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Post by yogiii on Jun 3, 2016 13:42:34 GMT -5
Has anyone grown tomatoes in the upside down hanging planters? Yes, don't bother
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 3, 2016 14:49:34 GMT -5
Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 19:41:08 GMT -5
So much for tilling tonight. It was pouring when I got out of work and has been raining on and off every since.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 13:44:04 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market again to grab some more flowers. I didn't think is was still possible to buy extreme happiness for 7$ but I did , 2 wks in row. I also got one for my mil, aunt , and my mom's best friend. Does anyone know what those limey green little filler flowers are? I'd like to try to grow some.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Jun 4, 2016 13:55:01 GMT -5
Added a few things to the garden today... chives, onions and sugar snap peas. I can't wait for things to start growing. I am jealous of other community gardeners who got to plant in the spring and have lettuce, strawberries, broccoli, etc. But that will be us next year!
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 4, 2016 15:46:28 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market again to grab some more flowers. I didn't think is was still possible to buy extreme happiness for 7$ but I did , 2 wks in row. I also got one for my mil, aunt , and my mom's best friend. Does anyone know what those limey green little filler flowers are? I'd like to try to grow some. Looks like Creeping Jenny, a trailing stem plant/ground cover for shady areas. The plant comes in several difference shades of green.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 4, 2016 16:15:18 GMT -5
Living in jalapeno hell here! My bush is bearing extremely well and I got 24 of those hot puppies in this week's farm share. There are only so many I can use in recipes or even stuffed and grilled so ideas welcome. Can you freeze them? I don't understand the question..? I use jalapeños all the time. when I doctor up frozen pizza or make my own, I'll use those instead of green bell. I found a recipe for strawberry jalapeño pico de gallo that I can share. what other recipes do you already use? I'm always looking for ideas.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 16:42:32 GMT -5
Just leaving work and it's raining again. No getting the garden in again.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 19:55:04 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market again to grab some more flowers. I didn't think is was still possible to buy extreme happiness for 7$ but I did , 2 wks in row. I also got one for my mil, aunt , and my mom's best friend. Does anyone know what those limey green little filler flowers are? I'd like to try to grow some. Looks like Creeping Jenny, a trailing stem plant/ground cover for shady areas. The plant comes in several difference shades of green. It looks like that but it's smaller and stems grow up. I think it is some type of a Spurge but have not narrowed it down to which one yet. I will find out. I really need some plants with more structure here but always seem to love the frilly.
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Post by CCL on Jun 4, 2016 21:41:32 GMT -5
Living in jalapeno hell here! My bush is bearing extremely well and I got 24 of those hot puppies in this week's farm share. There are only so many I can use in recipes or even stuffed and grilled so ideas welcome. Can you freeze them? I don't understand the question..? I use jalapeños all the time. when I doctor up frozen pizza or make my own, I'll use those instead of green bell. I found a recipe for strawberry jalapeño pico de gallo that I can share. what other recipes do you already use? I'm always looking for ideas. Also good in mango (or pretty much any) salsa.
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Post by CCL on Jun 4, 2016 21:42:25 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market again to grab some more flowers. I didn't think is was still possible to buy extreme happiness for 7$ but I did , 2 wks in row. I also got one for my mil, aunt , and my mom's best friend. Does anyone know what those limey green little filler flowers are? I'd like to try to grow some. Those are beautiful. Did you arrange them yourself?
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 5, 2016 10:07:54 GMT -5
Looks like Creeping Jenny, a trailing stem plant/ground cover for shady areas. The plant comes in several difference shades of green. It looks like that but it's smaller and stems grow up. I think it is some type of a Spurge but have not narrowed it down to which one yet. I will find out. I really need some plants with more structure here but always seem to love the frilly.
