ethin's doings

[kazedwards]

Do you grow them in pots then? Or do you plant them out in the spring and dig them in the fall? That must be a process either way if you have many. We have to dig up and store elephant ear bulbs in the winter here and that's a pain.

[richardw]

Its great that i dont have to dig up mine for winter,be a huge job as i must have over a 1000 by now

[flowerweaver]

richardw I wonder if glads would grow here? The ground never freezes and although it can get down to 10 F, it usually warms up above freezing during the daytime. How much water do they need during the hot months?

[richardw]

Instead of hijacking ethins thread ive answered your questions in alanbishop.proboards.com/thread/7685/growing-own-gladiolus-seed?page=3

[ethin]

Thanks richardw.

I don't know too much about glads yet, first year growing them.

[ethin]

yesterday I spent half the day cleaning and try to organize the sun room, still a long way to go. Picked tomatoes and seed corn.

Today I harvested the last 5 watermelons that where large enough for eating, harvested most of the squash as well.

[ethin]

Sweet pepper harvest.

[steev]

Did you only harvest the one cat?

[ethin]

The rest of the horde was busy with what was left of last years squash. Meow's like moschata!?

[ethin]

Not really garden related, although it might be directly linked to my gardening practices, but we have apparently had some frogs claim our yard. Started hearing them about a month ago, wasn't sure if I was hearing frogs or some kind of bird but now I'm pretty sure it frogs, ether that or really big crickets.

[kazedwards]

In the spring I always get a lot of frogs in my yard. They are the little brown ones about the size of a quarter and there are hundreds if not thousands of them. Then the warmer weather sets in and it rains less often and they just disappear without a trace. Every single one. I don't know where they come from or go to but there is no sign of them after they go. We do always have a few tree frogs or toads that I always see take up residence but never the little brown ones.

[ethin]

Dug the onions that I grew from last years seed, lots of diversity even though the mothers where all the same variety (Yellow Spanish) and they were most likely the only onions in bloom for half a mile or more. Looks like Yellow Spanish must be a hybrid.
The ones that are true to type I know how to handle and what to expect from them, the others I'm not so sure.
1. There's the skinny ones in the middle.
2. A bunch of marble sized one that where connected to each other, witch unfortunately I had mostly separated and mixed with all the other small one before realizing they where connected.

Any ideas as to what the off-types might be or how they will behave?

[ethin]

Last night was the third time in the last 30 days or so that freezing temps had been forecast, it did finally have a soft freeze. Scattered frost damage, mainly just the tender stuff (basil, tomatoes, squash). No big deal 'cause most of the garden had already run its course, the few things left look like they'll have another week or two.

[ethin]

Harvested the 4 late apple trees this past Saturday, got 19 boxes of good ones and a few more of windfalls and really wormy ones. Plenty to pass out to the family and share with the neighbors, and still have lots to make us sick of eating apples.

[synergy]

Wow , I got worried about having enough so I planted 14 varieties of young apple trees . With any luck there will be some staggering of when they are all ready . I cannot imagine getting sick of apple sauce, I seem to use it in so many things.