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Post by ganews on Apr 13, 2015 10:57:23 GMT -5
I'm still sore from playing yesterday, and this evening after work I'm going to run the tiller over our double plot. By bedtime I will not want to move ever again.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Apr 13, 2015 11:38:30 GMT -5
I'm still sore from playing yesterday, and this evening after work I'm going to run the tiller over our double plot. By bedtime I will not want to move ever again. Oh man, planting soreness is such a killer. And every year, I forget how bad it's going to be and then two onions into the big transplant I'm all, "You know what? I'm totally fine with buying onions from the grocery store." |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Apr 13, 2015 11:54:41 GMT -5
I'm still sore from playing yesterday, and this evening after work I'm going to run the tiller over our double plot. By bedtime I will not want to move ever again. Dude, FOR REALS. I thought the time spent actually doing our garden work this weekend was going to be fairly low-key, and it was... except I forgot how much it takes out of you for even just the smallest effort. So we did that stuff on Saturday, by the evening was dreading just having to stand up from the couch, and then I ran my first half marathon on Sunday. My legs? They don't work at all today. We have two small potted herb plants that need to just be moved out into the garden from the sunroom now, and the thought of bending over to pick them up is more than I can bear. They're going to have to wait a couple more days.  |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Apr 17, 2015 9:11:43 GMT -5
Wait, what's that in the garden bed in the far northwest corner of our garden? That thing that's clearly visible pushing up out of the soil? It's... it's... ...PEAS!!!! Behold the majesty!  |
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Post by ganews on Apr 18, 2015 19:38:51 GMT -5
Hoed eleven 20-foot rows this afternoon. Got Popeye forearms now.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Apr 19, 2015 11:00:09 GMT -5
All the pepper, tomato, basil, and tomatillo seedlings have been transplanted into their intermediate pots. They all look fantastic. I think these might be the best looking seedlings I've ever had!
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Post by dＬᵒ on Apr 28, 2015 10:14:34 GMT -5
We had a crazy large rose bush at our old house (even with deer eating on it constantly) and my mom's secret was shade, add more topsoil to the top every couple years, and epson salt. Well with the new ones I went to go get some epson salt, but all the store had was flavored ones. So I spent ten minutes in a near existential crisis trying to decide if the roses would like peppermint, rosemary, or milky honey. Rose flavor was right out due to cannibalism.
I ended up going to the crappier grocery store to get some plain epson salt.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Apr 30, 2015 9:43:19 GMT -5
The weather is favorable next week for the big planting, so these guys are starting to get hardened off now: ![]()  There have been a couple of casualties so far -- half of the basil seedlings are looking like they won't make it, and one of the peppers sort of spontaneously flopped over and broke itself in two. And the tomatillos are being a bit weird, but honestly, the worst thing that happens with them is we toss some seeds out in the bed and just let new ones grow. You can't really fuck up tomatillos, can you? And of course, last year the tomatoes were a bunch of flailing drama queens from start to finish, so this year we decided to scale way back on tomatoes. And now our seedlings are fantastic. You just can't win. Anyway, along with many, many pepper seedlings, the aforementioned far fewer tomatoes, a tomatillo, and however many basils make it through to next week, we'll also be direct-sowing some lima beans and two types of cucumbers (big picklers and little gherkins to make sweet pickles). Meanwhile, already out in the garden, the transplanted onions are looking ever sturdier, the garlic is coming along so well that we're already harvesting some of it for use as green garlic, the peas are getting tendrils, and the bunching onions have germinated nicely. Oh, and the "volunteer" cilantro, dill, catnip, and mint are all making appearances. We actually have enough mint now that summer cocktail season can begin. And that's the state of the Dick n Hisses Farm and Orchard garden. As for the orchard...    ...it's in bloom. (That's apples, cherries, and peaches pictured. We've also got a plum tree that's looking very promising so far. The lone pear tree has yet to blossom for us, but it's only been there two years.) |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on May 2, 2015 14:28:55 GMT -5