My picture is a close up shot of Creeping Jenny. It does not look that big in real life. Quite small actually.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 5, 2016 10:17:29 GMT -5
I was reading a Wiki article about Tombstone Arizona, minnesotapaintlady, and your overgrown rose bush came to mind. World's largest rose bushAccording to Guinness, the world's largest rosebush was planted in Tombstone in 1885 and still flourishes in the city's sunny climate. The Lady Banksia rose originated in Scotland. Mary Gee was the wife of mining engineer Henry Gee, who worked for the Vizina Mining Co. Mary's family sent the homesick bride a box of rooted cuttings from her home country. She planted one of the roses by the patio of the Vizina Mining Company's boarding house, the first adobe building in town, located at 4th and Toughnut Street across from the later site of the railroad depot. She and Henry lived in the boarding house when they first arrived in Tombstone.[49][50] The building was later renamed the Cochise House Hotel, and from 1909 to 1936 it was known as the Arcade Hotel. By the 1930s, the rose bush had grown to shade the entire patio and became a popular site for tourists. The hotel was later renamed the Rose Tree Inn and then the Rose Tree Inn Museum. The museum curator tells visitors that all Banks roses growing in the U.S. today are descendants of the Tombstone rose.[49] In 1940, the Lady Banksia rose covered about 4,000 sq ft (370 m2).[51] As of 2014, the rose bush covered more than 8,000 sq ft (740 m2) of the roof and garden trellis of the inn, and has a 12 ft (3.7 m) circumference trunk. The rose bush is walled off, and the inn charges admission to view it.[50] Tombstone, Arizona
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 11:59:00 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market again to grab some more flowers. I didn't think is was still possible to buy extreme happiness for 7$ but I did , 2 wks in row. I also got one for my mil, aunt , and my mom's best friend. Does anyone know what those limey green little filler flowers are? I'd like to try to grow some. Those are beautiful. Did you arrange them yourself? They are pretty aren't they and what a deal. No I don't have to arrange them. Just cut the rubber band off and put them in a vase.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 19:43:06 GMT -5
I don't understand the question..? I use jalapeños all the time. when I doctor up frozen pizza or make my own, I'll use those instead of green bell. I found a recipe for strawberry jalapeño pico de gallo that I can share. what other recipes do you already use? I'm always looking for ideas. Also good in mango (or pretty much any) salsa. I would love the recipe for strawberry jalapeno pico. I use in mango salsa too, especially on grilled fish. I found one for refrigerator bread & butter pickled jalapenos www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/jalapeno_bread_and_butter_pickles/ that I will try this coming week. I'm going to try freezing them too for winter use in curries and chilis.
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Post by CCL on Jun 6, 2016 7:32:13 GMT -5
Last summer I had a bunch of assorted hot peppers, so I mixed them all together, dried them in my dehydrator and put them in small canning jars. I take them out, crush them a bit and toss in anything that sounds good. I don't really know how long they keep this way, but I'll have more this year anyway, so far, so good.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 6, 2016 11:06:32 GMT -5
I have a bunch of tomatoes on my two plants - I counted at least six green ones of different stages and a bunch of flowers.
The drip hose has made a huge difference. Before, the tomatoes were small to medium when they ripened and their skins often cracked, which I thought was due to our tropical heat. However, so far, these tomatoes are smooth and keep getting larger. No cracks. I set up a drip hose and have it on a timer, I water about a hour every morning and both the tomatoes and potato bushes are a lot more robust. I think it's so hot and dry down here that the poor plants must need a daily watering.
I thought about getting one of those awnings to give them more shade, especially mid-summer when the sun is blindly hot, but figured the Bumphus dogs would demolish it in about 30 minutes. My plants will just have to tough it out.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 16, 2016 6:44:22 GMT -5
ODS has a summer job that requires him to be at work at 6:00 a.m. several days per week. He is a breakfast eater, so I get up at 5 with him so that I can watch his sausages and/or bacon cook while he showers and so that I can wake up before driving him (we all share 2 cars). With the early start to my day, I get the sprinklers going (my town's annual watering restrictions are in place already) and can spend a good hour weeding before the sun gets too strong/warm (I'm growing a bumper crop of bittersweet this year, ugh).
And, now that I don't spend my summer weekends at college recruiting lax tournaments, I can take the time to see what works and what doesn't work in my garden. To start, I have a border area near the road that I'm going to plant red/white/blue salvia in to replace the boring ground cover the previous owners planted.
As far as veggies go, my tomatoes, spinach, lettuces, and herbs are thriving beautifully.
I also need to get DH to keep working cutting down a HUGE pile of wood leftover from the tree fall for use in the fire pit. A large branch came down out of one of my oak trees in the high winds we had over the weekend and that needs to be cut up and moved, too. Fortunately, the branch also brought down a widow maker leftover from the tree fall. At this point, we are seriously considering taking down many of the trees around our house. I love them for their beauty, their shade, the songbirds that dwell in them, but we must be in some sort of weird wind vortex because not a storm goes by that at least one good-sized branch comes down. The trees are healthy, just very vulnerable to the wind. Still thinking it through...
