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Post by daisylu on Sept 23, 2022 7:40:01 GMT -5
Not sure if I have mentioned it here before, but we got so many hot peppers one year there was no way we would use them all. So we put them in a dehydrator and crushed them into a powder. Just a little bit of it packs a punch! I've considered a dehydrator but am reluctant to buy single-use appliances. I plan to try air-drying them. On a visit to a farm in Croatia I saw large, round red peppers (bugger than cherry tomatoes) strung up to dry outside. They looked pretty, too! You just string them up with needle and thread and leave them for a few weeks. You can also use your oven. I will have to look the bolded. We have air dried some peppers as well, but I never would have thought to try it with large peppers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2022 8:37:54 GMT -5
I've considered a dehydrator but am reluctant to buy single-use appliances. I plan to try air-drying them. On a visit to a farm in Croatia I saw large, round red peppers (bigger than cherry tomatoes) strung up to dry outside. They looked pretty, too! You just string them up with needle and thread and leave them for a few weeks. You can also use your oven. I will have to look the bolded. We have air dried some peppers as well, but I never would have thought to try it with large peppers. Yeah but the oven has to be left on forever. I'm trying air-drying because it's "greener" and I have a bountiful supply of peppers in case it fails. Time to tear out the tomato plants. I harvested green tomatoes today to make this for the Garden Club picnic (actually turned out pretty well). www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22467/green-tomato-and-bell-pepper-delight/I had to cut out a lot of spots where they were being eaten into by nasty little bugs DH used to call "roly-polies" because if provoked they roll into a ball. I don't use sprays and other chemicals. This is the result. As I type this I am thoroughly enjoying a large fresh tomato, sliced and sprinkled with a little salt, from the Farmer's Market. They ran me about $1.50 apiece.
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Post by weltschmerz on Sept 24, 2022 12:47:16 GMT -5
$1.50 for ONE tomato? Ouch!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2022 18:26:49 GMT -5
$1.50 for ONE tomato? Ouch! I know but they're really good and I buy them only this time of year. Now sawdust-textured versions trucked in from Mexico that they sell in the grocery store. And now I'm seeing what effort it takes to get a sun-ripened tomato to the point it can be harvested!
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Post by Opti on Sept 25, 2022 18:07:34 GMT -5
Finally got the blue aster into the ground. Hope it recovers from being out and dry. The peat moss type soil it was in the pot with apparently dries out very fast. Has not been hot this week and I unfortunately did not keep it soaked like the grocery store did. Lots of flowers to deadhead and only a few look good. Wish I had gotten to it earlier in the week. Did water it the other day but most ran off. Might rain a little later tonight. Should look nice when the yellow to orange mum blooms near it.
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Post by Opti on Oct 8, 2022 14:05:16 GMT -5
Looking for help identifying a tree fruit. I'm pretty sure its not a cherry, but I'm not sure what it is. Dropping from a tree right now with some of the higher up ones being red and yellow. Kind of looks like the below, except no fuzz.
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Post by Opti on Oct 8, 2022 14:06:07 GMT -5
FWIW, the blue aster has survived but I don't think it's set new blooms yet.
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Post by Opti on Oct 30, 2022 8:21:16 GMT -5
Ack, I think a deer ate or tried to eat part of the new mum. If I figure out how to post a pic from my phone, I will. They did not touch the older mum which is in full bloom. Just this one which is near to the Bell&Howell light a deer stepped on. There are other things to eat, its only October. Damn deer.
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Post by jerseygirl on Oct 30, 2022 9:11:38 GMT -5
Deer love to eat flowers. One nicely bit off all the mum flowers from the stems. Just left all the stems and leaves . Didn’t use deer spray as I thought the strong odor would deter the deer. Nope gone the first night out. The next night ate all the geranium leaves and stems from plant next to the pitiful crew cut mum
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Post by Opti on Oct 30, 2022 9:21:58 GMT -5
Deer love to eat flowers. One nicely bit off all the mum flowers from the stems. Just left all the stems and leaves . Didn’t use deer spray as I thought the strong odor would deter the deer. Nope gone the first night out. The next night ate all the geranium leaves and stems from plant next to the pitiful crew cut mum Sorry to read this. I wonder if any of the area stores around me carry something like deer spray or mountain lion manure. It is the newer yellow mum, and it was in full bloom. I guess I'll put out my two I think unbroken solar lights near this mum. Maybe it will help, maybe it won't. It's annoying because there are pumpkins all around the complex. Wish they'd eat that instead.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2022 15:45:57 GMT -5
Ack, I think a deer ate or tried to eat part of the new mum. If I figure out how to post a pic from my phone, I will. They did not touch the older mum which is in full bloom. Just this one which is near to the Bell&Howell light a deer stepped on. There are other things to eat, its only October. Damn deer. That would seriously irritate me
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 7:38:15 GMT -5
Garden is done but the sprinkler system needs to be winterized. They're doing that Friday. I live in fear of having water freeze in the pipes and causing them to split.