OH MY GOD I HATE YARDWORK
ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY
I AM SO HOT AND FILTHY I BARELY PUT A DENT IN IT
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Post by ganews on May 2, 2015 23:32:07 GMT -5
Man, the farmer's almanac says I can't plant anything else for another two weeks. We spent over three hours today just hoeing the last seven rows, breaking dry, yet-to-be-planted rows, and spreading more soil.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on May 3, 2015 18:49:55 GMT -5
OH MY GOD I HATE YARDWORK ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY I AM SO HOT AND FILTHY I BARELY PUT A DENT IN IT made a rule a few years ago to refer to it as "yardfun" instead of "yardwork". Sometimes that helps. Sort of. Not really. |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on May 13, 2015 17:47:57 GMT -5
I AM SO EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO JOIN THIS THREAD.  I really wanted to try the hanging tomato plant method, so I bought some planter things today and some tomato plants and some herbs to put on top. The left planter has thyme on top, indigo rose tomatoes underneath, the right has basil on top and sweet 100 cherry tomatoes underneath. I'm pretty sure I'll kill them all. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on May 19, 2015 9:26:35 GMT -5
🐍 cahusserole 🐍, your planters are so gorgeous! As is the backdrop there. Man, it's like you live in The Secret Garden or something!!  In our garden news, everything for Summer 2015 is now planted! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (Okay, that's a lie. There are still some blueberry bushes and blackberry canes I want to put in our backyard, but the actual fenced garden proper is all done now.) We transplanted all the babies the Friday before last, before heading out on vacation, then had a bed rebuilding project waiting for us this past weekend as soon as we got back. Once that work was done, the cucumber trellis could be set up, and two types of pickling cukes (regular big ones and little Parisian gherkins) got planted. It was awesome to come home to see a week's worth of progress for our tomatoes, peppers, and especially the basil. The basils were far enough along that they needed their tops pinched off, so we got to have our first pasta night of the season with fresh basil as a "welcome home" treat! What's better than that?? Anyway, Hugs and I declared about six weeks ago that as soon as we got back from our vacation it would officially be summer at stately Dick n Hisses Manor. Now that everything's planted, that's not just something we're saying. Garden ho!
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on May 19, 2015 11:41:55 GMT -5
🐍 cahusserole 🐍, your planters are so gorgeous! As is the backdrop there. Man, it's like you live in The Secret Garden or something!! Thanks! It'll all be dead and brown and on fire soon enough (I'm in California). |
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Post by kitchin on May 20, 2015 18:01:14 GMT -5
We had a crazy large rose bush at our old house (even with deer eating on it constantly) and my mom's secret was shade, add more topsoil to the top every couple years, and epson salt. Well with the new ones I went to go get some epson salt, but all the store had was flavored ones. So I spent ten minutes in a near existential crisis trying to decide if the roses would like peppermint, rosemary, or milky honey. Rose flavor was right out due to cannibalism. I ended up going to the crappier grocery store to get some plain epson salt. Espon salts often seem to be sold out. I started to think Wal-mart made a mega purchase for its warehouses. I'm in a small enough city that when things sell out at one store, other stores may not have them either. But this was also in a big city, at a CVS. I had the same problem with standard shovels. Anyway... roses. For the first time this year I'm growing Italian parsley. And the seed pack says it grows well with roses. Myth or not, there's always room to plant stuff around those useless ornamentals. It also says to space parsley 24 inches! |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on May 26, 2015 10:56:55 GMT -5
Because I love to pimp my garden as much as I love pimping my pets:  (The weeds in the gravel are on purpose -- that's the cilantro and catnip, for the most part.) |
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Post by ganews on May 26, 2015 12:49:26 GMT -5
The beans are up, and the tomatoes are relocated to the ground, and the various squash cousins are sprouting. Hopefully we get at least some of the rain that is forecasted for the next two weeks. The peas never made, so I might end up just putting beans in those rows too, after I said last year that three rows was too much work.
