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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Apr 24, 2009 12:05 pm) -Tony " I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times." Avent Plant Delights They put out some good catalog covers too. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 24, 2009 11:31 am) They are higher in anti oxidants than white potatoes. I agree growing potatoes in ID seems silly. When I visited my folks in Nampa in the 1960s, they could not give them away unless they were in bags ready to go. Here red potatoes & sweet potatoes average a buck a pound. Growing russets is a waste of time and water. For the soil question. The patch that produced the best sweet potatoes last year we had about 30% mulch and 20% sand in the local clay. I keep hauling in trailer loads of different amended top soil to see which works best. For starting potatoes I used Miracle Gro potting soil and it was so much faster. Those plant are huge and the potatoes in the ground are just now coming up. It is all a learning process for me. Pics today: One of the Hooded Orioles that hang out by my office window. They go through humming bird nectar at the rate of about a gallon a day now. The other is one of 3 tomato patches. We have little gold cherry tomatoes that should be ready in a week or two.  
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 29, 2009 5:48 am) Are those really sweet potatoes you're growing? I like the Garnet yams the best. Bake 'em until some of the skin almost turns black and it starts to bubble over. Russet production is losing out in number of commercial acres planted around here, but I still like eating them. We've been looking but haven't made a definite siting of our Bullock's Orioles yet. It continues to be a cool and wet spring here. Nothing much edible out in the yard but the chives and onion tops and some herbs. Nice crop of blooms on the plum trees until the rain knocked them off.
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 29, 2009 7:01 am)  Yes I believe ours were garnet Yams. They have the prettiest flowers. I don't have any starts this year. They may come up again as I don't know if we got all of them out of the patch last year. We have three orioles that feed at our nectar feeders. The Scotts have not shown up yet. We have several pairs of the Northern or Bullocks Oriole. They are so pretty. |
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Man, I've tilled the soil, but I STILL haven't planted anything. I'm way behind this year. I missed a good chance to start early because the weather has been very warm. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 22, 2009 4:30 am)  . Sorry I did not reply earlier, I was hoping to get around to taking some pictures, but the weather here had other plans Those tomatoes are from two years ago, I believe. We still get the seeds from my wife's parents. She thinks we still have some left, so we'll check and I'll be happy to mail some so you may try them This year we were hoping for an early start and replanted them outside about two weeks ago. The weather did not cooperate though  We had a Frost Advisory in mid-May, so had to even cover the plants one night just a few days after we replanted them. Then we had a few very windy days and some of the plants did not make it. I had to get creative and stick yogurt containers (with cut-out bottoms) around the plants to protect them. This was the first time we had to replace plants. Fortunately, we still had some inside in the pot where we initially planted. The wind also broke all the cucumbers plants we had planted in the newly made beds. But the weather is much better now, although it's quite dry. I think all the plants have caught now and getting stronger, but nowhere near two feet yet I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow. |
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So I'm finally set, got maters, cuces, banana peppers, squash, and pumpkins. So far lots of rain, not so much sun, but the yellow squash seem to be taking off. Mmm, stuffed squash... |
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I should be getting a good crop of tomatoes very soon. First planting of corn is about 6 ft tall now. Purple potatoes are lush with lots of flowers. Not sure how many potatoes under the garden. I will have 6 varieties of tomatoes and just planted seeds fellow poster Chris sent me. I will post pics when they get up and producing. State is cutting back on water, so not sure how that will impact us yet.   
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| Lookin' good. So far only my yellow squash have even started. | |
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