THE GARAGE CAFE - MARCH - APRIL 2011

Wow, that would be super. I will reimburse you for it and the postage. I luv to try people's homemade foodstuffs. ^_^

Cool!

Nice daff!

All my jams and jellies right now are in the booth at the Flea Market and its not open except Sat and Sun, So will have to mail you a jar of Blackberry Jam 11th of this month. I also have Sangria Wine Jelly, Spicy Tomato Jam and Orange Jelly.
If you like it and want more, I can bring some with me when I come visit in July. OK

Super ... no rush ... whatever you send, I'll reimburse you for that plus postage. Would love to try the Sangria Jelly. Do you make the Spicy Tomato with Spicy V8 by any chance?

Ooooo ... bee-you-tee-ful, Blossom.

No the Spicy Tomato is a sweet spicy with cinnamon, cloves sugar. I'll send you a jar of it also. I love it on pancakes, french toast and hot buttered buttermilk biscuits. It also makes a great glaze on chicken, pork or beef.

I see, it's sweet spicy and not hot spicy. ^_^

Ok, so the ones I have right now are all 1/2 pts, I'll sent you 1 Blackberry, 1 Sangria Wine and 1 Spicy Tomato. $2.75 each for total of $8.25 plus postage. OK?

Sounds like a deal to me. ^_^

OK. If you like them and want large bottles, like pints, I sell the pints for $3.75 ea.

Nice pinky there Cville.. im still waiting on mine to bloom... but my yeller dafs are going boinkers! Have 4 huge vases in the house full of them and more to pick.. must have 50-70 blooms in those vases!

Daffs would have to be my favorite flower. Wow ... sounds like you have a bunch of them! Lucky you!! Starting all over here but I have several of various types. My daffs are coming to an end for this year though. :( The pinkies are some of the last left in bloom ... and the one double yellow.

Sigh!

Sounds like you guys be "jammin"!

My daffs are just starting and thats one I can alwasy use more! Love them.

Well, until tomorrow!

Hey, I just got an email from Brecks Bulbs about that strange daff I found growing in a field back in the woods. They can not ID it and have no idea of any daff with double blooms that have yellow and green petals. Anyone got an idea. I'm going back up there and carefully digging up a bunch.

Sounds intriguing ... I'm jealous. ;-)

Marti, it sounds like a crossbred. I have a white with a greenish center but its not a double.

That one is lovely ... do you know the name of it?

The one I found has a yellow stripe up the center of the petals with a lite green stripe up each side of the petal. I'm going to see how many I can dig up and in the fall when their ready to I'll see if I can share some with others.

Cool. You found them growing wild in the woods? ^_^

Theres a whole patch. Must be close to 2-3 hundred. So I think it will be OK for me to take up a shovel full.

Definitely. What a find! ^_^

Its possible its named, but I have no clue. Im gonna have to scour Brent and Beckys catalog..the have some neato stuff in there. Most of my dafs are naturalizers.. I want tons of them! Ima wayward home for dafs that one must thin from your gardens!!

Hey marti, do you have a photo.. chances cold be they are just strays from an old farm house garden or something too that have gotten themselves in a naturalizing mode. I dont beleive they are natives to the states, but someone, if they know better, shot me down and correct me on that as I only grow them and enjoy them.

I took a picture with my phone so its not to good. When I go back this week I'll see if they are still blooming and try for a better picture. I'll post this one and see if its any help. Brecks can not ID it.

BTW I bought a new plant at the Flea Market. I just fell in love with it.
Golden Guinea Kerria in a 1 gallon pot and in bloom.

I take all my shots with a phone! That is different

So ya gonna show us the other one>?

Heres a picture of the Golden Guinea Kerria.

Ooooo ... very pretty. I Googled "yellow double daffodils with green" and looked at the pictures. Some looked similar to that but the problem is that not all of the pictures are identified with the name. Could be those cross-bred somehow and became their own thing. That's cool too, IMHO.

That Golden Guinea Kerria. is very pretty..looks like a houseplant though eh?

I was just out to my GPS and OMG the mess in there! I have spent loofas to clean up and baskets everywhere...need to get back out there.

Looks like rain today.. was hoping to finish gettnigthe taters planted and the onions...dont think that will happen today, but maybe I can clean out the baskets that I know are dead.

What is GPS (besides global positioning satellite ^_^)?

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1157588/

GPS

Of course, glorified potting shed!! Thanks for the link to pics. ^_^

well. that GPS thread goes way back! Enjoy! I will probably be starting a new one soon. But for now that was the last one I was working on! Its got a lot of great infor on it too.
So now you are no longer in a fog about the GPS!

Thread on daffs.... (*V*)

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1080642/

Description: Golden Guinea Kerria

4-5’ x 4-5’ wide, (cutting propagated). Kerria is an indispensable flowering shrub, especially for the shady areas of your yard where it will bloom nicely. The large golden single flowers (the size of a gold coin), appear in mid-spring and repeat sporadically during the summer. In winter the attractive bright green stems add color to an otherwise monochromatic view. Really effective planted around white barked Aspen. Easily grown in average garden soils.

Zones 5-8.

Special Notes:

Drought tolerant. Excellent color for shrub and perennial borders


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ok, thats cool! Was just out picking daffs... I dont usually let them go to seed. Inm trying to keep them contained, literallly

That sounds like a neat shrub. ^_^ I'm going to look it up. My daffs are just about all gone now. :-(

I've been outside for about 3 or 4 hours digging, planting, pulling weeds, and did the first mowing of the yard this year. Wonder how sore the old muscles will be tomorrow??? :-o I'd better have a nice long hot shower now. But it felt so good to be out there working in the warm sunshine for a nice, long time. ^_^

We planted more taters..was gonna do some onions, then I pulled something in my shoulder.. drat! Maybe tomorrow.

Hope your shoulder is better today, B. I'm not very sore compared to the amount of work I did. But I have been working outside for awhile now, pruning, cleaning up, pulling weeds and carrying stuff around ... only in shorter spurts.

A frequent visitor ... I've named him General T Sherman. Sorry the picture isn't better ... I was shooting form the kitchen window. But that groundhog almost always has his face stuck in the grass eating so it's hard to get a good face shot. ^_^

I did it!! I went back and dug up a clump of those daffs I found. Plus I found some irises growing nearby and got a couple. No id what the color is, but I'll find out.

Marti, it sounds like you have a find from an old farm house garden or something.. iris and daffs really are not "wild" but then it depends.. Im not sure if there is species daffs.. but do show pics!

What I would do on those daffs is put 3-4 bulbs in a nursery can and sink the can into the ground. It will help you locate them later and make them easier to lift, well that is unless you want them straying in the garden or perhaps takign a chance a vole will kill them. I did mine that way in a hughe border around my trees and its gettign time to lift some..I am sure after the years some have been in the ground the nursery cans have slpit, but thats ok, the cans are still useable.

The General there, looks like he is having a good old time. Had big pocket gophers at my old ranch. they made such huge holes you had to be reallly careful of cave ins.. dang near lost a mower in one!

I have 4 pictures of the daffs I found. I've looked thru daff catalogs and the closest I can come to fitting the description is Rip Van Winkle. What do you think?