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The State of your garden [was OK to use ammonia on edible plants.]
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Jim Elbrecht wrote: I guess if Billy wants to talk about gardening I'll take him out of the bozo-bin. Can you say,"Coup d'etat"? Anyway, in this gardening group, it is a good idea to tape up a roll of dimes (careful, it is illegal) to keep in your pocket (You never know when they may come in handy.), and be sure to have a date for Beltane (hope it's a warm day:O). Hope this isn't a fluke-- it is the start of a good trend, On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:57:30 -0400, "Steve Peek" wrote: "Billy" wrote in message -snip- Steve, what are you doing different this year in your garden? What problems are you trying to fix. Fran, how did your garden do this year? What did you learn? What will you do different next year? It almost made me ill yesterday to be pulling potato plants out of the bed in which they grew last year. I had no idea that potatoes could be so invasive. They have been moved to another bed that is less ideal, but that is where they will remain. Growing so many varieties of Solanaceae (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers) that it's difficult to get any kind of crop rotation going. Our tomatoes have germinated, as have the squash (zukes and crooks), and brocolli. Peas are in the ground and we're about to plant more to fill in one trellis and start another. Some of the peas have died. Not sure if it's lack of water, or insects, but most are fine. Had our first serving of Swiss chard. I think I over did it with my attempts to gussy it up with bacon and onion. Need to do some weeding today. It's mostly henbit. I'm hoping to make a salad from some of the kill, along with dandelion and stinging nettle. My other weeds are also mint (spear & pepper). They make my tisanes (hawthorn, yarrow) taste more drinkable as I don't use honey. OK, who's next? Don't be bashful. We got a gardening group to run here, right? ;O) -snip- Well, let's see. The fall planted garlic is about 18 inches tall. I've never grown hardneck garlic and am greatly looking forward to the scapes. The Candy onions from Dixondale Farms are growing well. I planted 2 bunches. There were supposed to be 60 plants per bunch & I ended up with 234 plants. (if you grow sweet onions & don't deal with these folks you're messing up) I've got a 40 foot row of spinach that's starting to get true leaves. I've always had germination with spinach, but not this year! The beets are just starting to show, no sign of the parsnips yet, Cabbage is growing well & I'm still waiting on the mache to sprout. This is my first time ever for mache, so I don't know quite what to expect. I've got the prettiest row ever of sugar snap peas. They're only a couple of inches tall, but I see a trellis in the near future. The tomatoes under the grow light are just starting to show the first true leaf. Only a few peppers have sprouted, I'll start more peppers and eggplant next week. I've got a whole flat of bibb and romaine lettuce ready to go in, but it rained last night and the ground is too wet. I don't know if I've ever posted here, but I'm an advocate of eating your weeds. Like Billy, I have henbit in the garden now along with chickweed, upland cress and violets. I occasionally teach an edible plants class and am always amazed at the number of people who would starve while sitting in a patch of food. I got a great buy on some thornless blackberry plant early this spring & they are starting to grow. The apples are blooming, The bees are working like mad, the blueberries are about a week out. I picked about 2 pounds of morels yesterday and will go for some ramps (wild leeks) this week. Life is good (if way too busy) this time of year! Meanwhile, up in zone 5. . . I put some onion sets in yesterday. I plant some chard when I get to it. My second set of peppers are starting to sprout in the basement. A mouse got the first sprouts. [and I got 2 mice so far] I'm trying to come up with a plan to warm those seedlings up a bit. I tried one of those eaves de-icer cables on a thermostat. Epic fail-- it got hot enough to melt the styrofoam it was sitting on-- and blew a couple holes in the insulation where it was near some metal. I have an old heating pad-- but it shuts off after 2 hours. I'd like something that will cycle with the lights-- and don't want to pay the $50 that I see for seed starting heaters. When it comes to heating pads and Epson Salts avoid nurseries. They seriously over charge. Go to a local pharmacy (preferably local). They have much better prices. The war on rabbits has begun. The live trap has removed one and another is taking the apple from in the trap-- but not past the trigger. I have some onions and scallions sprouting in the basement. Need to plant tomatoes in the basement-- I got lots of colored cherry tomatoes to play with. The watercress in the tiny-pond is starting to look edible-- but not enough of it to keep the algae down. I need to put the UV light in again. No weeds in my garden yet-- I miss the purslane that used to be prolific there. You probably know that Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular[4]) than any other leafy vegetable plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea It is conjectured that hunter/gatherers had a 1 to 1 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. Today that ratio is more like 1 to 10. In general, the advice is to eat more leaves and less grains. Unpolluted, non-toxic fish are also a good source for omega-3s as well, because the fish eat grass (algae) or things that eat algae, or phytoplankton (krill). Jim "When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant." - Anon - -- - Billy Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953 http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8559254-11yearold-takes-on-genetically-modified-food-producers-video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vN0--mHug |
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The State of your garden [was OK to use ammonia on edible plants.]
