Sorry to read about the pup. Those buggers definitely become part of your life, and stings as bad as loosing a human. I wish you comfort and peace.
Gardening ..again
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A little too early to plant in Memphis. I wait until after Easter due to the always late freeze.
I guess I didn't overlap enough with the tiller in places. Weeds are coming through. But the ground is warming up nicely
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Yep, same here.
Way too early for PA. I moved too soon last year and we had a late frost.
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NW PA got snow last night and rain Tuesday. Should have tilled over the weekend when it was dry.
Then I won't even complain about our 40-45 degree weather today. But I will wait till tomorrow to "re-till" my garden. Today is a no work day. Its leap day and my sister-in-laws birthday. This makes her 17th actual birthday ( she's really 68) We'll be taking her out to eat.
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I said I wouldn't but just had to go "mess" in the garden. I retilled the weedy part and transplanted several tomatoes. I started some seed in January from some seeds from last season. I think these seeds were from a cross between Large Red Cherries and Old German.I wouldn't waste my time trying this if either of the parent plants were hybrids.I only plant heirlooms. I thought maybe it was a Old German /Cherokee Purple cross but I see no characteristics of the Cherokee Purple.There were Cherries nearby so hopefully what I got is the LRC/OG cross.I had been trying for a Large Red Cherry and Brandywine cross but these are just fine. The fruit is about golf ball size, bigger than the cherry but smaller than the Old German. I think you'd call it a patio tomato. That was last year, let's see what happens this year.
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This whole forum is like the grandad I never had everyone just loves talking about muskets, hunting and growing your own food, I am trying a garden for the first time in the yard this year cold here though so probably cant start till first week of may or so. I got Tomatoes, Basil, Onions, and Zucchini. I figure if I dont kill all of that I will try more next year, the lady is trying some flowers she likes as well we shall see who fares better!
I tried to get my wife to grow some flowers but she says "uh,uh". Her mother told her she had the opposite of a green thumb and "could kill a silk flower". So the flower bed that I put in is being used as a starter for early seeds. It's on the south side and has a garage for a wind break.
Sorry folks, I edited that post to read 40-45 degrees. 55 was predicted but it never got out of the 40s. But I'd bet there are many areas that wished it was that "warm".
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Down here we go by the mesquite tree (though some rely on the peach). I've only seen the mesquite to be "off" one time in over 70 years.
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That’s what I grew up hearing too. Hard to fool a Pecan tree.
Still no "buds" on the Pecan or the Mesquite but the ground is warming up, nicely.
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While I was in the woods today I saw that 2 of my 3 pear trees that border a food plot were blooming. They bloomed early last year too and got zapped by a late March hard freeze. Hope it doesn’t happen again.
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My 3 pear trees are 9 years old now and pretty fair sized. They’re sand pears, which make good preserves and good browse for the deer. But, while I consider myself a fair to middling gardener, I’m horrible at successfully growing fruit trees. Over the last 10 years I planted many plum, apple, figs, and persimmon trees but either quickly or slowly all succumbed to one thing or another. The 3 pears and 1 fig tree are my only success. And the fig tree has been hit hard the last 2 years from hard winters and late freezes.
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Got the new raised beds setup here at home. I did break up the soil a couple of weeks ago. Added the contents of several big tubs we’ve been growing stuff in. Tomorrow I’ll get 10 or so bags of fresh garden soil to top it off. First time using these concrete joints but I like them. I think we’ll go ahead and add another 2’ x 8’ section to form kind of a U shape. But not today, I’m worn out.
