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Told you not to be surprised. I am just glad they were ok. I was worried they would not be in very good shape, but i didn't want to send you canned ones. 
I saw that you left me a message but my cell service is not working right. I can see there is a message and the number , but can't retreive it. I cannot make or get calls but the messages show up. How odd is that? If this weather ever clears I guess I will be able to call you back.
TS Debby go away.
Wombat
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Ron Yep as you said solarising is a great way of getting rid of unwanted grass, weeds etc. Are your new garden beds exclusively for veggies or will you be putting in flowers, fruit etc.? You'll have to post some pics when you've got it all finished tomorrow!
Nancie Thanks for the info on luffas I may give them a go if I can find room! They sound like my climbing beans as I also use the tepee method and they cover it in no time. I usually keep a couple of the mustard plants and fenugreek both for my own consumption and for seed purposes fenugreek is a great soil conditioner. Hope your new planting goes well.
Laurie How long is your growing season? It'll be great to see pics of your veggie garden as it progresses. Hope your weather cools down a little and you receive some rain.
This is a pic of the 3 beds I leave working in winter, not very tidy but it's functional
. It contains mostly plants going to seed which I save and some green peas plus sweetpeas. There's also a tulip that decided to flower early all on it's own in a pot.
Nancie Thanks for the info on luffas I may give them a go if I can find room! They sound like my climbing beans as I also use the tepee method and they cover it in no time. I usually keep a couple of the mustard plants and fenugreek both for my own consumption and for seed purposes fenugreek is a great soil conditioner. Hope your new planting goes well.
Laurie How long is your growing season? It'll be great to see pics of your veggie garden as it progresses. Hope your weather cools down a little and you receive some rain.
This is a pic of the 3 beds I leave working in winter, not very tidy but it's functional
. It contains mostly plants going to seed which I save and some green peas plus sweetpeas. There's also a tulip that decided to flower early all on it's own in a pot.Attachments
Well John, it wont be fiinished tomorrow!
The heat finally got to me today so gave up and repotting some dwarf pampas grass seedlings to larger containers!
The area will be exclusively for veggies.....running out of room in the existing veggie garden. I'll have to peel back a bit of the tarp to plant my butternut squash and zucs because of lack of room. I'll let them scramble over the tarp as they grow!
The darn earwigs ate all the parsnip seedlings just as they were developing their first leaves...damm things....I'll have to sow some more tomorrow and keep the area dusted! They ate all the radishes too!!!
The heat finally got to me today so gave up and repotting some dwarf pampas grass seedlings to larger containers!
The area will be exclusively for veggies.....running out of room in the existing veggie garden. I'll have to peel back a bit of the tarp to plant my butternut squash and zucs because of lack of room. I'll let them scramble over the tarp as they grow!
The darn earwigs ate all the parsnip seedlings just as they were developing their first leaves...damm things....I'll have to sow some more tomorrow and keep the area dusted! They ate all the radishes too!!!
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Love the anole!
I could use a lot of those around here with all the bugs.
Toads just don't eat enough! I find them in my potted plants and even uproot some of them! They can be a real pest at times since they like to return to the same pot....so I move the pots around, after evicting them, to give them a hard time!
I could use a lot of those around here with all the bugs.
Toads just don't eat enough! I find them in my potted plants and even uproot some of them! They can be a real pest at times since they like to return to the same pot....so I move the pots around, after evicting them, to give them a hard time!
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curbhopper
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Toads crack me up. We had a frog one year. It was the funniest thing when my neighbor kept yelling,"SHUT that FROG UP!" Like I have control over a frog. Bless the Beasts and The Children ~ yeh, I tried to get to frog to shut up but it didn't listen. It was too happy eating bugs in the garden.There is a natural progression of things in the universe and basically, we all need each other. When Barney the Purple Dinosaur sings,"I love YOU and YOU love me" he's just talking about ecology. I don't understand the people who don't understand this is a WHOLE PLANET. Shoot, I fell off my soap box! Curbster
Wombat
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Love the pics Lyn, especially your little green buddy lol. Laurie yeah I love melons too but they take such a looong time to ripen, or maybe it just seems that way 'cause I'm impatient to eat them lol Not really a veggie but my coffee beans are starting to ripen up, flowers first then green berries then red, oops wrong order lol but you get the idea
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John
Do you harvest the ripe coffee beans, process them use them for your morning coffee?
Bet the flowers are fragrant!!!
Do you harvest the ripe coffee beans, process them use them for your morning coffee?
Bet the flowers are fragrant!!!
