Posted on 11/25/2016 5:54:47 PM PST by greeneyes
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We had the Turkey dinner at supper time this year, and several really good desserts to go with the pumpkin pie. The newest member of the family (grand daughter's hubby) fixed my technical problem with the Netflix/BluRay, so now I can watch Netflix on the large TV screen again.
Watched the first season of The Crown, and really enjoyed it. Lettuce and greens are doing well under the row covers. A bunch of cherry tomatoes are now ripe on the indoor plants. Lemons are almost ripe.
Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Dreary Fall Days here...but not too cold, Thank Goodness!
I have a potted Meyer lemon, but it’s not blooming much the last year, and it fruits very lightly - too much blossom drop. I try to hand-pollinated when it blooms inside. But any suggestions to bring it into flower and get it to bear more heavily?
In spite of the frosts, there were still some salvias and aromatic aster to make a bouquet for the table, but I haven’t planted any winter crops. Too much sickness in the family this year; the garden languished. Say a prayer for my son if you will.
Hello Garden FRiends!
I have experimental results to report on Wine Cap, or Garden Giant mushrooms.
I planted two identical plantings of Artichoke starts on a sunny slope by my house. Both were mulched with a couple of inches of wood chips, however one was mulched with six inches well inoculated with King Stropharia, or Wine caps aka Garden Giant mushroom spawn.
Both were on a thrice weekly sprinkler to insure their soil was kept damp.
Both grew to the same size, however the Artichokes with mushroom spawn were slightly greener cast.
However the Artichokes yield was quite different. The wine caps produced 5 artichokes on its plants, 3 large enough to eat, the other produced none.
Besides having a few flushes of awesome tasting mushrooms.
The wine caps were a resounding success. I put them to bed for the winter by dumping 4 inches of oak chips on them today. I will add another 4 to six inches in the spring.
One basket of wine caps sold for $20 bucks at the local food co-op.
Best tasting musrooms I have ever eaten!
This next spring I hope to mulch my fruit and chestnut trees with Wine Cap beds.
I truly am hoping for a warmer than usual winter - it’s getting harder to and harder to feel warm during cold weather-guess it’s old age creeping up on me.
Thanks for the tip on the movie, it looked like it my be a girly-girl movie. I’ll give it a look. Ate my last tomato yesterday and savored it. That is the last time I’ll try to dry Chives in the house, lol. What a smell.
Well, I lived in S. FL for many years, and then fate brought me back to new England. It is hard getting used to it again.
praying for your son, God be with him in any and every way he needs.
Anyone have this? I saw it on a tv commercial. If so what do you grow?
Miracle-Gro AeroGarden Classic 7 (LED) with Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Gro-AeroGarden-Classic-Gourmet-Herb/dp/B00NHCLZ48
Gobble Gobble...
I don’t do anything spectacular with my lemon tree. I’m not sure if it is Meyer, but I think so. I kept it in a 10x10x10 inch cube shaped pot for 5 years, and finally repotted it this year in a pot that gave it about an inch around and 3 additional inches at the bottom.
I’ve read that they tend to do better, if you limit the growth by keeping them restrained in the pots. I use organic potting mix (not soil) for all my indoor plants including the lemon tree.
I also give it extra nutrients using the instructions on DYNA GRO - this is a concentrated liquid 7-9-5 and has trace elements also. I have an automatic clay watering gizmo using a soda bottle, mostly to insure that it is watered when I get busy.
My tree is so small, that it really couldn’t support more than about 6 lemons twice a year. I used to pull off quite a few blooms, but have found that it will adjust pretty well on it’s own-though I do sometime pull off the baby fruits, so that I can get some really nice sized lemons.
I do have trouble with leaf drop indoors, as it is quite dry inside, and the grow light doesn’t quite cover it - we are trying to figure out where and how we could put one up just for it. I is now about 2 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide, so it is taking up more space than I really have for it.
The lemons are so much more tasty than those in the store, that I would love to have several more in a green house.
wow! I’ve never grown artichokes, thats interesting you had such different results with your two plants. do they live year to year? would be interesting to see how they do the second year if you put mushrooms in both?
That’s very interesting. I have never had a wine cap before. We are very limited here on choices in the supermarkets. We get portabella or buttons. Have to drive 40 miles to get shitake. Have to drive 75 miles to get more choices than those 3.
It is a series of 90 minute movies. So basically 10 movies. I guess I liked the historical setting, and thought the actor doing Churchill was quite good. I also learned a bit more about the role of the Monarch with respect to the Government, and the Church.
Lady Bender does a excellent job for Thanksgiving dinner and all the trimmings. Our two children, their spouses and the two grandkids and their spouses plus the great grand daughter in waiting (due Dec 25) were here.The vetch ground cover is doing great and we have lots of winter birds but no mushrooms at this time...
Prayers up for your son.
I’ve lived in Missouri or points North all my life. Getting less and less “used” to it. LOL
Thanks for this thread. I used to garden a lot, vegetables, roses, perennials, flowering shrubs. Currently don’t live in a place I can really even have pitted plants so I hope to relocate in fish months and maybe be able to do something then.
I have seen those, but never tried them. I have a couple of grow lights, and tons of pots, so it’s cheaper for me to just plant leftover seeds and use what I have.
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