Garden 2012

So this appears to be a Verry early year for planting ,
the Aperagoose has gone WILD , this ALL was cut to the Ground thursday ,

DSCF7684 by zippyt, on Flickr
thats a Large can of wasp spray for size comparison
Oh and this one was cut to the ground thursday as well

Dscf7683 by zippyt, on Flickr
Geeze look at the size of that thing !!!!!!!!!

Tomatos and the such next weekend

and yes Feetz if the weather keeps dgetting This warm This early i may try a Pineapple plant

Blessed synchronicity.
I was out taking photos of Penny about half an hour ago.
She's pregnant! Well, blooming anyway. Each blossom is a potential cherry, although I don't expect too much from her this year.
At least it proves I followed the pruning instructions correctly. Or at least didn't kill her.

Ooh, just found this... here she is last year (Cellar post with a SFW youtube clip on an account I no longer use).

Crikey me she's shot up. This time last year she would have been (as I say in the vid) just a barren stick. I thought she was two years with me already.

So as you can see below, she has blossoms out and leaves a-coming.
And look at how her pruned branches are thickening. Yay. Proud first time tree wrangler.

Yes, I know. I need to stake her better this growing year :)

We got MATERS !!!!!!! and peppers and Zucks , and More Asparagoosees

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Blimey Zips.
Fecundity!

Penny and the strawbs look exactly the same as they did at the beginning of the month.
Then again, we've had frosts and hail and all that. April here is barely Spring.

Thanks Sunday ,
We have had near to and low 80 for a while ,,
sorta coldish , rainey ,and windy for the last few days

Low 80s are what we hope for in Summer!

Is Penny a tree? If so, don't stake her. Staking trees is an old, misguided attempt at giving the tree a leg up. In fact, unless the tree is in an extremely high wind area staking actually weakens the tree's root development.

The root development is a response to the regular forces of wind blowing the tree about. It's what tells the tree it needs to make strong roots.

carry on.

Asparagoosees

I think the correct term is asparageese.

Great looking garden! Love super-fresh food.

Dude, I woke up to snow this morning...

footfootfoot;807941 wrote:

The root development is a response to the regular forces of wind blowing the tree about. It's what tells the tree it needs to make strong roots.

:love:

Children too, although don't leave them out in a tornado....

footfootfoot;807941 wrote:

Is Penny a tree? If so, don't stake her. Staking trees is an old, misguided attempt at giving the tree a leg up. In fact, unless the tree is in an extremely high wind area staking actually weakens the tree's root development.

The root development is a response to the regular forces of wind blowing the tree about. It's what tells the tree it needs to make strong roots.

carry on.

I assumed we had to because she was in a pot. Her roots will never be able to go any deeper than that.
I'm all for taking the stake away if you think the pot thing is irrelevant.

ETA I've been doing some reading around.
The stake goes! Hurray! Setting my baby free!!!

Anchor the pot, though, otherwise the whole thing could tip over in strong wind.

She's quite wonky.
This bears careful scrutiny.

Will also have to persuade dad, as if I don't mention it I will come home to find her firmly re-staked.

or...

leave the stake and just sabotage it by cutting the ties.

Why is it in a pot?

because a Pan just would have been silly

monster;808548 wrote:

Why is it in a pot?

So I can take her with me when I go.
She's designed to be a patio tree - fruiting trunk grafted onto dwarf stock.

I have a serviceberry tree on the parking strip out front. It was planted a couple years ago, it's about seven feet tall and the trunk at the widest is about an inch in diameter. It's very slender. I went out this morning to take the stake away. I cut the two ties and lifted the stake out... only to find it rotted away at the base. It was less a stake than it was a splint. The serviceberry's standing free now, regardless.

Sundae;808631 wrote:

So I can take her with me when I go.
She's designed to be a patio tree - fruiting trunk grafted onto dwarf stock.

