BS: Gardening, 2009

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 12:05 AM

Here's a magazine published in my town... "Zone 4 Magazine, Living in the High Country West".
http://www.zone4magazine.com/index.php

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 12:17 AM

My kitchen window is packed as full of ripening tomatoes as it can be, and an entire shelf in the fridge is filled with bowls of ripe fruit. Gotta blanch and freeze or can starting tomorrow. I had intended to do some today, but I had other chores that needed doing first. Jury duty on Tuesday (hopefully only one day, but who knows?) so I probably need to get this finished tomorrow.

Things are kind of collapsing under the weight of fruit. Tomatoes have toppled over in their cages all over the garden. Peppers look like they're decorated for christmas. The largest eggplant has several fruits, one almost ready to pick. When I first few them I remember watching it grow and wondering when to pick it. Now it's second nature, as is spotting and destroying pests at their first appearance, not after they've been around for a while.

Now I weed, water, and poke around looking for fruits, keeping in mind that this is a region with a wide variety of biting critters. Reaching down into plants is best done slowly.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 06:12 AM

Welcome back to gardening, Alice. I appreciate your delight in reclaiming your gardens. I've had similar issues with more recent injuries.

Janie- Mail order; what a kind thought. I'll let your know, thanks. We are in USDA 5a, and we plant for zone 4 whenever possible. We do have the long daylight this time of year, and the short day and long darktime of the winter, though the contrast is not as extreme as it is in Scotland, say, or Alaska. We're in Midcoast Maine, and have some of the few gardens that were not washed away by the rains of the last couple of months.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 10:01 AM

Nice gentle soaking rain last night. Wonderful!

Found a toad in the dogs' pool again, but this guy was alive and well and treading water. I forgot to carry the bricks over to the new location (it's a child's wading pool the pit bull uses to cool off and they both drink out of it). I move it around the yard to keep the grass alive under it.

Picked a few more bagworms off of the juniper this morning, and I haven't finished digging out the extra dirt around the roots. Once it can breathe more easily I'll do the sick tree treatment.

http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/2840/

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 11:51 AM

That tree info is really helpful.

When the two groves of aspens were planted, the landscape designer put down a weed barrier cloth that is probably now too tight around the base of the trunks, so I need to cut that back more.

The organic amendment product on the dirt doctor site look really interesting. I've used garlic and fish emulsion on the trees before, but not vinegar, cornmeal, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 01:05 PM

If you've ever wondered if Bacillus thuringensis (BT) really works, I had an excellent demonstration today. I've been using it every week to ten days, as a drench over my garden crop plants and onto the ground around them. This weekend I have been watering some untreated potted plants from my next door neighbor's back yard. She toted them around to the side in front so I can get to them without having to unlock her gate. Yesterday I killed one hornworm on a hanging plant, and this morning was astonished to find five of them on the skeletal remains of one of her other pots that was resting on the ground. Four were full-sized, one was about half that. I've had hornworm problems in previous years, but was too frugal with the BT. This year I want to keep my plants going. I'm not spraying, I don't want to harm butterflies, but I do want to keep these garden bulldozers out of my solanaceae plants that they favor (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes). These are about 15 feet away from my lush tomato plants. I'm planning to give her some of my overage--it's funny, because she's the one that turned me on to organic gardening.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 08:13 PM

Notes from the Virginia Blue Ridge:

First of all, Alice, great to have you back in yer gardens... Heals lots of stuff that nuthin' else can heal... But Zone 4??? That is brutal!!! We're 6B and that is cold enough, thank you...

We are finally eating yellow squash and zucinni out of the garden... The P-Vine fried up some tonight... It was extra yummy seein' as it's been since last year since we've had it...

We have decided to "deer fence" another 2-3 acres that will include our pond field and our house and the planting around it... I realize that it will be another big project but once done there won't be much left that the sumabiches can eat... Last night they came right up to the house and mowed down several hostas... I mean, down to the ground... That was it... We finally have realized that we will have no peace until we can keep the deer away from all of our gardens...

That's it fir now...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 08:54 PM

Just sprayed molasses on the lawn to feed the worms and microbes, and the lightening started as I finished... then began a real gullywasher with hail.

We've had one of the wettest springs in a long time, finally helping to end years of drought. Our climate is arid here anyway, so drought on top of being a dry high country climate makes it pretty hard to garden.

