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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/22/24 at 5:31 am
I don't know why, but over here in NW Florida, my garden has it going on. I am picking green beans that are 7-8" long. My cucumbers are 4" long and 3/4" diameter, tomatoes are loaded, peppers setting fruit, strawberries doing great, blueberries are loaded. Squash is taking it's time. Watermelon ...
[quote]I'll bet she could make an assload of money doing circ du sole shite in vega[/quote] I was thinking the same thing....
Well, I'm sure Jay will be up all night worrying about this....
Go to your local florist and ask to buy some of the tubes with caps they use to put water in for flowers. The caps have a hole in the center to push the flower stem through. Mix a strong solution of brush killer or glyphosate and fill the tubes. Clip the saplings off an inch above the ground. ...
I'm going to go with fertilizer spikes for trees or shrubs...

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/7/24 at 5:59 pm
I don't direct sow my cukes and green beans. I start them like everything else. I have never had a problem with transplanting them....
Maybe they are having problems adjusting to their new pitching coach. Maybe he is wanting them to make changes to their mechanics. When a coach wants you to do something different, you have to think about it too much, and it messes up your timing and rhythm because it is alien to you, :dunno:...
Maybe we could get a volume discount and send our "fanbase" too....
I grew a ton of basil the past two years. I made pesto and froze it into ice cube trays. Whenever I want a quick pasta meal, I just throw a cube or two into a pan with some shrimp and saute. Then add the pasta. Quick and easy....

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/6/24 at 7:39 pm
I start mine inside, then pull them in and out for weeks to harden off. Once planted outside in this stupid weather, I have cloches I cover them with, or a big sheet of visqueen. To say I baby them is an understatement. But everything here looks really good. If you aren't able to baby them, yo...

re: Smoke Laval

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/6/24 at 7:31 pm
Really? You're going to throw around the Smoke stuff? :doublebird:...

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/5/24 at 5:48 pm
I found two baby tomatoes on my plants, and my first green bean is 1/2" long. Peppers and cucumbers are blooming. :nana:...
I find this hard to believe. The feeling of that milk letdown is torture. Combination of pins and needles with some fire mixed in. I used to grit my teeth. Ugh. But it does give you the warm fuzzies to hold and nourish your sweet little baby....

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 4/2/24 at 6:28 pm
That is a good girl. You owe her a steak. :bow:...
Crawfishing in the old rice patties around Ponchatoula Scooping crabs in Lake Ponchartrain Fishing in the Rigolets, Lacombe, Lake Borne Picking huckleberries and blackberies and mayhaw Digging holes in the woods, cover with sticks and pinestraw so no one could follow you Climbing Magn...

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by ChenierauTigre on 3/31/24 at 5:43 pm
Should have caught some of those pesky squirrels and had them with your veggies....
So sick of SAS. I would like to sew his lips shut then punch him in the mouth a thousand times. :lol:...