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Post by kay on Mar 12, 2013 20:34:44 GMT -5
Found baby artichoke plants at the local box store!! have never grown them before. Put one in the flower bed at the house. If it grows as large as a Cardoon, the neighbors will be complaining!! Oh well, it is an edible ornamental plant.
But a second one to go out into the garden. Any advice?
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Post by dirtdobber on Mar 17, 2013 17:39:49 GMT -5
Got part of the garden tilled up 44 mater plants in the ground now I see forty degree lows next weekend. I have no worries about that though. On a second note I was cutting a store bought bell pepper and this was growing inside on the seed pod.  |
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Post by marielouise on Mar 18, 2013 12:34:09 GMT -5
DD I found one similier to that last year in one of my yellow bells.. weird huh!!! baby bells ---lol
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Post by dirtdobber on Mar 20, 2013 13:32:00 GMT -5
Well great the local wether guessors are calling for a freeze Sunday night in the DFW area but I see the weather channeal and my favorite Intellicast stil just say forty degrees. If it does get to be a frost I am in troble lol.
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Post by dirtdobber on Mar 22, 2013 8:16:07 GMT -5
well now everybody is saying 35 for lows Sunday and Monday night.
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Post by jillybeantx on Mar 22, 2013 8:19:55 GMT -5
I'm out in the country, so we'll be cooler...so I'll be covering and tucking away everything both nights. And then I saw a spring forecast that said we're going to get hot early this year - I hope we can get a spring crop!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 22, 2013 22:56:12 GMT -5
I guess tomorrow I go on the Great Bucket Hunt! Hard to remember that March 21st is my AVERAGE last frost date. That means 50% of the time you're outa luck.
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Post by txdirtdawg on Mar 25, 2013 22:06:01 GMT -5
Supposed to be 39F tonight. I think it might get a tad chillier. Gulf Coast Texas March 25th.
It just ain't right, it just ain't fittin!
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Post by garrett on Mar 26, 2013 9:10:21 GMT -5
good luck to all us winter planting wonders........lol
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Post by dirtdobber on Mar 26, 2013 9:56:31 GMT -5
Went out this morning when I came home from work see almost all plants dead sighhhh. Oh well a few Better boys and some other stuff try again next year. It got below 30 degrees two nights in a row I had no way to cover and try to save them.
Try again next year. No way to try and restart seedlings as it will be to hot to soon.
I am going to try and get some packing pinto beans to grow at my deer stand maybe that will work. Saw it was 26 there this morning.
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Post by LinFL on Mar 26, 2013 11:52:16 GMT -5
Last night was 38. Tonight might be as low as 33! Tomorrow night again into the low 30s. This is the Gulf Coast of Florida! Like TDD said: ...It just ain't right, it just ain't fittin! The tomatoes are covered and it's a fine bit of redneck engineering: Every spare beach and bath towel in the house is wrapped around the tomato cages and secured with clothespins. I flipped the sides up today to give them air and sunshine, and will batten everything back down late this afternoon. Peppers and eggplants are not covered. They did fine last night, But unless I can work something out for them before dark, today is probably the last day of their little lives.  |
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Post by txdirtdawg on Mar 26, 2013 19:34:32 GMT -5
So sorry to hear about the plants DD. Wish we were closer. I'd hand off a good grouping to ya. Better Boy ain't exactly a bad mater. I've been known to grow 'em myself.
Good luck Laura!
Well, last nights temp didn't materialize. Woke up this morning to 45F. However Tonights original 46F low has been revised down to 39F then currently back up to 43F. Who knows what it'll actually do. I just left the frost blankets such as they are on the maters and didn't plant the peppers last weekend.
I just looked at the 10 day and amid lots of lows of 60sF Tuesday night the 2nd of APRIL!!!! is currently shown as a low of 43F. 43 doesn't particularly scare me although it's right on the edge. 41 scares me. If they are wrong or revise it down.......
Yes folks. That was A-P-R-I-L on the gulf coast of Texas! It can't get much coastier than here. PBBBbbbbbbttttt!!!!!
I guess I'm gonna have to invest in more frost blankets (which I really didn't want to do) and go ahead and plant the peppers this weekend. Otherwise I'm gonna have peppers so rootbound, they'll never recover.
Hey, Old Lady Nature. Winter's over. I know you got the memo. Now quit messin around!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 26, 2013 20:41:30 GMT -5
Yeah DD I've even got 3 spare Rebel Yell maters....provide my other ones don't freeze under their buckets tonight or tomorrow night.
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Post by kay on Mar 26, 2013 21:36:21 GMT -5
Went out this morning when I came home from work see almost all plants dead sighhhh. Oh well a few Better boys and some other stuff try again next year. It got below 30 degrees two nights in a row I had no way to cover and try to save them. . Sorry to hear about your plants! Jack Frost needs to retreat back to the polar regions for the summer.... |
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Post by LinFL on Mar 27, 2013 12:56:44 GMT -5
We got 35 last night. Late yesterday afternoon I dragged all the tablecloths and sheets out of the house, and even DH's favorite throw. (The man must love me!) Using those with some stakes, some more clothespins, some big nursery pots, and some help from DH (Did I mention he's patient, too?) and the peppers and eggplants were covered before dark. It looked ridiculous, but at least it was colorful with all those beach towels! ;D Most importantly, the plants looked good when I pulled back the covers to let them get some sun and air this morning. The covers are still out there - we're expecting upper 30s again tonight so I will need them again. Thursday will be laundry day.  |
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Post by garrett on Mar 27, 2013 18:33:55 GMT -5
clouds rolling in.looks like mater killer kinda weather.sighs.what a late winter fer us.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 27, 2013 20:27:09 GMT -5
Well mine aren't dead yet. It's the eggplants that ain't happy at all, covered with a styrofoam Whataburger cup then it's covered by a bucket. One or maybe 2 more nights and this nonsence will be over.
