Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 13

We've had enough frost here to worry the citrus growers and maybe damage citrus in some places. How is your weather?

Well, this is almost the middle of January - a time not well-know for flowering plants. But even in Central California, the Euryops pectinatus, like the one above, generally makes it through a few mild frosts. AKA "wolly resin bush" The green-leaved variant (the most common one sold) is pictured above, though the species is generally grey-leaved.

Golden Euryops is a vigorous grower, but you can prune it back after flowering to a desired shape. Cut off dead flowerheads after flowering. There are 96 other species of Euryops that occur in southern and tropical Africa as well as in Saudi Arabia.

I prefer the silvery grey original color. There is a dwarf.

In California, Euryops is pruned in spring, after its winter bloom. It has a very long bloom season.

Pruning, Pest Control and Tools

The guy who took the Euryops photo above provides some nice guidance on tools and garden gifts.

Garden tools are generally a hit. On my second birthday I was given a child-sized wheelbarrow, a watering can and a shovel, all of which helped form me as a life-time gardener. Most garden centers sell good quality tools for kids made of metal, not plastic. See what you can find for a small person in your life.
Adults like tools, too. For 20 years now I've had a Smart Cart, a well balanced two-wheel cart. The frame is made of airplane-grade tubular aluminum and the 7-cubic ft body of heavy-duty plastic. It comes either with bike-type wheels or smaller, fatter wheels capable of traversing wet areas more easily and carrying heavier loads. I chose the wide wheels, which make the cart rated for 600 pounds. The narrower wheels are rated for 400 lbs. I've never had a flat tire and the cart has served me well. The bin pops out if you want to wash a dog in it, or carry home manure in your Subaru. It is not inexpensive, but worth the investment.

Also, a "root slayer" spade, deer and rabbit repellents, seed starting supplies and other stuff.

Other helpful items to consider below:

Insect control:

"Work smarter, not harder," says this western cattle egret.

Cattle egrets have learned to follow large equipment like tractors and mowing machinery to eat prey stirred up from the ground by the machinery.

Photo of a western cattle egret riding a tractor at San Luis NWR by USFWS pic.twitter.com/JKfg2E7Ror
— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@USFWS) December 14, 2023

Weed control

Our recent implementation of Tripod Farmers' LaserWeeder has been incredibly smooth. Straight into the fields, and destroying weeds. Here are some clips in #romaine (Cos) and Butter #lettuce where you can really see how efficiently the machine eliminates weeds #agtech #farming pic.twitter.com/8pzryjwMAB
— Carbon Robotics (@carbon_robotics) January 12, 2024

Italian hedge trimmers

Well, my day’s off to an interesting start… pic.twitter.com/T5wVSHoSNP
— Rewire the West (@RewiretheWest) January 10, 2024

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Seeds 'n Such is a nice little catalog:

Habanada:

Impossible you say? A habanero with absolutely no heat, but keeps all its tropical, fruity flavor that habaneros are known for! Robust plants produce enormous yields of fruits that start lime green and ripen to bright fluorescent orange. Eat them at any stage. Perfect when sauteed, roasted or eaten fresh.

They carry lots of veggies, some fruits and also flowers. Prices aren't too bad.

Are you shopping or working in the garden?

Puttering

Got a little remodeling in mind?

Excellent 1950s craftsmanship pic.twitter.com/o5lNdLMpCf
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) January 9, 2024

Puttering leads to history (thread)

Here’s one of my favorite discoveries… Imagine you’re at a flea market in West Virginia and you see this chair, that nobody wants because it’s sort of impressively ugly. But something about it says buy this thing, because it’s just so unusual. So you buy it for a couple hundred… pic.twitter.com/NgTS7V5kf8
— The Civil Rights Lawyer (@johnbryanesq) January 10, 2024

Gardens of The Horde

Dream time for you, or are you working in the yard?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 6

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:23 PM

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1 We are supposed to get below freezing Tuesday so I guess that will end my Fall Irish potato experiment.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 13, 2024 01:29 PM (cWNll)

2 Starting to find a few dead birds. Neighbor's dog was chewing on one and I took one away from my dog. I have two open sided bird houses that I want to put up for the doves. It dawned on me that it might help the birds at the bird feeder. Some are eating grain on the gound and I thought it might give them a little shelter. Seems to be a hit. I'll hire someone to put them in the trees when it warms up

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2024 01:29 PM (L8hCM)

3 No gardening today at all. We are getting freezing rain. Fortunately the droplets are freezing while they fall so they aren't sticking to trees or powerlines, so there is a chance we won't lose power like we did two years ago.

