Surrvivor tonight 4/8/2020
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Mid-April Cold Spell 2020
Comments (96)I have not been out, but all my plants are inside except 3 pots of basil. My plants have really taken a beating the past several days, they sat in a dark room for several days, then on the deck in strong cold wind for days. I expect to lose a few, but I have several extra. I will hold back a few because I dont have a spot ready anyway. I am thinking that I want to revise one of my cattle panel trellises by cutting it in two pieces, length wise, and making it to where it will "hinge " up high enough to run the mower or tiller under it. That way I can swing it up to work the soil, or place a bucket or mineral tub over the plant if we have an unexpected cold spell. I think that our forecast calls for a lowest of 48* for the next 10 days. I am still waiting on the carburetor for my tiller. I also waiting on another package of seeds, .I think I will be set for seed for a few years, just in case things really turn bad before next year. I dont think the economy will be that bad, but I want to prepare for it anyway. I think our economy will mostly decline for a while, maybe for a long while. I think that I have enough plants that I can save seed from no matter how had the economy gets. Madge just came in and told me that my basil is gone, so it must have gotten much lower here than was forecasted for Ft. Smith, so I guess I can just put catnip in those pots for my granddaughters and start more basil for them....See MoreMisfits up-date, 4-18-2020
Comments (86)Wow, that is amazing! You did hit the jackpot! Gorgeous 'haul' Edie! Edie, is that chard? I'd love to have had those green beans, but the acorn squash is such a wonderful surprise! Ok, forgive my naivete, but what and where is an endive heart? And what, might I ask, does one do with it? I googled it, I see nothing that appears to be anywhere in my endive! Go ahead, laugh : ) No, I have a regular cuke, or what appears to be a regular cuke - it's darker with a smoother skin. Upper right corner next to the apples. Why, does zucchini go with persian cukes? LOL! Ok, I need to let off some excitement. That's a storage bin, so the celery is huge. Some of it was crushed, but no issues as that will take time to eat. The carrots are amazing - and long and beautifully orange. Nothing like store carrots which are short, fat, and pale orange. I know the acorn squash (I wanted one!!!) will keep for a bit. So thrilled about that. Apples will go with the celery for a salad, easy, and can always eat apples. Potatoes will be eaten tomorrow, grilled under the chicken (smoked). DH saw those and was happy - they are a bit soft, so need to be used. One big one is firm, so it can keep. The endive.. that's genius Sleeve! I'll saute some of those many onions (saving my Misfit onion which is not soft like what I usually get), garlic, and quick saute some of the endive. I have miso lemon dressing left from last night, which is lovely but strong - it has a nutty flavor from sesame oil, so I'll emulsify it with avocado oil and lightly use that on the endive and onions. Just a wee bit. Perfect! Broccoli is always welcome, of course. DH hates zucchini, but if I prepare it well, he'll eat it. Any ideas? He does love cucumber. Oranges... those should keep. Not that they will! Will have to come up with something special for them....See MoreJuly 2020, Week 4
Comments (47)Rebecca, If it is barely soft to the touch, the eggplant still might be usable, but yes, in general when it goes soft to the touch it is overripe. If the skin has lost its gloss and looks dull, it definitely is too far gone to use. At this point, if you get a negative test would you trust that it is not a false negative? They're getting them in about 20% of tests....so, I think you know your own body better than a test that might be giving a false result....and you have had all the symptoms, so.....and I guess the important thing is that you're recovering and you didn't have to be hospitalized so at least there's that. I hope your remaining symptoms abate soon. With some people they hang on for months and you don't need that. I am glad to hear your BER issues finally might be resolving themselves. What a strange gardening season it has been! Larry, You are such a good, caring person and an awesome neighbor. Thank you so much for being the kind of person that you are. I feel bad for your neighbor and his wife--that is a rough road to travel. My dad died of Alzheimer's disease, but the disease took him away from us bit by bit over many years in the most cruel and insidious sort of creeping way---bit by bit you lose you who were. Oddly, our 8' tall deer fence keeps the squirrels out of the garden. I didn't think it would. I assumed they'd climb right over it, but they don't. It is just an unexpected bonus. Of course, the fence also keeps bobcats out of the garden and, without them, we have voles, so no fencing situation is perfect. Jen, Starting SunGolds from seed now? Probably would be too late for much of a harvest unless you get a really late first freeze. Technically, it is not too late if you look at it on paper. They are 57 DTM tomatoes, but that DTM counts from transplant date not from the date seeds are sown. So, you have roughly 12 weeks before central OK gets it first freeze? Expect