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Post by kazedwards on Mar 4, 2016 12:51:34 GMT -5
Last year I had TGS that was sowed in the same container at the same time come up 4 months apart as well as everything in between.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 6, 2016 22:05:38 GMT -5
I hosted a garden party today. It was to celebrate planting the first crop of the new year. The snow melted a few days ago, so we planted Fava bean plants. Even though it rained all morning, there was a good breeze, so the surface of the soil was dry by the time we planted in the afternoon. We took a garden tour, then gathered barefoot round a fire, and sang songs, and danced, and shook lagenaria rattles, and told stories, and ate moschata squash harvested last fall. We collected tobacco leaves from plants that were not tilled under last fall, and gave them to the fire as an offering to mother. We dug sunroots as the first harvest of the new growing season. We left the garden about sunset when it started snowing. Fava Beans: Ready to transplant into garden.  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 11, 2016 11:28:45 GMT -5
I'm headed out to the garden to finish planting the fava beans. While I'm there I intend to plant a few more things like peas, onions, lentils, cilantro, bok choi, and garlic. |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2016 20:39:18 GMT -5
Hey nice trailer! I'm impressed!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 30, 2016 19:32:12 GMT -5
We've received about 13" of snow the past few nights. I expect that it'll finish melting off tomorrow. I love spring snow!!!  |
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Post by steev on Mar 31, 2016 1:36:12 GMT -5
That's an Xmas card for sure.
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Post by philagardener on Mar 31, 2016 5:30:14 GMT -5
Sounds good for your water table too! I almost think I see a flat of tomato seedlings out there . . .  |
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Post by richardw on Mar 31, 2016 12:58:50 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 31, 2016 14:24:19 GMT -5
Cause it comes. It stays for a day or two. Then it melts. It's not bitter cold... Even if my family pressures me to remove it, I don't cause it quickly self-melts. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 20, 2016 23:57:45 GMT -5
Here's some photos from my greenhouse tonight. The bench is packed so full that the trays are hanging over the edge...  Almost got the floor filled up too. I'm going to have to harvest that bok-choi in the next few days, cause I'll need the space. Today, I ate enough raw bok-choi to add another flat to the floor. Might have to move those cacti -- Again!  The cold-hardy things got booted outside today.  The grapes are sending out leaves, even though they haven't rooted yet...  Domestic tomatoes pollinated by LA1777, Solanum habrochaites. As easy as these have been to work with, I don't know why I ever tried to do manual pollinations in the field. It's much easier in a greenhouse. I expect the offspring of these crosses to end up in the promiscuous pollination project, and/or in the self-incompatibility project.  Tomatoes being grown for opening day of farmer's market in 2.5 weeks. So far so good.  And a photo from the cactus garden about 10 days ago. Pediocactus simpsonii  And the same Pediocactus simpsonii in higher resolution. |
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Post by steev on Apr 21, 2016 0:02:23 GMT -5
I hope you've not left more than one grape node aboveground, lest you lose them due to lack of roots.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 21, 2016 0:19:26 GMT -5
I hope you've not left more than one grape node aboveground, lest you lose them due to lack of roots. The grapes are currently soaking in water. I'll pot them up after roots start growing. The hyper-low humidity here leads to close to zero percent rooting if I attempt rooting in the ground. I left two or three nodes per stick depending on the distance between nodes: That includes the node at the bottom of the sticks. I expect to prune to one active node when I pot them up. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 21, 2016 13:13:19 GMT -5
TooManyIrons: Thanks. The flowers have a trait that I really like. The filaments are sensitive to touch, so when jostled, they close up around the style... I wonder if that is a trait designed to smear pollen all over any insect that happens into the flower? Here's the same plant a few seconds later, after I attempted to pollinate it with my finger.  |
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Post by reed on Apr 21, 2016 14:36:10 GMT -5
Now ya got me wanting to go down the creek and get some big rocks to build an above grade garden filled with river sand and gravel. Whew, sounds like a lot of work but it might be pretty cool.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 21, 2016 16:37:33 GMT -5
Now ya got me wanting to go down the creek and get some big rocks to build an above grade garden filled with river sand and gravel. Whew, sounds like a lot of work but it might be pretty cool. I have loved cacti for my whole life. So a number of years ago, I made the effort of getting the rocks, gravel, sand, compost, and propagules, and I built a formal cactus garden. I have loved it constantly since that time. (Even on pruning and weeding days.) I really love the cholla. I haven't ever seen another growing in my valley, nor anywhere nearby.  |
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