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Post by michelle on Jan 17, 2013 21:54:09 GMT -5
This was taken at the beginning of the season for me in 2012. Attachments:
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Post by marielouise on Jan 18, 2013 0:40:24 GMT -5
wow Michelle beautiful garden!!!! Love that mulch piled around.... so how was your harvest last year?  Is that your corn patch in the back ground? I am not gonna volunteer to hoe that out! LOL |
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Post by Michelle G on Jan 18, 2013 10:49:46 GMT -5
Thanks ML- It didn't occur to me to let you all know I have a produce business. To me that's secondary to my passion for growing. My fav's are squash, maters & herbs. What I do best is squash and herbs. I'm a freak for both. Maters are up there too but its the squash that gives me heart palpitations.
And yes, that's corn- its not mine tho. I have indigenous grasses growing around my garden to keep the GMO sprays at bay as best I can. I've struggled for years on weather or not I have a front yard garden or keep it where it is because of what I believe is the right thing to do.
I'm passionate about keeping food clean but I'd have to say I'm not a nazi about it. I've been known to go out to eat and enjoy stuff regardless. Not often tho.
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Post by marielouise on Jan 18, 2013 14:04:12 GMT -5
Michelle like you we sell some and eat the rest of what we grow... as for favorites to grow -- haaa I think that changes from time to time according to what strikes our fancy.
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Post by michelle on Jan 18, 2013 17:19:42 GMT -5
I love food. And yes, I'm a canner too. The harvest last year was decent considering the high heat and drought. I'd did OK. Vines did even better. The heat was what made all the vines just pop. The photo was taken within a week of every single item being put in dirt. A month from that photo, I have to hang my head in shame. The weeds were horrible.
I see that you live in TX... its so different from MN do you grow stuff year round?
I'd have perpetual heart palpitations if I had that opportunity. My imagination is wild with what'd I experiment with. I know summers are long and hot there but that would just be the challenge I'd be up for.
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Post by marielouise on Jan 19, 2013 1:55:19 GMT -5
yes I have stuff growing as we speak---or type methinks is more applicable. We lost our cole crops and lettuce to that Christmas freeze and snow--- I pullled the dead stalks of lettuce, califlower and brocollis just yesterday ,,, if that cold had came just a week or 2 later those could have been harvested. If i had gone out and covered it  ,  it might have survived ! My turnips have recovered and doing fine- ;D-- the greens--- spinach and mustard did not make it past the grasshoppers which stayed around serveral weeks later than norm. I also have muliplyer onions that grow year round-- and the walking Egytian top setters , heat seems to make the bottoms and green tops of the Egytians tougher and very strong-- I use them for cooking during that period , just too strong tasteing for us raw. The muliplyers are supposed to remain milder through the heat . August and Sept are extremely hot and dry here , end of Sept is when I normally start seeds of our fall winter crops --- such as the cole crops--- its a hit and miss , and with the hoards of grasshoppers this past fall lost all my spinach and usually I pick baby spinach and other all winter til the heat of summers kills them off. I have been real interested in the Australian methods of dealing with the heat with shade cloths etc., but not the energy and $$$$$$ to invest . I think in my thread about my 2012 garden are some pics of the fall winter crops.... I'll go check later and if not see if I have some pictures in photo bucket to share there. I plant garlic here in the fall--- around Turkey day or shortly after . They survived the snow and ice and look great both the reg and the elephant. I have raised beds that I do the fall winter stuff in cuzzzzzz winter is our wet season and right now you cannot walk down the garden rows unless ya wanna be knee deep in mudddyyyyyy ! you would lose your boots and not find them til August!!! The last few winters have been dryer than norm but I know that weather goes thru cycles and its bout time to start returning to the wetter cycle. Been there before done dat !!! Mother Nature rules---hahahha. Cycles --- tides , moons, breeding, weather, seasons -- ever thing has cycles to it. Each to its own time.. |
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Post by marielouise on Jan 19, 2013 2:15:34 GMT -5
ok didnt have any of the fall/winter stuff but added some pics from that time for ya to look upon..... Pics were taken early spring of 2012
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Post by michelle on Jan 19, 2013 21:35:26 GMT -5
Thats ok with the photos- I get so excited when it comes time to start the tillin' and planting the seedlings.
Its so cold here right now that even the thought of planting something seems odd to me. I did start some long season peppers and onions- My planting date for most warm season stuff like, maters, peppers and vines is May 15th. Its soooooo different- If I could- I'd grow stuff year round. I'd rig(redneck style) something together to do it if I lived in a zone 7 or higher. Maybe one day. Its a thrill for me to take on a challenge like that.
Texas is so big as far as states are mapped out... when you live in a zone 7/8 that could make or break a crop I suppose. Its odd to think that ya'll get snow and ice and loose a crop because of cold weather. Its where us 'snow birds' go for the winter. If I could be in 60 degree weather right now... oh boy just no sayin' what I'd do...
I'd be outside- that's an honest statement!