It is a toasty 25F out there. I suspect all the incipient buds that were on the Indian Plum and the tentative sprouts from the garlic bed are now froze off.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2024 01:31 PM (D7oie)

4 Thanks K.T. Spring seems so far away, sigh.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 01:32 PM (hEv4o)

5 I bought some self watering pots for African violets. It's an outside glazed pot and a inner pot with an unglazed bottom. You plant in that and put water in the outside pot. Not cheap but my plants have struggled since the move. Thry seem to be doing better now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 13, 2024 01:33 PM (L8hCM)

6 Puttering leads to history
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Folks, go read through that flea market chair thread. You won't be sorry. But you will be envious.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2024 01:40 PM (dgZCh)

7 Cattle egrets have learned to follow large equipment like tractors and mowing machinery to eat prey stirred up from the ground by the machinery.
___________

The Purple Martins will follow me around when I'm mowing the yard on my Kubota. I guess I stir up a lot of bugs for them. They'll dart pretty damn close to me too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 01:40 PM (Q4IgG)

8 The weeds of socialism is better than the crops of capitalism.

Posted by: Mao at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (rSl/w)

9 I said that we need to let a hundred flowers bloom. But poisonous weeds have grown amongst the fragrant flowers.

Posted by: Mao at January 13, 2024 01:46 PM (rSl/w)

10 Can’t imagine much gardening is going on as cold as it is,

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 13, 2024 01:48 PM (rSl/w)

11 It ain't warm out thar...and there's a COLD WIND in case ya forget !

Posted by: JT at January 13, 2024 01:50 PM (T4tVD)

12 Greetings! We got a gift over Christmas time, an amaryllis bulb. I've owned them before but this one came encased in a sort of ceramic container or vase which has everything inside needed for it to thrive. Weeks went by with little measurable growth but now it is blooming its little head off with gorgeous white blossoms. I should have set us a time lapse cam on it.
A friend of mine who also got one from the same giver tried to water his and it died.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2024 01:55 PM (MeG8a)

13 Used a quad to drag a length of fence over the weeds. A little rain and every (damn) weed seed says 'time to sprout'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 01:56 PM (g83Hw)

14 #8
That guy hadn't figured out how to make the masses eat ze bugz

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2024 01:56 PM (I+Rw4)

15 Good afternoon Greenthumbs and Snowmen

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:56 PM (fwDg9)

16 It's been remarkably warm so far, my brugmansia is still blooming in back - but temp is dropping to 20 tonight, 14 in a couple days . Bye bye all remaining plants.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 01:58 PM (S6gqv)

17 That sheet rock craftsman's work looks like my brothers... not mine unfortunately.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 01:58 PM (g83Hw)

18 I got a tractor cart at a yard sale some years ago, I use it by hand more than the tractor cart, yet have 3 wheelbarrows though 1 needs a tire fix

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 01:58 PM (fwDg9)

19 I would have bought that chair. I have an old one from my late hubby's family, not nearly as ornate, but with some nice carving. I could get it refinished, but it's become a clawing chair for cats over the past 10 years. No point. Publius sits in it at the dining room table.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 13, 2024 01:59 PM (Mzdiz)

20 The weeds of socialism is better than the crops of capitalism.
Posted by: Mao

Especially if you want a famine that kills 60million of your citizens.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 13, 2024 02:00 PM (g83Hw)

21 Oh,and another dead tree trunk came down in a storm this week. About 18 feet high but next to the road luckily broke and landed barely on the road. So it's all out back now. 1 more to get some time next to the house that's about 20 feet high.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

22 We've had our share of nights below freezing but still have a few dandelions that appear. Kinda strange to be out with a stiff cold wind then look down at that unexpected spot of yellow. I can't decide if they are untimely or really tough.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2024 02:01 PM (zudum)

23 Puttering leads to history
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Folks, go read through that flea market chair thread. You won't be sorry. But you will be envious.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2024 01:40 PM (dgZCh)

I can't. No replies are visible.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2024 02:02 PM (eoQWY)

24 Oh, another item I got from Santa, a garden kneeler.
A foldable steel contraption which serves as a stool in one orientation or, turn it upside down and you kneel on it and you have sturdy steel handles to help you up. Very dense padding on both sides. It's been terrific.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2024 02:03 PM (MeG8a)

25 This is the period where I look for a few more seeds to buy (but I already have most of what I need). Too soon to sow; maybe I'll begin in 2 weeks.

Meanwhile, some new growth on my clematis has produced a flower bud. In January. It's been around 40 during the day, but we typically get some frost at night. And of course next week, temps are expected to drop under 20.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 13, 2024 02:03 PM (Mzdiz)

26
My experiment with attempting to grow spinach from seed indoors was utter failure. Just not enough light I guess, even with a southern exposure.

Too windy to chance cutting three fallen trees today. With the way it's blowing, too much of a possibility for more limbs dropping, but I can hear a neighbor out there with chain saw.

Posted by: New IP New Nic at January 13, 2024 02:05 PM (nIvob)

27 re: Laserweeder.

