What are you all doing for your gardens right now??? - Page 103

chickweed · November 18th, 2009, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by crtreedude

That would be a very dry year for us - our average year runs 3 meters, or nearly 10 feet! Yeah, we fight fungus for sure. Nothing grows that isn't in a raised bed, but things just jump out of the ground.

Hard though when it isn't the norm though.

Still rubbing it in I see

. I would love to have full time help, but even with the unemployment rate so high, I cannot get it - reliable help that is.

Norm is the operable word on the rainfall - and your zone. With all the rain, we have also had "whiplash" temperatures , sometimes from the 50s daytime to 80s daytime ,overnight, several times in a week.

I love it here, though.....and I love a challenge! Besides, if gardening was easy, everybody would do it - and we wouldn't be so special

w8in4dave · November 18th, 2009, 10:10 PM

I stuck a stick in the dirt to try and wake it up .....and nothin.. it is either sleepin or dead ...

chickweed · November 18th, 2009, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by w8in4dave

I stuck a stick in the dirt to try and wake it up .....and nothin.. it is either sleepin or dead ...

LOL - Too much fresh air today?

w8in4dave · November 18th, 2009, 10:24 PM

Yup i'm about whipped to... eye lids are fallin.. why does he work me so??? well ttyl ...

daylilydude · November 19th, 2009, 06:27 AM

Watching garlic sprout.

w8in4dave · November 20th, 2009, 07:44 AM

Ohhhh I planted garlic..does it sprout in the fall?? I think I planted it wrong anyway.. pffftttt

chickweed · November 20th, 2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by w8in4dave

Ohhhh I planted garlic..does it sprout in the fall?? I think I planted it wrong anyway.. pffftttt

Ours is sprouting beautifully! We will mulch it when temps get cold enough. W8 - how can you plant it wrong?

chickweed · November 20th, 2009, 07:56 AM

I am making a list of things for the neighborhood kid that helps me to do- unless this next coastal storm hits this weekend. Now that school has started and hunting season and rockfish season are here, he only works a few hours Sunday afternoons.

Mt.Imagine · November 20th, 2009, 10:04 PM

I pulled weeds from my tangerine trees, and started new seedlings for tai queen siam basil, litchi tomato, great white tomatoes, dandelion, and a few other herbs in my greenhouse.

hikingonthru · November 21st, 2009, 01:52 AM

Had the leaf vacuum truck come by the garden at Pap's house and dump a huge load of leaves on the garden! Now, I do not have to go round loading them up on the truck!

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November 20th, 2009, 07:44 AM	#1026
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November 20th, 2009, 07:56 AM	#1028
chickweed Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: middle peninsula of va USDA Zone: 7b Posts: 7,700	Re: What are you all doing for your gardens right now??? I am making a list of things for the neighborhood kid that helps me to do- unless this next coastal storm hits this weekend. Now that school has started and hunting season and rockfish season are here, he only works a few hours Sunday afternoons. __________________ "two tears in a bucket"....... And harm ye none, so mote it be.....

November 20th, 2009, 10:04 PM	#1029
Mt.Imagine Vicarious Windmill Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Upcountry Hawaii, 3600 feet USDA Zone: 11 Posts: 239	Re: What are you all doing for your gardens right now??? I pulled weeds from my tangerine trees, and started new seedlings for tai queen siam basil, litchi tomato, great white tomatoes, dandelion, and a few other herbs in my greenhouse. __________________ organic tropical highlands gardener Last edited by Mt.Imagine; November 20th, 2009 at 10:23 PM..

November 21st, 2009, 01:52 AM	#1030
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