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From: MaryW
Date: 03-31-2005, 08:58 AM (1 of 22)
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It is so nice to go out in my husband's greenhouse. He has everything started for flowers and veggies. Petunias, geraniums, asters, mums, lobelia,marigolds, poppies all from seed. We planted begonias last week too. Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and lots more. Everything is so green and you can see a difference from day to day with some of it. My orchids are out there as well. After they finish blooming they go back out for the high humidity and extra warmth. He loves it out there with his music, a rocking chair and some solitude. I call him the mad scientist when he starts mixing up concoctions for fertilizer. You don't even want to know. 
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 03-31-2005, 09:44 AM (2 of 22)
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Does he have the same happy feelings when he visits your sewing room?
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 03-31-2005, 09:46 AM (3 of 22)
Nah, but I think the cat likes it. 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-01-2005, 04:29 PM (4 of 22)
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My father-in-law calls himself Farmer Bill and I get regular reports on HIS garden. Flowers, veggies, fruit trees. (he lives in northern CA) I used to love to grow things, inside and out. Now, not so much, but I LOVE greenhouses and plants nurseries. Chrys
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From: Magot
Date: 04-01-2005, 05:06 PM (5 of 22)
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I'm visiting an organic garden at the Henry Doubleday Reearch Institute tomorrow.(It is a friends 60th birthday party- she pays our entry and then we have tea inthe institute) They are having special talks on composting so after the weekend I should be an expert on manure, or alternatively. knee deep in s***. I'll think of your husband Mary as I stomp around! He's be so proud...I just can't imagine what I'll do with Tony - gardening is not his thing - he's has cut the grass 4 times during our marriage..still he has his camera.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 04-13-2005, 10:39 PM (6 of 22)
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Wow~ Your hubby is one lucky man!! I would love to have my own greenhouse! I truly love the spring and summer! This is the time that I put my crafts to the side and pull out my trowel and gardening gloves! I have been planting and sowing seeds for almost a month. Have my pond up and running. The Gerber Daisies all around smiling happily at me. This past weekend we re-did the plant swing area, now I just need to get the cushions made to cover my ripped cushions. Sounds like ya'll will have lots of veggies this summer!! Yummy!! mgf~ 
Blessings & Smiles
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-14-2005, 10:51 AM (7 of 22)
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DH and I are going to try our hand at container gardening this summer - tomatoes, green peppers and who knows what else we'll stick in the dirt to see what will actually produce us some veggies and what won't. About a year ago DH convinced me that I could make better salsa than the store bought brands he was eating and since then, I've constantly been on a quest for good tomatoes to use. That is why we're going to try our hand at raising our own tomatoes this year and a friend of mine is going to teach me how to do home canned salsa so he can have it all winter. Last summer I made apple butter and it is really yummy. I think I'm also going to try making strawberry preserves this summer. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: mamadus
Date: 04-15-2005, 02:37 AM (8 of 22)
my mom made so much strawberry jam when I was kid, I can't even look at it now... I always gave my kids raspberry jam and now they can't stand it!!!... funny how things go around.....  MO life is too short, not to explore
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 04-15-2005, 05:43 PM (9 of 22)
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My husband built raised beds for us this winter and when I look out my kitchen window I see giant sunflowers and our vegetable garden. This all got started when I decided last year to teach my grand daughter how seeds for different plants are different and then how they grow. We had all these seeds growing in paper cups and he asked me what I was going to do with them...........who me? I had not thought past the "sprouting the seed" lesson. So he took over and we all enjoyed it so much that this year we expanded with another larger bed. We have one sun flower that has a bud getting ready to open. It and three others just grew by themselves from last years seeds that fell into the soil. Have hanging pots of petunias just outside the window and the roses are all in bloom..............I dearly love this time of year. Of course in Arizonia our growning season is short because in a month or so it will get so hot that only the very hardy plants survive so I am soaking it up while I can. I make peach, cherry and plum jam every year. We pick the peaches in May at local orchards. It makes great Christmas gifts so I aways make a extra batch in nice jars. |
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From: Magot
Date: 04-15-2005, 07:07 PM (10 of 22)
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Well, I have returned from my forray into totally organic gardening and I have to say the slug Olympics training ground was the most impressive. Any slug that can get throught that array of anti-slug-bio-friendly protection has got to be worth it's weight in mucus! If they are not drunk on the beer, tip-toeing over the gravel, ceramic shards and 3"tree bark they are shinning ninja style over the most amazing barricades. Any slug that can get through that should be allowed the spoils of war. Mind you, there is no room to grow anything in the garden for slug traps - but who cares! They're not eating anything! Can you imagine a slug coming out at night with a litlle black face scarf and bandana, crawling along the patio before a very high pitched "Banzai" reaches your ears and the slug starts to digest the Nasturtiums. Yay! Go Slug! Seriously though, we had a really interesting time and I got stuck in a tree house for 6 year olds. Tony has the photos. What else is new? My seedlings are finally starting to sprout - the ones that don't have damping off, that is. love and kisses, Jan
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-16-2005, 08:55 AM (11 of 22)
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All you gardeners impress me. I have a different strategy. My neighbors on both sides have gardens and always end up with more than they can eat so if I grew my own their extra would just go to waste, right. Dorothy |
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Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 04-17-2005, 10:15 AM (12 of 22)
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Now I've stopped laughing at Jan's description of slug ninjas, please could I ask: what's apple butter - plrlegal says she made some but I don't know what it is and I'm intrigued! I used to have a small neat garden with a pond but I now have a small messy mud patch with a pond instead. I have the grand total of 6 primroses, 5 primulas and a few camelias in pots until the landscaping is finished and fences are constructed. If only it would stop raining........  it would all be finished and I can get planted up!Jane |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 04-17-2005, 10:31 AM (13 of 22)
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I have a black thumb, need I say more???????
