On 7/4/2017 1:55 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 7/4/2017 11:26 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 7/4/2017 10:37 AM, Muggles wrote:
On 7/4/2017 6:38 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 7/3/2017 10:51 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 7/3/2017 9:52 PM, T wrote:
On 07/02/2017 07:22 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 7/2/2017 8:19 PM, T wrote:
On 07/02/2017 06:18 PM, Gary Woods wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:45:05 -0700, T wrote:
Several on my radishes have developed 12 to 18"
stocks with white flowers on the ends.
They are "Bolting," i.e. going to seed, and the roots will have
turned
very hot and tough. The good news is that the immature green seed
pods are delicious stir-fried. There are actually varieties
bred for
this use.
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So, pull them out?
Yup!
I just did. None of them had a radish under them.
So, just some do that and other develop fat roots?
Well, it makes room. It is crowed in there.
I think every radish I ever planted bolted when the weather got warm.
Same here. We had a small garden in Saudi Arabia and we put a black
My in-laws lived there for a couple of years while my father-in-law did
some contract work there.
screen type of cloth over our small garden inside a wall garden. We did
well with that garden, made of desert sand and lots of cow manure and
compost but it was very small. Temps then were often above 100F but the
shade protected the garden.
My raised bed are aligned North/South, so when the one on the far west
gets grown up with bean vines and tomato vines it shades other parts of
the garden from the extreme summer heat. We've thought about putting up
some shade cloth, but haven't quite gotten that far, yet.
I may have to put shade cloth over the raised beds as our temps are
getting higher now.
George
What all are you growing?
Mostly vegetables for the table. Unfortunately we had two back to back
hard freezes in January and half our fig tree froze off, all the blooms
on the pear tree dropped, the kumquat tree lost its blooms but they did
come back a few months later. We may get some kumquat fruit but no figs
or pears to speak of.
My fig tree died back to the ground again this past winter, but it came
back again and has some figs on it. I had 2 kumquat potted trees and
they ended up dying.
The raised bed gardens survived but they were
heavily covered with old sheets and plastic. We have gotten very few
tomatoes, lots of sweet peppers, hardly any green beans, etc. We went
from heavy freezing to, now, temps in the mid-nineties. The only thing
This year I didn't plant anything in my raised beds that I set up as a
cold frame that I can cover. Last year, though, I grew radishes and
beets in it over the winter and by spring they were finally making some
edible roots.
that is growing well is the grass, go figure. Madam is playing in the
backyard now and needs to come in out of the sun. The dawg is napping on
the couch in my office and I just got up from a nice nap. When you're in
your late seventies it's okay to take naps. G
I try not to take naps during the day because it, sometimes, affects me
being able to sleep at night. There is the occasional afternoon blood
sugar drop that makes me sleepy and sometimes I'll lay down and sleep
for a little while, then.
George, thinking about lunch and some lemonade
Hope all is going nicely for your 4th of July holiday!
We're waiting for the six cops in the neighborhood to start setting off
very loud and large fireworks. Texas law states that fireworks can be
fired off on certain holidays, meaning most holidays. If it is a gated
community the leaders there can ban fireworks. Those of us who have
county streets have to hear all the noise but little color. Our dog has
to wear earmuffs for holidays or it turns her into a screaming dog. I'm
partially deaf from many years of working in loud chemical plants and
hunting and being a gunsmith too. Even if you wear ear protection the
noises still affect you. My wife gets upset when I ask her to speak
louder but that's the only way to hear her. I have hearing aids but I
hate the darned things, make my ears itch and sometimes they get loud.
Ear doc tried to get me to by $3K of hearing aids that are invisible but
I would rather not blow that much money just to hear something that I
don't care about. BG Our mid-fifties daughter is now wearing hearing
aids and she's always been a teacher and principal. I guess taking her
hunting and target practice may have been part of it but she also had
measles as a child so that could be it. Wish it would rain, our water
meter is spinning like crazy.
Had a nice lunch and am still drinking lemonade, trying to get off of
soda too.
George