She's about to... 68! New year... New thread!

Not with temps of 91 like we had today!

Don't skeer us'uns like thet , Happy . Hugs .

91 hummmm, well it is sleeting like crazy now and will go below freezing tonight..... I am just sure somewhere is a happy medium...rofl. But I can take 90's no problem much easier than this cold and dark and wet......

Lots of room in Texas, come on down!

ok ya'all it has sleeted, and supposed to turn to snow, got about two inches of rain in 6 hours, so I have a little water in the southeast corner as usual, I have been stacking newspapers around the walls 2 ft deep all winter waiting for this day. I was so happy to see my basement get some water, just enough for me to damm up and set the plants into. with a small fan waving back and forth, I have it arranged to take a little tour. I think I will spend a bit of time down there tommorrow night . So Far, I have a prettty nice "keep" area, and then I have the "trade" area and then the "swap" area and finally the "Ebay" for my sister area.
I also have a " I dunno what this is" area started. And a room for vine lovers. LOL
I have got to find a way to make a Damm on to the existing large tile in that corner.. I could actually have a pond if I could just figger this one out. :P~
Gee ,I could even have a cool waterfall in the ugly waterstained re-cracked corner. hmmm.. with the right lighting and the right wall coverings, some big boulders and river rocks, now what else would I need? Might as well dream, it is better than standing outside shivering while filling milk jugs with rain water while freezing your hands. I have music down there, chairs, 5 goldfish in a pond, two box turtles , a long couch, a toilet, dresser, chest of drawers, ironing board and washer hookups. I run a hose from the hook ups when I need a tub of water, but havn't done that since I have been lugging laundry water down there. I know this house is a moneypit, but at least one part of it is going to be a cool "she cave".

I think it's hystericAl and very cool that you 're making lemonade with your lemons, Debra. I'm going to have to come up with some thing really keen to send you for your she cave. :)

Oh that's fun! If only we all lived within a decent drive distance, we could have lil Garden parties. My daughter in Wichita has "Partios", I attend once in a while, but am always lost when they start talking about people I don't know. That's my clue to leave, I think. LOL

I recently visited my Yahoo Wichita Garden Club and there are a few people there actually talking Gardening and swap meets, so might be able to talk to people about plants and stuff in voice . I love this place, this DavesGarden.com place. It is even better when I get to hear one of you on the phone. *HINT HINT*
Amanda, do you want a clump of the tall white asters and a clump of the tall late eupatorium? They are both white. I am giving three of each away. As soon as it stops snowing. Or being cold. Oh , you know what I mean.

Looks like we are both up prowling late.

You are so kind to offer but the ones you sent before have multiplied so well that I am having to pull some out. :)

And my chocolate Eupatorium/boneset went berserk when I transplanted the original 4 or 5 that I grew from seed. There must be 100 small plants where the parents used to be. DO they spread underground? I'm learning the funky ways of my natives and which ones not to plant where.

It IS fun to talk to actual people now and then Debra. FOTV has her roundup coming in May then I have one first weekend in June. Don't suppose you'll be nearby so you'll have to send some business cards and I will pass them out. ;)

I'd better shut this down so I can be Sharp at school tomorrow.

G'night Debra and the gang!

A.

Linda Kay we have seriously thought about moving DH has been retired about 10 years and each winter he hates it more and more. I am game, I have lived all over in years past and would love to get out of winter.

Debra you surely do have a "she" cave. Guess you could use sand bags for the reverse reason... ;) You are so much fun. I haven't been traveling hardly at all. I have been sending out someone else. They really just burnt me out, think I use to go about everyother week or for a couple of weeks at a time. Now I just like staying home with hubby and playing with my plants like you.

Well we were cold today and heavy frost course now after a hard frost the temps are to start climbing. I didn't go in so early so I could see the frost patches at 6 but the freeze warning was until 8. Flowers around the house look ok, ones on the west side should defrost before the sun hits them. Peach trees well I will have to wait and see. I have daffs open all over and tulips. Roses had really leafed out.

Have a great one girls.

Debra, youre "She cave" sounds wonderful! Sure hope you got some sleep last night, you two were up chatting pretty late!
Happ, if you're going to move to Texas, make sure it is not the panhandle, North west Texas, they are still having freezing temps and snow. Right now it is 25 in Amarillo where my oldest son lives. If you move to East Texas, like Houston or Dallas, be prepared for a lot of rain and flooding, it happens quite often over that way. Where I live, hardly gets any rain, but when it does it will flood for a few days, and the soil we have, (caliche) is hard as a brick when dry, and it is very slow to soak in the rain.
Not trying to scare you, just giving a few facts.

Here is a chart with our average temps.

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/78840

That is where Don moved to AMarillo, poor guy, here I thought he wasmoving to warmer zones.

I hit the snooze button three times this am, LK.
I took some pictures of my tulips, breast cancer foundation bag. My daughter, Rose got me this little bud pillow last year for mothers day, this bloom got broke off by a hail storm. the second one is my favorite, can't remember its name, they did not bloom last year, but for some reason they came up and bloomed this year..4th pic is of my bluebells, my waves of violets are so pretty going down the flower beds right now.. thinning them out, tho..

