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whistech
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45ACP, what kind of cucumbers are those? Since we are in a similar area they shoud do OK for me next year.
Planted the 'Texas Star' hibiscus and our bay leaf tree in the ground, then finished cleaning/sterilizing all our porch pots. All 3 of the MIL tongues are blooming.
Rahab222
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Ernie;
You're not alone on your tomatoes. I've got LOTS of tomatoes on the vine, but the strong winds keep blowing new flowers off of all my plants. I have a cousin with a family farm outside College Station. He only put in melons this year for market. I told him I've got plenty of tomatoes so far, so I'll trade him homegrown tomatoes for melons. They've had good rain up that way like Houston, so it should be a banner year for melons as well. I just don't have the space to grow them. I've been bartering quite a bit lately with my tomatoes to get crops like melons and corn that I don't have the space to grow. So far, everything's trading out just fine.
You're not alone on your tomatoes. I've got LOTS of tomatoes on the vine, but the strong winds keep blowing new flowers off of all my plants. I have a cousin with a family farm outside College Station. He only put in melons this year for market. I told him I've got plenty of tomatoes so far, so I'll trade him homegrown tomatoes for melons. They've had good rain up that way like Houston, so it should be a banner year for melons as well. I just don't have the space to grow them. I've been bartering quite a bit lately with my tomatoes to get crops like melons and corn that I don't have the space to grow. So far, everything's trading out just fine.
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ErnieCopp
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Rahab,
I gave Sam some Nutmeg melon seed this year, and if they do well for him down there, you should try a couple of those next year. They are small melons on small vines but very prolific. I have a volunteer this year in a 2' sq tree basin that has well over a dozen blossoms on it. I took 18 melons off of one vine last year from the first crop. From what i have seen of them, [last year was my first time], i think they would do fine in a container.
Ernie
I gave Sam some Nutmeg melon seed this year, and if they do well for him down there, you should try a couple of those next year. They are small melons on small vines but very prolific. I have a volunteer this year in a 2' sq tree basin that has well over a dozen blossoms on it. I took 18 melons off of one vine last year from the first crop. From what i have seen of them, [last year was my first time], i think they would do fine in a container.
Ernie
They are "Burpless" cucumbers.
I picked that one and a handful of japs yesterday evening. Found 3 more nymphs and caught/killed them. I've got the whole family in on the war with the nymphs. We see one, it gets squished with a quickness. Hopefully we can keep them in check. I must have over looked it, but we have 5 eggplants coming in too. Also our first tomato is blushing. I'd imagine by next week we will be harvesting veggies daily.
Ibtsoom
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Picked another big mess of squash yesterday and watered the heck out of everything. Starting to get quite a few peppers and cherry tomatoes as well.
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whistech
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Ibtsoom, what variety are the yellow oval shaped squash? It looks like your garden is really producing good.
Watered the garden & then wire bushed the 18" porch pots to remove any loose material & the mineral deposits, then hosed them off. They are ready to seal when they thoroughly dried, then I'll paint them & we should be good for another 5-7 yrs.
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Rahab222
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Ernie; I would love to try some of your seeds for Nutmeg melons. I still have some room to expand the garden, but I did so much expansion this year, I plain got tuckered out. It's going to be worth it though, because I should have a bonanza of tomatoes this year and I've been bartering with them. I'm trading my cousin tomatoes for watermelons and cantaloupe; a member of my American Business Women's Association is trading me some purple hull peas; a friend of my brother's is going to let me come pick his blackberries in his fields; and I'm still looking for somebody with corn to trade. 45 ACP, your photos are beautiful. I picked the first ever cucumber that made in my garden today and it's a nice one.
Today I watered and squished a bunch of leap hopper nymphs on my tomatoes. I also picked my first two, vine ripened tomatoes; plus three more that are almost there (due to something large eating out the inside of a very large, Big Beef tomato that I would have loved to have myself. I also picked several peppers, some more purple onions and four strawberries coming in on new plants. I picked my first, blackened blackberry today and ate it off the vine - man, was it ever sour.
For supper, I made some jalapeno cheese toast layered with the peppers and onions I picked from the garden and added the sliced tomatoes after I toasted the rest. Now, I really want some more tomaters.
Today I watered and squished a bunch of leap hopper nymphs on my tomatoes. I also picked my first two, vine ripened tomatoes; plus three more that are almost there (due to something large eating out the inside of a very large, Big Beef tomato that I would have loved to have myself. I also picked several peppers, some more purple onions and four strawberries coming in on new plants. I picked my first, blackened blackberry today and ate it off the vine - man, was it ever sour.
For supper, I made some jalapeno cheese toast layered with the peppers and onions I picked from the garden and added the sliced tomatoes after I toasted the rest. Now, I really want some more tomaters.
Ibtsoom
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Their a yellow scalloped patty pan squash. I planted a mix from burpee with white, yellow, green, and some weird hybrid mix color. We like them as well as the straight necks and zukes.
Ibtsoom
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I mowed the yard yesterday, watered the heck out of everything, picked another bucket of squash and sprayed everything down with liquid seven.
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Mr_Yan
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Working on getting the last of my squash and melon seeds in the ground for the summer. I should transplant some more tomatoes too.
As usual there were helpers. This one was seeding parsnips and inter-spacing radishes or lettuce with them.
Today's forecast high 75 F and low 47 F expected to be dry until Monday.
As usual there were helpers. This one was seeding parsnips and inter-spacing radishes or lettuce with them.
Today's forecast high 75 F and low 47 F expected to be dry until Monday.