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From: Bama
Date: 04-17-2005, 06:38 PM (14 of 22)
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Jane, apple butter is kind of like apple sauce, but sweeter and usually with a little cinnamon. We spread it on toast or biscuits. I make mine in a crockpot. I'll try to post a recipe later, or maybe someone else will know the sugar measurement and post before I get back online. Or you could try allrecipes.com. I think they have several recipes for apple butter. I made pear butter last summer. Patsy, One year I made peach-berry jam. I had made 3 batches of strawberry jam and didn't have quite enough left for another batch, so I put half peaches and half strawberries. My kids liked it more than the plain strawberry. I've also mixed strawberries and blackberries in jam. It's yummy too. 
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From: Bama
Date: 04-17-2005, 06:47 PM (15 of 22)
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My hubby has seedlings growing for several different veggies. I think we'll put them in the ground next weekend. I also want to pick up some marigolds to plant. We have seven 100 foot rows of corn planted and planted sunflowers today. Three rows of corn were planted a couple of weeks ago and are popping up. |
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-18-2005, 12:58 AM (16 of 22)
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My hubby has seedlings growing for several different veggies. I think we'll put them in the ground next weekend. I also want to pick up some marigolds to plant. We have seven 100 foot rows of corn planted and planted sunflowers today. Three rows of corn were planted a couple of weeks ago and are popping up. Bama, I have the weirdest question to ask you, but I'm really serious about it. Is this corn from a seed that is NOT genetically modified? I'm looking for farmers who have kept their own seeds. I can't stand the Monsanto and FDA bulls... that is going on with genetically modified foods and I want to start collecting seeds the way God made them. If he has any corn seeds that are not GM'd can I buy some? Right now all commercial farmers grow and harvest GM corn 95%. Yep, 95% of all corn in the US is modified now. (corn chips. canned and frozen corn, tortillas, corn syrup) Also, Monsanto makes certain thru lawsuits that no corn label can advertise their corn is NOT genetically modified. They dont want consumers knowing the difference because 90% of the public would only buy non-gm foods. So, you can see why the corn your hubby is growing could be worth much if its not genetically modified. Let me know! PS: Hybrids are not GM'd. GM corn is corn modified with something like a Roundup pesticide protein so that when the corn grows, its resistant to round up. Oh boy - just what we want to give our kids! Corn drenched in Round Up. HG |
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-18-2005, 05:07 AM (17 of 22)
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Roma tomatoes are best for salsa Patsy. They have more meat and less juice. The beefsteak or other juicy tomatoes are good, but make salsa and pasta sauce quite watery.
MaryW
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 04-18-2005, 08:26 AM (18 of 22)
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Our first self planted giant sunflower is blooming...........It is so neat to look out and see that big yellow face following the sun. There are three more that just grew from seeds that fell from last years crop..........and a bunch of smaller ones that we planted this year. Aw, life is good! On that note we are having 90 degree temps  already so we are watering, watering.Norma |
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From: Bama
Date: 04-18-2005, 05:47 PM (19 of 22)
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hippiegirl, Sorry, I have no idea if the corn is genetically modified. He gets some veggie seeds from the farmer's co-op and some seeds from his father. My FIL has been saving seeds each summer from some vegetables since I've known him, but I think he gets the corn from the co-op each year. It's silver queen. |
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From: Bama
Date: 04-18-2005, 05:49 PM (20 of 22)
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Norma, Wow, you get to see sunflowers bloom early. We never see them here before mid to late June.
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User: Bama
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 04-18-2005, 05:56 PM (21 of 22)
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Oh Bama, by the time mid to late June gets here it is so hot that everything we plant is fighting for its life! You just can't keep anything wet enough because the soil drys out so fast in the heat. I have stood and just watched my veggie garden wilt and die. So you start early and hope like heck that the temps stay mild enough for the plants to produce. Some years they do and some years.................zilch! We have blooms on everything and it is already in the 90's so got my fingers crossed. DH did put soaker hoses in the raised beds he built and that seems to be working really well so far. |
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From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 05-03-2005, 08:07 AM (22 of 22)
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[QUOTE=Bama]Jane, apple butter is kind of like apple sauce, but sweeter and usually with a little cinnamon. We spread it on toast or biscuits. I make mine in a crockpot. I'll try to post a recipe later, or maybe someone else will know the sugar measurement and post before I get back online. Or you could try allrecipes.com. I think they have several recipes for apple butter. I made pear butter last summer. Thank you, much appreciated. I think I might try to make some in the autumn when there are windfalls a plenty. |
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