RE: harvesting.... I hope to have some green beans before it snows this fall!!    I have about 4 leaves on the little bush green beans that have sprouted.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 07:46 PM

With the torrential rains from which we appear to be emerging, we'll forgo planting a second block of corn, and tuck in a few more tomatoes, beets, lettuce, kale, chard, beans, peas (snow, snap, and shelling), carrots, basil, and onions. I added the shelling peas to the perimeter of the corn block for added nitrogen and to help anchor the corn roots if we get another big summer wind.

Roses in bloom include Maiden's Blush, Dark Lady, Iceberg, an old double red nameless, William Baffin, New Dawn, Red Grootendorst, Topaz Jewel, Bonica, Fair Bianca, Sea Foam, Carefree Beauty, Schneekopf... several more here and there and some not yet in bloom.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 08:20 PM

Oh, the guilt... I just trashed a mamouth wild rose bush with my tractor... lool...

Actually, I have the deepest respect for anyone who is willing to grow roses... We bought several from Jackson and Perkins a couple three years ago but gave them away after discovering that we really didn't have the DNA for grwing and appreciating them... So, my hat is off to you, maeve...

With the deer moving in around the house every night we are in full-speed-ahead on the next (and last) deer fence project... I pulled down some very old fence tonight with my tractor and Thursday my backhoe buddy is going to push over the last 6 "paradise tree" and some old fence posts to get ready for new fence posts which will hold the deer fence... Seems that this project is going to take a couple weeks but when it is done, we will indeed have peace from these creatures...

BTW, what kinda cukes is everyone growin'???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 08:52 PM

We have started Diva and Lemon Cucumbers, Bobert. It's been too cold and wet before. Other years we had good luck with one of the Marketmore strains.

Roses aren't for everyone, but I do love them, wild or cultivated. These have really been happy after last year's generous doses of manure compost, alfalfa pellets, and fish emulsion.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:43 PM

Ain't got no cukes, but the tomatoes in pots are doing well enough to convince me that I can plant a small veggie garden next year, if I can find the time, energy and $$ for materials to get the raised beds in by fall. I'm pretty sure there is enough sun, if I encroach a little on the town right-of-way, for two 3' or 4' x 10' and possibly another 3'x 6' bed running beside them but perpendicular to them in orientation.

My struggle is going to be with deciding whether to put it all in veggies, or use some of the space to plant some roses or full-sun perennials.

I love roses, maeve, though in this region they all look awful from black spot by mid-summer. I don't have the time to stay on top of the spraying needed - and that is whether or not one uses organic methods.

We bought our old bungalow in Hillsborough from the son of the folks who had built it in 1914. (actually bought it from the lady of the house, but she was in a nursing home in PA by then, so we never met her.) She and her husband were both textile mill workers and people who loved to garden. We bought it in August and moved into it in November. The gardens had been severely neglected for a number of years, and we had no idea of what was there. In the spring, several old, neglected roses began to send out sporatic blooms, and I fell in love. (and earlier, heirloom daffodil, narcissus and hyacinth began to bloom in the midst of grass and weeds, then some hardy carnations and pinks, and the stray crocus) Worked hard to restore and renew them all, but especially the roses.

My favorites were a polyanthus rose that the daughter-in-law told me the Missus had brought from Benson when the family moved here in 1914, and which sports different colors ranging from pink, to coral, to orange to red quite freely, and an old rose that was somewhat desease resistant that I dubbed the Thelma Neighbors rose after the Missus because I could not identify it.   I saw it growing in a few other yards throughout the old mill village district of Hillsborough. It propogates very easily by cutting a semi-hard cane, sticking it in the ground, and firming the soil around it. I made up a story in my head about one of the millworker ladies getting the rose for a Mother's Day or birthday gift, then passing along cuttings to friends and co-workers at the mill, Flint Fabrics (now closed.) It is a a wonderfully fragrant rose, and the color varies with temperatures from clear, pale, pink to a deeper pink with a tinge of coral. The blooms were the densely double of old garden roses, but the shape and the repeat bloom suggested a hybrid tea. It was more desease resistant than most hybrid teas, but still suffered significantly from black spot unless treated with dormant oil in winter and sprayed weekly with neem oil during summer. I propogated it and passed it on to a number of fellow gardeners who admired it over the years. About 3 weeks before I moved, one of those gardeners finally keyed it out. It is an early hybrid tea, introduced somewhere around 1925, if my memory serves me, and is called Aloha.


