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  • From: sanrico AT highdesert.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:54:35 -0800 (PST)

Mornin', Bev -
2:53 a.m. here in the middle of the great Mojave.
You continue to amaze!
Sandy

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:43:49 -0500, EarthNSky wrote:

>
> It's 19 degrees here this morning at EarthNSky with a 15 mph wind and
> 45% humidity. I don't know the windchill right offhand, but it is
> freaking COLD. We are under a winter storm watch with a 90% chance of
> precip tonight and through tomorrow night, and even though they say "no
> accumulation" I don't trust it...lol..I'll bet we get a little ice storm
> out of this..just got that feeling.
> Yesterday, I completed Round 1 of planting for this year's garden.
> I have seed flats and pots all over the bedroom floor in Kate's old
> room. I also planted a few things outside: peas, radishes, turnips,
> spinach, chard, and onions. I already had garlic in the ground. Here's
> what I am growing in flats in the house (for now):
> Crop Variety ~# seeds sown # Pots/flats
>
> Broccoli Early Dividend 200 20
> Broccoli Packman 100 20
> Cabbage Danish Ballhead 100 10
> Celery Tendercrisp 2500 (1g) 10
> Chinese Cabbage Michihili 680 (2g) 10
> Chives pack(200) 3
> Cucumber Tendergreen Burpless 20 10
> Dill Long Island Mammoth 1/4pack (250) 3
> Honeydew Green Flesh 12 6
> Hops Humulus lupulus pack NA
> Pak Choi Joi Choi Hybrid 100 10
> Pea Experimental Variety' pack (1oz) NA
> Pea Snow Green pack (1oz) NA
> Peppers Anaheim 150 24
> Peppers Red Peter 12 5
> Peppers Jalepeno 50 10
> Pumpkin Atlantic Giant 10 5
> Radish White Icicle 1 pack NA
> Spinach Space Hybrid 1 & 1/2 packs NA
> Squash Yellow straightneck 15 5
> Squash Butternut 30 10
> Squash Yellow crookneck 30 5
> Squash Yellow crookneck 10 5
> St. Johnswort Hypericum perforatum pack 2
> Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant 4 packs NA
> Tomato Bloody Butcher 30 6
> Tomato Black Plum 50 6
> Tomato Tomatillo Green Husk 30 10
> Tomato Tomatillo Toma Verde 75 25
> Tomato Sausage 30 6
> Tomato German Red Strawberry 100 6
> Tomato Amish Paste 100 12
> Turnip Purple Top 1 oz NA
> Valerian Valeriana officinalis pack 3
> Watermelon GA Rattlesnake 6 3
> Wormwood Common Wormwood pack(100) 1
> Zucchini Calabacita 10 5
>
>
> There were a few things I didn't plant..
> I was going to plant some carrots and a different variety of radishes,
> but decided to wait as the ground was practically frozen in that bed.
> It had not been covered so it was colder. I have a few other varieties
> of spinach, too, but will wait until I see if these germinate before I
> plant the Bloomsdale in a few weeks. Hopefully, by starting all of this
> early, I will be able to transplant a lot of it early and get a jump on
> the squash bugs and take advantage of mason bee pollination in the Spring.
> Of the stuff I planted outside, I'm not worried about losing it.
> Mostly, it's a grand experiment with old seeds. If it doesn't work,
> I'll replant in 2-3 weeks with newer seeds.
> Some of the things I am growing are not for me. I'm growing the cukes
> for my stepfather, who asked me to start them for him. Other things,
> like the Black Plum tomatoes and the Atlantic Giant pumpkins and all of
> the yellow squash are seeds that are almost 10 years old, so I need to
> try to grow some new stuff. I'm really bad about putting seeds back and
> then forgetting about them, so a lot of this early stuff is old seed
> that probably won't germinate, but shoot, I gotta try, right?
> Tomorrow, barring an ice storm, I will split wood and shovel some more
> stuff out of the old chicken coop. I am beginning to think that I will
> never finish these jobs. I guess I just need to hunker down and get it
> done, instead of doing a little bit every couple of days. My garden beds
> could use that chicken poop in the old litter to kick start the warming.
> It's aged enough to plant in, I think, but it could compost some more.
>
> We've had quite a bit of 'family disturbance' here in the past few
> weeks, so all this planting and stuff is really a good distraction from
> that. I'll spare you the details. ;)
> Today, I am supposed to go down to the Atlanta area to help my friend
> pick out plants for landscaping her new house. I'm up early so that my
> joints will be working properly and I can be dressed by the time she
> wants to leave here in a few hours. It sucks to have arthritis in this
> kind of weather, but at least I am moving..slowly, but moving. I'm
> gonna be pissed if she cancels the trip after I got up so early...lol..
> Oh well, time to stoke the fire and make a fresh pot of coffee..
> 'Mornin' everyone!
>
> Bev
>
> --
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
>
>
>
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