Okay, finally found my romaine pics. These were taken before our cold weather came the first of the month.
Lettuce for 2010 - Whats your line up?
Actually, there are swamps in Texas. You just have to know where they are! LOL
Nice looking lettuce lO1!!
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Actually, there are swamps in Texas. You just have to know where they are! LOL
She's right. In fact, I hve a small piece of property in Liberty County that backs up to Champions Lake. Well, it's called a lake, but actually, it's a Cypress swamp. One of the game wardens took me out in his boat to show me around. He told me that if I ever went out, that I had better have a GPS with me. I saw what he meant when we got out there. I had no idea which direction to go because it all looked the same to me.
We were going to build out there, but I made the mistake of telling my DW abut the alligator I heard bellowing, and that was all she wrote. No chance of building out there now, so I guess I am going to have to put it on the market.
I said all that to say, Yes, there are swamps in Texas. LOL
Don
Can you say "Nutra Rat"? If you have 2 ask, it ain't bona fide, genuine, mosquitoe breeding, LOUISIANA swampland!
Ya'll please go over to the veggie gardens forum under the potatoes under straw thead and look at the "air" potatoes I'm growing. They are fascinating, and a great show & tell!
Linda
Thanks all for the tips. Spent an hour or so on Cherrygal's site. Found the Paris White along with some other goodies...$15.00 worth :)
I gotcha beat at about $20. What great prices, and excellent quantities. Perfect for 2 people!
Ok, swamp in TX, I will thro in some beans, the peppers and the simpsons.. who wants them... d-mail me
Just for the record, where I'm from, just east of Gymgirl and dgal, it's cypress swamp jus' like dem cajuns do got. Pines and cypress, and alligators and nutria rats, possums, raccoons, armadillos.. you name it, cher, we got it. And can cook it.
But back to the subject at hand... I ordered all my actual seeds from www.seedsavers.org (Seed Savers Exchange) and am, trembling, going to try an entirely heirloom garden (except for the Yukon Gold seed potatoes from W/M and the sweet potatoes I'll sprout from last year's crop). Sunflowers, tomatoes (amish paste, brandywine, and black krim), bush beans, melons, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, and summer squash.
I sowed some of the tomatoes in a Park Seeds "Rootrainer" last night. Anyone ever used that particular one? I was unpleasantly surprised at the huge hole at the bottom of each cell, and the fact that the "tray" it is pictured as sitting in -- has no bottom! It's on a tray by the window right now, and hopefully it will do fine.
I should know better! I have been to Texas and traveled most of the state! I jes don recall no swamps... course now I no ya'll have had them thar big thunderboomers there so things must a changed a bit since I ben thar!
Ya'll can kep yer shaketail snakes though.. erghhh!
I like Amarillo and now I no thar aint no swamps there! Kinda hard to grow things on a rock there whar I was!
I live on a swamp, but it aint got no alley gators! Had a boa constricotor out thar once that some animal abuser tarned loss, but that was the only big reptile we seed and hes long gone to rainbow bridge now due to a bad arguement with an 8 foot mowerdeck.. (Ouch!) Poor critter wouda never seen spring with our winters.
Most of the swamps are in deep east Texas and down towards southeast Texas. We do share a border with Louisiana after all.
Definitely swamps in Texas. I used to work in a gas plant way out on a ranch and it was swampy all around there. We had a 12' alligator in our cooling water pond once. During the summers, it was nothing to kill a rattle snake or water moccasin every day or so. Sometimes some smart aleck would kill a snake and coil him up on the door step outside the control room. Heart attack city for whoever walked out the door, for sure. Of course, I would never do that. Ahem.
Don
Ive seen them shaketailstaxidermied and people put them in their windows to ward of buglars! !!
How'd this thread get from lettuce to snakes?
LOL Good question. Didn't mean to hijack the thread.
Don
Snakes can be found in the garden. Lettuce grows in a garden. There's the connection! LOL
And I believe the shaketails sprinkle seasonings on the lettuces while they're growing.
No, a shaketail is a rattler! LOL! Dont want them in my salad!
Rattlesnake sauteed in olive oil with onions, garlic and red pepper flakes is good with lettuce salad on the side.
EWEEEEE! You Texins got a wicked diet!
I'M FROM NEW ORLEANS!!!
LOL! Tooo funny!
Um.. does that explain it!
tease tease!
When I set about planting my lettuce seeds, I found then envy for the seed mix I'd planted a couple of years ago - from Renee's Garden. It included French Divina, Red Fire, and Cimarron Romaine. I'm pretty sure the latter is what came back last year, along with others from a Pinetree Mix. I hope they come back again because I loved the Cimarron Romaine.
