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Topics => TEOTWAWKI => Topic started by: michelleo on May 11, 2011, 05:38:02 PM
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So we got the veggie garden planted. But we've had 85 degree weather (too hot for the broccoli - I'm afraid it may bolt), gale force winds (completely windburning/drying out the leaves on most plants), and now snow and freezing temps (hurting the tomatoes and squashes). I can't wait for they greenhouse to be built.
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So we got the veggie garden planted. But we've had 85 degree weather (too hot for the broccoli - I'm afraid it may bolt), gale force winds (completely windburning/drying out the leaves on most plants), and now snow and freezing temps (hurting the tomatoes and squashes). I can't wait for they greenhouse to be built.
It's climate chaos.....
Personally, it is 88 today in Tennessee and I'm lovin' it.
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Tomatoes - still alive but not flourishing. Onions and garlic seem impervious and doing well. Cucumbers gone. Zucchini Squash gone. Peppers slowing fading. Peas and string-beans growing albeit slowly. Carrots and Asparagus started indoors. Still waiting for spring to arrive.
An ignoble start to say the least.
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Tomatoes in plastic tubs doing fine. There is no rain and plenty of wind, they must be watered every day. Bell peppers maturing very slow.
On mother nature: Recent weather references have been made to Texas 1917, Oklahoma 1934, Mississippi 1937. Just as we are now aware of the 12 year solar cycle, the longer solar cycle which caused the midieval warming period and the little ice age I think we are in another such cycle and can take reference to the period between 1917 and 1937 for today's weather cycle. Also el nino and la nina.
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Tomatoes - still alive but not flourishing. Onions and garlic seem impervious and doing well. Cucumbers gone. Zucchini Squash gone. Peppers slowing fading. Peas and string-beans growing albeit slowly. Carrots and Asparagus started indoors. Still waiting for spring to arrive.
An ignoble start to say the least.
Give the peppers a blast of epsom salt.
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
Four years ago grasshoppers came and ate everything. They ate the leaves off fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental, even the wild sunflowers. They were like mosquitoes. All the tender plants died and if not for water and fertilizer some trees would have died too.
Not wanting to harm pollinating insects I purchased some "stuff" from a manufacturer/distributor in Colorado who promised it would cause an internal bacteria which would then kill the grasshopper and, grasshoppers being cannibals, its carcass would pass the bacteria to those who ate it. And within six weeks they would all be dead.
The bait was placed as directed and also placed where it could be observed. These critters would go to bait and eat, mate, and defecate without leaving. I had some of the biggest grasshoppers around. Thank goodness for heavy freezes the next two winters.
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
Four years ago grasshoppers came and ate everything. They ate the leaves off fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental, even the wild sunflowers. They were like mosquitoes. All the tender plants died and if not for water and fertilizer some trees would have died too.
Not wanting to harm pollinating insects I purchased some "stuff" from a manufacturer/distributor in Colorado who promised it would cause an internal bacteria which would then kill the grasshopper and, grasshoppers being cannibals, its carcass would pass the bacteria to those who ate it. And within six weeks they would all be dead.
The bait was placed as directed and also placed where it could be observed. These critters would go to bait and eat, mate, and defecate without leaving. I had some of the biggest grasshoppers around. Thank goodness for heavy freezes the next two winters.
::gaah::
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
Four years ago grasshoppers came and ate everything. They ate the leaves off fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental, even the wild sunflowers. They were like mosquitoes. All the tender plants died and if not for water and fertilizer some trees would have died too.
Not wanting to harm pollinating insects I purchased some "stuff" from a manufacturer/distributor in Colorado who promised it would cause an internal bacteria which would then kill the grasshopper and, grasshoppers being cannibals, its carcass would pass the bacteria to those who ate it. And within six weeks they would all be dead.
The bait was placed as directed and also placed where it could be observed. These critters would go to bait and eat, mate, and defecate without leaving. I had some of the biggest grasshoppers around. Thank goodness for heavy freezes the next two winters.
::gaah::
Netting works. Or you could get your fly swatter and go to town.
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Sorta like air guitar but more, it was good practice. Bent the neck on the damn guitar. Plastic you know. It was too much for a net.
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
Four years ago grasshoppers came and ate everything. They ate the leaves off fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental, even the wild sunflowers. They were like mosquitoes. All the tender plants died and if not for water and fertilizer some trees would have died too.
Not wanting to harm pollinating insects I purchased some "stuff" from a manufacturer/distributor in Colorado who promised it would cause an internal bacteria which would then kill the grasshopper and, grasshoppers being cannibals, its carcass would pass the bacteria to those who ate it. And within six weeks they would all be dead.
The bait was placed as directed and also placed where it could be observed. These critters would go to bait and eat, mate, and defecate without leaving. I had some of the biggest grasshoppers around. Thank goodness for heavy freezes the next two winters.
::gaah::
Netting works. Or you could get your fly swatter and go to town.
Or you could tell us again how contract law still works in this country.
Capa tosto.
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We still haven't planted anything. It's very late, I know. We've been dealing with other issues.
Right now the 13 year cicadas are out in full throat -- what a racket during the day! -- so I'm wondering if we haven't done ourselves a favor. They're everywhere and on everything.
Four years ago grasshoppers came and ate everything. They ate the leaves off fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental, even the wild sunflowers. They were like mosquitoes. All the tender plants died and if not for water and fertilizer some trees would have died too.
Not wanting to harm pollinating insects I purchased some "stuff" from a manufacturer/distributor in Colorado who promised it would cause an internal bacteria which would then kill the grasshopper and, grasshoppers being cannibals, its carcass would pass the bacteria to those who ate it. And within six weeks they would all be dead.
The bait was placed as directed and also placed where it could be observed. These critters would go to bait and eat, mate, and defecate without leaving. I had some of the biggest grasshoppers around. Thank goodness for heavy freezes the next two winters.
::gaah::
Netting works. Or you could get your fly swatter and go to town.
Or you could tell us again how contract law still works in this country.
Capa tosto.
Tosta!!
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Thank yooooooooo.
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Thank yooooooooo.
Prego!
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Tomatoes - still alive but not flourishing. Onions and garlic seem impervious and doing well. Cucumbers gone. Zucchini Squash gone. Peppers slowing fading. Peas and string-beans growing albeit slowly. Carrots and Asparagus started indoors. Still waiting for spring to arrive.
Gays , Lesbians and Meskins in full bloom !
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Heck, we just thawed out up here not long ago...haven't even started yet, although my brother has some sprouts under lights well toss in the ground soon. Finished the expansion now we have to shovel in the new dirt and nutrients.