How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[ChronicWonders.]

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dracaena or what? i think it's a dragon tree....but i'll be damned if i can find a picture that matches it exactly...dracaena seem to grow....different, more clumpy, not annularly, this seems to grow taller with each new set of leaves. it was a broken root when i got it, the stem had been snapped off. my friend was going to throw it out, and i took the root mass and potted it. it took two years to get 6 feet high...

Pretty sure you nailed it on the head. I think it’s a dracaena.

 

[FresnoFarmer]

 

[too larry]

My long lost cousin came home a couple months back. She lost the trailer she had planned on living in to the hurricane, so she has been staying in her man's mamma's house. There are all kind of fruit trees there, including a Palmelo tree. I had never hear of it, much less ate the fruit. She brought me some seeds and a couple of the fruit. It looks like a really big grapefruit, but is sweet. Not very juicy though. Or at least the two I've ate haven't been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomelo

Crackers for comparison purposes.

 

[too larry]

Sadly I just learned Cousin is replacing her wrecked trailer with a new double wide. I like her, but I like her better when she's living 7 miles away in town, not on the next 40 over. I will have to reroute some of my hiking trails so I don't go through her yard anymore.

 

[xtsho]

My long lost cousin came home a couple months back. She lost the trailer she had planned on living in to the hurricane, so she has been staying in her man's mamma's house. There are all kind of fruit trees there, including a Palmelo tree. I had never hear of it, much less ate the fruit. She brought me some seeds and a couple of the fruit. It looks like a really big grapefruit, but is sweet. Not very juicy though. Or at least the two I've ate haven't been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomelo

Crackers for comparison purposes.

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We get those in the grocery store out here in Portland from time to time. I don't know where they come from. Probably California.

 

[FresnoFarmer]

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Marigolds started pumping out flowers like crazy after alfalfa tea. Don't see any more of the Borg either so I assume that's part of it too. Basil flowers attracting tons of bees and wasps. I want to pinch flowers to get some more veg out of em, but I guess these plants will be the bees now.

Good thing I planted Basil cuttings in the front.

A few mint too.

Added a stone out there for my baby boy.

 

[too larry]

A week or two back the deer found the garden. I picked the last two melons then. I ate the Charleston Grey a while back, but we cut the Crimson Sweet this morning. Not summertime sweet, but not too bad for the time of year.

 

[too larry]

The last couple of weeks I've been spending all my time at the river house, so no garden time at all. When I looked at the peppers this morning, the only ones left were the cayenne and habs. The deer had ate everything else.

 

[BarnBuster]

A week or two back the deer found the garden. I picked the last two melons then. I ate the Charleston Grey a while back, but we cut the Crimson Sweet this morning. Not summertime sweet, but not too bad for the time of year.

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Man that's a nice looking melon!

 

[too larry]

Man that's a nice looking melon!

Thanks. It could have been a touch sweeter, but as good as the melons in the stores this time of year.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

The last couple of weeks I've been spending all my time at the river house, so no garden time at all. When I looked at the peppers this morning, the only ones left were the cayenne and habs. The deer had ate everything else.

now you need to go bag a deer, they ought to be well seasoned

 

[too larry]

now you need to go bag a deer, they ought to be well seasoned

Not the same bunch of deer, but let me tell you what happened the other night. I was "camping" down at the river house. I'd pulled weeds and such until 830. I came in, ate and changed into my walking clothes. I walked up to the hardtop, a mile and change. On the way back I went in the clearing where the boat and trailer are parked. I walked up on a bunch of deer, scaring them. The trees are all down, so they were crashing through brush. Then I went back out to the road and on down to the driveway. Where about halfway to the house, I scared the deer again, causing them to go crashing though the brush. I went on up to the house, and not too much later I was having a last safety meeting of the day on the backporch outside the bedroom. I got up to walk across the porch, and scared the deer again. This time a fawn must have got stuck in the brush, as it bleated for several minutes. I went inside and went to bed. Right before I drifted off to sleep, a pack of coyotes were in the back yard yapping away. Don't know if they ate the fawn or not. But I did feel bad for my part in it.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

don't feel bad, coyotes have to eat too

 

[too larry]

don't feel bad, coyotes have to eat too

We have too many deer.

 

[too larry]

What was left of my sweet peppers.

 

[too larry]

I think I still have some of the Mammoth Jalapeno in the fridge. Was wanting to save seeds to see if any of them will be hab crosses.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

What was left of my sweet peppers.

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what the hell kind of chickens do you have that lay eggs that big? (top right)

 

[too larry]

what the hell kind of chickens do you have that lay eggs that big? (top right)

Those were the melons that didn't finish. I only picked two off my late melons. One Crimson Sweet and one Charleston Grey.

 

[FresnoFarmer]

Kale, Brussels sprouts, snap peas, beets, radishes, broccoli, and cauliflower.

 

[too larry]

Kale, Brussels sprouts, snap peas, beets, radishes, broccoli, and cauliflower.
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Nice and wet. Seeds should pop good for you.

I planted some Raab Broccoli in a tray awhile back. There is a cow feed trough on the deck of the river house setup for an herb garden. The 12th is a good transplant day, so the plan is to set the sprouts out them.