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Post by yogiii on Jun 16, 2016 6:57:29 GMT -5
Well I feel like kind of a jerk. I have no idea how our garden is doing. DH planted it and waters it every day. Typically I'm inside folding laundry or making lunches, so at least I'm not lounging around. Still though, I need to check it out at some point
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Post by spartan7886 on Jun 16, 2016 9:47:40 GMT -5
ODS has a summer job that requires him to be at work at 6:00 a.m. several days per week. He is a breakfast eater, so I get up at 5 with him so that I can watch his sausages and/or bacon cook while he showers and so that I can wake up before driving him (we all share 2 cars). With the early start to my day, I get the sprinklers going (my town's annual watering restrictions are in place already) and can spend a good hour weeding before the sun gets too strong/warm (I'm growing a bumper crop of bittersweet this year, ugh). And, now that I don't spend my summer weekends at college recruiting lax tournaments, I can take the time to see what works and what doesn't work in my garden. To start, I have a border area near the road that I'm going to plant red/white/blue salvia in to replace the boring ground cover the previous owners planted. As far as veggies go, my tomatoes, spinach, lettuces, and herbs are thriving beautifully. I also need to get DH to keep working cutting down a HUGE pile of wood leftover from the tree fall for use in the fire pit. A large branch came down out of one of my oak trees in the high winds we had over the weekend and that needs to be cut up and moved, too. Fortunately, the branch also brought down a widow maker leftover from the tree fall. At this point, we are seriously considering taking down many of the trees around our house. I love them for their beauty, their shade, the songbirds that dwell in them, but we must be in some sort of weird wind vortex because not a storm goes by that at least one good-sized branch comes down. The trees are healthy, just very vulnerable to the wind. Still thinking it through... Before you cut the trees down, do you get them trimmed regularly? If you have an arborist thin out the canopy, the wind applies less force to the branches. Down here they refer to it as having the trees hurricane trimmed. We have it done every three years or so to our big live oaks.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 16, 2016 15:14:12 GMT -5
Well I feel like kind of a jerk. I have no idea how our garden is doing. DH planted it and waters it every day. Typically I'm inside folding laundry or making lunches, so at least I'm not lounging around. Still though, I need to check it out at some point Don't feel bad. I planted my garden and technically am in charge of it, but since I installed the soaker hose on a timer, I don't have to visit it every other day to water it. Sometimes all I manage is to go out on the screen porch and look at it from a distance, to see if any of the tomatoes have started to ripen.
I am a lazy ass gardener.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 16:43:18 GMT -5
Well I feel like kind of a jerk. I have no idea how our garden is doing. DH planted it and waters it every day. Typically I'm inside folding laundry or making lunches, so at least I'm not lounging around. Still though, I need to check it out at some point Don't feel bad. I planted my garden and technically am in charge of it, but since I installed the soaker hose on a timer, I don't have to visit it every other day to water it. Sometimes all I manage is to go out on the screen porch and look at it from a distance, to see if any of the tomatoes have started to ripen.
I am a lazy ass gardener.
