Posted on 03/02/2024 6:26:35 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
I hope you feel better! No fun trying to live with back pain.
Muscles will seize up, splint, to try and keep damaged muscles from moving. Magnesium and a pain reliever might
might help to relax them.
We LOVE Menard’s! 99.999% of our SS checks ends up in their coffers each month. ;)
I’ll post pix of ‘the coop’ once it’s finished - which should be soon! Beau is running electricity to the barn again, so that’s been the last few trips to Menard’s for lighting-related parts.
He put the nesting boxes in the wall, so I can collect eggs OUTSIDE of the coop - though you know I’ll be in there every chance I get to visit with ‘My Girlz.’
They’ll also have a ramp to get out into the yard where they’ll have to learn FAST to avoid any current group of roaming puppies and mules and steers. ;)
Marked for later. Thanks! :)
Menards: We bought a couch from them over the weekend and I rented a truck and brought it home Monday. (I really miss not having a truck!)
Of course you do get that 11% mail in voucher to keep you coming back! (I probably should have checked the couches at IKEA, but they structure their store so you just about have to walk through the whole store anytime you go there.)
I need some advice on a lemon tree, I would like to get a dwarf and put it in a pot. And bring it in when it gets cold.
First, I don’t know if a dwarf tree could survive in a pot.
Moving a heavy pot, I’m assuming it needs to be large, could be an issue. But I’m also not sure if a lemon tree Will Survive a 6-month fairly cold winter, although it will be inside next to a window.
But I had a bunch of citrus trees and Bakersfield and the lemon was my favorite. You could walk by it and have that wonderful scent. And the leaves even smelled like lemon! And if I left the lemons on the tree I could have them for several months. A win-win!
“When I decided to rebuild the garden the idea was to switch over to raised beds because all that bending over hurts too much.”
I’m glad you said that. I’ve been missing my 60x40 garden at the other house, since we have limited space at this new one. The best I could do is squeezing in raised beds here and there. I’ve taken over a couple of planters that had scraggly bushes as well.
But - now I see this will be easier as I get older. And I’m not missing weeding that Garden at all! That will be a big help as well.
darn, sold out!
Well I finally had a little look-see at the garden thread - how delightful!
I see most are experiencing roller coaster weather. We are as well (southern Ontario).....we should be at or below freezing temperatures and still under snow. We didn’t even get one good snowfall this winter, didn’t have to plough the laneways once. The kids missed it, because they normally have 10’ high piles of snow after clearing which they spend hours playing on.
Now we’ve had a few days of weather that’s basically the same as early May. The trees are starting to not only bud, but the leaves are coming out. If we get cold again and get the snow, I don’t know what happens to them, but I guess we’ll find out.
The nice weather made me anxious to get my giant pots planted, but I know better. Thanks for the thread, Diana! I love looking at the pics of what everyone is doing, growing, planting, etc.
People keep lemons as houseplants. I believe you need a Meyer Lemon hybrid though, to be successful.
The tree will be stressed when it’s indoors over winter, so be vigilant about BUGS - Whitefly and Scale may end up being a problem.
Here’s what Bob Vila has to say about it:
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-grow-lemon-trees-indoors/
I used to sell them at Jung’s in our Atrium. They always sold out, but I do remember people DID return looking for solutions to their bug problems, so that’s what sticks in my head about growing lemon trees inside...at least up here on The Frozen Tundra! ;)
Thanks, Judy! Drop by anytime. :)
You are just a wealth of knowledge! Thank you!
Eighteen years in Retail Management at Garden Centers teaches you a thing or two. ;) You know how guys can remember Sports Stats? My brain works like that, but with The Natural World.
Best advice from my Mentor, Maureen?
“Even if you’ve been asked the same question 100 times today, you ANSWER IT as if it were the first time anyone had asked.”
(And no eyerolls either, LOL!)
Note that they are are using varities and planting times geared for the South. (E.g. Planting their potatoes on Feb 15.)
Index:
0:00 Start
0:38 What Is Hoss Tools?
2:52 Growing Potatoes In Times Of Crisis -#1 consumed vegetable in the United States
6:05 Green Beans are Best for Preserving
8:50 Growing Heirloom Onions in Times of Crisis
11:13 Preserving Carrots | Great Vegetable to Grow in Times of Crisis
14:17 Winter Squash Growing in Popularity
16:30 Okra Will Give You Continual Long Production Throughout The Season
21:22 Stay Safe
**I generally run You Tubes at 2x speed and slow them down if needed.
One other excellent Crisis Food that is highly Heat Tolerant is Sweet Potatoes. I have NOT grown it, but variety Covington is supposed to be a new more cold tolerant variety that can be grown in Northern Growing zones. (Now would be the time to think about ordering slips!)
Some people companion plant Sweet potatoes under heat tolerant Okra to take advantage of the shade, but people will have to do their own research on spacing. I suspect you should have a lot of room between your okra and probably some sort of irrigation in order to do this.
I would add these crisis vegetables.
Cool weather:
**Radishes. bottoms and tops, as little as 20 days after germination.
**Turnips Golden Ball and Purple top; 50-60 days....Fast growing and can be stored Smaller Turnips like Tokyo Market might be as little as 30-35 days!
**Rutabegas Same family of vegetables. Not fast growing, but large and can be stored. (These are very Keto friendly!)
Warmer weather: **Collards and (Yes Diana!) Kale. (Hoss sells Southern Georgia Collards...sayes Large and Heat Tolerant.)
** Peppers. Shishito, Heat tolerant, and fast growing (45 days from Germination) source of Vitamin C, very productive! Prune for production!
**Tomatoes, Homestead is determinate and heat tolerant.
Sorry to hear that! I posted as fast as I could!
The video talks about bush bean variety “Momentum”; There is another old variety, “Contender”, that matures in 50 days. (Approx 45 days from planting!) Soak indoors to start and Plant as early as possible since beans drop flowers in hot weather.
We seem to come from a long line of Scarlet O'Haras...
I’m going to be canning up some carrots for soups and stews. I don’t usually like the way pressure canned veggies some out but it seems that carrots and potatoes pressure cook just fine.
A good long storage onion is Stuttgarter. Mine as still not starting too sprout yet.
For red onions my preference is Milano diRossa.
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/onions/full-size-onions/rossa-di-milano-organic-onion-seed-3454G.html
They are a beautiful onion and they keep well. I have even seen them sold at Sam’s as gourmet onions.
They keep very well, too, and are such a pretty onion.
For potatoes in NH, Red Pontiac and Kennebec are great.
WHOO HOO!!!
My mom ALWAYS told me that St Patty’s Day was usually the last of the really bad weather. Not that we couldn’t get storms after that, but that the cold broke and the chance for snow decreased markedly.
By that time the south is so warm and the sun is strong enough that the cold just couldn’t hang on much more.
This year, though, has been a treat. Praying hard for no late freezes or damaging frosts this year. Sadly the sugar season is already over, when it’s usually just getting started.
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