As I got more and more involved with gardening, I had less and less time to tend to my darlin' roses. I finally reached a point where I fertilized them well in late winter or early spring, pruned them in January, loved their glorious blooms in mid-spring before black spot defoliated them, and viewed them as trap crops for japanese beetles come June.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:59 PM

Smokers tend to kill roses. They don't like the nicotine on your hands, so that's the mystery of it for some gardeners.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:38 PM

Truelove planted more gladiolus bulbs. Folks around here seem to think there's no point in trying to have vegetable gardens this year with all the rain. We just keep poking in seeds and such and they all grow.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 01:17 PM

I have had a lot of trouble with annuals, of all things, this year. Some got too wet, others too dry, and several were in soil that should never have been sold it was bad. My fault for rushing and trying to use it anyway.

Anywho, I have had some success with new perennials, most of which were planted last fall when they were on sale and have taken some pix: CLick Here. They are not the best, but at least you can see some of their beauty. Anyone who would like yarrow seeds, let me know. I also have a really pretty red one.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 05:20 PM

Beautiful, Kat! And that is a lovely rose, Janie.

I've been picking produce several times a day. I'm bringing in a couple of quarts of tomatoes a day. Peppers are still producing, though not as fast. The beans seem to have pooped out. I'm going to bring in some carrots soon (I've been eating them gradually as I thin them).

The cosmos I planted from seed are just now beginning to open. The Texas star hibiscus are lovely, several blooms on each of the plants, and the cannas that were transplanted a year ago are almost 8 feet tall back in their corner. They seem very happy--they only grew to about 4 feet in the original location.

I've picked my first couple of eggplants.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 06:37 PM

Janie- I was admiring some Aloha roses at the feedstore the other day. I want some, are you surprised?

Kat- What a pretty and healthy yarrow!

It's early to bed for me tonight. We've been going since 4 this morning.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 07:04 PM

Oh! I wnat an Aloha rose, now, too! That's gorgeous and I love that you said it has a strong scent. I don't why they even have roses that don't smell much, but i have noticed a lot of them that way.

Thank, SRS and maeve. If either of you have any uses for yarrow I would be happy to cut some and send it on. It grows along roads here, even and is one plant, along with Russian Sage, which is used for ubiquitous landscaping around banks and other office buildings because they take such little care and are so well-suited for the high desert climate. I have a Russian Sage out back. I'll get a picture of it soon. This is the tallest the yarrow has ever grown and I've had it about 4-5 years now. It is at least six feet as I am 5.2 and it is definitely taller than I! At the other end of the perennial patch are yellow and red yarrows. They get more sunshine and, until this year, didn't grow very well. This year, they have sprouted up to about 3-4 feet and look much better. Not as full, but beautiful in their own effort.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 07:35 PM

I had some white yarrow seed in a wildflower mix about 18 years ago that I scattered in one flower bed. Unfortunately, yarrow takes over and spreads, killing out everything around it. I have huge areas of my lawn that yarrow has taken over. Hope you can keep it corralled, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 12:52 AM

Hmmm...I haven't had any problem with it, Alice. That tall one is actually two plants and they have stayed exactly where I planted them for the past 4-5 years. Likewaise the other two at the end of the plant bed. I'd love it if they did take over most of the front yard as I would prefer a yard of flowers to grass...they take less water and are prettier!*bg* Thanks for the warning, though. I will keep an eye on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 02:41 AM

The white yarrow tends to wander freely, much more than the other colors. All are great for beneficial insects. I think your beautiful yellow will be fine.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Sooz
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 03:41 AM

We've just returned from holiday and it took some hard work to find the garden! I carried armfuls of 3ft lettuce and spinach plus a bucketful of sugarsnap peas over to the lady across the road for her free ranging chickens! They are having a big feast.
The salad crops I sowed before we went away are all ready to eat, though and the raspberries and blackcurrants are croping well. For the first time we have tried pink fir apple potatoes which are amazing. I've never seen such big potato plants and the crop is pretty heavy as well. Scrummy.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 08:01 AM

Well, seems that with the very few customers that the P-Vine is getting at the garden center that she is buying (at cost plus 5%) plants here and threre for our gardens... Yesterday she rescued a hybrid mountain laural leaving just one left for sale... Plus two ferns...