Those are beautiful Debra! Love the colors in the tulip.

South Houston has good soil and weather .San Antonio is good

Ok I am moving here is ours and our summers are not a whole lot different than yours and our winters are HORRIBLE....rofl.
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/64477
Must take a LONG.....TIME to change those averages...rofl.
If DH didn't have so much 'stuff' I would leave Missouri in a heart beat.... ;)
Frost again this morning.....everything looked like it made it thru night before and I thought I was in the clear. I have heard rumors the morel mushrooms are up any way.

Oh, I hate to see those negative numbers for the low temps!
Just put everything by the curb, have a huge yard sale, and then you will have plenty of money for your move! ^_^

Yeah looking at those negitive temps is horrible....feeling them is a killer...rofl... ;)

I did really like San Antonio when I lived there Digger it was really nice.

Debra what pretty spring flowers you have going on. I am going to get out this weekend for sure. Want to work on the potting bench some more and get it enclosed.

I know this guy who lives in Florida and contracts up here and last summer he was telling me how horrible and humid Missouri summers were..rofl, he lives in St Pete and says it is never as humid there as it is in Missouri so we have the best of the best...rofl. Course we were going thru a drought with awful high temps. You would of thought the humidity would of been lower but not so.

I do have a tomato plant full of tomatoes, will be glad to get it outside, and get those tomatoes red... ;) It is going to need alot more warmth than we will even have in May probably so I was thinking about putting it in a growing tunnel.

June , Sept , and Oct are the only decent temps .

Digger I think Missouri has 2 good days a year and I am usually at work during both of them...rofl.
Our best months are about the same as your. Late June can sometimes be really hot. But I can remember wearing a jacket during the 4th of July also...rofl.

Our mg group has to have so much education to keep the our certificates.
I was thinking I might do an experiment on tomatoes. Planting the same variety of tomatoes but using different examples.
I have been reading up, there must be a 1000 different ways to grow a tomatoes.
Anyone got some different ways for me to try? Or any way you want me to try you have heard about and was wondering if it would work?

I have an upside down red planter you can have.. I couldn't make it work. I would like to see a hanging tomatoe plant. I let my tomatoes vine and ramble around the arbor and wire supports with the morning glorys. But, since the basement guy said the Garden needs to be moved, I have no idea how I am going to try anything. The patio blocks the drainage from the rain, and pools up and makes the ground swell and crack the house. Bleah. He said I needed grading on my yard before he does anything. The painter guy is prolly going to step on anything in his path, and if he waits untils my stuff is way up, he is going to have to paint in the fall.
I have tons of tomatoes in those red plastic drink cups, seeds from all over the world I think.. if you want to plant and grow a few of mine, ( they are "NAMED" hybrids, I can send you three plants easy enough. I think.

OH! I am trying a homade bubbler hydroponic planter outside this year. Since I won't have a pond out there, I can still use the electricity that Joe is already used to paying in the summer.
I wish he would make me a potting bench, I am jealous of ya all that have one. Was thinking about using the medical shower bench thing that used to be Paulines. But, I think my sister might need it soon, so I will play with that idea later.
Joyce, I do not see any reason we can't meet up on a Sunday halfway, in Emporia. Heck, we could call Bonnie to meet .

Debra , the best potting bench I've found is two saw horses with a coupla boards or plywood over them . Portable . Also have an old frame of metal out of a greenhouse and wooden picket fence , the kind you get in rolls ,Laid across it . Lots of room on either of them .
Happy, The best tomatoes I ever grew was Better Boy . I planted two foot apart , buried gallon jugs in between up to the neck with two nail holes in the bottom , one on opposite sides .Screwed the lids on with a pencil size hole in the lid to let water drain out in the bottom and keep frogs and toads from getting in and trapped . Had old carpet strips of wool ,3 foot wide, taken up from house we just bought , laid down on each side of the rows , right up to the plants and gallon jugs . Put a tablespoon of 10-10-10 in the jugs every two weeks , and watered about every three days during season . Kept the plants pruned and tied up to 6' clothes line between three posts, three strands . Got 12 bushels of toms off 10 plants and green toms to fry that I didn't count . This was on the line between Arkansas and Louisiana above Shreveport La .
I'd like you to try this set up and see what you get . Toms of your choice , of course . Can't do that here , the only garden area is cut down red hillside to move our mobile home into and I use hay bales or e-buckets now . Every tom I've tried in the ground has gotten that 'die at the bottom and die all the way up ' syndrome .

digger, What a bumper harvest from 10 plants. Wow! I was just going to grow Cherry varieties this year but caved yesterday and bought a few Better Boys, one of my all time favs, and are already about 2' tall and 'leggy'. The limb broke off one on the short ride home and have buried all but the top in soil, hoping it'll root as a 'bonus' plant. I am going to try your method. Thank you for taking the time to share your method with us. And who from the South doesn't love Fried Green Tomatoes? My home state is SC.

