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Posted on 02/14/2014 12:27:30 PM PST by greeneyes
I wonder if those reading this, plan to do something pertaining to gardening one day and end up you don't do it, then it's hanging over your head until you force yourself to do it. If I put a deadline on myself, I will get it done. See, I meant to do celery yesterday and didn't, but now I've told all of you I'll do it before today is over. Now, you are forcing me to do it or I lied. :o)
That’s our hottest months too, though we don’t measure up on the heat and drought scale that Texas has-Thank goodness.
Well, yes there’s a bit of that (guilt). However, part of me resists such. After all it’s my schedule, and I can delay it or not do it at all. That’s part of the beauty of it.
For years, my job had deadlines all day long that I had to meet. Now, most deadlines are of my own choosing, and if I choose to relax instead, then that’s ok. Don’t need any self - imposed stress.
So, sometimes I just enjoy the procrastination!
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Eric's pictures.
/johnny
This looks cold, Eric.
/johnny
Trying to decide which type of concrete block rocket stove I want to build near my garden. I have so many tree limbs fall every year I might as well have a dedicated limb burner. The Beech trees still haven’t dropped their leaves yet. I think I will put it near the garden and help serve as a block for the deer raids. I hate to put up fencing because part of it is in flowers most of the year.
That is a healthy plant, johnny. Is that lemon grass behind the tobacco?
OH, I forgot. Are carrot leave edible?
/johnny
Carrot leaves are considered edible, and they are nutritious. However, they are bitter, and some people are allergic to them.
I would like to have a concrete or brick rocket stove next to my BBQ patio, so I could use it instead of the charcoal BBQ grill when I want to cook quickly outdoors.
WoW! That’s one fast growing plant!
OK, it’s 91° off of the back porch right now. Last Tuesday, we had freezing temps. Crazy Texas weather!
Speaking of Valentines Day here is a story from Ca.
Backyard farming may be undergoing a revival, but it’s an idea as old as time. When Myrna and Earl Fincher married 53 years ago, they say, they became small farmers out of necessity—being between jobs and expecting a child.
It’s pushing 80 today and the 10 day forecast says it’s going to be in the 70s and sunny. But that just means trees will be budding out only to be hit with more freezes. I could do with some snow because we’re still in “extreme” drought.
Got the last of the pepper seeds potted up and a couple more extras of other stuff just in case. The cold inside the house the last couple weeks hasn’t helped with germination so reseeded several pots. It may be that some circuit board has blown on the A/C heater but we’ll probably need a whole new unit.
FYI, Miracle-Gro has changed their seed starter formula. Last year it was Nitrogen 0.05%, Phosphate 0.01%, Potash 0.05%. This year it is Nitrogen 0.03%, Phosphate 0.03%, Potash 0.03%. Don’t know how that may or may not affect the seedlings. I did decide the potting soil top “growth” was something with the fertilizer in it so (knock on wood) mixed it with the last bag of seed starter soil so probably too much nitrogen. Oh, well. If that doesn’t work, they’ll have to deal with plain dirt.
Happy Valentine’s Day, to one & all!
Finally getting into mid 40s for a few days; lots of icky brown crud replacing the white sky puke. ;-’)
The cat grass is beyond all reason! In a week, it was 6+ inches tall, and 2 cats can’t keep up with it; not even when one eats it until she pukes. It is is a 2 pound coffee can, with seed starter mix & Miracle Grow: lots of root room; enough weight they haven’t bee able to upset it or drag it around.
On the true gardening front, got tomato & oriental cabbage seeds ordered last night, from Botanical Interests:
Tomato Bush Glacier Seeds
Tomato Pole Speckled Roman Organic Seeds
Tomato Pole Red Siberian HEIRLOOM Seeds
Tomato Cherry Red & Yellow Pear Blend Organic HEIRLOOM Seeds
Tomato Pole San Marzano Organic HEIRLOOM Seeds
Cabbage Chinese Michihili HEIRLOOM Seeds
Cabbage Chinese Qingdao 65 Seeds
Starting to run low on canned tomatoes & sauce, so this year going to try to resupply. We plant one or two LARGE amounts of something different each year, to put up a 3 or 4 year supply, in addition to the regular year or so worth of the rest of the veggies.
The celery is in a larger pot - done.
I checked outside and the Walking Onions are still green, didn’t do anything to them during the cold weather.
Great! I see teeny, tiny, spots on all three Blackberry “sticks” where new growth is about to happen so I didn’t kill the sticks during winter - I did cover them every time it was going to be below freezing. These are second year sticks so I hope I’ll get some blackberries.
I have some questions:
QUESTION: I was going to plant Sabre tomato seeds sent to me by MomWithHope plus a small number of them I bought from a website, in MID-AUGUST so they could be fall tomatoes. If you have grown these tomatoes, am I okay putting the seeds under the grow lap until they can be planted outside which might be by the middle of September? Is that okay for Sabre tomatoes? Remember, I don’t get cold weather until at least mid October and it can easily be longer.
QUESTION: I bought the Sabre seeds from Amishland Heirloom Seeds. She sent me a gift of Red Icicle Tomato seeds and I can’t find it on her website. There were no planting directions in this small packet. Have any of you planted Red Icicle Tomatoes? She did put a note on them that they look like Sabres. If you know about Red Icicle, please tell me what you know.
I am going to plant Burpee’s Long Keeper tomato seed in August as when picked, they store for six to eight weeks and the plants are also indeterminate.
QUESTION: I have a package of “Sea Magic”, dry soluble seaweed extract. Have any of you used this to help fertilize your plants? You put it in water and water the plants. If you have used this, let me know what you thought about its effectiveness, whether it is worth using or not.
Tomorrow, I will plant Supremo Cucumber seeds, Sun Kind Broccoli seed, and National Pickling Cucumber seed.
Around March 1, will plant:
Tromboncino Squash
On Deck Sweet Corn
Masterpiece Pea, Snowbird Pea, Peas In A Pot
Little Finger Carrot
Di Ciccio Broccoli
Catskill Brussels Sprouts
EZ Serve Lettuce, Saint Anne’s Slow-bolting Lettuce
Oliver’s Pearl Cluster Melon
Sunflower Velvet Sunflower, Sunspot Sunflower (I am planting both these Sunflower seeds in the ground and they can grow or not, it’s up to them).
I’ll get another Lantana plant to attract pollinating flying things and it attracts hummingbirds. The Lantana I have is still alive and has new growth starting. I think the Hummingbird plant is surely dead, didn’t make it through winter.
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