But... but... Jerry Nadler says the Democrats are importing all those Central American peasants to do these kind of jobs.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 13, 2024 02:05 PM (a/7LW)

28 Love that story of the chair! That guy had a great eye.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 13, 2024 02:06 PM (S6gqv)

29 I can't. No replies are visible.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2024 02:02 PM (eoQWY)
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That's what Nitter is for:

http://tinyurl.com/ymj3ntt6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2024 02:06 PM (dgZCh)

30 >>>Oh, another item I got from Santa, a garden kneeler.
A foldable steel contraption which serves as a stool in one orientation or, turn it upside down and you kneel on it and you have sturdy steel handles to help you up. Very dense padding on both sides. It's been terrific.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 13, 2024 02:03 PM (MeG8a)

Thanks for posting. I need something like ``that to help me out in the garden.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 02:07 PM (hEv4o)

31 For outdoors stuff it is definitely dream time. This is when I take extra care of the house plants: dividing overly crowded plants, cleaning out dead or dying leaves, giving them a shower to wash away the dust. Gives me a chance to play in the dirt where it's comfortable and on a table. (The ground gets farther away every year.)

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2024 02:08 PM (zudum)

32 Garden kneeler sounds good! I have a little stool that I use, probably had it for 15 years.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 13, 2024 02:10 PM (Mzdiz)

33 It's 19 here on the beach. We are expecting some pretty crazy wind out of the N NE this afternoon. It comes howling out of the Frazier river valley and it is cold.

I may forgo my beach walk for a couple days.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2024 02:10 PM (aJVMf)

34 , a garden kneeler

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 13, 2024 02:11 PM (hUvnA)

35 We're expecting sub-freezing / sub-zero temps over the next 5-6 days and nights. Running the Explorer and my truck on the days we don't go anywhere is mandatory. Even if it's only for 15 minutes.

Our garage is detached and not insulated nor heated. If it's 5F outside it's 5F in there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 02:14 PM (Q4IgG)

36 Can’t imagine much gardening is going on as cold as it is,

I've switched to indoor gardening. I have plants that I'm wintering over, and have begun a collection of indoor plants a la 1970s, I guess you could say. I don't have too many but the ones I have are causing me both the agony and the ecstasy.

My hoya carnosa has taken off like a rocket, it's doing so well...but my syngonium, 3 in different pink varieties, are stressing me out. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with a plant that should be so easy as far as care goes.

Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2024 02:14 PM (dCxaZ)

37 We've gone through a few wheelbarrows over time. The best and longest lasting has been a pull cart with four wheels. Looks like an oversized kids wagon with heavy mesh sides and bottom. The design keeps water from accumulating in it. The handle is long enough so I don't have to bend much to pull it which my back appreciates.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2024 02:18 PM (zudum)

38 Some drywall guys still carry a hatchet but never saw them use it like that. And do my share of drywall but never carried a drywall hatchet yet do own one, its around here somewhere.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 02:20 PM (fwDg9)

39 Those habanada peppers (cute name) could be interesting if they will grow in a 7a zone. I love the flavor such peppers bring but cannot tolerate much heat. Time for some research.

Posted by: JTB at January 13, 2024 02:23 PM (zudum)

40 Just puttering...

Mr. S has been mowing up the leaves for me and I have been mulching the beds and re-layering the paths.
I put newspapers down one path, as I am tired of dealing with the weed block I used to use, so we will see how it does.
Every so often, I scoop up the resulting leaf mold and throw it on the beds.

He is also going to re-do the leaf bins soon.

We've had a few days of 30 mph winds, so there is a lot of blow down to pick up. I save useful pieces for "bonfires" in the grill.

Daughter sent me bulbs for Christmas, so I am setting them out.

But my aim is to get out everyday and do something- good for the spirit.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 13, 2024 02:31 PM (fDjFn)

41 Voodoo Chile, Slight Return is appropriate for the laser weed blaster...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 13, 2024 02:38 PM (XMwZJ)

42 Though can take some heat in peppers, that's why I love Anaheims, they can get midly hot to mild but never to that burning point

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 02:40 PM (fwDg9)

43 Cattle Egrets are good eat'n.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 13, 2024 02:42 PM (eYF7X)

44 I did throw a onion top that was growing in the mini greenhouse a few weeks ago, seems to be still green so maybe it's growing.

Posted by: Skip at January 13, 2024 02:44 PM (fwDg9)

45 Puttering of a sort. I need to give the old mare wet mash and we are getting 3-4 days of below or barely above zero F weather starting yesterday evening.