On Apr 11, 12:11*pm, Billy wrote:
In article , *Jim Elbrecht wrote: billy BS snipped again..10 lbs of crap in a 3 lbs bag! |
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This summer was OK to use ammonia on edible plants.
"Steve Peek" wrote in message
... The fruit (prunes/plums, nectarines, peaches, apples, quinces and pears) have all done brilliantly and we have had a bumper year to the poitn where I'm sick of dealign with the harvest. If you are not a "teatotaler" learn to make wine. All those fruits make lovely wine. Ah, there's a thought. I've made blackberry wine at least 3 decades ago and apparently (as I'm not a drinker and wouldn't know a good drink from a bad one) it was good. But to be relaistic, I dont' think I'll bother this year - I'm already 'over' the hard work of dealing with the harvest. Well David and I can sit back and put our feet up and read our gardening catalogues or chew the fat. You northern hemisphereans will be very busy. That's for sure, there's not enough hours in the day this time of year. :-)) Mush! you northern hemisphere gardeners, Mush! |
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You are like fanatics who angle on artery corners in the rain for hours bearing attestant to their faith. They brainstorm that they are giving people the befalling to change their lives for the better, if in actuality all they are accomplishing is accepting wet. It's cocky indulgent and pointless.
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OK to use ammonia on edible plants.
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darrennhow wrote: You are like fanatics who angle on artery corners in the rain for hours bearing attestant to their faith. They brainstorm that they are giving people the befalling to change their lives for the better, if in actuality all they are accomplishing is accepting wet. It's cocky indulgent and pointless. Did someone leave the door open? -- McGOWAN'S DRINKING GUIDE Symptom Fault Action to be Taken Feet cold and wet Glass held at Turn glass so that wrong angle. open end is pointing at the ceiling. "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi -- - Billy Dept. of Defense budget: $663.8 billion Dept. of Health and Human Services budget: $78.4 billion Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953 |
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OK to use ammonia on edible plants.
"darrennhow" wrote in message
... You are like fanatics who angle on artery corners in the rain for hours bearing attestant to their faith. They brainstorm that they are giving people the befalling to change their lives for the better, if in actuality all they are accomplishing is accepting wet. It's cocky indulgent and pointless. And it's just bloody stupid of you to post the comment above without any indication of to whom, or to what, you are replying/referring. But what can one expect from gardenbanter....... |
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This summer was OK to use ammonia on edible plants.
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message u... "Steve Peek" wrote in message ... The fruit (prunes/plums, nectarines, peaches, apples, quinces and pears) have all done brilliantly and we have had a bumper year to the poitn where I'm sick of dealign with the harvest. If you are not a "teatotaler" learn to make wine. All those fruits make lovely wine. Ah, there's a thought. I've made blackberry wine at least 3 decades ago and apparently (as I'm not a drinker and wouldn't know a good drink from a bad one) it was good. But to be relaistic, I dont' think I'll bother this year - I'm already 'over' the hard work of dealing with the harvest. Blackberry wine finished dry is one of my favorite wines. It compares favorably with the lighter bodied reds made from grapes. Well David and I can sit back and put our feet up and read our gardening catalogues or chew the fat. You northern hemisphereans will be very busy. That's for sure, there's not enough hours in the day this time of year. :-)) Mush! you northern hemisphere gardeners, Mush! |
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