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Post by doccreed on Mar 16, 2019 19:35:25 GMT
What are you growing this year? Any vegetables? Flowers?
I pruned the gardenia bush in the back yard but it seems to be dying. Does excessive flooding kill trees and shrubs? My sister is supposed to be picking up some yellow marigolds for me. My intention was to plant some dahlias by the back fence last year but I didn't get the land cleared in time. Maybe this year. In this video, this guy's back yard is stunning, and his dahlias pair up well with the yarrow. If I had the money I'd plant some hydrangea bushes and around the apple tree I'd put irises and lilies. My aunt passed away a few years ago from cancer and whenever I pass her house around this time of year her Easter lilies thrive. In the afternoon they nod in the cool shade of the toolshed like swans.
Chrysanthemums are another favorite but I'm not sure when to plant them. Seems like they come up in spring and early fall. Who doesn't want their own little private Eden in their backyard?
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Post by doccreed on Mar 18, 2019 22:37:02 GMT
Who else has memories of picking beans from the garden? I helped my grandmother shell peas and we'd put them in brown paper sacks and store them in her fridge. My hands would smell sweet with purple hull peas and greenness. I remember her preheating a cast iron skillet and it sizzling as she poured cornbread batter onto the hot grease. You know how everything ends up in a toddler's mouth? That's how it felt walking in her yard, plucking grapes and peaches and okra and beans and popping them into my mouth. Warm juice, and meat of the earth. My grandfather liked to do this, too. He'd take his pocket knife from his pocket and peel a peach as pretty as you please. I love the scent of fuzzy peach peel. I don't think I've had rattlesnake beans but I like speckled butter beans. My favorites are crowder peas and purple hull peas.
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Post by morgan on Mar 19, 2019 1:10:26 GMT
Speaking of peas and toddlers - I stuck a pea up my nose when I was around two years old and ended up in the E.R. I hope my mother lowered her expectations of me at that point!  
doccreed I've never tried any of the things in your last two sentences! And I'm the opposite about peaches. The fuzz is too off-putting. I eat nectarines instead so I don't have to peel them. 
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 2:26:10 GMT
Da Vida
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Post by doccreed on Mar 19, 2019 3:36:14 GMT
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Post by doccreed on Mar 19, 2019 3:37:06 GMT
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Post by morgan on Mar 19, 2019 3:46:14 GMT
What does "Da Vida" mean?
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Post by doccreed on Mar 19, 2019 4:24:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 12:48:36 GMT
What does "Da Vida" mean?  I think morgan’s musically challenged when it comes to the great music of the 60’s. If I recall correctly we once tried educating her over at the SKMB to the best musical era, ever. But I think she was traumatized by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s song Fire. Just funnin’ with you morgan.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 13:08:26 GMT
I’m growing big boy tomatoes and the little cherry ones, sweet peppers and Hungarian wax peppers, radishes, scallions, carrots, zucchini, cucumbers, baby spinach, leaf lettuce, and arugula. (I like bush or planter varieties of seeds whenever I have a choice as it takes up less space in the garden and the yield is the same).
I got a fantastic deal on a big variety of seeds this year… paid next to nothing. Have enough for years worth of plantings. Anyone need any… no charge, just don’t want them to go to waste?
Lots of different kinds of flowers, but that’s the wife’s bag, not mine.
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Post by doccreed on Mar 19, 2019 20:14:56 GMT
I’m growing big boy tomatoes and the little cherry ones, sweet peppers and Hungarian wax peppers, radishes, scallions, carrots, zucchini, cucumbers, baby spinach, leaf lettuce, and arugula. (I like bush or planter varieties of seeds whenever I have a choice as it takes up less space in the garden and the yield is the same). I got a fantastic deal on a big variety of seeds this year… paid next to nothing. Have enough for years worth of plantings. Anyone need any… no charge, just don’t want them to go to waste? Lots of different kinds of flowers, but that’s the wife’s bag, not mine. 
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Post by morgan on Mar 20, 2019 0:39:32 GMT
There's a song called, "In A Gotta Da Vida" which is supposed to be "In The Garden Of Eden". They sound alike. Red was being cheeky. I think morgan’s musically challenged when it comes to the great music of the 60’s. If I recall correctly we once tried educating her over at the SKMB to the best musical era, ever. But I think she was traumatized by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s song Fire. Just funnin’ with you morgan.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 12:41:57 GMT
I’m growing big boy tomatoes and the little cherry ones, sweet peppers and Hungarian wax peppers, radishes, scallions, carrots, zucchini, cucumbers, baby spinach, leaf lettuce, and arugula. (I like bush or planter varieties of seeds whenever I have a choice as it takes up less space in the garden and the yield is the same). I got a fantastic deal on a big variety of seeds this year… paid next to nothing. Have enough for years worth of plantings. Anyone need any… no charge, just don’t want them to go to waste? Lots of different kinds of flowers, but that’s the wife’s bag, not mine. 