"you can't take it with you when you go...." :lol:

Fat Tomatoes,

fat matters by zippyt, on Flickr

the beginning of Cherry tomatoes ,

cherry matter by zippyt, on Flickr

one of Paul's friends dropped by the other day and gave us a small pot with 4 tomato plants in it. i just went to wally world and bought 2 clay pots 2 tomato cages and a bag of miracle grow potting soil. the two big ones you see here grew together in the soil. i didn't want to risk killing them by separating them. but on second thought, should i cut one of them back at the soil so it doesn't starve the other or will they be ok just how they are?

the other two were little sprouts so i put one in one pot and the other out in the front yard in native soil. just to see what might happen. anyway, i'd like to get some input on the conjoined twins here.

lookin' good thar zip!

peppers by zippyt, on Flickr

yesterday by zippyt, on Flickr

windowsill by zippyt, on Flickr
And a salad ENTIRELY from our garden

salad by zippyt, on Flickr

Gorgeous, Zippyt! Love the variety of tomatoes you have. Salad with garden tomatoes by July 1 sounds divine.

I'm sad that I won't have a garden the next 2-3 summers. :(
I plan to try herbs and tomatoes in pots - have to see if the cats leave me any. I'll get an extra pot of parsley and one of catnip and have a pair of very happy cats, and hopefully some herbs and tomatoes for me.

hay bails are an EASY way to have a Nice garden

Your salad looks great, Zip!

Phlthy: How's your conjoined tomato twin plant coming along? Someone gave my nephew a tomato grower kit. The instructions said to pluck all but the strongest one out. I kinda feel bad doing that. I was thinking of putting them both into a pot but not sure if that's a good idea. Thought I'd check up on yours. :)

Lola Bunny;818038 wrote:

Your salad looks great, Zip!

Phlthy: How's your conjoined tomato twin plant coming along? Someone gave my nephew a tomato grower kit. The instructions said to pluck all but the strongest one out. I kinda feel bad doing that. I was thinking of putting them both into a pot but not sure if that's a good idea. Thought I'd check up on yours. :)

here ya go. just snapped the pics....first set is the on that went into the pot by itself.....the little bitty one from above. then the others are the conjoined twins and finally a pepper plant that Keith, Paul's hunting buddy brought over.

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2 medium Cukes from the garden.

Skin, chop.

Put in a large chinese food soup container.

Add 4 spoons of sugar, half spoon of salt.

3oz rice vinegar, splash of sesame oil. Stir.

Top off with cold water. Refrigerate.

Enjoy



•spoken in to my phone

that sounds GREAT

It is. a chinese food place near me at work ads shredded chicken and a pile of sesame seeds. sesame seeds tear my innards up so I leave them out....

•spoken in to my phone

that would be a good reason to leave them out!

Thanks, Fred. I guess I can get away with using a smaller pot.

jimhelm;818089 wrote:

2 medium Cukes from the garden.

Skin, chop.

Put in a large chinese food soup container.

Add 4 spoons of sugar, half spoon of salt.

3oz rice vinegar, [COLOR="Red"]splash of sesame oil[/COLOR]. Stir.

Top off with cold water. Refrigerate.

Enjoy

Interesting. I've never tasted with pickled veggies with sesame oil before.

jimhelm;818098 wrote:

It is. a chinese food place near me at work ads shredded chicken and a pile of sesame seeds. sesame seeds tear my innards up so I leave them out....

So, this restaurant puts pickles shredded chicken with their cucumbers or they serve shredded chicken with pickled cucumbers?

they call it sesame chicken and cucumber salad. It's just what I described.

You know how the chicken is in steamed chicken w/veggies? that kind of chicken, cut up in little strips, with the cucumbers julienned and what has to be 3 or 4 TBSP of toaseted sesame seeds. These are fresh cukes, not pickles. Maybe if you left them in a sealed jar long enough they would become pickles... but these are still very cucumbery.

I see. :)

Boudin stuffed peppers and 1 Tomato from the garden ,
will be YUMMMMMMY tommorow ,

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