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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

All I can say is Uh Oh.... I probably planted too much.
 
I don't know what is going on with all the different beans this week, but 
they about doubled in plant size from last week.  
 
The ones I started earlier, geez, it seems like there were more beans than 
leaves when I picked today.  
 
I have so many bees here you'd think I have hives out --- all kinds of bees, 
green bees, yellow bees, black bees, tiny bees, huge bees....  The hum is 
deafening at times.
 
Anyway,  I have a 100 foot section of northern white beans,,, which according 
to the package are bush beans, and what I ordered was bush beans, but this 
week they decided to be pole beans........ so I put up poles, wires & 
strings, and in the last couple of days they seem to have grown over a 
foot.......... Looks like the seed company put the wrong beans in the 
package....  
 
Which makes me wonder know if I'm going to have even more beans............ 
LOL.  Ay yi yi.
 
It's a good thing I don't have a clue what I'm doing..... because every day 
is a new surprise in the garden which makes all the weeding so rewarding.
 
 
I asked mMy dad made me the equivalent of an old fashioned "milk stool" but a 
little higher (16"), wider and with very stable braced sides/legs that can 
handle garden soil conditions.  It has a hole in the seat as a carrying 
handle and is super easy to carry around.... and perfect to sit down on to 
weed, and picks veggies close to the ground.  Works for a footstool, step 
stool, and even a surface to pressure can outside if I decidee to do 
that............  Since I'm painting the "airplane hanger" (the garage ends), 
it is also really convenient for painting the low spots............    Best 
little "thing" I've had in a while, and so simple to make.
 
 
 
 



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I don't drink hardly ever the kinds of things that come in 1 gallon milk 
bottles (store bought tea, o.j., milk, imitation drinks, etc.).............. 
but others do... so I have them save me those 1 gallon bottles.
 
I cut them in half.  They can be used for
 
container to be used for handling small portions of paint when painting....
growing seedlings in
turning upside side over direct sowed seedlings (for those who have problem 
with the birds or other critters eating all new sprouted plants) until the 
plants have more 2 leaves
 
cut slightly differently a container for harvesting beans beans and more 
beans ;-)
 
I don't drink soda either, but if I did I would use them to start seedlings 
or cover direct sow seedlings....
 
Needless to say, I hunt thru the garbage around here.... even for glass jars 
with screw on tops.
 
 
I did not have much luck with starting seedlings in toilet paper rolls this 
year.  They sprouted just fine, but I think the air is sooooooooo dry here at 
that time of year (15-20% humidity) that they dried out faster than I could  
keep them moist.  Even when they survived to transplanting time,,,,,,,, 
transplants pretty much failed.
 
However,,,,,,,,,, I did start my own onion sets from seed last November, 
indoors, in milk jugs..... and wallah........ they transplanted beautifully 
and are getting close to harvest.
 
(I just harvested about 80-90 onions from sets that I bought from Walmart in 
the spring).  Yahoo !
 
Onions, taters & green beans so far.
 
 
 
 

--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:




I hadn't thought of them holding eggs! I use them filled with water to take 
up freezer space and have ice on hand for coolers.  I also use them filled 
with water under remay to absorb heat and give it off at night.

I cut off the top, poke holes in the bottom, and use them for planting 
tomatoes...I move tomatoes from cell packs to the soda bottle and gradually 
fill the whole bottle with soil as the plant grows...it acts as a mini 
topless greenhouse when they are small, and produces deep roots as they grow 
(and I can see through the plastic how the roots are doing). If I have 
trouble getting the plant out, I can just cut them.

I also use the bottoms as scoops, the tops as funnels. and all sorts of 
things I can't remember.

Lynn Wigglesworth
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>I don't buy coke in 2 liters anymore either, but I still have a few
> laying around.  They are good in the greenhouse and if you cut off the
> top, a dozen eggs fits nicely in one and it is vertical space in the
> fridge.  What do you use yours for?
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>
>> I've started trying to use everything I can around here, as many times as 
>> I
>> can reuse it. Soda bottles are especially useful (of course my first
>> austerity move was to stop buying soda, so I'm running out of bottles).
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In this show, they were gardening as if they were a true Victorian estate
garden. Apparently they couldn't run to the store and buy veggies...they
could only eat what they grew. And the Lord of the manor didn't want old
carrots and turnips for every meal, so they were willing to expend the
energy (mostly human) to have fresh, appetizing foods year round. They said
that there should be a melon available for the table every day of the year.
What a life, huh?

We have a long, cold winter. It's nice to see anything early. Rhubarb is
just ready now...peas will be ready to pick any day now, early green beans
blooming. There's been nothing to harvest besides greens so far (I'll have
cucumbers  in the greenhouse in a couple of weeks). I grow everbearing
strawberries, and have to wait until late June/July for the first
berries...I wouldn't mind strawberries in April or May, especially if it
only costs me the effort of putting the pots in the greenhouse.

I'd think you could put small strawberry plants close together in a flat if
you will be transplanting them later. Remember, the more you squeeze them
in, the more often you'll have to water them.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

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> OMG, we were separated at birth, I think.
> EVERYONE thinks I am out of my mind trying to rescue plants that most
> folks would toss.  I have the same mental illness.obsessive plant
> collectors/resuscitators..OPC..
>
> I'm really trying to fathom why someone would force asparagus and
> strawberries and such.  I suppose the more northerly clime plays a part
> somehow.  I just eat my fill of asparagus in season.  I could can it, I
> suppose, but I don't.
> I've got strawberry runners everywhere.  I'm going to go clip some for
> propagation elsewhere, I think.  I won't force them, tho. If I clip off
> the runners and plant the new crowns in a large flat, how close do you
> think I could plant them(for transplant to permanent site later).  I
> think I will try them every 4 inches or so for the time being.
>
> I just finished a batch of blueberry jam- 11 half pints -and I have the
> worst headache.  I think I will take a nap before I go out to weedeat.
>
> B
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> ductivity.
>>
>>  I  can't stand throwing anything out...I'm even finding places to plant
>> the
>> last, bottom-of-the-barrel, never thrived, pathetic-looking tomato plants
>> from the many that I started. They will never amount to  much, and I
>> already
>> have more tomatoes planted than I need, but I never throw anything away
>> (that's a mental illness, isn't it?).
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>> Tioga Co. PA
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