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| Garden Time...even here up north
Posted: 2/22/2009 9:43:02 PM | Move to Florida. You can have a nice garden all year long. I grow all kinds of things now in the cooler months. We actually had a frost here and it took out most of my plants. Peas, carrots, greens and my d@mn beans. Already replanted and got a some pop ups though.
This place here is great for vegetable patches. It's a contest with the bugs too and rodents. Armadillos, racoons, oposums. Fire ants love to nest on the corn stalks.
Big broad bladed corn will go nuts in the summer months. You can get a steady supply if you plan it right, pretty much all year round. I was told by a few that coen would not grow here in Florida. pffffft. | |
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Joined: 2/3/2009
Msg: 152 | |
| gardening
Posted: 2/25/2009 7:45:27 AM | | I plant just about everything. one thing I see alot of people forget flowers I know its a veggitable garden but planting flowers around and in it attracts bees and bugs. Bees and bug polinate marrigolds help to keep unwanted bugs away . I love to plant sun flowers they are like a lighthouse to bees once they find your sunflowers they will find the blossume on the plants you want polinated as well also plant you cucumbers in they sunflowers they like to climb up them and it helps on the picking | |
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Posted: 2/27/2009 3:22:10 PM | My winter garden is doing great!! Peas are going crazy, beets, swiss chard, brocolli and califlower and rutabagas are growing like crazy now. Even have a brocolli head on one plant. My tomatoe plant is still alive from last year and still blooming. | |
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Posted: 2/27/2009 11:03:51 PM | Two feet of snow on the ground here but I still have a few basil plants alive to snip onto various dishes just to freshen them up. I think I am addicted to fresh basil. LOVE IT.
Smells so fresh in the place, too.
And since I have the most scientific method of when to harvest it I have been trying it on all sorts of things... whatever I happen tobe eating the night the leaves touch the lightbulb above THAT is what gets the basil. | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 4:43:27 PM | Ok creative gardening ideas ...
Ive heard of growing potatoes in a barrel.Salads grown in a wadding pool. garlic in a pvc pipe supported by a t- post. Tomates in a bucket , turned into a self watering planter. Does anyone else have any gardening tricks and ideas? | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 5:33:52 PM |
I think I am addicted to fresh basil.
'addicted' doesn't begin to describe it. i'd move to italy just to have fresh basil year round.
i heard a legend about a man who smelled basil so frequently that a scorpion grew in his brain. well worth it, i'm sure! another story says that you need to sit naked on the ground before planting basil. | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 8:12:09 PM | Well, I grow all my herbs on my back porch in big pots. Do you suppose I could just sit naked on a deck chair beside the basil pot? 
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| gardening & tomato sandwiches
Posted: 7/29/2009 9:28:36 AM | I garden extensively; mostly flowers and herbs - I grow an old fashioned cottage garden. However, throughout my roses, yarrow, lilies and phlox, I tuck in here and there heirloom tomato plants, peppers, onions and cucumbers. Most of my vegetables are actually in planters/containers to protect them from the rabbits and my dog, who now just gets on his hind legs and picks what he wants. But, this seems to work for me. I don't plant an organized garden - whatever fits and gets along well with others, is allowed to stay.
My tomatoes are doing pretty good this year, although this year, the plants themselves don't seem to be too large, but plentiful with fruit! We've been eating a lot of these lately:
Broiled Tomato Sandwich
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
4 ripe tomatoes, sliced
1/4 cup sliced ripe olives, drained
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
1 small garlic clove, minced
1 slice Bermuda onion, sliced
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
4 tablespoons grated Parmesan Reggiano cheese, divided
4 slices bread, barely toasted
Preheat oven to broil.
Whisk together the oil, onion, vinegar and garlic. Add the tomatoes and olives, and let them get to know one another for about an hour, stir them up when needed. In a bowl, blend mayo, parsley, oregano, black pepper and 4 teaspoons Parmesan Reggiano. Spread on each slice of bread, the place marinated tomatoes on 2 slices and sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese. Broil for 5 minutes on a baking sheet until cheese turns golden brown and bubbly. Serve immediately.
After Work Tomato Sandwich
2 slices of white sandwich bread (the kind your mom put in your lunch box)
2 tablespoons of mayo or salad dressing
3 thick slices of beefsteak tomato
Assemble and Eat Rapidly! | |
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