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The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Gardening spring 2010

Snippy · Force Majeure

Salsify.
Fennell.
Jicama.
Rutabaga.
Jerusalem artichoke.
Snippy had a weird garden mother.

Pipes FC · Enemy of the State

Yes, decisions decisions.

I just pulled up the tupils bulbs on the side of the house to make room for some tomatoes. The tulips were really pretty but no one can see them on the side of the house. I'll try and store them and replant them in the front yard this fall. It'll look sweet if it works.

All my herbs are outside, along with a cherry tomato and roma tomato plant, they look like they're doing fine. The Basil looks like its finally taking off. In the next couple weeks it'll be time to put my seedlings outside.

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Grabbed a whole bunch of shit......Tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, strawberry bushes, string beans and bunck of herbs.........

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

The Krink wrote:

Noticed a shitload of sunflower volunteers that came up. Hard to say
no to having sunflowers in the garden.

T. N. Krumpettes will be gratefull!!

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Fuck Krumpettes. Sunflowers are cool and very photogenic.
The bees love them. Baseball players love sunflower seeds.

T N Krumpettes · Critical But Stable

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Snippy · Force Majeure

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The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Been getting a lot of free vitamin D lately. I actually have
a nice tan going with being out in the garden daily the past
week or two. Sometimes you just have to take off your
shirt to notice that your neck and head and arms (from the
sleeve to the fingers) are "tanned". My legs are still white
as snow though. Still plenty of summer to work on that.
Think I'm finally done digging and rehabbing beds finally.
Being 2 years behind in everything is a big task to recover
from. Planted parsley, pole beans, slicing cukes, yesterday.
Today it was globe and icicle radishes and cilantro. Re-potted
about a dozen 7 gallon pots with fresh soil and re-habbed
a 8X8 square that had previously been under the cover of
the growdome for the last 15 years. Fucking cat shit!
Must have lobbed 60 turds into the forest. A word about
those half whiskey/wine barrels that are for sale in gardening
centers. They make for a great planting container. Most people
have a few of them on the premisises. I got about 18 of them.
My father-in-law actually made a trip down to a winery in
Woodinville Wa. to purchase "whole wooden barrels" for a
cheap price. Brought home a pickup truck load that we had
to saw in half. They are really nice to have but they do have
a life expectancy. 3/4ths of mine are toast but still working.
The bottoms rot out first. You don't notice that until you
move the SOB. Another minor issue with them is that they
need 2 wheelbarrow loads of dirt to fill them up. Try moving
one of those things even a foot or two with that load of dirt.
I keep them in active service because the slugs don't seem
to bother anything I have planted in them. Big relief...my bay leaf
bush survived it's first winter outside. Noticed many fresh shoots.
Was ready to yank it. It's a luxury to have fresh bay leaves
ready to pluck when a recipe calls for them.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Proud to report that in less than a week, my radishes and cukes
are "up". Went to the local mega mart on Saturday and the
garden department had some very healthy tomato and pepper
starts. Even at $3 a piece, it's still a bargin. The tomatoes were
nearly 3ft tall with thick stalks and flowering. The peppers were
showing flowers. This takes months to achieve if you start
them from seed at home and the expense of having grow lights
on and keeping their location warm. I've done this for many years.
Thankfully there are folks out there with the ambition and desire
to do all this shit for you so all you have to do is "plant it".
I have had to rely on the mega-mart garden centers for starts
more than a few times when my best plans didn't turn out so
good. It's almost like cheating. You try to do it "all" from seed
like our pioneers. I've done everything from seed many times
without a problem, but sometimes there is a problem. "Timing"
is very important when planting a crop. Just saying in 2010,
if your attempts to get ahead in the garden game don't work
out, help is out there. No one is going to give you shit that you
had to buy a 6-pak of cabbage starts while enjoying a cabbage
dish at your dinner table.

Snippy · Force Majeure

T N Krumpettes wrote:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!Meanie?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!didn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HHB is going to rip your shit up and spit your seeds out.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Every May in my hood is the "when is the Cottonwood
Fuzz" going to start flying. I've seen it as early as May 11
and as late as Memorial Day. It's something to behold
when it gets going full bore. It's like a snowstorm of fuzz
that lasts for two weeks. There is so much fuzz that it
accumulates in drifts. Along your driveway, fenceline,
back porch, garden, anywhere there is a "thing" sticking
up to create a collection spot. And it's all awaiting moisture
to germinate and create a billion more cottonwood trees.
I've got many of my own pix and some video of the deal
but for now, you tube has some good accountings that
I just knew would be there.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Slugs are a big deal trying to raise a garden in the GPNW.
I battle them every year. Sometime I win and sometimes
they win. Just have to see a recent sprout get devoured
time and time again to take action. You think that you are
a lucky person and that "they" will not notice what you
took hours and sweat to plant. You'd think a creature with
the reputation of being so fucking slow that you can "keep"
up with them. Over the years, I went on slug patrol just
after dark damn near every night. Hand picking the fuckers
is the easiest solution. But they have a way of wearing you
out over a long growing season. Just when you think you
have everything under control...you don't. The minute
you think it's not necessary to patrol anymore, they
show up in droves. Tonight was my first nighttime slug
patrol of the 2010 season. Got a good 50 or more
munching away at my rhubarb and my green onions.
I've devised new ways to make their access more challenging.
It's really easy to see how our food supply is so full of
poisons and pesticides. Growing things that are a target for
so many insects is a challenge. Still at the end of the season
or the harvest, what you did get or what you got is a
victory that will taste so darn good at the dinner table.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

For the 4th time this spring, I had enough asparagus for
a great side dish with my evening meal. It's the only item
from the garden ready this time of year. I usually get
12-15 spears at a picking. Usually steam them to mushy-
soft and add a pad of butter on top. Yum. Of course my pee
stinks the rest of the night.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Planting carrots or carrot seeds is a bitch. I usually have
a good sweat going whenever I do plant carrot seeds.
The seeds are tiny and they only require an 1/8th inch
of soil to cover them. Many systems have come forth
as to the best or the easiest way to plant carrot seeds,
but no matter how you do it, "thinning" will be in your
future. I have a 3ft wide by 6 and a half foot raised bed
box that gets the carrots this season. With my "planting
stick" I lined up many rows within. Theoretically a carrot
will grow with 2 inches of space on all sides or what is
called "intensive planting". Well "intensive planting" is
what I ended up with. Should work as I added a whole
bunch of compost and the bed is almost 2ft deep.
Protected the bed with bird netting as to keep the cats
from shitting free will into the newly defined "carrot zone".
The garden is in or planted this spring. Just a few accessory
items to be planted yet in pots or earthboxes like basil
and whatever strikes my fancy. Stumbled into a "squash
six-pak" the other day at the megamart. Thought it was
the same type, but it turns out to be 6 different types
of odd-ball squash, all of which I've never grown before.
Squash is perfect for my garden this year. Fairly water
tolerent and I enjoy eating squash. I like how the garden
is shaping up. It's the not the plant "everything" garden
of past years but the "plant things that will have success"
garden with little or no fuss (an less water).

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