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Post by marielouise on Jan 19, 2013 21:55:30 GMT -5
The pics are in Gardening --under our 2012 garden thread....
Aaahh I am in North east Texas --- dang near crowding OK ., Ark., and La ... Its a mite cooler here than further down south --- this past snow on C.Day, 45 miles to the south west of us they only received a few inches -- mainly they got rain. If I had covered the crops they would more than likely made it . But also we had ice for a few days afterwards so its one of those crap shoot things --- maybe--- maybe not . With Texas weather we are accustomed to it.
We do see yawl snobirds driving thru headed further south where you go to warm up, once in awhile ---LOL just kidding !!!
Few years abck I bought a shovel at a garage sale ---fella asked what I planned of digging with it , and bet I didn't know what kind of shovel it was.
hahahah told him yep It was a snow shovel and I wanted it to shovel the saw dust outa hubs work shop-- it was nice and lite weight , so ougta work fine... He laughed cuz he was from Michigan, had been down here about 3 years and had not seen any snow so figured he didn't need it again. Hadn't thought of using it for saw dust in his work shop . I did explain that I grew up in New Mex. where there was snow a bit more often than here bouts.
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Post by michelle on Jan 20, 2013 15:14:19 GMT -5
zucchini row Attachments:
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Post by michelle on Jan 20, 2013 15:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Jan 20, 2013 15:17:40 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Jan 20, 2013 15:19:16 GMT -5
There has to be an easier way to post photos on here other than a direct link - its taking to long..... ugh
I'm not very computer saavy...
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Post by dirtdobber on Jan 20, 2013 16:59:07 GMT -5
this is what I use to post pics. Just remember to resize to message board size. Then you have to type whatever it wants copy and paste the message board link the pic is here. Takes but a few seconds as long as you have the pic saved on your puter. What I like is it is free. tinypic.com/ |
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Post by michelle on Jan 21, 2013 20:06:23 GMT -5
 Taken in a 'redneck' greenhouse. I swear its a redneck gh too. |
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Post by michelle on Jan 21, 2013 20:10:17 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Jan 21, 2013 20:12:16 GMT -5
I suck at photo uploading.... If I could get 'er right maybe the photos would either be smaller and viewable or you'd not have to click a link.... maybe one day I'll understand... Thanks dirtdobber.... its me- really it is.
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Post by txdirtdawg on Jan 22, 2013 9:01:44 GMT -5
Great pics Michelle. Cute pup.
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Post by michelle on Jan 27, 2013 17:03:34 GMT -5
I just re- looked at the garden photos and I wanna cry. The weather is so nasty here today that rollin' in the dirt seems like such a long way off... Can you feel me crying on the inside? |
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Post by LinFL on Jan 27, 2013 22:59:55 GMT -5
Aww...I wish I could send you some warm weather.
I like the companion planting in your garden. It's so much prettier than long rows of the same crop.
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Post by kay on Jan 28, 2013 15:24:09 GMT -5
Get a pot and plant some lettuce seed! At least you can say you got to play in the dirt for a moment!
Love the puppy and your garden.
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Post by marielouise on Jan 28, 2013 23:12:18 GMT -5
It was dry enuff today to get out and dig and pull and roll around in the dirt! Haaaaaaaaaaa I did some cleaning out in the garden. Weather was cloudy but comfy out there not hot not cold....
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Post by barefootgardener on Mar 30, 2013 11:46:31 GMT -5
luv your pics... i am drooling at all that dirt/land to grow on!
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it might have survived ! My turnips have recovered and doing fine- ;D-- the greens--- spinach and mustard did not make it past the grasshoppers which stayed around serveral weeks later than norm. I also have muliplyer onions that grow year round-- and the walking Egytian top setters , heat seems to make the bottoms and green tops of the Egytians tougher and very strong-- I use them for cooking during that period , just too strong tasteing for us raw. The muliplyers are supposed to remain milder through the heat . August and Sept are extremely hot and dry here , end of Sept is when I normally start seeds of our fall winter crops --- such as the cole crops--- its a hit and miss , and with the hoards of grasshoppers this past fall lost all my spinach and usually I pick baby spinach and other all winter til the heat of summers kills them off. I have been real interested in the Australian methods of dealing with the heat with shade cloths etc., but not the energy and $$$$$$ to invest . I think in my thread about my 2012 garden are some pics of the fall winter crops.... I'll go check later and if not see if I have some pictures in photo bucket to share there. I plant garlic here in the fall--- around Turkey day or shortly after . They survived the snow and ice and look great both the reg and the elephant. I have raised beds that I do the fall winter stuff in cuzzzzzz winter is our wet season and right now you cannot walk down the garden rows unless ya wanna be knee deep in mudddyyyyyy ! you would lose your boots and not find them til August!!! The last few winters have been dryer than norm but I know that weather goes thru cycles and its bout time to start returning to the wetter cycle. Been there before done dat !!! Mother Nature rules---hahahha. Cycles --- tides , moons, breeding, weather, seasons -- ever thing has cycles to it. Each to its own time..
