posted on February 26, 2004 09:18:11 PM new
Spring is just around the corner! Are you going to grow flowers and/or vegetables in your garden this year? If so, what are planning on growing?
posted on February 26, 2004 10:10:40 PM new
Always!
Lots of tomatoes, some yellow ones too for white chilli. Heirloom "Cherokee" tomatoes are wonderful! Can or freeze them.
Peppers, cukes for pickles and eating; strawberries..eating and freezer jam; green beans, peas, onions, potatoes, melons, salad greens, herbs, red beets, corn, red cabbage, eggplant, Only 2 zuccini plants this year! Wish I had an avocado tree too.
Of course lots of flowers.
Our garden is about 50'x50', so there's plenty of room. Will be growing as much as possible and putting it up for next winter. It's fun walking down to the garden to pick dinner!
posted on February 27, 2004 02:52:02 AM new
I have a black thumb. Plants die in my vicinity--no joke. I can water 'em, feed 'em, talk to 'em...and still they die.
So, no, no garden am I planning.
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posted on February 27, 2004 01:28:46 PM new
I don't believe you , Bunni! With all that great manure at your disposal? In all the years I've been here, I've never fertilized my gardens because of easy access to horse manure. One thing you never want to use is Miracle Gro. It's awful stuff!
posted on February 27, 2004 10:26:30 PM new
I have bulbs [Iris, Daffodil, tulip] in large containers on my back deck. Have a few scattered here and there around the bushes out front, along with snow crocuses. Didn't get any of them separated this past year. But I'm hoping they'll still share their beauty with me anyway.
In my area if you have a garden it has to be fenced in, if you have expectations of eating any of it yourself. The deer come feast on the veggies and all the flower petals.
First year we were here, my girlfriend who's an avid flower gardener, called me screaming to come over. I did and what a sight. Row upon row of flower leaves with the stems sticking straight up....but the petals were all gone. Not a one remaining.
I usually plant at least 4-6 different tomato plants, again in large containers. But it's been way too cold here to plant them yet. There's nothing that tastes as good as home grown tomatoes - yum, yum, yum. I've planted other vegetables in the past, but it's not worth all the work. By the time their ready to eat they're so cheap at the grocery store, I found it cost me more to grow them myself.
posted on February 27, 2004 10:36:22 PM new
Max....You've got quite a list there. From your list, I've only eaten papaya and mangos, never tried all the others. Never even heard of some of them.
posted on February 27, 2004 10:37:46 PM new
My tiller and chipper are in the barn getting overhauled this weekend. We'll plant the usual..chiles; anaheim, ancho, pasilla and cascabel. Beans; azufrados (yellow dry beans) and ejotes (green beans). Corn; white tamale and blue grinding corn, some squash; winter and zuccini. Tomatoes; yellow pear, Brandywine beefsteaks, and a little semi-wild one I brought home from Chiapas years ago...makes grape like clusters of little bitty fruits, the horn worms won't eat them and they are intensely sweet. The whole thing surrounded by a row of okra to keep the gophers happy...
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posted on February 27, 2004 10:40:33 PM new
by the way, if your tomatoes are plagued by horn worms, get yourself a can of Copenhagen snuff, and put a good pinch of it in the hole when you plant your 'maters. Great stuff, I also use it to worm our goats......
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posted on February 28, 2004 05:49:57 AM newProf i'm curious, does your spanish still have the heavy Z (gallego) accent.
Yes, I notice a difference when I'm in Mexico, or a big city like Albuquerque or Phoenix or Tucson..there you usually find most people speaking a more standardized latino spanish...We have different vocabulary and pronunciations are different. My ancestors were from Galicia, so we really are gallegos.
posted on February 28, 2004 12:29:26 PM new
Max - Thank you for going to all that trouble to post those pics.
Appears your hobby provides tons of good eatin'. Good investment too.
We've enjoyed loquats too.
From your picture of the Canistel. We had that bush/tree in our CA home. We called them comquats....shows what we know. My husband and sons used to fight over them until it grew so big there were enough for all to enjoy. They loved them.
It's interesting to me how much the Atemoya's skin look like artichokes and the Lychee skin looks like stawberries, [and boy what BIG seeds they have]. But my favorite is the starfruit because it's shape is so beautiful.
Thanks again. Hope you're able to add the one from your 'want' list to your Tropical garden soon.
Re-elect President Bush!!
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posted on February 28, 2004 04:43:08 PM new
yeah.where can you grow lychee nuts ??california??
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posted on February 28, 2004 05:51:24 PM new
paloma91; i live in south florida
Thanks Prof. I am fascinated by the fact you all still feel and do "Old World" after what, 220 - 320 years.
Thanks linda I and my palate enjoy the hobby very much.
stopwhining; Here's a link
"In California, the lychee will grow and fruit only in protected locations and the climate is generally too dry for it. There are a few very old trees and one small commercial grove. In the early 1960's, interest in this crop was renewed and some new plantings were being made on irrigated land."
posted on February 29, 2004 05:48:24 AM new
Aaahhh, gardening! One of my favorite things to do. I don't really do veggies, mostly perennials. I've been in this house almost 2 years and have already dug up a lot of the front yard.
Every spring our local Nature preserve sells certified native plants so we always go & try to buy a bunch of plants for the yard. I'm trying to do a combination of natural & other perennials that I like.
I have a shade garden on the north side of the house and have been planting as many hosta as I can there.
I just took a tour of my yard yesterday and already there are a couple of bulbs coming out of the ground. It's a bit early here for them, but it was nice to see some life in my yard!
Some days, even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help. ~ Calvin & Hobbes
Row upon row of flower leaves with the stems sticking straight up....but the petals were all gone. Not a one remaining.
