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Post by nightmist on Nov 10, 2008 1:48:25 GMT -5
I am here!
Rejoice! Rejoice! Make a great feast! Let there be dancing, singing, and great exultation!
Of course I managed to get directed here and sign up the very day we got snow that looks like it might stick, so there is not a heck of a lot happening in my garden. Unless you want to count me looking ruefully at the one bean tower that I haven't got around to pulling down yet. I did get the vines off it, so it is just standing out there all forlorn and naked.
Anyhoo, here I am! ;D
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Post by canadamike on Nov 10, 2008 1:58:49 GMT -5
Welcome nightmist. I like your ''name''. Kind of smells good from afar Why don't you tell us where you are gardening, zone etc... and the veggies you like to grow...
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Post by stratcat on Nov 10, 2008 2:35:25 GMT -5
Welcome to Homegrown Goodness, nightmist. We had snow pellets today. Still have to pull a few pea and bean vines and my flowers. And work on the lawns. Join in and have fun! john
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Post by grungy on Nov 10, 2008 3:22:23 GMT -5
Hi nightmist, welcome to the club. Just because it's winter, doesn't mean that next years garden isn't being planned in your head. Hope you enjoy it here. Cheers, Val and Dan (grunt and grungy)
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Post by jaliranchr on Nov 10, 2008 8:05:15 GMT -5
Welcome to HG, Nightmist. We are supposed to get white crud today too. Blech! At least I have chili from all my tomatoes to counter all the cold wet stuff.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Nov 10, 2008 10:20:22 GMT -5
Hey Nightmist! I might not feast and dance, since it's 7 in the morning, but I'll work up a decent exultation for you. ;D
Glad to see another gardener join us, no matter what the time of year, so welcome!
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Post by americangardener on Nov 10, 2008 11:24:26 GMT -5
Welcome NiteMist...
I'll wait till ya come back to say more. You'll find out its a little faster pace here than most forumns. You might even have to stay here and keep refreshing the most recent posts to keep up with all the talking.
Anyways.. glad to see ya... Dave
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Post by nightmist on Nov 10, 2008 17:20:28 GMT -5
Welcome nightmist. I like your ''name''. Kind of smells good from afar Why don't you tell us where you are gardening, zone etc... and the veggies you like to grow... OK! I am in the far west wilds of New York state, down in the "toe" of the state next to Pennsylvania and Lake Erie. Almost as far away from NYC as you can get and still be in the same state. The past couple of years my zone has varied at the whim of the chart makers. 5a, 5b, or 6. I have been renting, but my landlord is an idiot and this past summer was the straw that broke the camel's back. He poisoned my whole family when he had the house scraped prior to painting without so much as a tarp on the ground, and this after two years of working with the department of enviromental health to track down and elminate lead issues affecting the children. So this spring we are planning on moving. My husband wants to go down to the hills in PA were his people are from. I just want a bit of acreage. I figure that with what I have learned about high density gardening here in town, that moving back out of town we could do some serious food growing. Living in town my gardening has been a bit limited, so I have tried to focus on what will make the most difference to our budget and diet. I tend to favor high yield plants that will go vertical out back, and what I can pass off as ornamental out front. I have also made it a point to toss in some scarily named plants to put the fear into local kids and their parents. I have a fine crop of rocks every year, and my yard backs onto the old clay pit (now a truck lot). Raised beds are my friend. I did very well this year with tomatos and peppers. Except for cherry tomatos. I had across the board failure with my sungolds this year. Exceptionally poor germination and weak seedlings that never did thrive. Bunching onions, shallots and garlic always do very well for me. The asparagus loves me too. The weather was not obliging to my cucurbitae this year, and those few plants that hung on were constantly nibbled back by something that I never caught sight of. Because it was so wet the slugs were particularly wicked and we pretty much lost the hard fought battle for our greens both salad and pot. The pot greens were a blow because iron rich food is recomended for high lead levals. Pole beans, and peas get planted on a rotating basis throughout the garden because this ground is always nitrogen poor no matter how many of them I plant or how much blood I work in. This year knotgrass wreaked havoc with my herbs and flowers. I had just succeeded in beating back the nutsedge almost entirely too. No idea where the knotgrass came from but it was the bane of my front beds this year. I spent hours working it out of the ground and still it came. A wicked plague for densely planted beds. Most of my magical and medicinal herbs were poorly as a result. I've gone in big for small fruits, and have enough strawberries, raspberries, currents and gooseberries to keep us in jam, jelly and pies. I've got some selfseeding garden huckleberries that don't quite come on strong enough to do much more than contribute to the tutti frutti. I've also planted some bush cherries that aren't quite big enough to bear yet. I also have a couple of damask roses that we harvest for the petals. We make rose water to use in cooking, and my husband also uses them for various purposes (he is a professional magician, a conjure man if you prefer). Our girlfriend makes soaps and bath products and uses our roses (and herbs) as well. I always make sure I plant one hill of corn, one hill of squash, and some beans so the spirits know I am serious about growing food.
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Post by cff on Nov 10, 2008 18:30:05 GMT -5
Sounds like your in the Binghamton - Johnson city area ? The company I work for just re-opened the old Ag-Way feed mill there in Binghamton. Pretty nice area there for Yankee land ;D
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Post by nightmist on Nov 10, 2008 22:53:32 GMT -5
Sounds like your in the Binghamton - Johnson city area ? The company I work for just re-opened the old Ag-Way feed mill there in Binghamton. Pretty nice area there for Yankee land ;D Heavens no! Not nearly. Binghamton is some 200 miles or so east of where I am! I'm in Jamestown over in Chautauqua county. I am about 70 miles SSW of Buffalo, and about 50 miles NNE of Erie PA. If I were to travel 30 miles or so further west, I would fall into Lake Erie. Jamestown is on more of the maps than it used to be, but is such a common city name people tend to put me all over the country if I say it first.
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Post by cff on Nov 10, 2008 23:50:33 GMT -5
Sounds like your in the Binghamton - Johnson city area ? The company I work for just re-opened the old Ag-Way feed mill there in Binghamton. Pretty nice area there for Yankee land ;D Heavens no! Not nearly. Binghamton is some 200 miles or so east of where I am! I'm in Jamestown over in Chautauqua county. I am about 70 miles SSW of Buffalo, and about 50 miles NNE of Erie PA. If I were to travel 30 miles or so further west, I would fall into Lake Erie. Jamestown is on more of the maps than it used to be, but is such a common city name people tend to put me all over the country if I say it first. Sounds like snow city USA to me
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Post by canadamike on Nov 11, 2008 0:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by nightmist on Nov 11, 2008 16:34:31 GMT -5
Ha! No kidding! I have a daughter in North Carolina and I get weather reports (laced with much smirking) all the time. Of course when I threaten to move down to where a friend lives up in the hills by Marshall, or even worse threaten to withold the annual quart of green tomato mincemeat, she promptly tells me of all the woes of southern weather.
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Post by cff on Nov 11, 2008 17:48:31 GMT -5
Yep- we have a few weather woes in the summer time but when we talk about a big snow storm (were saying it almost cover the grass)(or it lasted longer than it took to fall out of the sky
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Post by canadamike on Nov 11, 2008 18:25:27 GMT -5
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