Blaze & Daze
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Dboybudz
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I know we got apples also worried about buds now on trees already started here always beginning here in usually end of March. So many last year was bending to ground with apples never saw so many out of 15 years.me me me! i have six shishito pepper babies in with the weed. they love the LED lights, warmth, humidity...i actually need to up-pot them soon from the 4" pots. on the porch i have three varieties of onions, 3 types of cabbage, 3 types of broccoli, 2 brussel sprouts, and about 10 different lettuces. i'm trying to harden all of it off in the next couple of weeks so i can put everything out mid-march. i'm in zone 6b.
next week i'm starting tomatoes, flowers, eggplant, and all the herbs. those will take up the space on the porch until after memorial day, when we are *usually* safe w/r/t last frost.
my favorite things to grow are tomatoes, perpetual spinach (it's a chard that is super hardy, very prolific, and tastes just like spinach), garlic, and zinnias.
the rhubarb is already poking out. plum and apple trees are sending out blossoms, as is the honeyberry, hazelnuts, and elderberry. this weather pattern bullshit is a reckoning for all of us gardeners who will have to adjust what we can grow in the coming decades, i think. it was 70* yesterday, today i'm in a tank top because it's 68*. who needs to escape south for spring break anymore? you can just enjoy the hot weather wherever you are!
wakeNbaker46
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we have just two trees, and have yet to get any apples. deer have beaten us every year. and the one year they didn't, we had a massive cicada invasion.
how many trees do you have? what variety are they?
wakeNbaker46
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the 2021 cicada brood - i had another video where they were literally swarming above...for weeks on end. i knew people who didn't leave their house the entire time; folks who are scared of bugs. LOL
Dboybudz
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They been on the property I work for about 40 years now few got lost over the years. Just planted a big one and two big pears also. The ones we take care of and eat from just five. But alot to it pruning at end of year, spraying for fungicide,and oil for worms. Unsure what variety but they taste similar to Macintosh, really sweet and great tasting. Apple crumble with canna butter was awesome this year.
Dboybudz
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It's like another world I live here in CT and we get em in summer but they stay up in the trees,you don't really ever see them. Only pest that get our gardens are Japanese beetles using them stinky bags to catch. I read you love zinnias I grow them also Japanese beetles and ear wigs eat them good. Also after all these years I learned squash beetles if they just bite leaf infects whole plant. So stupid I garden all summer then go check plants cannabis ones and have to remember to change clothes because pm on pumpkins and other stuff if rains gave it to them also.
laddyd
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Necessity is the mother of invention. I can warm my space up with a small space heater and or the grow lights. I just can't cool it when it gets too hot. So every winter I have an opportunity to grow a plant in the garage.
This year I added a small tent to start veggie seedlings and lettuce. I'm exhausting the warm air from the little tent into the big box. This also acts as a fan blowing on the pot plant. I put an exhaust fan and filter on the bottom of the box because this plant reeks!
Hopefully the seedlings aren't using up all the CO2, so far it seems ok.
The rig:
The plant, Red haired mexican auto, reeks of lemony pine skunk.
This year I added a small tent to start veggie seedlings and lettuce. I'm exhausting the warm air from the little tent into the big box. This also acts as a fan blowing on the pot plant. I put an exhaust fan and filter on the bottom of the box because this plant reeks!
Hopefully the seedlings aren't using up all the CO2, so far it seems ok.
The rig:
The plant, Red haired mexican auto, reeks of lemony pine skunk.
wakeNbaker46
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we don't have too many japanese beetles here. we live next to a forest and we have lots of birds that seem to keep the bugs at bay for us. i only things i really battle are aphids, leaf cutters, stink bugs, and squash beetles. i don't clean up my garden too much at the end of the year because i always find praying mantis eggs and i want to keep them around! i've also tried buying ladybugs but the jury is still out on those and if they are very effective here. and cabbage moths are a never-ending battle here. but i keep trying, and i'll sign up for my heartbreak this year too :: looking at trays upon trays of brassicas on the porch ::
Laughing Grass
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It's pouring and thundering here.
FirstCavApache64
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We're getting hit with the same storm front all the way down in VA. Just light rain for now but there's high wind warnings after it goes through.
wakeNbaker46
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i think we were supposed to get some of that but it blew around us. the big stuff is coming for us early tomorrow morning.
Dboybudz
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Wow lucky on that front with Japanese beetles the amount of bags they fall in and fill is crazy. That's really wild praying mantis eggs they used to be every where when I was a kid playing outside would find everywhere. Now you're lucky to find one. I don't know if it's the same one or family but every year I grow a few sunflowers and one hangs out on it every year.
Dboybudz
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Auto,lol that's been a journey,turned out awesome with that setup. You'd do something amazing if you had a whole grow room.
DMChiz
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Dang! Dispatches from Pittsburgh and it’s gonna get hella stormy and rainy here. Thankfully no evening tours/events tonight. Its gonna be a bugger tomorrow though as we’re supposed be at Acrisure Stadium (Heinz Field) and that shit be outside
DMChiz
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As with most venues, in order to make money, those lights have to be on 300 days a year. So private events, BarMitzva’s, weddings etc are not unheard of. Rent don’t pay itself
wakeNbaker46
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that's what we're also getting. i remember we'd have tornado drills at school in april every year. now? they may as well just do them year round since they can come any month.Dang! Dispatches from Pittsburgh and it’s gonna get hella stormy and rainy here. Thankfully no evening tours/events tonight. Its gonna be a bugger tomorrow though as we’re supposed be at Acrisure Stadium (Heinz Field) and that shit be outside
i had a friend whose parents lost three neighbors on their street - three different houses - in that monster tornado in mayfield KY in 2021. i hate storms.
DarkWeb
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I have an old hottub that I've been saving just for that type of project.Diiiiizaaaam. You need my creek"Shrivel up!"
We went the other way. This was one of the first things I built when we bought this place 10 years ago. (Stove is from Canada)
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