The birds are VERY hungry- went to the Wild Bird store and bought a couple of 15-lb. bags of seed, a few suet logs and some Protein mix. They weren't eating the suet logs I placed in the feeder with the protein mix so I stuck them in a hanging suet cage that I usually don't fill because the ^%%##! squirrels get to it. Wonder if the squirrels or the birds will find them first.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 16:32:49 GMT -5
We need to get the winterizer stuff down on the grass before this weekend because we're supposed to have lows in the 40's over the weekend. Yeah, really brutal but the local garden guru says get it done before the "cold" snap so I told DH to crank up the spreader Thursday.
After the February '21 storm, we got an insulated cover for our backflow preventer which is the only vulnerable part of our sprinkler system. There are benefits to living in Zone 9-10 even if it's 86 degrees right now and I'm tired of it.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Nov 8, 2022 19:14:56 GMT -5
In Maryland it is illegal to apply lawn fertilizer between Dec 1 and March 1. I still have time. I want to put down some lime too.
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Post by Opti on Nov 8, 2022 19:55:32 GMT -5
I just want to prune back the roses and do a little more pruning on the Azaela bushes as well, probably by this weekend if possible. Sometime early next week I think our lows are upper 20s so the brief time of freezing will be past.
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Post by happyhoix on Nov 12, 2022 21:15:21 GMT -5
Well, we had a cold stretch about a month ago and then it got back up in the 80s. Stupid camellias are blooming their hearts out thinking it’s spring. And now - cold again tonight.
Stupid camellias.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Nov 12, 2022 21:31:14 GMT -5
Getting used to our new property. We're putting in cutting beds this month. We bought five troughs. Each one is six feet by two feet.
Among the other bush pruning, the landscape maintenance guys cut back my limelight hydrangeas. I lost my breath when I saw them. I'm not sure they were cut back the fall before as the house we just bought in May had been vacant for well over a year.
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Post by skeeter on Nov 12, 2022 21:42:00 GMT -5
In Maryland it is illegal to apply lawn fertilizer between Dec 1 and March 1. I still have time. I want to put down some lime too. Very curious about the reasoning for this.
Don't have such a law here and have never heard of this before.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Nov 12, 2022 22:18:50 GMT -5
In Maryland it is illegal to apply lawn fertilizer between Dec 1 and March 1. I still have time. I want to put down some lime too. Very curious about the reasoning for this.
Don't have such a law here and have never heard of this before.
This may help explain it. I had never heard of this law either. doee.dc.gov/fertilizer
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Post by CCL on Nov 12, 2022 22:31:17 GMT -5
My garden was covered in snow today I planted more lettuce in my Aerogarden and some of it is starting to sprout, so at least I have my little indoor garden.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Nov 13, 2022 9:17:10 GMT -5
In Maryland it is illegal to apply lawn fertilizer between Dec 1 and March 1. I still have time. I want to put down some lime too. Very curious about the reasoning for this.
Don't have such a law here and have never heard of this before.
It's to keep fertilizer run off out of the rivers. We have many that connect to the Chesapeake Bay. During this time there is less absorption into the soil I guess.
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Post by skeeter on Nov 14, 2022 23:16:31 GMT -5
Very curious about the reasoning for this.
Don't have such a law here and have never heard of this before.
It's to keep fertilizer run off out of the rivers. We have many that connect to the Chesapeake Bay. During this time there is less absorption into the soil I guess. Thank you! Makes perfect sense to try and protect the environment.