For my birthday last year, hubs made a potting bench with a kit of legs and connectors from Amazon. Then he bought and cut to size pressure treated wood to make the shelves and top legs and I don't know how many stainless steel screws. It was great using it on the shady side of our house as shown in the pic. Down side, besides being so darned heavy, is he used the boom on our tractor to move it when we pressure washed the decks. It is still sitting behind our garage, almost unbearable to use now in Summer in full sun. Go with an easy inexpensive set-up, Debra, that you can move and store when yours is not in use.

That is nice !

Fruity that is a nice potting bench, turn on the charm and I bet you can get it moved...rofl. Well I - me is building mine....LOL no hubby help there. Don't get me wrong he is very use ful but if I can do it then I like doing it and I don't have to compromise...rofl. I am just hoping it comes out looking like it does in my minds eye. I have to go to work today but I am just waiting to go in so no playing for me today. Sides it is raining. Geehz I don't want to go to work, I can barely stand it m-f....oh well pull up my big girl panties and get with it. LOL

Digger I found a spot where they did what you are doing but they took pvc pipe drilled holes in it, covered them with panty hose to keep the dirt out and buried them in the soil. They also talked about getting huge amounts of toms. http://asonomagarden.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/how-we-plant-our-tomatoes/ they even talked about which pvc pipe to use so there is no leaching in the soil.

Debra, my Mom tried that hanging tomato with out much success. I did find where they are hanging tomato from a 5 gal bucket....that might work better and thought I would try doing that in my test trials. thank you for the offer on the tomatoes but the mg group plants and sells toms at the plant sale and we get the left overs for free and we grow so many we always have leftovers cause we grown to many also. You are going to hydro? I found a site where they were doing hydo inside a big pvc pipe laying along the the ground, they drilled holes down the length of it. They pulled one of the plants out and omg you should of see the roots....!

Then I am trying just the normal in the ground tomato.

Please send me your ideas......this is really going to be fun.

My potting bench is an old expanded metal patio table. It has a hole in the middle for an umbrella which makes it nice in the summer. You could use one of the patio umbrellas for shade til yours gets moved again.

Hello everyone, hope you are all able to work as hard as I have in the yard. Yep, work hard and never finish because I'm always having to start over.
Debra, you wouldn't believe the mind trip I had of your basement (I think). Loved every inch and want to see your finished product, wonder if it will match my imagination? If so, you're gonna love it.

Potting bench, boy do I use it/them. After I cut back my Angel Trumpets, they are cut up for cuttings. Ask FOTV, she knows. I am like digger, sawhorses & plywood do nicely and are the right height.
Stay well & happy
AND
Love and hugs to each of you
Faye

Faye, hello , my dear friend . We seem to not talk much any more but always in my heart . Have had many "OOOO's and AAAAAAH's "when showing off your masterpiece . Wish you would do many more . You are so good at it .

Hey Faye, so glad to see you posting again! Did you cut up all your brugs?
Hope you and Ray are doing better!

Just ran in to get something to drink, this is one of Missouri's two good days out of a year and it is on a Sunday! HOT DOG....rofl. Not even a day I to work. Working on the potting bench course it took 4 hours to find the saws and etc to get started got one side up...rofl. Flying right along...rofl.

Hi Faye! So good to hear from you.

Howling, I use an umbrella ALL the time, I have one that screws into the ground not as big as a patio one and it goes all over to the sunny beds with me for sure. Course last year during the drought you couldn't get anything into the concrete oh I meant dirt... ;)

Hi friends. Sure have missed you. Haven't been on Dave's or ATP lately because of hyper links on both sites. Norton finally found them (Norton says Adware-Deal Ply) and I had to delete both sites from my desktop.
digger thank you so much for the compliment. I haven't done any type of craft/TtT in a long time. Yard is so full of work for me to do, that when we're not in a Dr.'s office, the yard is where I am.
So many pretty pictures now. Nice to put your face with your name.
Linda I cut some of my Angels back late last Fall, enough to get 367 cuttings. The cuttings stayed in the garage until April. Just moved the last ones out Mon. Not sure how many I've sold but will have an ad in the paper for the 3rd week end this month and will sell more then. Of course I won't sell all of them and many of the 367 didn't make it, but still have more than I know what to do with. I'm sure about June 1, I will put some in large pots.
Ray is still in constant pain, last MRI showed "something" we don't know what. Oncologist is putting Ray on Morphine starting today..another worry, another fear.
Hugs

Sorry to hear Ray is in so much pain, hope the morphine helps him out!

If you have extra brugs, let me know how much you want for a few of them please?

Sending lots of prayers your way!

Gosh , Faye , I keep hoping Ray is doing better and hate he is in pain . He looked so healthy in the picture you sent several years ago and always sounded so good when I called . It would be harder on me than Johnny so I know you are frustrated . Hon , I continue to pray that this will pass and he can at least be comfortable , pain free . Bad to be sick and hurting too . Go give him a back rub , and a sweet kiss from me and Johnny .Will talk to you after company this weekend . Prob early next week . Hugs and prayers , always .

There's a big hug waiting for you and Ray next time I see you, Faye. It won't be long. Ray is such a trooper, has been though so much and yet he never complains. You are a blessing in his life and both of you are to me.

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