Posted on 03/07/2014 12:18:07 PM PST by greeneyes
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I empathize deeply with your plights, both the awful gorpy stage of recovery you are in and the overabundance of food to process.
That is wonderful that you have so many peppers and carrots!
I woke up today feeling much better, although I still have the energy of the proverbial wet noodle. I’m thinking I’ll take a short stroll and try to get back into my walking program! Wouldn’t last my usual distance, but once around the block would be better than the nothing I’ve been doing!I’m starting to get cabin fever and it would great to go out and hear the birdies chirp and the dogs bark!
Hmmmmm. Mine are those old light weight aluminum jobs (I think - haven’t baked in a coon’s age). I do have some good ones, which I would keep pristine, but some of the cheap ones, for sure, I could weed out of my pots/pans storage area [which desperately needs doing] and that would just solve all kinds of problems! :-D
Those pix are truly breath-taking! Thanks for posting them!
Awwwwwwwwwwwww... How precious!
Thank you. :)
LOL! Please don’t do what I did! I have a testimonial about the overuse of phosphate! I dumped 2/3 of a sack of the concentrated stuff on my plants to help them along (looking back, I realize they were actually doing just fine!) Murdered practically ALL of them!
” If I ever had 10 inches of snow here in Central TX, I’d be curled up in a fetal position, under a heated blanket, sobbing hysterically. “
LOL! Well said!
One of the colleges I went to was in central Texas. I had a suite mate from Montana. The winter I was there, it was in the upper 30s and mid 40-s, and WET! Suite mate was always huddled next to a floor heater with a blanket and hot coffee complaining bitterly that the object of coming here was to be WARM!!!! Climate there was not as advertised!
My shop is up!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElvenstarGardens
I’m still getting my listings put together, but it’s a start!
I’ve gotten several citrus trees. Some from Parks, a couple from Gurneys and a few other places. There are special citrus nurseries online that sell lots of exotic citrus. Mine are in giant pots and live in my garage in the winter. I have a couple plant lights out there for them and water them about once a month. They prefer to be dormant and don’t need as much water that way. I’d prefer for them to be inside as I have a sunny window but I have cats that would defoliate them and tinkle in the pots.
My dad has a calamondin tree that’s at least 30 years old. It’s in the biggest black nursery pot I’ve seen, probably 3ft tall and 3ft across. It’s on a special hand cart he had built for it. They pull it in the garage in the winter when temps are forcast to be under 40F. Dad picks 2 or 3 5gal buckets of calamondins every year. One of his neighbors makes marmalade with them and another just eats them whole. They’re ‘organic’ as daddy doesn’t use anything on the tree but DE and the soap spray stuff they sell at their co-op.
Citrus do fine this way. You don’t, of course, get as much production from them but anything you get is ‘free’ and you know what it was sprayed with. I’ve seen people with pools that have them out on the pool/patio during months when night temps are 45F or above. Very decorative and the blooms smell wonderful. I’ve been trying to convince my kid brother who’s working in south TX right now to bring me a grapefruit tree from one of the nurseries there. He doesn’t want to ‘deal’ with driving 1000 miles with one in his truck though.
I was outside today and noticed a vine growing from an abandoned container that we brought with us when we moved here. My wife and I agree that it is a blackberry vine. We have set aside a plot out back by the other road to grow native SE Texas wildflowers. I am going to put it in the center of that patch and let it spread across the ground. We will have the same blackberries that we are accustomed to, the native kind. I noticed this last year, but the yard guys weed eat around there so it didn’t get a chance to catch on.
Thanks very much for your input.
But I have a question: You said about putting your citrus trees in the garage, “They prefer to be dormant and don’t need as much water that way.”
Do you mean that making them go dormant in the garage is better for the tree?
They usually go somewhat dormant in the winter anyways. I’m always afraid of their getting wet feet and root rot.
PS: You taught me a new word; I had never heard of a calamondin. Sounds good.
They’re very tart. But good. One of my mom’s bridge buddies is Filipino. She gets a regular supply of the little oranges to use in her tea. One per big glass. I’ve used them (run through a food mill to get rid of the seeds and most of the peel) to make a jam with pineapple and habaneros.
Not even close to 100%. I just hope I haven’t reached a new lower baseline.LOL
For sure keep us updated.
That’s what I did all day almost. Procrastinated so much, I deserve to be whipped or hog tied.LOL
I put on a crockpot of corned beef boiled dinner on low at at about midnight, and took the day off while dinner cooked nice and slow. It was a beautiful sunny day almost 50 degrees.
I did some reading, watched some TV, looked through some recipe books, and generally goofed off. Floor is still waiting to be mopped.
May get some from Amazon. I have a couple of other things I need to order from them.
Really? You think that a 100 watt bulb would be enough for that? I was thinking a tent about 3ft x 4 ft and 3ft tall. LOL
I’ll be getting back to walking a bit too. Just a 10 minute walk, 5 up the steep hill, and 5 back down. Doing that 2 or 3 times a day is almost as good as doing it all at once.
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