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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 28, 2017 19:45:35 GMT -5
Templeton, I've had pretty good luck with 3-4 weeks in the fridge. Darn things started to grow in the fridge!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 28, 2017 19:42:28 GMT -5
okay, reminding anyone with seeds. I want to start these! Please. I can send money or what every seedaholic needs....another seed!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 28, 2017 19:40:46 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2017 9:24:39 GMT -5
Toomany, Would you consider sending me dry leaves? The plant just doesn't like my hot dry summers. Its a fab dye plant, and I can't find a grower. (Just be careful picking the stuff, I wouldn't want you to get skin burns.) Let me know.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2017 9:19:45 GMT -5
Yeah, Even the 100 is hard. My typical breakfast is bacon, eggs, potatoes and toast. Now, it's chopped left over meat and cheese on top of salad fixings. Or an egg in a shredded zuke nest with bacon. For lunch I always have a sandwich and soup. Now, it's a lettuce wrap. It's hard because I love my homemade bread. I get a 1/2 slice at dinner, or 1/2 the pasta everyone else has. It's a big change....especially the no beer.
I really miss the fruit. Especially the dried fruit, which I tend to snack on.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2017 9:12:24 GMT -5
T, you're a peach! Always love to try what other gardeners are working on.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 17, 2017 9:09:23 GMT -5
T, if you need to liberate that vinyl...send it my way. Leo loves them. I can't find old Kinks Vinyl....still hunting.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 15, 2017 14:26:28 GMT -5
Ferdzy! I spotted your Turkish Kaavan Kiragac 589 this morning in the melon patch. Wow, it's really a looker!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 15, 2017 14:24:40 GMT -5
Leo left a pot of black raspberries in the front yard. It rooted through the pot, and now the black raspberries have taken over one whole side of the front yard. In the back, some birds sitting on the fence dropped some blackberry seeds. I thought it would be great and now they have eaten a shed. Thorny bastards they are.
We have a raw milk dairy down the street from us. Whole milk only. Love it. Buy it to make yogurt. We have never used margarine. We do like coconut shortening, lard (when Leo renders it) and of course plenty of good olive oil. My experience is that fat does not make you fat. It's the carbs that will kill you. Better off with the fat, which your cells make good use of. I'm sticking with a 100 carbs a day.
About 10 years ago, Leo made a house policy. If you buy something, you need to know what the ingredients are. So no Methyl Ethyl bad stuff is allowed. I'm even wary about "Natural Flavors". Well, if they're natural, tell me what they are.
We got hardly any gogi berries this year, but it was a bumper year for strawberries and mulberries!
So RichardW, put a saucer under that pot, before it escapes!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 14, 2017 16:25:27 GMT -5
Crimson Seedless, Sugar Baby, Grover Delaney, Asahi Miyako and a mystery watermelon...gosh don't you hate it when a package leeks into a bigger package. I was so frustrated, I just planted them anyway.
Also planted Collective Farm Woman, Marygold Honeydew, Anne Arundel and Kavun Kirkagac 589. Why these? All turn yellow when ready. The Marygold is one of my all time favorites.
So far, Crimson Sweet is here. Doesn't it just figure that the mystery melon is some giant long thing? Really hard to put in a box! I also can't find some melon seeds. I know this because when they came in, I threw them in with another bunch of seeds into a plastic bag in the seed freezer. Being too lazy to find the jar of melon seeds, in the very very bottom. Next year, I'll have to empty the whole freezer to find them.
Good thing the melons are doing well, it's a shit year for tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. Every time they flower, we get triple digits and the darn flowers fry. I have two baskets of cherry tomatoes all year.
In a previous year when it was this hot, my melons burned. This year I put a trellis of Romano beans on the South side....I hope this gives them just enough shade to not cook.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 13, 2017 11:11:10 GMT -5
Oh, I'd shoot a gopher at point blank. I'd love to invent a gopher finder, similar to fish finders, so I could just put a blasting cap in the hole and blow the bugger to smitherines.
One day I caught one out of it's hole, I looked around for a cat and there was none. Did that phase me? No, I stomped it. With my boot! Leo couldn't believe his cold blooded killer wife. Yesterday I fixed gopher bitten hoses. One hose had no less that 4 bites out of it. I'd stomp it again! Stealing my veges! Ruining my irrigation. Hah, good thing I don't have a have a handgun....anyone want to send me one?
Steev, how can I have time to post? I'm battling gophers, trying to stay out of the weeds, irrigating to beat the clock. It's been triple digits here, and so hot that I have to run to beat the irrigation timer. I'm getting up earlier and earlier to beat the heat. By the time I make dinner, I'm falling down and ready for bed. Puts a crimp in my style. Almost feel asleep in my glass of wine.
So from the antipodeans......My Benhorn carrots are coming along. Absolutely stunning harvest of Cream Gold Onions! And my parsnips, Halblange Wiesse look beautiful. I must have more seed.
It's been a dismal season for peppers and tomatoes.
I need someone to tell me when to harvest Winter x Jersey and Chacha x Katy. OXBOW! Weigh in please.
My garden looks fabulous, thanks to the rain and that I'm not spending any time on the computer. Yikes, got to move irrigation again. Toot a loo. Steev, come for dinner, someday.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 22, 2017 14:04:36 GMT -5
Steev, Leo says, "Don't cut, it's a gift from God". He was so told by the Sikh down the street from us.....
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 22, 2017 14:01:02 GMT -5
In my own garden I have eliminated the wooden barrels. I've gone to clay pots with plastic inserts. Clay pots can stay because they are heavy, and I can slip out the plastic pots. They hold water better than the wood ones. I too was watering pots 2x a day. AND I have ALOT pots. Too many. But every time I empty them new plants arrive to fill the void. Don't ask how. Everyone brings me their plants. Yesterday I received 8 hydrangeas!
Regarding that Oxalis, I got a purple leafed one as a gift. I'm kinda afraid to put it in the ground. I too have scaled back my garden, and as you can fry eggs on the garbage can lid today, I'm glad and don't miss the extra work!
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 22, 2017 13:53:27 GMT -5
Any of you Antipodeans ever raise roselle? I also received some seeds and set them out. I know, they should go in at tomato planting time, but I don't have frost till Oct (if then). Someone gave me a jar of them in syrup and they were pretty good. Anyone know how to process the bast fiber in them? Inquiring minds want to knnow.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 22, 2017 9:54:15 GMT -5
This year, I had quite a few Tulsi basil volunteers. I have never had any of Italian basil volunteer, I wish it would!
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