This is just like when she worked for Merrifield Garden Center when her pay checks came home with root balls and pots...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 08:53 AM

The motion detector animal deterrant seems to be working to some degree.

I have them set up in places where the neighbor's dogs used to run into my yard. Not as many piles of poop in those spots, but still finding them in back where people walk their dogs down the alley and let them "go" in my lawn.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 01:15 PM

I've reached a critical mass--all of my large Tupperware bowls are in the fridge, heaped with ripe tomatoes. There are tomatoes in little bowls also and tucked into nooks and crannies.

It is time to do some canning.

I also went out this morning and picked 2/3 bucket of this year's mustang grape crop hanging on the trees in the woods across the road. I am debating whether to juice them now to see how they look, or go ahead and freeze them and use them in a steam juicer later. Right now I don't have room in the fridge for them, hence the need to can tomatoes.

I think you could call this an 'embarrassment of riches' though in fact it is what I was aiming for--enough stuff to preserve for the rest of the year. I'm having a BLT for lunch today, then I'll get to the canning.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 07:03 PM

The spinach is up, the second plantings of peas and beans are sprouting, and the farm stand dumped completely over with all the little pots of perennials out of their pots.

Happy gardening!

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 02:10 PM

My Truelove and I celebrated our wedding anniversary today by cleaning up the mess that was our farm stand, rebuilding it with reinforcement and wind-stability in mind, and changing around the layout of the plant benches.

I brought out several new flats of herb and lettuce seedlings as well as the rest of the potted perennials I had ready for sale. I'll be re-potting the dumped plants for the next few days. One benefit of being out at the stand for so many hours this morning is that several people stopped, and I do now have some bulk orders for some roses and bee balm, and a neighbor will be returning for a couple of apple trees.

Of all the gardens we have tended during the course of our lives, the most beautiful and strong is the garden of our marriage. We are thankful.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:26 PM

Happy Anniversary, maeve and Truelove!!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 05:54 AM

Thanks, Kat. It was.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:16 AM

Grrrrr. Got into the poison ivy when picking grapes.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 01:24 AM

I don't have a huge operation like Bobert, but I'm loaded up with tomatoes right now.

This is the busy window sill and counter staging area.

This is what my fridge looks like this evening.

I'll be canning tomorrow and again on Saturday. A few jars here, a few jars there, and it adds up. I didn't go out and pick again this evening, but there were quite a few, so I expect another gallon at least by noon. I pick a couple of times a day, they ripen so fast. I bring them in when they start turning pink to beat some of the birds and other predators. They'll be fully ripe out there in the morning so I hope I don't have an overnight attack. I put BT on the corn and tomatoes and eggplant after the sun went down, that should help.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:29 PM

I guess each of us is outstanding in our field this week.










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Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: peregrina
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:45 AM

hours of pelting rain, strong winds, and now a beautiful huge door-side hollyhock that had grown up in a crack in the paving has blown down--all three stalks, despite attempts to support the last two.

Can a new one grow from the remaining root?
Can I save seeds from a plant that had only just come into flower?
plant the brokens stalks?
No answers from a short google search, so if any knows, I'd be glad if info.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:51 AM

it may grow back. some hollyhocks act as biennials, some as short lived perennials. If this particular plant is the latter, then it should grow back.

if it had been bloomin a few days you MIGHT get some viable seed frm the oldest pods.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:44 AM

Often time a flower that has died through a mechanical accident (storm, misplaced weed whacker, mowed, etc.) will quickly set seeds as it dies, if the flower was pollinated. Keep any eye on it. I've seen that in some in my yard (usually larger flowers with a little more stored energy in the stem to work with).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: peregrina
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:51 AM

thanks for your replies MMario and SRS--I hope I can get some seeds or another stem...

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 08:20 PM

Well yeah, I have been remiss...

We are about to take on "Deer Fence, Part B" which means another 1200 feet or so which will protect then gardens around our house and even down to the pond field... When this is done (Wednesday) we will have peace from most animals...