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Post by finnime on Nov 15, 2022 4:58:29 GMT -5
I planted mixed peonies, mixed reblooming tiger lilies and purple phlox on Saturday when it was crazy warm here. Then it rained, a good thing. Looks like we'll be having colder weather from now on. The new rhizomes should get a good start. We haven't yet had a killing frost here. Since this town is on the water I'm not sure what to expect. I know it will be warmer over all than inland.
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Post by azucena on Nov 20, 2022 22:04:31 GMT -5
I had to buy a space heater in home depot and kill 90 mins during DD14s voice lesson. I bought a majestic pack on clearance for $10, regular $40. Let's hope he's low maintenance and can tolerate a few kitty chomps. I've been wanting a tall plant for a dead corner in our dining area. Dd14 got into the car and promptly named him Chadwick. She also gently reminded me that the dead corner houses our Christmas tree. We both giggled about decorating Chad instead. Dh and dd10 vetoed that idea when we got home.
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Post by MarionTh230 on Dec 19, 2022 18:39:40 GMT -5
Grappling with reality. Arctic blast pushing waaaaaaaay down south at the end of this week means I have plants that will indeed go kaput. Such is the way of Mother Nature. I need to plan my spring plants. If I'm going to start from seed, I need to start in January. No way to know if winter will last for a week, or a month, or a few months down here. Need my plants ready to go once winter decides to go away.
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Post by finnime on Dec 19, 2022 21:16:50 GMT -5
Grappling with reality. Arctic blast pushing waaaaaaaay down south at the end of this week means I have plants that will indeed go kaput. Such is the way of Mother Nature. I need to plan my spring plants. If I'm going to start from seed, I need to start in January. No way to know if winter will last for a week, or a month, or a few months down here. Need my plants ready to go once winter decides to go away. Always a stinging prospect!
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Dec 20, 2022 20:50:12 GMT -5
So, I finally had Mister just bring my Meyer lemon tree back inside because it’s supposed to get super cold in a couple of days and I’ve been procrastinating about repotting it. It needs repotting in fresh soil because there are ants in the soil it’s in right now. EEK!
Y’all know I don’t do bugs, but it’s my fault I didn’t tend to the plant before now, so if ants crawl out of the container now that it’s indoors, I guess that will be my stupid tax to deal with.
Anyway, it grew a lot while it was outside this summer, it barely survived last winter in the house because I don’t have any good windows for growing stuff. By the time it was warm enough to put it outside, it was mostly just a stick with just a couple of pitiful looking leaves just barely hanging on. But it flourished once I put it outside. I am better prepared this winter for it to be indoors, because I bought a grow light specifically for it.
Maybe I should’ve pruned it or something while it was growing so much, because it doesn’t look like most of the pictures I see online. It’s about as wide as it is tall, and looks more like a bush than a tree.
Anyway, the leaves are all a lighter green than the dark green they were at some point during the summer. When I got frustrated and upset about the squirrels eating all my tomatoes, I pretty much stopped tending to any of my plants. So I didn’t fertilize the lemon tree as much as I should have during the summer.
Everything I’ve read so far says not to fertilize them during winter, but I’m wondering if that still applies, since it’s indoors. I really think it needs some fertilizer. But I’ve also killed a lot of plants by doing too much, trying to take care of them.
I really want to keep this lemon tree alive, almost everything I’ve tried to grow outside died during the brutally hot and dry summer of 2022. Well, the one rosemary plant that I stuck in a flower bed and mostly forgot about, instead of throwing it away because it was so scraggly looking after last winter like I did with its brothers and sisters, is still thriving. But that’s about it. Everything else is dead. Even my Knock Out roses and the daylilies that I’ve had for 2 years now.
So, I’m sending out a SOS to please help me save my Meyer lemon tree. Will it be so bad if I give it some fertilizer? It’s indoors now, does it really know what season of the year it is as far as it’s needs and growth?
