Topic: Ah, retirement! (Read 11833 times)

Stormbringer · « **Reply #100 on:** April 07, 2004, 04:39:23 pm »

I just planted an unusual type of cabbage that produces heads that are only the size of softballs and a few black beauty egplants. The squash are already two inches long and the blooms are unfurled. The tomatoes have trippled in hieght and have blooms. the pumpkins have developedthier first true leaves. The ornamental corn is 3 to 4 inches high.

I bought a mexican fan palm from walmart for 5 bucks that almost immediately started to die. I thought it was fungus due to spotting on the blades but that turned out not to be the case. I repotted it today and when I tapped it out of the pot the soil was not visible. The whole thing was a root bound mass of roots. No wonder it was dying. I scored the rootball and loosened the roots up and swabbed them with a diluted transplant starting solution before moving it into a much bigger pot and trimming the dead fronds.

All of walmart's mexican fan palms are in too small of a container and are apt to desease and then to decease. If you buy one transplant it immediately. But the altenative is 40 dollars for a small one and 250 for a ten foot one at the home improvement stoors. Get a small one and transplant it.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #101 on:** April 07, 2004, 04:40:19 pm »

Any of you durned Easterners got Paw Paw trees? Mine need help.

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #102 on:** April 07, 2004, 04:47:52 pm »

Try www.fred.net/kathy/pawpaws.html I don't recall ever seeing them while growing up in western NY, but apparently they grow up into Canada.

Mike

Stormbringer · « **Reply #103 on:** April 07, 2004, 05:28:14 pm »

Thanks. I'll check it out.

I've got two remaining of four bare root plants I got a couple of years ago. One is showing signs of life, the other is hanging on by a branch and has two buds one of which may actually make a leaf. the other two died but one may have only died back to the root as there is an unacounted for tree popping up in it's place that may just be a paw paw. I don't know yet. however if it is it is growing too fast to match the profile thus far but the leaves look about right from what I can tell (and it is hard to tell by leaves on a fresh sprouted tree what they are). Fortunately, I've got two more (this time potted rather than bare root) on the way through express mail. I get a lot of wierd trees and plants that way. Ginkos, Rowans, almonds, sasafras, redwoods, quinces, bananas etc.

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #104 on:** April 08, 2004, 05:30:44 am »

Are you trying to create a forest? All the luck to you. I'm looking forward to moveing back to WNY in a few years and getting enough property to do something like that. The city I live in requires permits for nearly everything (and that included the sugar Maple I planted in my backyard)....NE is always after a $

Mike

Stormbringer · « **Reply #105 on:** April 08, 2004, 11:45:31 am »

land is cheap in Oklahoma except in the very heart of the cities. i'm making at least three forests.

deciduous, conifer and cycad. With all the wierd trees and normal ones I can get my hands on.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #106 on:** April 09, 2004, 04:31:16 pm »

Some of the squash are now nearly four inches long!

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #107 on:** April 10, 2004, 06:14:56 am »

Just a reminder to anyone who visits Storm, don't leave your car doors unlocked, or you will get the revenge of the squash grower...i.e. a back seat full of zuccinis, summer squash, and anything else prolific

Have fun in the garden...I just take care of the wife's roses for now..but she wants me to plant some forsythia's (sp?)

Mike

Stormbringer · « **Reply #108 on:** April 11, 2004, 07:07:54 pm »

Unbelievable! We are at 82 degrees one day and get a frost warning the next! I just buried all my plants in mulch and covered them with pots. I get 4 inch long vegies and then a rare april frost? Aaaaargh!

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #109 on:** April 12, 2004, 02:52:18 pm »

It was 30 degrees here on Easter morning...had to warm the car before going to church...but I still grilled the ham outside

I hope all comes out well..they still get snow where I grew up, it's only April.

Mike

Stormbringer · « **Reply #110 on:** April 12, 2004, 02:54:56 pm »

Got a frost warning again for the night. Again its just "frost possible" type of thing; but friday it will be 85 degrees again.

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #111 on:** April 13, 2004, 07:53:57 pm »

hope your plants survived...the wife's roses are pretty hardy, but we are a bit farther north, and of course plant for the weather.

Mike

14 days 'til my son's home from Korea

Stormbringer · « **Reply #112 on:** April 28, 2004, 06:20:41 pm »

Sorry I did not see this in a timely manner. Yeah, they all survived. The weatherman was talkin' out his ass as usual. No frost. but had to battle down aphids on the tomatoes. And today got a surprise. A hatchling box turtle in my tomato planter box. Physically impossible for hi to get in there himself. And a herd of them in the main garden, too. I got two of them in a tub now. about an inch in diameter.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #113 on:** May 06, 2004, 12:56:19 pm »

Garden Update: Squash are harvest sized. Tomatoes are ripening. All (4) varieties of peppers are now blooming. Today I checked for blooms on my pumpkins and there are tiny pumpkins under the bloom pods. one day they are not there the next they magically appear. My eggplants are coming along but My fast ball cabages are not doing very well.

All my trees are thriving. Two grapefruit seed I planted popped up over night, it seems. Apple and Quince are in bloom. bush cherries are almost ripe. Grape clusters are forming. I've planted three varieties of watermelon a little late but they should catch up.

* turtle hatchlings removed from garden. They seem to be happy. One likes bananas; the other does not.

Puddleoguts · « **Reply #114 on:** May 06, 2004, 08:37:10 pm »

Good thread.....very relaxing read.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #115 on:** May 06, 2004, 08:49:05 pm »

A change of pace at the very least. Glad you like it.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #116 on:** May 28, 2004, 02:35:57 pm »

I found it! I thought it was gone. So BUMP!

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