I had a 300 pound bear less than 20 feet from the house the other day... He was just snoppin' around... Last night the deer came into the gardens around the house and ate half of a smoke bush/tree... Then ate flox... Lirope... Whatever... The morons will eat anything... The P-Vine was in tears this morning... Sje wanted me to stay up all night tonight and shoot anything that moved...

5 more days to freedom...

The only thing protected now are the veggies which are doing fine... A little late but fine... We'll be like Maggie in 3 weeks with tomatoes comin' outta our ears...

That's about it for now...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:15 PM

Surely venison would be a nice addition to the diet? Who would be the wiser? I suppose you'd have to do all of the butchering yourself, though, if it is out of season (most likely).

Canning tonight.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 01:38 AM

Processing seven pints of 'maters. A couple of those are just juice, but it is so good in soup or beans.

Tomorrow, the big push to pick grapes, and I'm going to try to talk my friend into entering mustang grape jelly at the State Fair this year. (He won the blue ribbon for his strawberry jelly last year.)

About ready to pull out a few big, leggy, mite-ridden tomato plants and move to a fresh spot and plant some new ones for fall. The type called Super Fantastic has been a winner for me this year, along with some largish cherry tomatoes. (I froze a whole cookie sheet of them this evening, skin and all, and will bag them tomorrow. The skins slip right off after they've been frozen.) Watching the corn. I had to use BT this week, another worm chowing down in the flowering parts. Who knows what we'll get there.

I have a question: the bush beans have lots of flowers but very few beans. They're all leaf, and kind of sloppy. Time to pull them out? Will they start putting out more beans when it cools, or should I start some new ones for fall?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:49 AM

Sounds like it's too hot fir them, Magz... Wait until the last week of August or first week of Septmeber and replant 'um... Our beans are probably a couple weeks away...

Yeah, venison... I don't eat no 4-legged animals myself but the P-Vine does... I wish they would have deer season all year 'round... The ol' mountain people will telll ya' that the meat is good any time of the year... Plus, they are a national pest...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 05:47 PM

So, I pulled out most of the beans, and it cooled right down. Today it has been heavily overcast and is raining. Who knew such a sacrifice would reap such a reward. We had a big gully-washer last night, then today it has been wonderful. I'll wait a couple of weeks and see what else I can pull out if that will make it rain a gentle rain all day.

18 1/2 pint jars of mustang grape jelly labeled and put up!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 11:13 AM

Quite a flurry of conversation on the Mudcat group thread. I put up a few more photos, as did ragdall.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 12:51 PM

I hope I'll have time to see your and ragdall's photos soon. We're too busy working the farm and cleaning out the house there's not much time left for posting, etc.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: maeve
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:51 AM

Regarding the late blight warnings- We dug our first potatoes of the year yesterday, and all are sound and unblemished.

Happy gardening,

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 01:12 AM

Hard to believe, but we had another rainy day. It's like the "monsoon" that normally hits the Chihuahuan Desert has shifted to the right and we're getting it instead.

The new tomatoes are looking right at home and putting on height in the same general area where I had a couple of other plants. I've made an attempt to give these better drainage.

I'll pick up some quart jars tomorrow and can some more juice and sauce.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 09:10 AM

Well, we've been busy with my son and his wife who are visisting from Oregon but we did finish the last 3 acres of deer fencing around the house and the pond... The veggies garden is also enclosed so it has double coverage as it allready had deer fencing...

The deer fencing, however, is no match for pesky racoons... One ate the only tomato that was close to being ripe on Tuesday night so we set the trap for him the following night... He got the bait but we didn't get him so I reset it last night and got him... We're going to take him off today to his new home...

It is ****so**** nice not having to worry about deer anymore!!!

And the bear hasn't made any attempt to breech the new fence, as well...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Alice
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 11:42 AM

Congratulations on the finished project, Bobert!

It's been close to 100 in the afternoon the last few days, but last night we had a good rain. Raspberries are just starting to ripen.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 11:55 AM

I processed four 1-quart jars of tomato juice and five 1/2 pint jars of sauce last night, but there are more tomatoes awaiting. I think this will become a weekly event for the next couple of months.

Hot again today, need to go back to watering. We do have a small chance of rain for the next few days, which probably means it will be muggy for a while.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 01:06 PM

We've created quite a large gardening thread this year, what with not only gardening but deer fences and related activities.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 01:06 PM

800! (tomatoes, that is!)