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my collies love fresh rabbit....LOL hurts me to see when they have either gotten a baby rabbit or bird. but I guess that is what I get for having (back when we lived in KY) fed them the BARF (bones and raw food diet.....)

are you going to put your tomatoes in straw bales by your hog panels? that is what I'm doing this summer.

Janet

no can't find any straw this year, i'm going to make tees out of landscape timbers and run cables from one to the other so that i can run twine down and grow the mators like that kinda like "CricketsGarden" did in her greenhouse.

I waited to long (had to wait till payday) to get my hog panels for tractor supply and they went off sale.... way to much money the sale was really good. so now I'm rethinking about what to use for the tomatoes to trail up on.

Janet

whitebear, that method is called the Clothes Line method.
Use the same method with green beans.

Growing veggies in a hanging basket is great at first, but soon you will have to water 2 and 3 times a day. (been there done that) The squash plant actually does fairly well in a 15 inch basket but have to water twice a day. Grew the hyacinth bean in hanging baskets. They do ok too but have to water 2 and 3 times a day after they get big and start producing beans. Every thing does great in a basket til it starts producing, then its like feeding a baby every 4 hours. Must have bigger containers to hold more water longer and use lots of peat moss. Or a continuous drip system.

Everyone likes hanging baskets but the truth of the matter is most plants out grow the baskets before Summer arrives then it starts looking poorly because most folks cant keep up with the watering needs.
I put my easy wave petunias in a 15 inch planter bowl and used cloth hangers and they still need water every day right now. Next week will be watering twice a day. ( or I will get lazy and fix a watering system on a timer in case I forget to water)


Happy Gardening.
Cricket

I have had good results with water polymer crystals mixed in the bottom half of the soil before planting the petunias. Just don't use more than the recommended amount, just a pinch per pot.

Here in the windy, dry desert I sometimes plant in those hanging planters with a reservoir on the bottom, meant for bottom watering. I still water from the top, but the extra water on the bottom gives them a bit more water to keep them alive until the second daily watering. Of course, that's less soil, too, so it's a trade off. I can't keep anything large or productive here in baskets anyway.

Hi all,

My tomatoes have really stalled. We have been having some cooler weather and it is going to keep up for the week! I hope it warms up soon.

I have used the polymer crystals as well. Cathy4 is right, don't use too many. If they get stuck in the bottom of the pot they plug the drainage holes, and can cause problems.

Hey, where is everyone? Whitebear, are you there?

Hi, i'm hanging around, I would imagine everyone is just really busy right now.

out working in the yard....lol

Janet

i'm here lol just working my behind off. "mum time ya know" and been hatching out chicks and quail left and right up to 150 chicks right now and i have about 250 quail eggs in the incubator to hatch in about a week as soon as i get those done i'll be on the pumpkin patch. hoping for a visit from the great pumpkin this year. lol busy busy busy lol i'll try to check in a little sooner next time. whitebear

OH my goodness all that chicks and soon to be quail. Why so many quail? Are you selling them as meat?

Janet

some but mostly feeding my family with me my wife my three sons my sister and her husband and her son and his wife and my mom and dad not to counting any neighbor that happens along. lol
these are pharaoh quail they are full grown in 6 weeks and start laying at 7 weeks old, going to try and get up to 200 hens and let them help heat my greenhouse this winter.

hay guys sorry its been so long but been very busy. i did get the three acres and the building beside my land so getting geared up for all the new projects i'll start back up with the pics asap. "whitebear
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good to here missed you

thanks "Artwestallis"

cleaning my greenhouse, getting ready for fall. Glad to see you all, congrats on getting the land!

Great to hear form you all again. We are struggling with a lack of water. Our well has slowed down to a stop as of Sunday. We have two others on our property, we had them tested, one is bad and one will work. However, That one is not producing very much. Better then nothing. I don't know if I mentioned this before, My husband and I, had just installed a vineyard last year. We have about 1000 vines. No need to water them in the winter, but now, with the temps in the 90's we have to water them a lot! The good news is, when we get through the first years, they don't need much water at all. So we will have to pray for some rain here this winter!

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I'll pray for rain, but I'm not familiar with that part of CA. Do you usually get rain during this time of the year. 30 years ago when I lived in El Toro, we never got rain during the summer. I had never seen anything like, seeing as how I'm a native Floridian who usually sees rain almost everyday. I was great for doing things in the summer and never having to worry that rain would cancel it. But now that I'm a gardener, I LOVE the rain...LOL

Here hoping we hear from you that it is raining.

Janet

Whitebear:

Glad to hear of your increased land holdings, IMHO you can never have TOO MUCH land. Especially since God isn't making anymore....LOL

Janet

ps: I just found out I'm gonna be a grandmother for the 1st time... Baby due in Feb and hoping my son who leaves for Iraq will be allowed to come home for the birth...

Don't forget to keep the prayers going for our military folks. thanks

hi guys sorry i haven't been to active. but if you would send up some prayers at about 1:30 central time. my wife will be in surgery. we came in Sunday morning to the emergency room and they found a 6 inch cyst on her left ovary they have already tested for cancer and it was negative "one prayer answered" now all that is left is to get that thing out. so all the prayers would be great. and to reward ya'll for them i will get some pic's of the new land and building on here by this weekend. love you guys "whitebear"

well update on the time they came in to her room and took her she is in surgery right now.
well at least it didn't give her much time to worry about the surgery." whitebear"

My prayers are with you and your wife!
Linda

Prayers and hugs.

Prayers and gentle hugs...

thanks guys shes out and everything went great the doc said it was the size of a cantaloupe ouch! she lost one ovary but the other looks great and is ok so thanks for all the prayers and hugs and i will get on those pic asap. "whitebear"

Wonderful!

Glad to hear all things worked out good for her. Please keep us posted on her recovery.

Wishing as pain free of a recovery as possible to her.

Janet

Thanking God for this blessing.

well a little update i got her home now and resting fine and we went for a little walk to keep the blood flowing to help recovery. shes already pushing the doctor to let her go back to work "shes more of a workaholic than i am lol. well talk to you guys latter "whitebear"

Thanks for the update.

Janet

ok ok sorry i'm late with these but been a bite busy wifes doing better getting up and walking good. here is a pic of the chickens free no more cage

and here as promised a pic of the new land

this is the building that is on it soon to be a tilapia house and seed starting area

and this is the greenhouse that will be covered with chicken wire for the chickens if they don't stop eating my tomatoes.

and you will think this is funny but this happened when i threw out all the seedlings that weren't good enough for 4 or 6 packs they did better than the ones i planted and babied lol

thanks for taking time to give us an update on DW and to post the pictures. Love the new land and that building is to die for .... Tell them bad chickens....bad bad bad chickens....no eat tomatoes. LOL

Janet

lol thanks "meadowyck" i needed a laugh.

you are most welcome.

Off to Maryland, new york and back home. all in 4 days....lol

talk with yall later.

Janet

How is everyone? Any good news? Whitebear, what have you been up to? I need my dose of inspiration!
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