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Post by joyce on May 25, 2007 15:16:41 GMT -6
I know what I am having this weekend. Fresh cabbage. I have 2 or 3 out there that is ready to eat.   I may have to dig some new potatoes also. Got green bean blooms and also tomato blooms. |
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Post by SpyderLady on May 25, 2007 15:55:30 GMT -6
Yippie, I got little baby tomatoes!
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Post by joyce on May 27, 2007 2:43:11 GMT -6
You got me beat on that.  |
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Post by joyce on May 28, 2007 11:28:34 GMT -6
I was laying down resting and I heard a gun. Boom!!!!!!! I ran outside and hubby was over at the arbor with the pistol. I said what is it he said your buddy is up here.  It was a snake!!!!!! It was up in the clematis and daylilies. It was striking at him and he took a couple more shots and got it. Couldn't get a clear shot because of how it was in there. It was about 5 ft. long and as big around as a weeding hoe handle. He said it was a chicken snake. I didn't care if it was a rooster snake. Like I have said on here before there are 4 kinds of snakes....dead ones, alive ones, big ones, and little ones. This one falls in the dead category, thank God. ;D |
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Post by shyangel on May 29, 2007 10:36:49 GMT -6
Yikes! I really hate that when that happens, snakes blah Glad everyones OK
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Post by joyce on Jun 1, 2007 3:26:42 GMT -6
Gonna buy some more moth balls this weekend. They say snakes don't like to smell them and it helps keep them away. I have done that in the past and it seems to work.
Gonna try and work some ground when it dries out a little and plant some butternut squash. I love them. I think they will have time to make. It takes about 3 to 4 months.
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Post by joyce on Jun 5, 2007 15:03:28 GMT -6
I still want to hear about your garden, HB. You did plant one this year, didn't ya?  ?? I will be picking my first green beans of the season tomorrow. Guess what's for supper tomorrow night?  |
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Post by SpyderLady on Jun 5, 2007 21:03:49 GMT -6
Yeah, hb, did the last frost get your garden?
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Post by joyce on Jun 6, 2007 13:00:08 GMT -6
I bet he ain't even got anything planted yet. Check out the photo section. I posted some pictures there. |
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Post by frisky on Jun 8, 2007 6:41:00 GMT -6
AHA! that is where I shoulda put the dang tulips
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Post by joyce on Jun 10, 2007 3:32:48 GMT -6
Summer squash is blooming. Can't wait until I can have some fried squash. Tomatoes are doing alright, not like I think they should. Then again sometimes I think I should plant one day and gather the next. My patience wears thin alot of the time.
Green beans are doing great. Got to pick them tomorrow.
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Post by Owl on Jun 11, 2007 19:42:33 GMT -6
CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE BEST LOCATION TO PLANT A " MUM"? LITTLE MAN GOT ME ONE FOR VALENTINES DAY AND I HAVE BEEN BABYING IT AND I THINK IT IS BIG ENOUGH TO PLANT IN THE YARD NOW!
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Post by joyce on Jun 12, 2007 3:58:09 GMT -6
Mums are very hardy and you can almost plant them anywhere except shady areas. They do need partial sun. So either full sun or partial shade is good for them. Give em a dose of miracle grow about once a month.
If it is budding again once you set it out keep the buds pinched off til around the 4th of July, that way it will bloom this fall.
I have several mums and they come back year after year. So many people decorate with them in the fall and then throw them away not knowing mums are perennials and will come back year after year and have babies and you can transplant them.
Now thru here lice is bad to get on mums so I take about a teaspoon of Dawn or Joy dish washing liquid mix it with about a quart of water in a spray bottle and spray the mums. That will kill the lice.
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Post by Owl on Jun 12, 2007 5:58:42 GMT -6
THANKS JOYCE, I HAVE TRIED TO GROW MUMS SEVERAL TIMES AND THEY NEVER LIVE, HOPEFULLY THIS ONE WILL, LITTLE MAN LOOKS IT ALOT AND KEEPS TELLING ME I NEED TO PLANT IT IN THE GARDEN BUT WAS AFRAID IT WOULD DIE SO I HAVE IT IN A BIG POT NOW BUT IT IS GROWING SO MUCH I WAS AFRAID IT WAS GOING TO GET ROOT BOUND. WILL TRY TO PLANT IT TODAY WHEN LITTLE MAN IS AT DAYCARE. THANKS AGAIN FOR THE ADVICE!
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Post by joyce on Jun 12, 2007 13:45:36 GMT -6
You're welcome.  Let us know how it goes with the mum. |
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Post by Owl on Jun 13, 2007 2:44:10 GMT -6
I WILL JOYCE, I DID NOT GET IT PLANTED YESTERDAY CAUSE I HAD TO TAKE CUPCAKE TO GET A TOOTH PULLED. WILL GET IT DONE TODAY UNLESS IT IS RAINING, WHICH IT IS SUPPOSE TO DO THIS AFTERNOON!
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Post by joyce on Jun 13, 2007 4:17:28 GMT -6
Awwww.... poor CC. Tell her I said hello and sending her cyber hugs.
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Post by joyce on Jun 13, 2007 10:25:30 GMT -6
Putting up green beans and canned some pickled beets this morning. Bean beetles on my shelly beans. Got the Sevin out, mixed up a gallon in my sprayer and gave em a bath. |
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Post by joyce on Jun 14, 2007 10:11:05 GMT -6
Another 1/2 bushel of green beans to put up this afternoon. Got my mowing done for the week. In for the day now. Time for a nap. |
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Post by shyangel on Jun 14, 2007 11:10:44 GMT -6
Well I don't know about my garden. I think it's in the wrong area of the yard. Gets to much shade. I think I'll just let it go and plant grass there and start over somewhere else, so no garden this season  But next season you bet I'm having one, fill it with corn, peas, tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, onions, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes, strawberries. Would love to have some watermelon, cantaloupe, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and some chives. I can just dream for now until then. |
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I may have to dig some new potatoes also.
It was a snake!!!!!! It was up in the clematis and daylilies. It was striking at him and he took a couple more shots and got it. Couldn't get a clear shot because of how it was in there.
Let us know how it goes with the mum.
But next season you bet I'm having one, fill it with corn, peas, tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, onions, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes, strawberries. Would love to have some watermelon, cantaloupe, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and some chives.