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majorcatfish
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here's more for you @ErnieCopp and i know many of you can relate to this..... management has no clue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quote theres all the pipe you need to to do this job at the building..yea right.... i cleaned out the supplier in columbia of 1 1/2" sch 40 black pipe, 90's, tee's,clevis hangers 3/4" 90's, tees, ball valves, uni-straps... yeah right it's all there........even used everything we took down.
did modify the owners game plan on hanging pipe to save money...
all i can say about the g/m down there is ....hum his a idiot/ waste of breathing space/ short timer/ without a clue...you get my drift
the only reason i have to go back down is to set the compressors,air dryer and receiver tank<which has not been delivered yet> and he did not order the tile for the floor, he assumed that lowes had it in stock ..like lowes is going to have 3300 sq ft of any style on hand..
knowing darn good well the tile people where coming tuesday. needless to say he got a ass chewing from the owner.
no tile,thinset, grout, spacers, floors not prepped.
so got a call to handle this, spent 3 hours at lowes finding all this tile along the I-85 corridor, 1123 tiles, thinset,grout,spaces there in columbia will pick that up monday, the rest of the tile had to make 4 stops on the way home today..... oh my i put a dent in that lowes card.
plus the owner sent a i-message stating that i was not to help unload the tile that i was only there to finish the air line installation.
of course after the final inspection will have to go down and wire all the lifts....
life is so grand...........grrrrrrr
Sealed the porch pots & they're now ready to be painted. I then watered everything.
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ErnieCopp
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Rahab,
Just remind me later in the season and i will send you some. I have only grown melons for three years, but i have about 4 times as many blossoms this year as i have had before. If it is because we had such a warm winter, then i can see some benefits from Global Warming, for sure.
Ernie
Just remind me later in the season and i will send you some. I have only grown melons for three years, but i have about 4 times as many blossoms this year as i have had before. If it is because we had such a warm winter, then i can see some benefits from Global Warming, for sure.
Ernie
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ErnieCopp
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Major,
I have been on both sides of that situation. Frustration is about the same, and about the only difference i have seen is the Boss has to pay for it. I just hope that manager you describe makes the company enough money on his good days to cover his mistakes on the bad days.
They are fortunate having someone that can step in and get it done properly.
Like the fellow said, the only perfect man was the dead husband of the Widow lady he married.
Ernie
I have been on both sides of that situation. Frustration is about the same, and about the only difference i have seen is the Boss has to pay for it. I just hope that manager you describe makes the company enough money on his good days to cover his mistakes on the bad days.
They are fortunate having someone that can step in and get it done properly.
Like the fellow said, the only perfect man was the dead husband of the Widow lady he married.
Ernie
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majorcatfish
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great to see you teaching your little ones about gardening, they will remember this though their life.Working on getting the last of my squash and melon seeds in the ground for the summer. I should transplant some more tomatoes too.
As usual there were helpers. This one was seeding parsnips and inter-spacing radishes or lettuce with them.
Today's forecast high 75 F and low 47 F expected to be dry until Monday.
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majorcatfish
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@ErnieCopp this store will be a gold mine once it's up and running either with the present g/m or future g/m and the proper training of the employees.
as for what i had to start this project with sight unseen and a few adjustments saved him 4-5k
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ErnieCopp
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Major,
I hope he appreciates it, and since it is a successful company, he is most likely aware of what you do. That being able to recognize and reward exceptional behavior was one of the things that was lost when Unions became dominent. I was a Motor Grader Operator for a big company, making finish grade for shopping center parkiing lot poavement, and was simply making a lot more sq feet of it every day than the other two operators working for the company. I asked for a a raise to match my extra production and was told that since the company had to pay the other operators full union wages, they could not pay me more. That the Union expected all the employees to be paid the same.
So i quit and became a Contractor myself, and a main competitor of that Company. The life of all of us take many twists and turns, and most of them are unexpected. It is quite possible that if i had received a raise to match my production, i would never have made that change. I never forgot that, and always made sure my best men were treated properly.
Ernie
I hope he appreciates it, and since it is a successful company, he is most likely aware of what you do. That being able to recognize and reward exceptional behavior was one of the things that was lost when Unions became dominent. I was a Motor Grader Operator for a big company, making finish grade for shopping center parkiing lot poavement, and was simply making a lot more sq feet of it every day than the other two operators working for the company. I asked for a a raise to match my extra production and was told that since the company had to pay the other operators full union wages, they could not pay me more. That the Union expected all the employees to be paid the same.
So i quit and became a Contractor myself, and a main competitor of that Company. The life of all of us take many twists and turns, and most of them are unexpected. It is quite possible that if i had received a raise to match my production, i would never have made that change. I never forgot that, and always made sure my best men were treated properly.
Ernie
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majorcatfish
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AMEN.........
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ErnieCopp
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Trying to save my asparagus patch. When i planted it 3 years ago i was not aware that i should have only planted male plants, so i just bought what the Nursery was selling. About half of them were female plants and each one had a thousand berries on it, so they ripened and 900 from each bush sprouted. So now i have far too many asparagus plants in the bed for very many to get to the perfect size. This year we are cutting the ferns that have green berries on them, before they ripen. Have not figured out how to remove the Female roots because cutting ther roots would just cause two more to sprout. Afraid I am going to have to dig it up, screen out all the roots and start over again, but not sure even that will work. I would move the bed, but that is the best and only spot for it.
Learn from my mistake, and if you plant asparagus, purchase only male plants.
Ernie
Learn from my mistake, and if you plant asparagus, purchase only male plants.
Ernie