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Post by dirtdobber on Mar 28, 2013 12:18:50 GMT -5
I see maybe 3 plants that may have survived the freeze. I was out gently moving the dirt around some others the growth tips died off and the main stem is still pretty green and I see where some leaves are green and growing under ground so not sure but maybe a few might come back. Guess time will tell. Now many nights in the 40 to 43 next week grrr.
Good luck all.
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Post by garrett on Mar 28, 2013 18:36:42 GMT -5
keep the faith my growing bretheren and sisters....grins............
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 30, 2013 10:30:29 GMT -5
Some of the plants are out as of various points this week (15 tomatoes) but there are more remaining. Some are too scrawny to go out in the garden yet, and I've got about 20 tomatoes and peppers that I couldn't set out this morning in heavy mud. I planted a couple of tomatoes and a couple zucchini r. and saw it was no use to go further. We had a thunderstorm last night-- a few leaves missing here and there and the jelly melon leaves were sort of plastered to the ground so I don't know how they'll do. They are growing more like a butternut squash than a melon so far. At least they are out of the house and off the porch lol.
Seeds are planted for carrots, radishes, beets, and salsify, and small amounts of lettuce and spinach. I know they're late so I'm not sure how good it'll be.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 30, 2013 10:33:48 GMT -5
Went out this morning when I came home from work see almost all plants dead sighhhh. Oh well a few Better boys and some other stuff try again next year. It got below 30 degrees two nights in a row I had no way to cover and try to save them. Try again next year. No way to try and restart seedlings as it will be to hot to soon. I am going to try and get some packing pinto beans to grow at my deer stand maybe that will work. Saw it was 26 there this morning. It hit 30 here on Monday morning and 31 on Tuesday morning. An early start just wasn't to be here. If you can find a local greenhouse that has heirloom varieties etc, I've bought plants there before when the seedlings didn't work out. I've killed a lot of tomatoes setting them out, especially in the summer. In the spring I've done a good job of killing eggplant and peppers, it seems. |
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Post by barefootgardener on Mar 30, 2013 12:05:08 GMT -5
WEll, i had started lots of peppers and none, i do mean none were germinating. I thought is so strange, then my ds told me oh those seeds that were left in gf car for weeks before we cleaned out the car after your move? Oh boy, so the entire pepper collection was toast, so i have 16 baggies with papertowel and seeds heated up and going to see if any of the seeds are still alive. Have other stuff growing all over the kitchen, green beans are going outside for good today.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 31, 2013 21:11:28 GMT -5
WEll, i had started lots of peppers and none, i do mean none were germinating. I thought is so strange, then my ds told me oh those seeds that were left in gf car for weeks before we cleaned out the car after your move? Oh boy, so the entire pepper collection was toast, so i have 16 baggies with papertowel and seeds heated up and going to see if any of the seeds are still alive. Have other stuff growing all over the kitchen, green beans are going outside for good today. At that point they're probably only good for sprinkling with barbecue seasoning, and maybe not that. Sorry you had to go through that effort-- I know they sprout slowly to begin with so I'd be thinking it was just too little water etc. for awhile. I started some herbs indoors but now see that they are too slow-growing to get them outside anytime soon. I may have doomed them to being container plants. That instruction about 4-6 weeks must have been with an amazing growlight! |
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Post by dirtdobber on Apr 7, 2013 3:25:34 GMT -5
Got my rows of Bush Blue Lake green beans planted. Last year had a 3 in rain hours after I planted and they all washed out so no green beans.
Since all my maters died this year from the freeze maybe I will get me some beans.
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Post by dirtdobber on Apr 7, 2013 3:32:10 GMT -5
The nursery I used to buy Heirlom plants closed. I am hoping the one 8 miles away may still be open but I expect if they have many plants left the selection will be limited this late in the year.
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Post by kay on Apr 7, 2013 8:22:26 GMT -5
The nursery I used to buy Heirlom plants closed. I am hoping the one 8 miles away may still be open but I expect if they have many plants left the selection will be limited this late in the year. Understood! I drive 27 miles to get to a nursery with heirlooms now. Had two nurseries closer close over the winter.... |
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Post by directsunlight on Apr 8, 2013 1:23:33 GMT -5
Beets, radishes, and sunflowers are coming up. Everything is planted but there are a few reserves. If the carrots or salsify don't come up, in go the black-eyed peas.
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Post by dirtdobber on Apr 8, 2013 3:25:26 GMT -5
Good news the 2 pounds of pinto beans I scattered at the deer stand are sprouting may the deer and hogs be happy. I will be going down this weekend to hunt the hogs lol my friend got one this weekend. Turkey are showing up at the game cams as well think we have two more weeks in the spring turkey hunt season.
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Post by dirtdobber on Apr 10, 2013 8:23:06 GMT -5
Oh joy supposed to get down to 36 tonight.
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Post by dirtdobber on Apr 10, 2013 8:45:48 GMT -5
None of the green beans at the house have sprouted so hopefully they will be fine as it is raining which I need.
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