Posted on 10/11/2013 12:29:02 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Hi all. Greetings from Tennessee. It’s so good to read everyone’s gardening adventures and travails. Weather has been great here. Mild with occasional rain. Love the fall season here.
I have suffered a setback in the roses department. ( no snickering Johnny). The hubby and I spent a boatload of money to have some horrendous nasty boxwood bushes removed from the front of our house two years ago. Planted 9 gorgeous knock out roses in their place. They have just been gorgeous. Until now. About half of them are afflicted with “rose rosette” virus. Long story short-it is a virus with no cure with specimens succumbing to the disease within 1-2 years. So back to square one. Blast. Curses and foul. I’m in mourning.
The veggie garden is doing well. Bumper crop of green beans almost ready. Planted cauliflower and broccoli. Still have a few peppers. Still need to dig up the sweet potatoes. The hubs and I are getting our first freezer the next weekend. Can’t wait!
Sure enjoy hearing everyone’s stories. Happy gardening!
Good to hear from you. My roses came down with something last year during the drought, and haven’t really recovered. I have been thinking about pulling them all out, treating the soil and just planting some annuals for a while.
The rosa rugosa plantied close to the end of the septic tank field, however is going strong. I think the soil was a little wetter there last year. I didn’t even water them at all.
Good ole green beans and peppers seem to be my best consistent products. Peanuts I grew this year may be added to the list. We’ll see if they repeat the success next year.
Can I be added to the ping list please though I am in the UK it is very interesting to read the similarities and differences in gardening.
If you can buy some from the grocery store, here’s a link on how to grow it yourself:
http://www.ehow.com/info_8272244_can-plant-horseradish-store.html
I heard you could do that, may try it.
I understand that once established, it tends to be invasive.
I was very suprised to see our persimmon tree have so much fruit this year. I figured that it would be retarded due to last year’s drought.
Wish my freezer didn’t conk out. If it could be trusted, I would freeze the ripe persimmons to use as needed. I can not eat very many at once, they are just too rich.
“tough if he doesn’t like it; when he gets hungry, he’ll eat it. This isn’t a short-order house!”
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LOL. My long time saying: Two choices for dinner: Take it or leave it.LOL
Certainly. Welcome. I would love to hear all about your experiences and weather too.
Well, I don’t know much about it. The only time I need it is if I make my own cocktail sauce for seafood. That doesn’t happen very often, since I like all the fried stuff with tarter sauce.LOL
Thx greeneyes. You’re in Missouri? I’ve toyed with the idea of growing peanuts. Have you had pretty good luck growing them?
A few pots of soil and a whole lotta love!
I love ripe persimmons. Can eat several a day in the season.
And the dried persimmons are great any time. They taste much like dates when they are properly dried. It is quite a bit of work to peal, hang and roll each persimmon regularly in the drying process. The end product is amazing.
Glad to have you join us from across the pond. :). Would love to hear about your gardening experiences there. Welcome!
Those 2 things upped my success from about 2% to 85%.
/johnny
Neighbor says: "I don't think my dog would eat lima beans".
Farmer says: "He wouldn't either.... for a month".
/johnny
/johnny
Much better luck than I thought was possible. I got the Carolina Black from the Southern Seed Exchange. The jumbo virginia from Burgess didn’t do diddly squat.
But these for the second attempt went very well. I have plans to plant several beds next year in peanuts. I’ll have the roased nuts, to eat, and the green plants for great compost and soil improvement.
We use a lot of horseradish and good horseradish is not that easy to find.
We put it on corned beef, in cocktail sauce for shrimp, on sandwiches, on prime rib or steaks.
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By the way, we are getting pretty busy with the wheat seed business now. Next few weeks should be pretty hectic. Those planting now are generally using it for winter grazing for cattle. Since we sell certified seed most of our customers wait a bit longer to plant. We normally plant around the 1st of November. Hedging the late frost around the first part of April. Past few days we have been doing some custom wheat cleaning for our locals.
Whole lot of love? Maybe, but I actually started having better luck when I started practicing benign neglect.
I used to kill my houseplants with kindness.LOL
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