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on May 31, 2015 15:26:54 GMT -5
I may have planted two more hanging pots today.
Watching this stuff grow is kind of addictive.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Jun 3, 2015 8:12:40 GMT -5
I took a moment on my way out to my car today to tuck the tomato plants back into their supports and now my hands smell so much of tomato, it's kind of killing me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 9:00:30 GMT -5
I took a moment on my way out to my car today to tuck the tomato plants back into their supports and now my hands smell so much of tomato, it's kind of killing me. If they could bottle the smell of fresh on-the-vine tomatoes, I would wear the shit out of that perfume. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jun 4, 2015 9:57:36 GMT -5
I was all excited that one of our cherry trees was suddenly covered with ripe cherries, but when I got home from work yesterday it turned out I'd waited too long. The birds ate them all. Oh well. They were pretty high up in the tree and I don't like ladders, so it's probably for the best...  |
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Post by The Tuck Pendleton Machine on Jun 5, 2015 12:19:54 GMT -5
Beans and greens and thai, pablano and sweet peppers. Alllll coming up roses.
Except they're not roses. But we got roses too!
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Post by ganews on Jun 5, 2015 14:30:58 GMT -5
Lifemate sent me a picture of Thai peppers from our potted plants! The two plants were raised from cuttings two years ago and made a lot of peppers but have required much special care to stay alive for the past 18 months. Now they live on the deck where they get proper light. That'll be enough for a bottle of insanity pepper vinegar.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 14:36:35 GMT -5
Lifemate sent me a picture of Thai peppers from our potted plants! The two plants were raised from cuttings two years ago and made a lot of peppers but have required much special care to stay alive for the past 18 months. Now they live on the deck where they get proper light. That'll be enough for a bottle of insanity pepper vinegar.  |
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Post by ganews on Jun 5, 2015 16:44:25 GMT -5
Lifemate sent me a picture of Thai peppers from our potted plants! The two plants were raised from cuttings two years ago and made a lot of peppers but have required much special care to stay alive for the past 18 months. Now they live on the deck where they get proper light. That'll be enough for a bottle of insanity pepper vinegar. My favorite episode. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 20:18:54 GMT -5
I can't decide if that is my favorite episode, or my favorite celebrity episode*. It can be two things, I suppose. *Johnny Cash as a coyote in a spirit quest hallucination? Yes please thank you! |
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Jun 6, 2015 12:30:21 GMT -5
OH MY GOD A PROTO-TOMATO  |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 9, 2015 15:40:27 GMT -5
Help me identify this mystery plant! We bought what was labelled as some sort of salad greens plant at the farmer's market back in early May, figuring that it would probably do fine in our vertical planter. Now the plant appears to be thriving in the planter, but I don't think anyone would intentionally put any of these large fuzzy leaves in a salad. Anybody have a clue what plant I actually bought?  |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Jun 9, 2015 15:52:34 GMT -5
Help me identify this mystery plant! We bought what was labelled as some sort of salad greens plant at the farmer's market back in early May, figuring that it would probably do fine in our vertical planter. Now the plant appears to be thriving in the planter, but I don't think anyone would intentionally put any of these large fuzzy leaves in a salad. Anybody have a clue what plant I actually bought? That looks like some kind of squash or cucumber vine |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 9, 2015 16:02:44 GMT -5
Help me identify this mystery plant! We bought what was labelled as some sort of salad greens plant at the farmer's market back in early May, figuring that it would probably do fine in our vertical planter. Now the plant appears to be thriving in the planter, but I don't think anyone would intentionally put any of these large fuzzy leaves in a salad. Anybody have a clue what plant I actually bought? That looks like some kind of squash or cucumber vine Yea, that was our guess too. I guess we'll find out. |
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