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Lepplady

Lepplady

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Just outside the Cantina, there's an empty lot where the sun hits just right. I thought maybe we could sow a few seeds and see what pops up.

Here's a spot where we can talk about whatever plant life we grow. Gardens, flowers, veggies, trees, houseplants. Anything like that.

Here's my happy little veggie family. Bob, the potato (left), sister Henrietta, and Alberto, the banana pepper.
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They are a victory for me because I can just about never grow anything.
I had to stop digging with my hands because there were bugs.
*shudder*
And it started to rain. I'll go back out with a shovel and see what I find.
 
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Lepplady said:
Just outside the Cantina, there's an empty lot where the sun hits just right. I thought maybe we could sow a few seeds and see what pops up.

Here's a spot where we can talk about whatever plant life we grow. Gardens, flowers, veggies, trees, houseplants. Anything like that.

Here's my happy little veggie family. Bob, the potato (left), sister Henrietta, and Alberto, the banana pepper.
veg1.jpg

They are a victory for me because I can just about never grow anything.
I had to stop digging with my hands because there were bugs.
*shudder*
And it started to rain. I'll go back out with a shovel and see what I find.
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(((Lepplady))) You did good!
 
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Walter Oobleck

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You have two growing seasons down there, hey, Lepplady? We're just now getting our gardens in here in Michigan...been in for about two weeks now, tomatoes, onions have been in for close to a month, cucumbers, yellow and green beans, several types of lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, several varieties of carrots and I'm trying for some muskmelon this year, too. Beans are coming up...tomatoes and some cukes from the greenhouse down the road, Tom. Chipmunks inside the other day when I picked up some more cukes. Asked his wife, who waited on me, if they plant stuff--the chippies. Yes! she said...told her about one I had planting in my garden last year. Little bugger was digging about five feet away from me, freshly turned soil. Chipmunks can have green paws. He (or she...how do you tell?) had a bumper crop of sunflowers. But they don't thin them, Tom's wife said, Marianne. Compost pile, too...

Also apple trees, rhubarb, and a pile of irises blooming now, plum tree on the border with the neighbor. 'Bout ten fifteen years ago, tent worms made their way across the U.P. Defoliated the forest just about, some trees took it hard. The DNR released some sort of fly that was s'posed to feed on them. Was fishing the Montreal meadows in the canoe, had a hundred or more of them landing on me, looked like a black house fly.

I have a killer compost pile. I'll get a pic soon as I can.
 
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This spring was a train wreck, so I didn't get a garden in at home at all :( I might still try to set some bigger tomato plants out, and there is time for green beans, but I'm pretty sad. I love my garden.

Still, our plot at the community garden is going great guns! We picked a metric f-ton of strawberries today (in the absence of actual gardening, they've mostly taken over the plot), the herbs (sage, oregano, thyme, lemon thyme, chives) are crazy big, and I picked up some volunteer pansies from somewhere :) Since pansies are some of my favorite flowers in the whole world, that made me very happy. Lambs ear is HUGE, too, and spreading. Grubbin' in the garden makes me happy.
 
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Lepplady

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GNTLGNT said:
...betcha find earthworms!...ooooo yeah!...slippery, slimy little slices of heaven....
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These weren't worms. They looked like flat, round, quarter-sized roaches. They'd come up throm the dirt and dive right back in and disappear. WEIRD!
Walter Oobleck said:
You have two growing seasons down there, hey, Lepplady? We're just now getting our gardens in here in Michigan...been in for about two weeks now, tomatoes, onions have been in for close to a month, cucumbers, yellow and green beans, several types of lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, several varieties of carrots and I'm trying for some muskmelon this year, too. Beans are coming up...tomatoes and some cukes from the greenhouse down the road, Tom. Chipmunks inside the other day when I picked up some more cukes. Asked his wife, who waited on me, if they plant stuff--the chippies. Yes! she said...told her about one I had planting in my garden last year. Little bugger was digging about five feet away from me, freshly turned soil. Chipmunks can have green paws. He (or she...how do you tell?) had a bumper crop of sunflowers. But they don't thin them, Tom's wife said, Marianne. Compost pile, too...

Also apple trees, rhubarb, and a pile of irises blooming now, plum tree on the border with the neighbor. 'Bout ten fifteen years ago, tent worms made their way across the U.P. Defoliated the forest just about, some trees took it hard. The DNR released some sort of fly that was s'posed to feed on them. Was fishing the Montreal meadows in the canoe, had a hundred or more of them landing on me, looked like a black house fly.

I have a killer compost pile. I'll get a pic soon as I can.
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Ya. I was quite surprised to see that our figs ripen twice a year. So I'm going to turn right around and try planting again. The first version of the garden was doing GREAT! ...then all the potato plants fell over dead. So I'm digging up what little tater tots I can find. I'm going to see if they'll sprout eyes and try again. The 'maters don't look so hot. I sprayed 'em, but it looks like the bugs are still doing so much damage to the leaves that there's not enough strength to sprout any fruit. Vegetable. Whatever. We're many, many weeks away from a hint of frost, though, so I'll try for garden 2.0 and see if it goes better.
 
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This isn't the best view but there are wild blackberries all over the untamed growth at the edge of my backyard. I had to cut some kudzu vines (while watching for snakes) and discovered the blackberries were as far as the eye can see. Muscadine vines are plentiful, too, and their heart shaped leaves were visible in endless tangles. Hope to see fruit in September.
 
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Lepplady said:
These weren't worms. They looked like flat, round, quarter-sized roaches. They'd come up throm the dirt and dive right back in and disappear. WEIRD!
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I'd die dead, Lepp. There isn't a bug on this earth that freaks me out more than a cockroach. Yes, I know they don't bite and won't hurt me, but I'm TERRIFIED of them. It was such fun when we lived in San Antonio and in Okinawa and roaches were huge and everywhere (not).
 
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