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Post by jeanette on Sept 19, 2006 17:33:36 GMT -6
the only ones getting this frost tonight???
it's still very cloudy.. maybe i'll get lucky
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Post by lilsparrow on Sept 19, 2006 17:58:31 GMT -6
Nope, no frost here tonight. But, oh, it so pretty out there today!!! Beautiful, clear blue skies, temps in the 70's, next to nothing for humidity. Its supposed to get down to 49 tonight and a little cooler tomorrow night. Life is GOOOOOD!  |
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Post by jeanette on Sept 19, 2006 18:05:21 GMT -6
i think 49 is gonna be our high tomarrow ;D i bet that is very refreshing after hot and humid... .... are your folks familiar with midwest winters???
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Post by strongtower9 on Sept 20, 2006 0:20:09 GMT -6
Dap you must be close to me , sounds like our weather !!. No Jeanette, don't know anything about yalls winters..... I was in Illinois one time and wondered why they burned their fields...Then I found out they just have black dirt !!!!!! LOL Can't remember if I have been thru Iowa or not.
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Post by jeanette on Sept 20, 2006 3:00:58 GMT -6
it's very flat but beautiful.. even winter, in it's own way... although i'm not very fond of the weather here today... the temp is sitting right at freezing.... true to the old saying "clear as a bell, cold as hell... it is still so hopefully my plants all stayed covered...
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Post by mary on Sept 20, 2006 4:05:21 GMT -6
The temp here is right at 38, the time 3:30 AM.I dread winter,don't like it any more.I don't know the high for today, yesterday the wind was blowing and it felt cold to me, didn't work outside.I've been clearing my garden off and still after the amaranth spiny, I've been at it for at least a month, digging,pulling,cutting off the seeds, they just kept on coming.I even put down black plastic, looks like I'll have the weed next year, there must be a thousand seeds out there.I was going to till my garden this fall,was waiting as long as possible so I could keep after the weed, I guess either way I'll still have it next spring.
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Post by mickee311 on Sept 20, 2006 4:33:52 GMT -6
It's 47 right now, that was our low. But danged if it isn't just too cold for my taste. I loathe winter and cold weather. I wish I was where DAP is.
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Post by jeanette on Sept 20, 2006 5:47:03 GMT -6
32 and holding here this morning... frost on the windsheilds..
oh my poor garden...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2006 9:32:56 GMT -6
It has'nt got cold enough for frost here yet, only down to the high 40's.........but, it's only gonna be about 58 or so today and around 43 tonight...........still have'nt had to use any heat yet.
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Post by digger48 on Sept 20, 2006 11:20:56 GMT -6
WE got the frost this morning! Covered up one set of pole beans and left another uncovered. Neither one got nipped. On the lower end of the big garden the squash and sweet potatoes got it. Now got a question on sweet potatoes. Do I let the vines dry up like reg potatoes or do I dig them now? Haven't grown these in many years and the remember is a little foggy.
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Post by strongtower9 on Sept 20, 2006 13:05:27 GMT -6
Mary, did you say amaranth?? Tell me about that stuff. I had some seeds I never planted..
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Post by jeanette on Sept 20, 2006 15:49:52 GMT -6
i don't know digger, this is the first year i've grown regular tators... bout got mine ate... i still have mators and melons out there.. i watched the frost settle this morning.. i was up around 4, took the flash light out and the thermometer read 32... looked outside to see if the cloud cover had cleared.. boy did it.. the stars were heart breakingly beautiful..... but the real frost didn't set until 6:30 or so...
bethany and i had to go play in it of coarse.. we wrote 'jack frost' across the wiendshield of jacks car... bet he's gonna love that ;D ;D
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Sept 20, 2006 17:22:51 GMT -6
Digger those sweet tators will be green till frost kills them, short of disease or something. Ya gootta harvest them tho before a killing frost. Did you start your slips or buyem'? if ya bought em' up around here...where, I couldn't phind em' anywhere. Yeah Mary, I would also like to know a lil about the amaranth too  , I grew a small row once, can't tell ya how it was, the dang birds Love it! |
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Post by digger48 on Sept 21, 2006 5:24:58 GMT -6
Farmerphil. Well I guess i got ahead of myself. They look beautiful. Big and orange. Got a egg basket and a milk crate full. Leaves were black. Going to leave the squash for a few days as it is quite wet out in the garden. The last time we grew them we lost quite a few to rot as the ground they were put in is the wetest in the garden. Found them in the garden section of wally world. Was out wondering while I waited for a prescription to be filled. Six plants yielded quite a bit in a drought year. Jennette. Still have six rows of potatoes to dig. The clock is counting down to Oct 18, my forced retirement for a few months. Plan on canning the sweet potatoes but am going to let em sit seven or eight days.
Anyone else grow celery?
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Post by crazy1 on Sept 21, 2006 5:30:16 GMT -6
We grew some digger, this was our first attempt and I think it went well. Got a few stalks picked already. There are still a mess of them out there though.
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Post by mary on Sept 21, 2006 7:10:48 GMT -6
Spiny Amaranth or Spriny Pigweed, (Amaranthus Spinosus) is a summer aunual that is a weed of pastures and hay fields and found throughout the eastern half of the U.S. The stems can be either green or a reddish color ,a pair of spines that are 5 to 10 mm long accurs at the base of most of the leaf petioles.Seeds heads accur at the ends of stems and also in small clusters in the area where the leaf petioles meet the stem.You don't want to start pulling weeds and get a hold of this weed,the spines go right through a glove  does it ever hurt. You can see this weed at : www.ppws.vt.edu/weedindex.htm Got any suggestions on how to get rid of this weed, my neighbor say it comes back every year  |
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Post by mary on Sept 21, 2006 7:27:55 GMT -6
It appears your Amaranth is different than mine, whats it like, is it considered a weed?
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Post by strongtower9 on Sept 21, 2006 12:16:52 GMT -6
From what I read there are different kinds...They use for cerals or something, some were ornamental I think. Love lis Bleeding is ornamental but in that family I think. I have seeds called "Manna". Got them last year but never planted. I also have some called "elephant head" that is in that family but ornamental....I might be getting them confused, thats why I was asking.
I always buy stuff just cause I want to see what it does.....
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Post by strongtower9 on Sept 21, 2006 12:29:24 GMT -6
BTW I got these from "Seeds of Change" . I checked because I thought they had one that was "Spiney" or something like that, but it is not listed now....Greek or something. The Elephant self sows freely....Like your does !!! |
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Post by jeanette on Sept 21, 2006 15:57:50 GMT -6
i tried to grow some celery once, i think you gotta plant it real early like brocolli peas etc.. whats been happening lately in this area is that we'll have a few really hot days in early spring, the cool weather crop suffer... i know you have to tie the leaves around the stalks like cauliflower
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Post by deb65802 on Sept 21, 2006 18:04:33 GMT -6
celery needs almost bog like conditions. soil needs to stay moist most of the time.
I have not tried it yet but on my list for next year.
deb
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