April week 2 ,2023
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Hey Houzz, how about it Feb week 2, 2023?
Comments (14)Glad that somebody mentioned the determinate vs indeterminate tomato thing. I was telling my wife about my "grand" plan the other day. I'm going to focus a lot more on determinates this year. Of course, with a few indeterminates as well. I can't resist huge beefsteaks. My reasoning is exactly what you were talking about. 30's and deluges can come late and 100F (and fungal plagues) can come really fast. It's a tight window. So, I'm looking to plant a majority of early determinate varieties this year. When they give me what they have, i'll yank em/can em and go right to another round of transplants and hope for a good 2nd haul. I'll just consider the indeterminates to be a bonus if the weather/disease is good to them and I get a decent amount....See MoreMay 2023 Week 2
Comments (32)Impressive, Larry! Once again, I love how everyone has different gardening goals and reasons for gardening. All reasons are good. I would probably enjoy that large type of gardening if it was my fulltime job--and the produce was going to market. I'm not sure how any individual would have time to preserve all of that. Or even eat it all if they didn't have a large family. It IS impressive, tho. Jen, you do have a full day tomorrow. Our butternut squash and pumpkins and cucumbers have just popped up, so you're probably right on time for planting squash and cukes. I had some time this evening to keep clearing out the hoop house, which basically means inventing places to put things. The only things remaining are a couple of borage, Dawn's zinnias, one cup of basil from Rebecca and the basil from Megan. Oh, and a Heinz tomato-just one. As soon as I pull the lettuce and broccoli out of the hoop house beds, I'll put that Heinz in the hoop house. It's a determinate. I put Dawn's tomatoes at the end of the butternut squash and cantaloupe rows. Rick has a couple of superhot peppers left as well. Mostly things look really good. Some things are being chewed on, but I won't go into the details of that. Back in the day, this was a forum to troubleshoot with others, but not any longer. And that is okay. It's more of a conversational forum. My dumb foot flared up. It's not been this bad in nearly 5 years. I do NOT have time for this. The only treatment is rest. There's no time to rest. But, I did learn the hard way nearly 5 years ago, that if I push it, I'll end up unable to walk and stuck sitting on the couch. That was awful. I simply couldn't stand or walk without support. It's when I discovered Roots and Refuge, being unable to walk, I watched videos. I have been working but carefully. Asking Tom to carry things here and there to save me steps. Not exercising or walking Josi. Sitting more at my jobs. We're all planned up for our trip in a month. Our niece was going to stay at our house, but her brother (my nephew) is graduating from boot camp (or something like that) and they'll be going to San Antonio for that. Luckily, my neighbor is going to handle our animals. Josi is so neurotic, that I'm afraid to board her anywhere even with Jen. Diana is mean, Juno is also neurotic, Finbar and Sturgeon don't get along. But, my neighbor can handle it all. She has many animals herself. Rick will water the gardens if we don't get rain. Hopefully I won't lose any flowers in pots, etc. My Mom will come out on the days she's not at my nephew's graduation and will water those things. We really have to downsize on animals and rethink gardening. If E stays in Oregon, we'll be making trips there obviously. The chickens are the easiest. The dog is the hardest. So...no more dogs. And only one cat. In the future. We didn't get much rain last night. Maybe a 10th. Maybe not that much. Hoping for some rain over the next couple of days. I don't want to drag the hoses around with the stupid foot thing. I'm very distracted by work and our life changes,, but still am excited about the gardens. But, I have to be excited in my own way. Normally I cater to everyone in all areas of my life, but there's no time to do that this year. If someone is excited about something, they can be excited and I'll support them....but I cannot be actively involved in everything that everyone is excited about. If that makes sense. I'm having to say "no" to people a lot more than normal. Don't y'all hate that? Our daughter is currently in Venice. So pretty. Just left Tuscany--wow! There's a place to garden. So beautiful. Tomorrow is the OKC Flower and Garden Fest. I will be going even if Tom has to carry me around. I've been looking forward to this for months. Anyone else going?...See MoreJuly 2023, week 2
Comments (54)Kim, I grow a large cherry tomato also, I don't have any in the house gardens, but there are some in the wildlife garden and a lot over on my neighbors land. The large cherry tomato is one of the seeds that I could get at the Co-op by the once. Neighbor sells the cherry tomato by the qt. as a salad tomato, they seem to be a pretty hot item. I buy the Golden Jubilee, and most of my pepper seed by the once also. I think the price of seeds have doubled what I was paying last year. Kim, Madge and would drive you nuts in less than a week. My stories are not as sweet as Madge's stories, but I am proud of what I have been through. I was born in a small 2 room house just south of hwy 10 between Greenwood and Hackett. The doctor told dad and my grandmother to give me enough paregoric to keep quite till I died, and I would be dead before morning. My grandmother, being an ole Chickasaw Squaw was not going to take the news that her first grand child was going to die, lying down. Most people living out in the country tried to have a milk cow, well granny's cow just had a calf, or was ready to have a calf, so granny goes out and milks some colostrum from her cow and fed me with an eye dropper, and 3 days later I was still alive, so dad and mom drive to Greenwood to see the doctor. Some time in mom's pregnancy she had suffered a bad fall that must have damaged my nose. At that time nobody had the money to go to the doctor, and just tried to rest as much as possible, or till they got to feeling better. When the doctor delivered me he tried to fix my nose by molding it with tape, and pulled it to the left side and taping it to my cheek to try to hold it open. Mom told me that she thought that the doctor would be proud that I was still alive, but instead, he scolded her for not taking the tape off. Any way 80 years later, I am still alive, with a nice, big, crooked nose, and the doctor is dead. Anyway, Kim, if you came we could bore you with a lot of stories, its to bad that my younger brother is no longer here, he had a tone of stories....See MoreOctober 2023, 2nd week
Comments (21)Larry, it would be so nice to go into November without a frost. It's very, very chilly out there right now but that's mostly the wind. We have outside chores to do so I'm hoping the wind dies back this afternoon. We've been busy this morning, but with indoor tasks like installing towels bars, etc. As you can see in Rick's picture above, I was able to get a colander of fresh green beans. There's more out there that will be ready today or tomorrow. The wind knocked several green tomatoes from the vines, so I grabbed those up and brought indoors. Rick's plants in the SG look really good. Last night there were only 4 remaining monarch caterpillars on milkweed and one of them was very small and looked like it was dying. It might have been one I moved from an empty milkweed. I wonder if I hurt it or it was already sickly. There were 12 that I could see when I left for work. So, the other 8 must have moved on with the others. There have been several dozen over the past couple of weeks. I can't find any more chrysalises though. I read that the caterpillars can travel up to 30 feet to form the chrysalis. I really hope it doesn't freeze until the butterflies emerge and can get on with their trip to Mexico. The caterpillars like the showy or common (I can't remember which I have and they sorta look alike) milkweed best. I have one orange milkweed, but the remaining ones only went to that plant once the others were all eaten up. I don't have a lot of garden stuff to do this week or talk about really. I'm going to start filling up the Vego beds this week. Just with compost and stuff as we go through the winter. Just as soon as I can get those potatoes out of Ethan's room and use that cardboard to put at the bottom of the Vego bed. Does anyone watch Living Traditions Homestead? They're doing their large garden with beds similar to the Vego ones. They're in Missouri and their ground is hard and rocky at their new place and they decided to go with the raised beds, rather than spend 10 years amending their soil. They're not spring chickens, so I can appreciate that. Mostly we're just trying to get ready to go to Oregon next week. What is everyone up to this weekend? edited to say that my Dixondale catalog arrived today....See MoreHU-422368488
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