Gardens
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We do the same but we also follow some old time rule. Many, many, years ago homesteads had a pig or several, but it was more for the manure they produced. Get lots of it for spreading next to garden spot for next year. One big area and do about 1/3 the area each year. a year.
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Tulips
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis9 -
Got tired of having to weed eat between the garden beds. I got some cardboard, mulch, and laid said stuff between the beds. It's been dry this spring but we are supposed to get some rain this afternoon. I have a flat of lettuce and my tomatoes are four inches tall in peat pots. Since it is going to rain I planted Sugar Snaps, radishes, and mustard. My soon to have a new roof studio is up the hill. The woman helping is an undoc Mexican woman We have known for over 25 years. Her son is in the Marine Corps.
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plum tree
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Looks like a white tree.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Wild Azaleas that I transplanted out of the woods thirty years ago are blooming.
Snow Ball bush and tame Rhododendron blooming also
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Worked up a couple of beds and planted 2 types of lettuce, beets, spinach , coriander, and peas.
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@First_Warrior said:
Wild Azaleas that I transplanted out of the woods thirty years ago are blooming.Snow Ball bush and tame Rhododendron blooming also
Your pictures are stunning.
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Sure is beautiful here in the NC mountains. The light colored wild azaleas bloom last. Six weeks of color. I turned the elements on the porch posts with my big lathe.
The steps I cut into the hill up to my studio. The new blue roof. No more leaks.
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Thank you, Rodger. Good to see that light light in your heart and nature in your soul.
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We don't usually get tomatoes til fall when it cools down but it's been nice enough this spring for some fruit to set
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Soil finally warm enough to plant cucumbers and summer squash.
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Transplanted three kinds of basil, arugula, and buttercrunch lettuce. Green pole beans, cucumbers, squash, are up and the chard I transplanted last week is doing fine. Had to treat the three kinds of tomatoes for early blight. Going to direct seed radishes and start another flat of lettuce. I do like digging in the earth.
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@First_Warrior said:
Transplanted three kinds of basil, arugula, and buttercrunch lettuce. Green pole beans, cucumbers, squash, are up and the chard I transplanted last week is doing fine. Had to treat the three kinds of tomatoes for early blight. Going to direct seed radishes and start another flat of lettuce. I do like digging in the earWhat do you use for blight?
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Is blight why my tomatoes are turning black on the bottom of the fruit
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Probably end-blossom rot. Add agricultural lime for calcium, Epsom salts will work for a while, but the lime is better. The calcium is required for cell wall structure. You can add it to the soil, or there are sprays. In my experience the lime in the soil is better.
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You put the lime in the coconut...
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
...and mix it all up.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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@edz said:
@First_Warrior said:
Transplanted three kinds of basil, arugula, and buttercrunch lettuce. Green pole beans, cucumbers, squash, are up and the chard I transplanted last week is doing fine. Had to treat the three kinds of tomatoes for early blight. Going to direct seed radishes and start another flat of lettuce. I do like digging in the earWhat do you use for blight?
I use a copper spray. More importantly I prune up the bottom leaves about 10 inches and I leave a cleared ring around the main stem. Also discard all the parts I prune into the trash not into the compost.
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@Amos_Umwhat said:
Probably end-blossom rot. Add agricultural lime for calcium, Epsom salts will work for a while, but the lime is better. The calcium is required for cell wall structure. You can add it to the soil, or there are sprays. In my experience the lime in the soil is better.Thanks Steve, we never get fruit this time of year, just building for the fall. I'll get some lime on it
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My rare spring tomato harvest was a bust
The myers lemon looked like it was going to die but recently started a lot of new growth
I think I will just stick to cactus and a few herbs
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Been a hot week, the wind picked up today, it's blowing the flowers right off the herbs
On closer inspection they still aren't ripe so I'll wait a little longer
Just have to wait a bit for those resins to start to turn amberA little dirt never hurt4 -
Right on Ed
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@dirtdude said:
Been a hot week, the wind picked up today, it's blowing the flowers right off the herbs
On closer inspection they still aren't ripe so I'll wait a little longer
Just have to wait a bit for those resins to start to turn amberThat's some fine looking herb.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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@edz said:
look at that garlic! it looks like you are planting full bulbs rather than separately planting the cloves, is that right?
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@silvermouse said:
@edz said:
look at that garlic! it looks like you are planting full bulbs rather than separately planting the cloves, is that right?
No those are from cloves. Remember very well because I had to smoke a garbage cigar because my hands smelled so bad while doing it.
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