Found a few more mantises over the weekend. I have never seen so many around our house/garden before.
This fella was hanging out on the window trim.
Nice pic but who is the Picasso that cut that edge!?!? Sorry but as a former painter I can't help it. LOL
haha
that would be the fine work (sarcasm) of the esteemed "mexicanT" painters we hired this past spring to redo the house. i could go on for days about all of the things they did wrong, complaints i had, and their hair-brained "fixes". we quickly grew tired of their **** and just wanted them to finish up and be gone.
Tilled and fertilized my gardens are now ready for planting. Flat Dutch Cabbage, Georgia Collards, Purple Top Turnips and Curly Leaf Mustard will be my primary crops along with several experimental varieties such as Broccolis and Cauliflowers. With good weather and a little luck many people will have a good New Year's Day.
Still getting a lot of green beans,squash,radishesand cucumbers. Chard, arugla, escarole,tomatoes,and a couple of different kinds of lettuce are on our table most every day. Lots of tomato and basil salads. Hasn't rained here for 18 days so we are watering every other day. Winter collards, kale, nappa cabbage, are transplanted, covered and doing well. Hope we get some rain soon.
84 Cabbage and 124 Collards in as of today. The rest of the garden is now fertilized, tilled and ready for the other 200 or so Cabbage and Collard plants. With the addition of the other plants such as Broccoli, Cauliflower and several Onion types as experimental varieties this should be a good growing season.
I was feeling especially well this evening so I managed to get in six more rows of Collards and also five more rows of Cabbage. Now for the greens early tomorrow.
Hoo Haa!! I don't know what brought it about but my pepper plants finally decided to put out some blooms. Now, if there's time before the frost sets in, I may actually get to harvest a pepper or two.
Hoo Haa!! I don't know what brought it about but my pepper plants finally decided to put out some blooms. Now, if there's time before the frost sets in, I may actually get to harvest a pepper or two.
Keep your fingers crossed, Gang.....
hey marty @jlmarta ; you can pot it, bring it indoors to protect it from the cold, and it will keep growing throughout the winter. all peppers are perennials and will grow & produce for multiple seasons as long as they're kept out of the cold!
i just dug up all of our pepper plants and potted them last week. they still have a ton of peppers & flowers on them, so i'll bring them inside and place them under lights in the next couple weeks before it gets too cold.
Thanks for that, Gibby @jgibv. Actually, they're already in pots but I'm not too inclined to bother with bringing them in. I just grew these as a gag to spring on my know-it-all stepson for whom I got a bunch of seeds from @WaterNerd but who refused to follow any of my instructions and who ended up buying some pepper plants that were already started. He couldn't get any of the seeds I gave him to germinate.
So I went online and bought a packet of seeds for the p enis pepper and my plan is to give him the peppers to show him what a dic khead he is. After that, I don't really care whether I have any peppers.
getting chilly outside and we've already had a couple overnight frost/freeze warnings. i got tired of dragging everything in & out of the garage at night so i decided to get a new indoor shelf and bring everything in for the season. i'm hoping the peppers will start to ripen up now that they're indoors.
i think i need to pick up an additional light (or 2) for the lime tree since it's off to the side and not directly under the lights.
@jgibv Great set-up. I put my peppers in the garage too. I also use a heat mat and it makes a world of difference
thanks @WaterNerd !yeah it works pretty good, this shelf is 1000x better than the old ones i had.
i use heat mats for starting seeds.....but hadn't considered putting them under these large pepper pots. do you that adding heat mats would benefit these larger (12-18 inch) pots?
(also, FWIW if you need a sturdy wire shelf, the best deal i found was at target. 5-tier, 18x48x72, $60)
I will not even go into how many poor tomato plants and such that I have caused the death of. No fresh fruit or veggies from our yard except, Pineapple. Not me but the wife has an entire plantation along our fence and around the yard. She has growing them down to a science and I get to eat fresh pineapple when they ripen.
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This fella was hanging out on the window trim.
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *
Sorry but as a former painter I can't help it. LOL
that would be the fine work (sarcasm) of the esteemed "mexicanT" painters we hired this past spring to redo the house. i could go on for days about all of the things they did wrong, complaints i had, and their hair-brained "fixes".
we quickly grew tired of their **** and just wanted them to finish up and be gone.
but that's a story for another day.
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *
Flat Dutch Cabbage, Georgia Collards, Purple Top Turnips and Curly Leaf Mustard will be my primary crops along with several experimental varieties such as Broccolis and Cauliflowers.
With good weather and a little luck many people will have a good New Year's Day.
Meyer Improved dwarf Lemon tree.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Eating what you grow.
Keep your fingers crossed, Gang.....
i just dug up all of our pepper plants and potted them last week. they still have a ton of peppers & flowers on them, so i'll bring them inside and place them under lights in the next couple weeks before it gets too cold.
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *
So I went online and bought a packet of seeds for the p enis pepper and my plan is to give him the peppers to show him what a dic khead he is. After that, I don't really care whether I have any peppers.
i'm hoping the peppers will start to ripen up now that they're indoors.
i think i need to pick up an additional light (or 2) for the lime tree since it's off to the side and not directly under the lights.
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *
i use heat mats for starting seeds.....but hadn't considered putting them under these large pepper pots.
do you that adding heat mats would benefit these larger (12-18 inch) pots?
(also, FWIW if you need a sturdy wire shelf, the best deal i found was at target.
5-tier, 18x48x72, $60)
* I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *