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WOW WOW WOW!!! Looks GREAT, Carol Dee!!
I'm so envious of your rhubarb!!!
I'm so envious of your rhubarb!!!
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Carol Dee
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Won' rhubarb grow in TX? We can seem to kill it off here.SweetMissDaisy said:WOW WOW WOW!!! Looks GREAT, Carol Dee!!
I'm so envious of your rhubarb!!!
Not that I want to, but DH set a tractor bucket on 1/2 the bed ALL of one summer and it came back up in the spring!!!!
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Rubarb seriously dislikes the south, hot and dry.
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Rhubarb does grow best in cooler climates. My neighbor has one Rhubarb that grows great.
I'd think it could be grown in Texas if it got afternoon shade and a good overhead sprinkling on hot days
I'd think it could be grown in Texas if it got afternoon shade and a good overhead sprinkling on hot days
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The reddish Mustard, Japanese Giant Red I think, that came in a mixed 6 pack of greens plants. Of those greens, it's the only one not flowering. I'm letting them flower for the seed now. When done I'll be able to start the plants for the winter garden. Once every few weeks I'm putting in a few only Beet seeds.
The Purple Peacock Kale/Broccoli are definitely not bolting! All 6 of them are doing great!
The Purple Peacock Kale/Broccoli are definitely not bolting! All 6 of them are doing great!
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Very nice Carol Dee ! I hope to make more raised bed for my garden next year !
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As I was moving around tomato plants in the backyard, I thought about taking a picture of them, still in their containers. I was trying to image how they would be different than they were in this shot: Garden Photos, Everyone Post Some
Other than being a little taller from being a month older, they aren't any different . . . :/
In 2012, just as in 2011 - it will be the latest I've set out tomato plants since I moved to a lower elevation, decades ago! I honestly don't think it would have mattered if I set them out last week. I don't believe it will freeze Tuesday night or later this week but the forecast in the 30's has tripped me up!
This afternoon, I was out looking at the pumpkins, squash and volunteer corn. They are fine, not growing yet but fine. I am frustrated but enjoying seeing everyone's gardens and how nicely they are growing. Even tho' right now the only thing I've got going for me is that my.rhubarb.is.bigger.than.Carol.Deeeee's!!
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Other than being a little taller from being a month older, they aren't any different . . . :/
In 2012, just as in 2011 - it will be the latest I've set out tomato plants since I moved to a lower elevation, decades ago! I honestly don't think it would have mattered if I set them out last week. I don't believe it will freeze Tuesday night or later this week but the forecast in the 30's has tripped me up!
This afternoon, I was out looking at the pumpkins, squash and volunteer corn. They are fine, not growing yet but fine. I am frustrated but enjoying seeing everyone's gardens and how nicely they are growing. Even tho' right now the only thing I've got going for me is that my.rhubarb.is.bigger.than.Carol.Deeeee's!!
Steve
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I love seeing everyone's pics! 
You guys are so inspiring! I am lovin it! 
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Digit, it was like that for me when I lived in Montana for 21 years. Ya find yourself using "every trick in the book" and some tricks not in the book to extend the season on both sides. The last 6 years up there I had noticed that Autumn lasted longer before the first finish frost, but it seemed spring's last frost got no later.
Even here I still see the wonderful gardens folks have down south farther 6 weeks ahead of mine.
I still find myself using some of those tricks in the book to extend the season, just not to the same intensity.
Maybe a new thread can be started about building and making all the season extenders. So many of the little plants need that warmth to get growing, without which they'll just kind of sit and wait while whiteflies work on them, or gnats nibble at their roots.
Some of the season extenders that are best are varieties that don't mind a bit of coolness. Sweet Siberian Watermelon keeps making roots at temps cooler than for other varieties, also seems to tolerate a slightly wider range of ph.
Peas grow great in cooler temps, and there truly are a very much more lots more, holy cow, more varieties of Peas than seed catalogs have. Italy and Slow food and "Annalisa" have several kinds different. Native Seed Search in Tucson has something like 10 kinds. That nordgen seedbank up near superman's lair north of norway has I think a thousand peas sorted by species. Red seeded, Brown, yellow...
You do have advantage over southerners up there for your tomatoes. No TMV, and very few blights. Also, for Squashes, no squash borers, at least where I was we had none. I had 2 total hornworms. One Roxy found, the other one got away. 2 hornworms total in 21 years is not bad, but I still have the visual of the beautiful huge Basinga tunneled right through...
Even here I still see the wonderful gardens folks have down south farther 6 weeks ahead of mine.
I still find myself using some of those tricks in the book to extend the season, just not to the same intensity.
Maybe a new thread can be started about building and making all the season extenders. So many of the little plants need that warmth to get growing, without which they'll just kind of sit and wait while whiteflies work on them, or gnats nibble at their roots.
Some of the season extenders that are best are varieties that don't mind a bit of coolness. Sweet Siberian Watermelon keeps making roots at temps cooler than for other varieties, also seems to tolerate a slightly wider range of ph.
Peas grow great in cooler temps, and there truly are a very much more lots more, holy cow, more varieties of Peas than seed catalogs have. Italy and Slow food and "Annalisa" have several kinds different. Native Seed Search in Tucson has something like 10 kinds. That nordgen seedbank up near superman's lair north of norway has I think a thousand peas sorted by species. Red seeded, Brown, yellow...
You do have advantage over southerners up there for your tomatoes. No TMV, and very few blights. Also, for Squashes, no squash borers, at least where I was we had none. I had 2 total hornworms. One Roxy found, the other one got away. 2 hornworms total in 21 years is not bad, but I still have the visual of the beautiful huge Basinga tunneled right through...
