http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x14311Oh my.
Okay, I violated my Sabbatical from Skins's island, going there for the first time in weeks, because something's going on here out in the Sandhills of Nebraska, and I was hoping to find illumination from the primitives about it.
I didn't, but I found this.
trud (787 posts) Mon May-23-11 07:38 PM
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Does anyone have a decent garden this year?
Or is everyone washing out? I hear the same thing from farmers. Lord knows what there'll be to eat in awhile.
I was expecting to lose my house to rising sea level, not expecting to starve.
blue neen (1000+ posts) Mon May-23-11 10:59 PM
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1. We have three EarthBoxes on our deck.
With those, we've been able to avoid the "Tomato Blight" of the past couple years (which is supposed to be really bad this year because of all the moisture).
We planted two tomato plants, 2 regular pepper plants, and 4 hot peppers in the EarthBoxes. In the flower beds, we put 2 zucchinis and 1 eggplant. So far, so good.
Western PA had quite a bit of sunshine over the weekend and today. Let's hope it stays that way--can't wait to have those fresh tomatoes!
trud (787 posts) Tue May-24-11 03:36 AM
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2. planters
I do have a few things in planters on my deck. Those are doing better. Maybe because of drainage...
lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Tue May-24-11 10:22 AM
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3. I should have started earlier.
I'm in 9B (Central Florida) and my squash and cukes are starting to die off from the heat.
My tomatoes and peppers are still doing OK though.
Denninmi (795 posts) Tue May-24-11 12:30 PM
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4. Way too early to call here.
I'm running about 3 weeks behind on everything, but it could turn out fine in the end. Hard to say yet. At least the torrential rains have let up a bit -- it's rained, but mostly at night or a brief passing storm, not the all day every day flooding rains.
Please notice the above is a PoP-free campfire.
Anyway, since the primitives didn't have an answer to my curiosity, I'll throw it out here.
When I was gone to the hospital recently, the retired couple in town who come and extract a few bushel-baskets of the William Rivers Pitt every year for their garden in town--it looks like an English country garden, acres and acres of flowers and bushes--they commented to the neighbor about a rhubarb plant growing on the very edge of the William Rivers Pitt.
The neighbor took a look at it, and gasped in wonder.
"DAMN--that's the biggest rhubarb plant in the world."
When I returned home here, the neighbor mentioned it. I was of course familiar with it; it's grown very large every year, but given my respect for the flora and fauna out here (excepting for weeds the state of Nebraska requires one to eliminate), I always just let it alone to do its own thing, while it lets franksolich alone to do his thing.
Not being a gardener myself, I simply accept whatever comes out of the ground just as I accept air in the atmosphere. It's just something that's there, no reason to jump up-and-down getting red-white-and-blue in the face over it.
As long-time members of the DUmpster know, this place out on the eastern slope of the Sandhills of Nebraska was first settled in 1875, and there was human habitation here for circa the next 110 years, after which it was abandoned.....until franksolich came along in the autumn of 2005.
This is Nebraska; the place at one time had acres of carefully-cultivated vegetable and flower plots. They of course were no longer cultivated after circa 1985, and franksolich since 2005 has simply let nature do its own thing. And so every year the flora regenerates itself naturally; I'm sure some of the broccoli or cucumbers I pull have antecedents going back to, well, 1875.
Anyway.
I can't find the information anywhere, but does anyone know the size of the largest rhubarb plant ever grown?