to spend at least six weeks of that just getting seed-grown plants to typical transplant size, and perhaps a little bit less if they grow quickly in the August heat. Conversely, the heat could cause them to struggle and grow more slowly. So, if we assume transplant size in six weeks, then that gives you six weeks before the first freeze to get fruit production if they start blooming at a transplant age of six weeks. That six weeks left once they start blooming is 42 days....they produce ripe fruit in about 57 days. See how the math is not encouraging? You might get ripe fruit before the freeze if it is late, or if you can protect them in the garage for a few more weeks, and you might not. If I were going to start fall tomatoes from seed now and put them in a container that could be dragged into the garage for freeze protection, I'd choose something compact and manageable: Red Robin, Orange Pixie, Yellow Canary, Red Tumbler or Red Tumbling Tom, Yellow Tumbler or Yellow Tumbling Tom, or even Cherry Falls. Their sizes would make dragging a tub around more doable. Now, if you have cuttings or can find the plants in a store already transplant size now, the SunGolds would have a chance. You can grow Red Robin, Orange Pixie and Yellow Canary in 4" pots (some people do, inside on a window sill, all winter long), although I'd give them 1 to 2 gallon pots for better production. The issue is that every single day from this point onward the daylength continues to shorten, so the plants' growth slows more and more as time goes on. It is a very subtle change right now since we are not yet that far beyond the summer solstice, but it accelerates over time as the day length gets shorter. Many people see this in the way fall tomatoes get loaded up with green tomatoes that "just won't ripen" in the cooler autumn weather. Well, of course they will ripen, but with less hours of sunlight daily and less heat, they ripen more slowly than summer tomatoes so the risk is always there that you'll lose the fall crop to cold weather, and that is from existing summer plants or from fall plants that were put in the ground a month ago. Starting from seed now just puts you further behind..... I totally get what you are saying about DHS management. My older brother was very idealistic and was going to be a social worker and save the world. He graduated from college with his degree, and quickly learned the system, as it existed in Texas at that point in time (the late 1970s or earliest 1980s) wasn't going to let him save all the children the way he had thought he would/could. He also quickly figured out that in his field, there were case workers (with Bachelor's degrees) and their bosses (with Master's degrees) and not much room for advancement or salary increases in between, so it looked like a pretty dead-end career if you were just starting out and all your bosses were only 10 years older than you. He quickly pivoted and got out of that field after only a couple of years, and got hired by a computer company to work in customer service and software development. He was lucky they took a chance on him because his new job had nothing to do with his college degree. He's done work he loves for decades and has been able to support his family, and he poured his desire to help kids into service as a school board member, so he still found a way to help kids. I doubt things in the DHS system in TX are any better than they are here in OK now either. It is great you have the option to work from home. I wish Tim had that option, but he is essential personnel, so that's just a pipe dream. He continues to deal with employees' Covid issues weekly, if not daily, and it makes maintaining adequate staffing a huge issue when so many must be out on pandemic leave. Even essential personnel in all sorts of fields cannot be at work if they are positive or quarantined or just staying at home awaiting test results. I cannot imagine what fall and winter will be like, but am trying to prepare for them. It is so hot here and the heat won't break. They keep forecasting cooler days and then we keep on not getting them. lol. Our weather ignores forecasts. It is just the typical midsummer crap, and it will drag on until we start having typical late summer crap. Last night we had a series of grass fires along I-35 near our house because the grasses are so dry that anything, like rubber thrown off a disintegrating tire or a dragging chain or whatever will spark fires. I'm just watching the calendar and trying to hang on until autumn. Dawn...See MoreVeggie Tales - November 2020
Comments (211)Richard, that sounds cold for your area. Guess you will get your exercise the next few days. Yesterday I did a final turning of compost in my makeshift bin at my community plot. It is breaking down well. I hope the latest aeration and nutrient additions will get most of it broken down by spring. That is when I plan to work with it next and hopefully have good compost to use. If nothing else, I am glad I could put lots of plant wastes into my makeshift bin instead of the trash cans people were told to use....not for composting but for general trash pick up. I don't like to see nutrients go to the landfill. I'd rather give up a corner's worth of growing space and do some composting....See Moresushipup1
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