Tamarafaye i 'am a real live yankee... howdy!!!!!!!
The Texas Gardener forum!!
Well Pville, have ya ever been to west Texas? Not too much there can be counted as real snow so if its white and fluttering down as opposed to rain or just icy sleet hitting you, it's snow-like participation. Or, wannabe snow is another thing we call it. :)
well gollee....and here all this time I thought that white stuff was just the pollen from my ash tree.
nice to meet you hope, what are your yankee qualifications?
so far, it seems, you need to:
talk funny
exaggerate
get snow in November
not have met me
easy to poke at
enjoy all the ribbin'
and {grin}{grin}{grin}
Being born in Calif might also help you fit in...
Do we need to start a yankee forum, or will they all just come to the Texas forum, as a matter of drawn interest?
weather update for Fritch: see FIRST SNOW in the Weather Forum
LOLOL......see....she DOES exaggerate.....I never said she talked funny.....I said she was WAY to funny to be a yankee.
Now Pville, read above, you are not the only one talking about yankees, see what way2 said...
I am still not sure what is so funny about the way I write...
And meeting all the qualifications still doesn't make a person a yankee, as that is a birthright. I am still not claiming to be one,,, though some of my best friends are yankees ;-}
so did you read my weather update???
Minnesota-- and when i go home they say i talk funny with accent like a okie!!!!!!! been here 40 yrs.. born in minesota left when 17.....
yankee turned okie, that's a kicker! so when are u moving to texas?
LOL....THAT's what I mean Tamara......THAT was funny LOL
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LOLOL.....ok.....NOW ya sure snuff ARE talking funny!
oops, not fast enough...
"Nancy" Pville, for reasons beyond my control which affect my personal preference, I need to retract my previous proposal.
Do you have a brother who would think I am funny?
I had better censor myself before I get introuble. Glad you got another laugh before I edited my post. BTW, I just read where you started this Texas Idea, and I wanted to say thanks, and I appreciate your gumption.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha !
oh no ya don't .....ya aren't gonna get off that easy.......Ms Up there in the Panhandle Yankee thinks I've got gumtion? Heck she proposed to me! Now you tell me who's the one with the gumption! LOL. You may have gotten the wrong gender, but at least ya got the right family member....being the first born I must has taken all the genetic sense of humor that was available cause by the time my kid brother came along he had none.
Yep I can remember 3 foot snow drifts in Amarillo. We didn't have to ride 3 miles to school in the snow on a nags back with 3 more siblings like my mother. But we still went when snow was 8" deep. Later we moved to El Paso and the closed every school in town for 1" of snow. Tamara check "Where is this?" in Photos.
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Hey, I edited that out, you didn't have to go and tell on me. So I need to find a first born, huh?
Well, sayin gyou had gumption was a compliment, take it how you want.
{hugs} anyway
Don't make me chase you from forum to forum Tamera LOL....has your snow melted yet?
Try "watching" the FIRST SNOW thread in the WEATHER forum. Who is chasing who here? You are probalby there by now, and I am really, honestly signing out fo rthe night, at least dfor a couple of hours...
I'm happy to find a Texas forum. I have a year old garden in which I dug out beds and put in top soil and compost and mixed it up and have planted it with butterfly bush, rose mallow, daylilies, bearded iris, Dutch iris, salvia, a fig bush, golden bells, African iris, etc. What do you guys use for fertilizer? I'm not into manure tea and a compost pile. Have heard some folks say that bone meal and alphalfa pellets make great fertilizer. Do any of you know about this? Or any recommendations for commercial fertilizer? I'm in the Hill Country between Fredericksberg and Brady.
Hi mason....glad you found us. I'm just north of Austin. I'm really interested in soil amending and what types of fertilizers do well here too. Why don't you start a new thread in this forum for Fertilizing and and soil improvement. Hoping we get some good responses.
and when i grew up we walked 10 miles to school ... up hill ... both ways, had to fight of grizzlys with a spiral bound notebook .... where did i put that notebook?
LOL sure....sure Dyson.
it was up hill both ways ... USGS has not been able to explain it either?
actually I think your parents just kept trying to move while you were at school. So the way home each night was on the opposite side of that valley?
Does anyone have experience growing Clivia miniata? I bought a rather large one this summer and I'd really like to see it bloom. I know they have strange temperature (and water) requirements in order to bloom. I'm worried our weather is too erratic for it to ever bloom here.
I have grown them as house plants. I'm not aware of any strange temperature or water requirements to make them bloom. But they do have high light requirements. At the same time they are pretty sensitive to sun bunning, so direct sunlight is can be damaging. My best blooming results were from keeping them directly under a grow light.
I grew one as a house plant for years. I had it in a north facing window to start with and it bloomed twice sometimes three times a year. I had to repot it regularly as it spread so muchi It ended up in a huge planter ! Then I had it outside March to October in full sun and put it in the conservatory (garden room) through the winter. I used a house plant fertilizer occasionally but nothing special. Gave it to my daughter when we left the UK.
They are not fully hardy in any part of the UK, I so I'm not sure what zone you would need to be to grow them outdoors successfully but I would think light shade is a must at least till its thoroughly established.It got a bit scorched in the conservatory one year when we had a very hot few days in late fall, so I'm pretty sure the Texas sun would be too much for it.
I have it in a pot outside (in the shade)I was planning on bringing it indoors as a house plant when we get a freeze. Which may be Friday.
That's good to hear, that they can be kept inside and still have a bloom. I read on the internet that they need six to ten weeks of temperatures between 55°F (13°C) and 34°F (1°C). Which you might have had in the UK?
I don't think their chilling temperature or duration is that severe. More like 50-55 for maybe a month. That should be easy enough to do by just moving it to the garage temporarily.
This might help:
http://www.clivianet.org/WontBloom.html
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It would not have got too cold in the conservatory , should have been several degrees above frost level. When it was small and in the house full time, it didn't get below about 60 on its windowsill. We didn't run the heating overnight or while we were at work but I doubt if it dropped much below 60 F then or it would have taken forever to warm up, which it didn't!! It started flowering twicw a year straight away too.
Thanks for the info:-) That sounds managable. I can't wait to see mine bloom. I've only seen pictures.
Have you seen Dsartz's new Greenhouse at http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/468052/?