I don't have a soaker hose. I planted seeds that I forget to water except at 3 in the morning when I get home from work. I transplanted a bunch of morning glories that I grew from seed but forgot to put up netting or something and some bastard animal ate most of the leaves. The one that is growing next to the ramp still has it's leaves but that would be because I haven't bothered cutting the grass there anytime recently. I know what I'm doing tomorrow. Yay. Can't wait.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 17, 2016 9:56:44 GMT -5
ODS has a summer job that requires him to be at work at 6:00 a.m. several days per week. He is a breakfast eater, so I get up at 5 with him so that I can watch his sausages and/or bacon cook while he showers and so that I can wake up before driving him (we all share 2 cars). With the early start to my day, I get the sprinklers going (my town's annual watering restrictions are in place already) and can spend a good hour weeding before the sun gets too strong/warm (I'm growing a bumper crop of bittersweet this year, ugh). And, now that I don't spend my summer weekends at college recruiting lax tournaments, I can take the time to see what works and what doesn't work in my garden. To start, I have a border area near the road that I'm going to plant red/white/blue salvia in to replace the boring ground cover the previous owners planted. As far as veggies go, my tomatoes, spinach, lettuces, and herbs are thriving beautifully. I also need to get DH to keep working cutting down a HUGE pile of wood leftover from the tree fall for use in the fire pit. A large branch came down out of one of my oak trees in the high winds we had over the weekend and that needs to be cut up and moved, too. Fortunately, the branch also brought down a widow maker leftover from the tree fall. At this point, we are seriously considering taking down many of the trees around our house. I love them for their beauty, their shade, the songbirds that dwell in them, but we must be in some sort of weird wind vortex because not a storm goes by that at least one good-sized branch comes down. The trees are healthy, just very vulnerable to the wind. Still thinking it through... Before you cut the trees down, do you get them trimmed regularly? If you have an arborist thin out the canopy, the wind applies less force to the branches. Down here they refer to it as having the trees hurricane trimmed. We have it done every three years or so to our big live oaks. The prior owner had regular arborist care for the trees (there are several wires rigged to some of the bigger branches as evidence). The problem is that these are just massive, mature, trees -- at least 100 feet tall and as wide as a small car at the base. I don't know how one could thin them enough to lessen the threat and yet not harm them. We'll definitely get professional advice before we cut, but at least the ones closest to the house scare the bejeezus out of me.
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Post by spartan7886 on Jun 17, 2016 10:01:37 GMT -5
Oh wow. I thought mine were big at 5-6 feet in diameter.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 17, 2016 10:15:47 GMT -5
Before you cut the trees down, do you get them trimmed regularly? If you have an arborist thin out the canopy, the wind applies less force to the branches. Down here they refer to it as having the trees hurricane trimmed. We have it done every three years or so to our big live oaks. The prior owner had regular arborist care for the trees (there are several wires rigged to some of the bigger branches as evidence). The problem is that these are just massive, mature, trees -- at least 100 feet tall and as wide as a small car at the base. I don't know how one could thin them enough to lessen the threat and yet not harm them. We'll definitely get professional advice before we cut, but at least the ones closest to the house scare the bejeezus out of me. Memphis has some really massive oak trees tightly packed with other massive oak trees in some of the older established neighborhoods. Mostly not a problem in the winter with icing but severe thunderstorms (any time of the year) bring these huge limbs down on houses and cars. Refresh my memory again-was it your home that was SEVERELY damaged by trees in a thunderstorm? Or was it a tornado.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 17, 2016 12:25:25 GMT -5
The prior owner had regular arborist care for the trees (there are several wires rigged to some of the bigger branches as evidence). The problem is that these are just massive, mature, trees -- at least 100 feet tall and as wide as a small car at the base. I don't know how one could thin them enough to lessen the threat and yet not harm them. We'll definitely get professional advice before we cut, but at least the ones closest to the house scare the bejeezus out of me. Memphis has some really massive oak trees tightly packed with other massive oak trees in some of the older established neighborhoods. Mostly not a problem in the winter with icing but severe thunderstorms (any time of the year) bring these huge limbs down on houses and cars. Refresh my memory again-was it your home that was SEVERELY damaged by trees in a thunderstorm? Or was it a tornado. It was a microburst, actually -- so maybe part thunderstorm, part tornado, LOL. (You gotta laugh at the crap life throws at you or else you'll be forced to crawl up into the fetal position and die.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 19:57:06 GMT -5
We had snow a couple weeks ago! It's really Cottonwood seeds and it looked pretty coming down but sticks all over everything. And foxglove.
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Post by yogiii on Jul 22, 2016 12:38:59 GMT -5
We've had a few zucchini, cukes, cherry tomatoes, made a couple rounds of pesto but I think the stock will really start to explode in a week of two. DH also had to re-locate 3 woodchucks who thought our garden was going to be their personal buffet. Think again woodchucks!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 19:58:22 GMT -5
Most veggies are toast here b/c of 98% temps and the drought. My herbs and jalapeno are happy and I'm getting collards, okra, cukes, zucchini, chives and things I have to Google from my farm share. Apparently our climate is compatible with the crops of the sub-Saharan refugees who operate it which is truly scary. Did you know that roselle leaves are edible? Some sort of edible hibiscus, very, very good.
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