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Post by gsoflittledove on Feb 27, 2012 14:02:10 GMT 12.75
Tomatoes and pepers wating to be put in garden, Ground temp 59. need to wate two more weeks for late frost. Hope to have big crops this year. Bill
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 27, 2012 21:47:28 GMT 12.75
I've turned my master bath into a nursery. I've got all kinds of maters, peppers, cabbage, brussel sprouts collards and eggplant sprouted and up. If I keep the door closed, it stays about 70 degrees in there. Just waiting for weather to warm up and gather up a mess of big pots for my container truck patch.
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 27, 2012 21:51:00 GMT 12.75
I've turned my master bath into a nursery. I've got all kinds of maters, peppers, cabbage, brussel sprouts collards and eggplant sprouted and up. If I keep the door closed, it stays about 70 degrees in there. Just waiting for weather to warm up and gather up a mess of big pots for my container truck patch.
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Post by Paws on Feb 28, 2012 1:51:27 GMT 12.75
Faith start working your compost pile up and as those pots mature dump the soil out looking at a raised bed next year. Keep working the compost and cover it up for heat maybe get some of KJs worms and start building some soil on that rock.
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 28, 2012 7:38:46 GMT 12.75
Have already been doing some thinking about my compost pile (which consists mainly of year old cow manure and rye straw). Gonna turn the hole area into a melon patch. Biggest, sweetest watermelons and 'lopes I ever had were volunteers on a rotted manure mountain at the farm. Also thinking that if I do in-ground plantings, to utilize one of the areas we cleared last year. Stumps are still there, but the ground is undisturbed, not packed from foot traffic, and maintains it's natural mulch. Would be an ideal spot to set up the pea trellis' or grape arbor. Stumps will rot out soon enough and add to the organic matter. Gonna look real primitive looking, but well....how else should I expect it to look out on this rocky knob? Oh, and Phil's Progressive Peach trees are all looking good. Well, all except for the deer nipping the tops off all of them. But there's lots of new bud development and I intend to get out there sometime in the next week or so and set up some hardware cloth tubes around each of 'em.
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Post by Paws on Feb 28, 2012 9:39:51 GMT 12.75
You'll need to add a lot of sand to that compost. Melons will rot on that rock if it isn't well drained.
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Post by Paws on Feb 28, 2012 13:14:16 GMT 12.75
You know how to make a leader out of one of the upper branches right?
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 28, 2012 14:03:30 GMT 12.75
You'll need to add a lot of sand to that compost. Melons will rot on that rock if it isn't well drained. Got that taken care of. The compost pile is in a deep swale between the chicken house and the neighbors house. You know how to make a leader out of one of the upper branches right? Upper branches?? Uh, you realize how small these little trees were when I planted them last year? They barely had anything but a main stalk. Maybe being nipped will force some side shoot branches I talkd to a friend that runs an orchard and he said this may be a blessing in disquise. Ideally, trees are a little older when transplanted. But when you do plant them, it's suggested to prune them back hard - clear back to the crotch - to encourage new growth. Just hope these little saplings weren't so young that they hadn't figured out where their crotch was. Tomorrow's tasks......Plant the Montmorency cherry I picked up tonight, rip a stack of boards to make a couple rose trellis, plant 30 strawberry plants, dishes, laundry, mopping, chauffer rob, sweep down the hen house, and scrape chicken poo off the porch.
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Post by Paws on Feb 28, 2012 14:47:17 GMT 12.75
Upper as in the top most. Prune all the way back to your first healthy branch and tie it off as straight up as you can. This will become your leader and the main trunk. The rest of the branches will follow along just like good little limbs. Go ahead and set hardware cloth cages around them to keep the deer away. In six or seven years they will make good bambi bait.
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 28, 2012 16:36:27 GMT 12.75
Thanks for the advice. I'll try it. This fruit tree thing is all new area for me. Trying to learn it under the conditions I have here is probably making it all that much more interesting. All I know is I have a nice big sloped area with plenty of southernly exposure that shouldn't let be go to waste. Does May sound good for lunch and a tour of what we've been up to? Promise we got the ivy under control!
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Post by Paws on Feb 28, 2012 17:06:13 GMT 12.75
Sounds pretty good to me. I'm gonna be stir crazy if I don't do something. I actually thought about cleaning up the yard today!
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Post by brittonfaith on Feb 29, 2012 17:20:02 GMT 12.75
I finally got a couple of pie cherry trees at TSC. Being as they've been indoors for at least the past couple weeks, I'm going to have to harden them before planting. Lookin at the 14-day forecast, I'm gonna wait until Friday or so to set them outside. Will probably stick them in the early next week. Chicks and ducklings are in. Better assortment should arrive next week. Time to stock up on chicken nuggets! All my cabbage damped off. Would not be such a big deal if this wasn't the last of seed from breedigs that produced several 80 to 90-pound competition heads. I'd grown some 50-pounders from it and was anxious to show the neighbors a big cabbage.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Feb 29, 2012 22:48:35 GMT 12.75
Not looking like any gardening around here. Usually don't plant until Good Friday, but now's the time to start prepping the garden... Nobody has much of a desire to bother with it this year.
Dad'll prolly put some t'maters in his wading pool garden beds and maybe some peppers, but that's about it.
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Post by brittonfaith on Mar 1, 2012 18:00:04 GMT 12.75
God must like fools like me. Finally got a little nudge last night and was reminded that I should put some pop bottles over them. So I did. This morning, several of the babies I'd written off were fine and a bunch of dormant (aka dud) seed sprouted to replace the ones I'd lost. Had to run back to Gallipolis tonight to exchange a pair of shoes. Decided to make a pit stop at TSC and check something out. When I picked up that cherry tree, I noticed one that looked wierd. All the others had main trunks that were about thumb size around and 4-5 feet before they branched off. But this one cherry tree had a trunk about as big around as my big toe and only about 8 inches up before it branced off 4 ways. Got to thinking that it's been trained to bush form. Showed it to my farmer church deacon tonight and he's thinking the same thing. Gonna find out. Sure would make some easy pickin if ever I gets bound to a chair or just can't climb a ladder or raise my arms above my head someday. Looks like I better invest in a Red Ryder BB gun to keep the birds away from my cherries. My previous luck gardening with the 20ga is not good.
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Post by brittonfaith on Mar 1, 2012 18:08:48 GMT 12.75
Not looking like any gardening around here. Usually don't plant until Good Friday, but now's the time to start prepping the garden... Nobody has much of a desire to bother with it this year. Dad'll prolly put some t'maters in his wading pool garden beds and maybe some peppers, but that's about it. I don't really feel like it either. This past year has about sucked the all the life outa me. But my desire for fresh veggies and my billfold both say it's gotta be done. Guess the bright side is that I don't have to garden and can for an army anymore.
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 11, 2012 4:42:54 GMT 12.75
When I made my greenhouse you asked for pictures. made from a trampoline frame an TV front plate glass, and a lot of guess work. got my squash cucumber peepers tomatoes eggplant ready to transplant, also have 3 tomatoes with cup size fruit , I"m ready Attachments:
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 11, 2012 4:44:47 GMT 12.75
Not doing well on Pictures Attachments:
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Post by Paws on Mar 11, 2012 4:45:34 GMT 12.75
Very nice! ;D
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 11, 2012 4:47:02 GMT 12.75
3rd try picture Attachments:
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 11, 2012 4:48:42 GMT 12.75
I"M nuts coumpters are not my thing
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