Finally placing the Cherrygal order today Elaine...
Sequee, the Rouge D' Hiver lettuce is identical to the Cimmaron Romaine. I'm not absolutely sure, but they may be the same lettuce under different names. Anyway, I've grown both and cannot tell any difference between them.
False alarm, Susan - after getting kicked off the site 3x - after entering my entire order, I QUIT. Don't need anything that badly...
Thanks for the info lm - hopefully it will self-seed again this year. It's definitley a fave now!
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Well, Im behind in the lettuce department so we sucumbed to purchasing two head lettuce at $2 each! EEKS!
I think I will go start some seed before I go bankrupt in buying anymore of these plants....
I've been sitting in the sidelines till I got my lettuce planted, and finally got it done. I put in Black Seeded Simpson, Buttercrunch, and a romaine mix containing Craquerelle du Midi, Forellenschluss, Little Gem, Rosalita, and Rouge D'Hiver. I've only heard of a couple of those, but all are considered Robust. I also got 2 varities of spinach hybrids, Melody and Harmony. I'm hoping to freeze some of that.
Gymgirl, some of the best home cookin I've had was at Mother's on Poydras Street in NOLA.
I like snake broiled, with a salad would be good. Did anyone see this one! It would feed quite a few people.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54663
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Oh GOD, no snakes... yeck! Octopus maybe, but no snakes...!
Ric that was mean. Now I'll have nightmares over that monster. Earlier in the week I killed a small snake that was discovered when I moved a pot full of soil. I think it was a young copperhead which I'm absolutely plagued with. Today the neighbor was cutting grass and found a water moccasin. All that had me spooked before I saw the monster photos. Just imagine how far that thing could reach out from a coiled position.
My Little Gem is still pumping out new leaves even when I cut it down to the nub. It's also full of aphids and I don't know if I'll try to harvest anymore.
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I didn't even open the attachment and I've got the heebie-jeebies!
Twiggy, Can you smell copperheads? I usually smell them before I see them. I think they smell like rotten cucumber.Ric
DH was digging up dirt in the yard to expand our garden the other day and he sliced a garter snake in half. Not far from the body of the snake, he found a bunch of eggs. It was very interesting because we don't normally see any kind of snakes in our yard. Sorry for the loss of the snake and the pest control, but since I don't like snakes, I'm glad the thing is gone!
Here's what's remaining of my fall lettuces. We've been slowly cutting them down to make room for the garden expansion project and other veggies. All the varieties I've planted have been good eats during the long winter.
Ric my nose doesn't work real well on account of smoking so I'd have to get entirely too close to smell one. My dad always said he could smell water moccasins. He said they smelled like bad fish.
I had a black snake that stayed in a holly bush in the front yard for several years. I'd see him around the whole yard from time to time and we lived in harmony. I've always heard that they are very territorial and don't tolerate other snakes. I think there's truth in that because it was rare to find other snakes when he was here. My neighbor killed him last May and then we started finding copperheads almost every week. I don't care for snakes except at the zoo when they're behind glass but some can be useful.
I thought it was weird, I thought I could smell something funny too when I found snakes in the garden then my gut would say SNAKE and sure enough... the NOSE KNOWS!
And here I thought I was crazy! Thank God some one else confirmed the tweak in the senses!
I'm happy for what snakes do, just don't like having them do it near me. A couple of years ago we found a five to six foot copper head sunning himself on the back of my favorite Adorondack chair. I didn't see it but my late Corgi, Tinker, did. He wouldn't let me sit down and kicked up a huge fuss until we noticed the snake. I tried to be nice and caught it live and moved it over to the then vacant property next door (well over two football fields away). He was back within two days so he went to the Great Snake Sandbox in the Sky. I'm still creeped out thinking about it!
We have a number of large black snakes around the property, found their skins, and even found a clutch of eggs in the old compost. They can be cranky when shedding, nesting, or have just eaten, but otherwise ours have not been aggressive in any way. We try to watch out so we don't surprise each other. LOL Since they are so territorial and will not tolerate other snakes, I would rather have a big black snake or 3 that a couple of small copperheads and a shake tail.:-} Ric They are also hard on the mice and voles.
ZERO tolerance for snakes......EEEEEKS... laundry day for sure!
I wouldn't mind a black snake around, but he would need one of those bicycle flags attached to his tail end so that I wouldn't have any heart stopping moments.
Lol. Great idea Terri.