors or popsicle sticks) with staples to attach the plastic to the fence itself, both across the top, and down the ends. Anything to weight down the bottom edges, and you’re in business.
Oh, that looks COLD! Interesting article, thanks for the link.
I know about those shops! I’ve built or cleared out space 3 or 4 times...and it always gets filled before I get to use it!
That's them! I'm not certain, but I think they start as regular tendrils, and are able to adapt themselves into roots under the right conditions.
Okay, I “think” I understand this. What would I do about the sides of the lean-to?
This is the closest I could find, which doesn't have ends (ignore the right half of the picture). Seems everyone wants fancy and expensive these days.
Thanks for the pings and sorry I’m late. The weather has been fabulous here and am making slow progress in the garden with cleanup which involves many things like adding to the compost piles moving ahead on the Garlic bed and am ready to spade that soon. I don’t mind being 80 but the BP meds slow me down especially the Statin drug. I’ll have a couple of photos of some things to post later...
Looking forward to the photos.
Same here. Trouble is I need to store an old car in there too. Everything has to have casters. I am caster king according to my wife. She is now convinced of the utility of having everything easy to move around. She has a hobby shop too, where things need to move around periodically. So I am Chief Engineer in charge making everything happen.
“I am caster king according to my wife.”
You are the caster king. I think about you every time I roll the big “T” squash plant.
Please read my post 25. I forgot to put your name at the top.
After critters ate about 3/4 of my chickpeas, I still harvested almost enough to replace what I’d planted.
Yeah, fences going up next year. Definitely.
I have piles and piles of seeds drying now. Tomatoes, squash, beans, chickpeas, etc. And my tomatoes keep ripening! They need caged better next time, they’re folding in on themselves so much it’s hard to see if there are tomatoes under all that vine.
Not much to report this week, I won’t be getting out to my land because of the rain expected, and everything is kind of finishing up. I do have 3 tupperware full of squash and a slow cooker full of tomatoe sauce in the fridge that I need to do something with.
Mainly I’m just tired.
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