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Post by CCL on Dec 20, 2022 21:29:00 GMT -5
So, I finally had Mister just bring my Meyer lemon tree back inside because it’s supposed to get super cold in a couple of days and I’ve been procrastinating about repotting it. It needs repotting in fresh soil because there are ants in the soil it’s in right now. EEK! Y’all know I don’t do bugs, but it’s my fault I didn’t tend to the plant before now, so if ants crawl out of the container now that it’s indoors, I guess that will be my stupid tax to deal with. Anyway, it grew a lot while it was outside this summer, it barely survived last winter in the house because I don’t have any good windows for growing stuff. By the time it was warm enough to put it outside, it was mostly just a stick with just a couple of pitiful looking leaves just barely hanging on. But it flourished once I put it outside. I am better prepared this winter for it to be indoors, because I bought a grow light specifically for it. Maybe I should’ve pruned it or something while it was growing so much, because it doesn’t look like most of the pictures I see online. It’s about as wide as it is tall, and looks more like a bush than a tree. Anyway, the leaves are all a lighter green than the dark green they were at some point during the summer. When I got frustrated and upset about the squirrels eating all my tomatoes, I pretty much stopped tending to any of my plants. So I didn’t fertilize the lemon tree as much as I should have during the summer. Everything I’ve read so far says not to fertilize them during winter, but I’m wondering if that still applies, since it’s indoors. I really think it needs some fertilizer. But I’ve also killed a lot of plants by doing too much, trying to take care of them. I really want to keep this lemon tree alive, almost everything I’ve tried to grow outside died during the brutally hot and dry summer of 2022. Well, the one rosemary plant that I stuck in a flower bed and mostly forgot about, instead of throwing it away because it was so scraggly looking after last winter like I did with its brothers and sisters, is still thriving. But that’s about it. Everything else is dead. Even my Knock Out roses and the daylilies that I’ve had for 2 years now. So, I’m sending out a SOS to please help me save my Meyer lemon tree. Will it be so bad if I give it some fertilizer? It’s indoors now, does it really know what season of the year it is as far as it’s needs and growth? What makes you think the daylillies are dead? They always die back, then sprout again in the spring. I've never grown a Meyer lemon, but I'd like to. Probably too cold here. Not crazy about roses, so no advice on those either.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 20, 2022 21:31:11 GMT -5
So, I finally had Mister just bring my Meyer lemon tree back inside because it’s supposed to get super cold in a couple of days and I’ve been procrastinating about repotting it. It needs repotting in fresh soil because there are ants in the soil it’s in right now. EEK! Y’all know I don’t do bugs, but it’s my fault I didn’t tend to the plant before now, so if ants crawl out of the container now that it’s indoors, I guess that will be my stupid tax to deal with. Anyway, it grew a lot while it was outside this summer, it barely survived last winter in the house because I don’t have any good windows for growing stuff. By the time it was warm enough to put it outside, it was mostly just a stick with just a couple of pitiful looking leaves just barely hanging on. But it flourished once I put it outside. I am better prepared this winter for it to be indoors, because I bought a grow light specifically for it. Maybe I should’ve pruned it or something while it was growing so much, because it doesn’t look like most of the pictures I see online. It’s about as wide as it is tall, and looks more like a bush than a tree. Anyway, the leaves are all a lighter green than the dark green they were at some point during the summer. When I got frustrated and upset about the squirrels eating all my tomatoes, I pretty much stopped tending to any of my plants. So I didn’t fertilize the lemon tree as much as I should have during the summer. Everything I’ve read so far says not to fertilize them during winter, but I’m wondering if that still applies, since it’s indoors. I really think it needs some fertilizer. But I’ve also killed a lot of plants by doing too much, trying to take care of them. I really want to keep this lemon tree alive, almost everything I’ve tried to grow outside died during the brutally hot and dry summer of 2022. Well, the one rosemary plant that I stuck in a flower bed and mostly forgot about, instead of throwing it away because it was so scraggly looking after last winter like I did with its brothers and sisters, is still thriving. But that’s about it. Everything else is dead. Even my Knock Out roses and the daylilies that I’ve had for 2 years now. So, I’m sending out a SOS to please help me save my Meyer lemon tree. Will it be so bad if I give it some fertilizer? It’s indoors now, does it really know what season of the year it is as far as it’s needs and growth? While the lemon tree doesn't know by name which month it is, it does know the available sunlight is not where or what it was on the longest day of sun light. Hence the lighter green leaves. I might feed it just a little. What ever amount the fertilizer says to give the plant, give only a 10th amount if it. And maybe that is it for while it is indoors. And don't over water it this winter. Stick your finger about one inch or so into the soil. If damp, don't water it. Wait until it's dry to the touch. And don't flood it. Find a window in your home where it can receive the best available winter sunlight. Maybe turn the pot a little bit every few weeks. No radical turns as it might go into shock and drop all its leaves.
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