Yes, Coffee info please
Some nice lady from FL sent me some string beans that I had for dinner last night and they were yummy, got to get mine planted so i can have some more fresh ones, if it ever stops raining i will get them planted this week, got to work 7am-10pm on fri and sat from 7:30 top whatever but the company is buying us friied clams for dinner fri night and steak for lunch on sat as i emailed the big boss jokingly and told him i wanted these things and he said to go for it.... YUMMY!!!! Thanks Nancie for the yummy string beans and you didn't have to send me any as i know it's expensive to ship them.. but they were yummy and love ya for them... hugs my friend
Told you not to be surprised. I am just glad they were ok. I was worried they would not be in very good shape, but i didn't want to send you canned ones. I saw that you left me a message but my cell service is not working right. I can see there is a message and the number , but can't retreive it. I cannot make or get calls but the messages show up. How odd is that? If this weather ever clears I guess I will be able to call you back.
TS Debby go away.
Just got inside from watering all the potted plants...and I have a huge number to water...got the veggie garden watered and noticed the first flower on one and lots on the others just ready to pop open! It's going to be an early season for tomatoes!
My mouth is already watering from the though of fresh Cherokee Purple and Brandywine Reds!!!!
The Hestia dwarf runner beans have clusters of flowers so they will start producing soon and they are only a foot high! Can't wait to taste them too...stir fried!!!
My mouth is already watering from the though of fresh Cherokee Purple and Brandywine Reds!!!!
The Hestia dwarf runner beans have clusters of flowers so they will start producing soon and they are only a foot high! Can't wait to taste them too...stir fried!!!
Wombat
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Oh gosh coffee info......Ok originally I bought 3 arabica plants and then 3 more dwarf plants. I put them in the ground and they just took off like rockets, I was told they get up to 20ft tall in good conditions, so I decided to dig them back up and transfer them into large pots where they've thrived. It's a drawn out process to get a cuppa but well worth it if you have the patience. Basically the red berries are harvested then dried in the sun, but that's not essential as you can squeeze the bean out from the pulp. Cleaning the beans of their papery coating is a little time consuming but I've learned a few short cuts I use a popcorn maker to roast the beans as they make a distinct cracking sound when ready (there's also a 2nd crack if you like a stronger brew) and can be transferred into my little grinder and then with a bit of luck, yummy coffee. I really only bought them for their fragrant flowers but getting beans made me just try and make my own. I'd need about a dozen trees for a constant supply as the berries don't all ripen at once which can be a pain.
I use a popcorn maker to roast the beans as they make a distinct cracking sound when ready (there's also a 2nd crack if you like a stronger brew) and can be transferred into my little grinder and then with a bit of luck, yummy coffee. I really only bought them for their fragrant flowers but getting beans made me just try and make my own. I'd need about a dozen trees for a constant supply as the berries don't all ripen at once which can be a pain. 
Wombat
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The bean process ..1. ripe berries from the bush 2. coffee beans raw. 3. roasted beans then into the grinder. I've probably made the process sound simple but in all honesty it's a bit of work and I do it just for a bit of fun, but in the end my coffee was very nice......but confidentially it's much easier to buy the roasted beans....but that's just our little secret.
Ron The flowers have a fabulous perfume that was the main reason I bought the bushes in the first place.
Nancie and Lyn Hope my coffee story wasn't too long for you, but I'm sure you could grow the plants with no trouble at all just for the fragrant blooms.
..1. ripe berries from the bush 2. coffee beans raw. 3. roasted beans then into the grinder. I've probably made the process sound simple but in all honesty it's a bit of work and I do it just for a bit of fun, but in the end my coffee was very nice......but confidentially it's much easier to buy the roasted beans....but that's just our little secret. Ron The flowers have a fabulous perfume that was the main reason I bought the bushes in the first place.
Nancie and Lyn Hope my coffee story wasn't too long for you, but I'm sure you could grow the plants with no trouble at all just for the fragrant blooms.
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Sounds like a fun process!
If the climate continues to warm, and no longer have sub freezing winter conditions I'd love to try to grow them!
At least now you can appreciate all the hard work that is done to produce enough coffee to feed the worldwide addiction for everyones morning brew!
Off to pour another mug of coffee for myself! @[_]
If the climate continues to warm, and no longer have sub freezing winter conditions I'd love to try to grow them!
At least now you can appreciate all the hard work that is done to produce enough coffee to feed the worldwide addiction for everyones morning brew!
Off to pour another mug of coffee for myself! @[_]
Thanks John! that's really very cool. Now all I have to do is find some plants. I know my son would also like to grow them. He likes unsual things and he is on a path to becoming self sufficient, so nothing is off limits.
I like the pop corn popper idea. I was thinking the oven or maybe open fire on a baking sheet.
I like the pop corn popper idea. I was thinking the oven or maybe open fire on a baking sheet.
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