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HU-422368488

For those interested in growing corn:

Dawn bumps about planting sweet corn.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3976887/planting-corn-late-june

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2057869/which-is-your-favorite-corn-to-grow

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2058636/whats-this-corn

Here's OSU's guide on sweet corn:

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/sweet-corn-production.html

I'm trying to get ready to plant corn.

I usually plant corn around the 1st week of April.

However these cold spells we've been getting may delay it for a week or so.

The key is to wait till the soil temps are around 60 , right now it's barely in the 50's..

Might be ok to plant field corn now which is probably what I'll do over east.

I usually do some dent corn like Trucker's Favorite Yellow.

It needs the soil temp to be at least 50.

I used to grow half field corn and half sweet corn over east till the coons started ravishing the sweet corn.so I quit sweet corn there and just go with field corn . the stalks are stronger and the coons don't tend to yank them down as much.

I've been doing sweet corn over at Jennifer's lately.

Bodasious is what I've been growing lately.

Lucky that the coons haven't found it there yet.

I remember having discussions with Dawn about building coon cages out of chicken wire to place over sweet corn patches.





Rick


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hazelinok

Your stuff looks really good, Kim.

You know, maybe your "new" thing is making a small garden work for you. I've seen so many awesome gardens that are small and still feed both the gardener and the pollinators. You could do so many amazing things in this season of your life.

Maybe things will be change in a year or two....or maybe you'll still be doing small gardens, but both can be amazing. You're amazing too! You are an inspiration and an encourager.


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hazelinok

Oh Kim! I'm so sorry!

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Kim, again, so sorry about your tomato seedlings. I'm glad some survived.

I should get mine out for some sun today.

Not much gardening was done yesterday. BUT, I did get my house (mostly) back in order. The floors were scrubbed on hands and knees. The main living spaces are cleared of clutter and donation boxes, etc. Enough so, that Alice the Roomba is back in action today. Funny thing, she had an ornament hanger stuck on her roller. Probably the last time she worked was right after putting the Christmas decor away.

Having said that, I still had charms that were made for December/Solstice hanging on my dining room window rod. They still smelled good--oranges and cinnamon, but they're in the compost now.


I went to The Greenhouse in Norman yesterday, too. And did purchase two things and really wasn't planning on it. One is something I've wanted for awhile for a specific space. It's a Sunburst St. Johnswort. It is a shrub that doesn't grow too big. From what I understand, it's not native to Oklahoma, but is to Texas and the rest of the south. There were only two left, so I bought one.

Also, purchased a Little Redhead Indian Pink, that is native to Oklahoma. If anyone has experience with it, please share.


The Greenhouse had an entire greenhouse full of native plants. I thought that was cool. That may be a new thing for them.


Anyway, on Monday I did spend time in the garden. About half of the pathways in the kitchen garden now have fresh woodchips. I'll probably go out in about an hour and finish it up. That's quite a job. Mostly because I don't have straight rows in that garden, which makes pulling the cart through the garden a bit difficult.


There's only 1000's of volunteer sunflowers everywhere. I'm pulling them up. Love them, but they overtake everything. They're allowed in the burn pile garden. These are just the wild ones that get so big.


Also on today's list is cleaning up the asparagus beds. Usually this is done in November. Oops. Didn't get to it then. And, normally my asparagus shows up a bit later in April. It's here now, tho. I chopped up a few spears and put them in the frittata last night.

The columnar apples are about to bloom.


I should probably finish up my indoor chores and get outside instead of rambling on about every item in the garden, which is always tempting to do.

Oh, did I mention the potatoes are showing up?

For real now. Gotta go.



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hazelinok

Larry, my canner is a Presto with a weighted gauge only. It's light enough that I can use it fairly easily. It doesn't do a lot of jars, but (I think) I can do 7 or 8 pint jars at a time. It's light enough that I can use it on my electric glass cooktop. I use it for both pressure canning and water bath.

Rick has two heavier canners that we use in the shop with a camp cookstove. It's a pretty good set up, although a little toasty in the summer.

I recommend the Presto if you want something lighter weight.

Kim, I like to can stuff too, rather than freeze, but sometimes don't due to time. Also, certain foods aren't great canned. I need to begin canning our broths, but it's just so easy to put them in jars (leaving headspace) and pop in the freezer. One bad thing about that is remembering to thaw it for a recipe. It would be better to have it canned.

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I hate canning. I don't have it in me anymore. I have a dehydrator, an expensive one (they have an adjustment for temperature, Larry.) I never mastered rehydrating. And never learned to use the powders I made. So freezing is better for me. Larry you can throw the onions in a food processor. They get a little mushy but when you're in a hurry to freeze them, it works. There are a number of products that will chop them. I have a thing you push on and it makes little squares or there's the old fashioned jar with a chopping blade inside. I even own onion goggles to keep from crying.

One point I would remind you of is that walking onions are stronger tasting than bulbing onions so you need less. I'm not sure how strong bunching onions are in comparison.

Ron put up the light shelves (new shelves!) Now it's up to me to start the seeds.

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HU-422368488

It's so odd that the tomato you want is so scare and the tomato you don't care for is so plentiful.

I'd like to try "Kellogg’s Breakfast " or some similar orange variety but have never seen it around in the transplant stage.

Rick


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It has rained here also, Madge said we were to get 2", I don't thank we have got that much. Yesterday when Madge told me that we were to get rain I went out and seeded a row of turnips, and tossed some 32-0-0 on my onions, and watered it in. I wish I had started fooling with onions earlier in life, there are so many kinds to grow, and the ones I have planted have done well. When I was younger I was not man enough to eat onions.

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