The lemon grass that I had in water to root finally got serious enough that I had to pot it. It's almost 3 ft tall, the other one is just a little shorter. I guess I'm growing lemon grass now.
/johnny
Posted on 12/27/2013 12:25:05 PM PST by greeneyes
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We have been sitting by the patio door drinking in the sun shine and drinking some Wassail. Got a lot of cleaning done this AM, including giving all the house plants a bath in the tub to wash all the dust and bugs off the plants. Trimmed them all to fit the space they are growing in.
Hard to believe but another year is nearly gone. This is the last ping for the year. After the holiday break, the garden catalogs will come out to study. I won't be buying much this year as I over purschased and under planted last year. LOL
Have a great weekend, and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! God Bless.
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The lemon grass that I had in water to root finally got serious enough that I had to pot it. It's almost 3 ft tall, the other one is just a little shorter. I guess I'm growing lemon grass now.
/johnny
How cool is that!?
The rebel tobacco plant as of this morning. The shotgun shell is for scale.
That plant just has no idea it's the wrong time of year for it. So I'll play along with it.
It will have to be re-potted into a gallon container in the next few days.
/johnny
/johnny
Good afternoon. I hope you had a merry Christmas with all the family.
We had the Ms. gang out and it was great, but is good to get back to the everyday routine.
Nothing much going on in the garden, we did get the teenagers to spread compost over the garden while they were here.
Thinking about seed starting that will go on in a few weeks. Gunna do something a little different this year. Gunna bend a cattle panel over into an arch and grow some trombone squash and heirloom maters in containers and let them grow overhead. Need to do someting different to keep interest alive, same old, same old kinda gets old.
I guess you are!LOL
That’s a nice looking plant. Thanks for the photos of that and the lemon grass.
I wasn’t clever enough to root any of my own. I bought a plant from either shumway or jungs last spring. Put it in the biggest pot I had and it very nearly filled it by the end of the growing season. It’s in my garage right now. I might separate it next year but I need to read up on that first, lemongrass might take offense to that.
There’s about 15 inches of snow on the ground around here — no outdoor gardening will be done in Wisconsin. I did receive my first garden catalog, however, — from Jung’s. Thank you Diana. But, it’s too early to be browsing and dreaming yet.
We had a most unusal event here. There was a huge barn fire in my neighborhood on Christmas. (about a mile from my house) Do you know how I found out about it? An email from Southern California from a former business colleague of my husband’s whose grown daughter knew the wife of the farmer from AFS years ago.
This fire was so big that it burned from 5 AM until late in the night on Christmas, but we didn’t have a clue because we were out at church, or out at the movies, or had our window shades closed all day to keep the house warm. It was a huge, beautiful 100 year old barn — gone. We drove by this afternoon, and it is still smoldering. We don’t know these people, but we know their relatives and many of their neighbors.
Nobody was hurt, and they got all the cous out, thank God. One person was treated for smoke inhalation because he was recovering from pneumonia at the time of the fire, and he went in the lead 20 cows to safety. The fire was caused by a space heater.
Well, that’s all the “news from Lake Woebegone”!
There’s about 15 inches of snow on the ground around here — no outdoor gardening will be done in Wisconsin. I did receive my first garden catalog, however, — from Jung’s. Thank you Diana. But, it’s too early to be browsing and dreaming yet.
We had a most unusal event here. There was a huge barn fire in my neighborhood on Christmas. (about a mile from my house) Do you know how I found out about it? An email from Southern California from a former business colleague of my husband’s whose grown daughter knew the wife of the farmer from AFS years ago.
This fire was so big that it burned from 5 AM until late in the night on Christmas, but we didn’t have a clue because we were out at church, or out at the movies, or had our window shades closed all day to keep the house warm. It was a huge, beautiful 100 year old barn — gone. We drove by this afternoon, and it is still smoldering. We don’t know these people, but we know their relatives and many of their neighbors.
Nobody was hurt, and they got all the cows out, thank God. One person was treated for smoke inhalation because he was recovering from pneumonia at the time of the fire, and he went in the lead 20 cows to safety. The fire was caused by a space heater.
Well, that’s all the “news from Lake Woebegone”!
It is nearly 50 degrees in SW OH, a bright, dazzling sunny day. My kittehs have been warming their stripes in the sun. I wish the catalogues would start arriving in earnest...
Let me know what you find out about propogating them, as I said, I'm clueless.
/johnny
/johnny
I'm getting tons of catalogs in the mail, and 2014 is the year that I'm least likely to buy any seeds. Most of what I'll plant this year is seeds that I've saved from last year.
/johnny
Yes. They lost all their hay, and they have about 80 head of cattle to feed. I doubt that there is any hay available around here. Certainly, it won’t be easy to move the hay in with 15 inches of snow on the ground. I’m sure their neighboring farmers will help, and there probably will be a fundraiser. It’s a tragedy to lose one of the old barns around here. We lose a couple a year due to fire, or wind.
I somehow doubt that !!
You are just a "methodist" and keep it simple .
I understand that you are looking for salsa to survive 2014.
You better ask Marcella , Agnes , or your daughters-in-law for some lemongrass salsa recipies.
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