And why don't you plant flowers? Shoot me a PM over at the SKMB and I'll get some out to you ( I don't know how to PM here). Planting instructions are usually on the packets. Weeds will become your mortal enemy. The wife grows hundreds of flowers... Then complains about all the bees facepalm , go figure. Flowers just ain't my thing. All that work just to look as something pretty? Isn't that what my mirror is for? |
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Post by doccreed on Mar 20, 2019 12:59:46 GMT
I'd love to have a sample of whatever you were going to throw away. What do I need to do? Don't go to any trouble. How would that work? I've never grown anything but tomatoes; not sure I'd know where to begin but that's what YouTube is for...
And why don't you plant flowers? Shoot me a PM over at the SKMB and I'll get some out to you ( I don't know how to PM here). Planting instructions are usually on the packets. Weeds will become your mortal enemy. The wife grows hundreds of flowers... Then complains about all the bees  , go figure. Flowers just ain't my thing. All that work just to look as something pretty? Isn't that what my mirror is for? (rofl) |
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Post by neesy on Mar 22, 2019 16:27:42 GMT
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Post by doccreed on Mar 24, 2019 19:02:44 GMT
I think peonies have a lot of personality and come in extraordinary colors, and they're beautiful in their simplicity. I especially like tree peonies. I have a writer friend in North Carolina who lives in the mountains and she takes stunning photos of her trees and flowers and animals. She has a rhododendron tree and her peony tree produces bursting pink blooms like prayerful hands or feathery opening dials. I'm still learning to identify different plants. So many of our Southern gardens and flower varieties exist because of seeds brought over from Japan and China.
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Post by neesy on Mar 29, 2019 15:18:27 GMT
I think peonies have a lot of personality and come in extraordinary colors, and they're beautiful in their simplicity. I especially like tree peonies. I have a writer friend in North Carolina who lives in the mountains and she takes stunning photos of her trees and flowers and animals. She has a rhododendron tree and her peony tree produces bursting pink blooms like prayerful hands or feathery opening dials. I'm still learning to identify different plants. So many of our Southern gardens and flower varieties exist because of seeds brought over from Japan and China.
Hi - we have a couple of peony plants - one dark pink and one very light pink (they smell lovely)
Yesterday I bought rhubarb seeds at the old hardware store on Main Street.
Did you know you could grow rhubarb from seed?
I always thought you needed to inherit or be gifted a clump of roots to start those big hardy plants.
It says to start them indoors in April and not to harvest anything the first season.
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Post by morgan on Mar 30, 2019 2:02:00 GMT
neesy That's what I thought about rhubarb as well!
(If you grow some - not sure how long it takes - I have a super easy and delicious cake recipe that I used to make out on the farm: a boxed white cake mix and whatever extra ingredients it calls for - eggs, oil..., cover batter with diced rhubarb, sugar and a pint of cream. IIRC it takes about 60 minutes. When it cools, cut and use a spatula to flip over the individual pieces onto plates. The sugar, cream and rhubarb sink to the bottom. Easy peasy rhubarb upside down cake!)
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Post by neesy on Mar 31, 2019 19:08:46 GMT
neesy That's what I thought about rhubarb as well!
(If you grow some - not sure how long it takes - I have a super easy and delicious cake recipe that I used to make out on the farm: a boxed white cake mix and whatever extra ingredients it calls for - eggs, oil..., cover batter with diced rhubarb, sugar and a pint of cream. IIRC it takes about 60 minutes. When it cools, cut and use a spatula to flip over the individual pieces onto plates. The sugar, cream and rhubarb sink to the bottom. Easy peasy rhubarb upside down cake!) That sounds really good!
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Post by doccreed on Mar 31, 2019 20:09:06 GMT
I think peonies have a lot of personality and come in extraordinary colors, and they're beautiful in their simplicity. I especially like tree peonies. I have a writer friend in North Carolina who lives in the mountains and she takes stunning photos of her trees and flowers and animals. She has a rhododendron tree and her peony tree produces bursting pink blooms like prayerful hands or feathery opening dials. I'm still learning to identify different plants. So many of our Southern gardens and flower varieties exist because of seeds brought over from Japan and China.
Hi - we have a couple of peony plants - one dark pink and one very light pink (they smell lovely)
Yesterday I bought rhubarb seeds at the old hardware store on Main Street.
Did you know you could grow rhubarb from seed?
I always thought you needed to inherit or be gifted a clump of roots to start those big hardy plants.
It says to start them indoors in April and not to harvest anything the first season.
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