So I bought a chicken waterer heater to keep the wet mash from freezing before Lady can eat it. Its a 10 inch disk about 1.5 inches high with heating element that gets the top quite warm. It is working out so far, I had to put the heater and a 3 gal tub inside an 8 gallon rubber tub to keep the smaller tub on top of the heater.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 13, 2024 02:49 PM (3cGpq)

46 I don't like cold, so I am staying inside this weekend other than to feed the horses and make sure the tank heaters are working so they have access to to water.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 13, 2024 02:54 PM (3cGpq)

47 I think it was here, several months ago that "micro greens" was detailed. IIRC a quasi-hydroponic, small plants deal. Herbs, sprouts, leafy things.

Might have to revisit that....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 02:55 PM (Q4IgG)

48 yesterday was payday, so today's adventure is balancing the checkbook and paying bills. sigh.

Posted by: anachronda at January 13, 2024 03:12 PM (edU/H)

49 Well, I just completed a chainsaw repair, for a friend here, that counts as "puttering", and I tested it in the garden, and made some cuts on a hunk of scrap plywood.

It needed new fuel lines, which I bought and installed, a beeyotch of a job, because you have to force the fuel line through a smaller hole in the tank wall.

Then I found a broken piece of plastic and a coil spring in the well under the carburetor. Turned out to be the lever on the secondary throttle shaft, which is hit by a knob on the main throttle to open it, once the main throttle is about halfway open. (called a "strato-charged engine" if you must ask. I had to look it up, too) I made a replacement lever from some scrap brass, and silver-soldered it to the brass shaft. It works!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 03:17 PM (tkR6S)

50 The peeple in the mid west must still do all there parts to stop Global warming. Turn heat down to 55 during the day and 50 at night to lower your carbin footprint. The childrin of color our counting you to keeps there future bright in the US and the Black persins World.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 13, 2024 03:19 PM (PYJJG)

51 I think it was here, several months ago that "micro greens" was detailed. IIRC a quasi-hydroponic, small plants deal. Herbs, sprouts, leafy things.

Might have to revisit that....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2024 02:55 PM (Q4IgG)

Micro greens? Dwarf Communists?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 03:19 PM (tkR6S)

52 The childrin of color our counting you to keeps there future bright in the US and the Black persins World.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 13, 2024 03:19 PM (PYJJG)

Mary!

I'm so glad you remembered the children of coler in your rant today

Posted by: kallisto at January 13, 2024 03:25 PM (dCxaZ)

53 Afternoon, All. Just got another Nikki Haley flyer in the mail. The second one so far.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2024 03:30 PM (9yWhg)

54 Afternoon, All. Just got another Nikki Haley flyer in the mail. The second one so far.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 13, 2024 03:30 PM (9yWhg)

Good for lighting the fireplace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 03:33 PM (tkR6S)

55 A beautiful sunny day, snow on the ground, and all the way up to 3 below.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 13, 2024 03:33 PM (T/Lqj)

56 Silvery-grey foliage is nice.

Another color I'm really fond of is the bluish-green color of some cactuses, which has similar silvery highlights.

https://i.yt___.com/vi/6Wpw8U3jT3A/maxresdefault.jpg

Posted by: Tom Perry at January 13, 2024 03:33 PM (MX0bI)

57 Dwarf Communists?

Mauser Bolo.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 13, 2024 03:34 PM (hUvnA)

58 If I were an illegal immigrant and they said we will give you a plane ticket to anywhere in the US, I would chose Miami or Hawaii and not Chicago, NYC, or Denver. Because if I am sent there and plan on livving in a tent or under a bridge it is going to be SOMEWHERE WARM !!!!!

These places are now going to have ...... As in Monty Python's Movie "Holy Grail"............. "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Solution........ "Soylent Brown" to honor people of coloe.....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 13, 2024 03:35 PM (qpLSv)

59 A beautiful sunny day, snow on the ground, and all the way up to 3 below.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 13, 2024 03:33 PM (T/Lqj)

It's actually half-assed warm today, here in Apache Junction, AZ. Sun is shining brightly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 03:38 PM (tkR6S)

60 AOP,
I wish you were in my neck of the woods. Or my Marine. My Subaru runs like CRAP when it gets below freezing. Sounds like it's going to blow ever belt and fan and stop running at any moment.

Is this normal? I'm not leaving the house because it sounds so awful and I don't want to get stranded.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2024 03:39 PM (1hhkP)

61 Late to the thread, but wanted to say thanks for the link to the decaf habanero seeds. I also bought a few unusual 'mater seeds, Aunt Ruby's German Green and Black Brandywine.

It's howling outside like a Jack London shirt story.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 13, 2024 03:50 PM (+RQPJ)

62 Short! Haha

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 13, 2024 03:50 PM (+RQPJ)

63 Pets Up

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 13, 2024 03:56 PM (hEv4o)

64 I wish you were in my neck of the woods. Or my Marine. My Subaru runs like CRAP when it gets below freezing. Sounds like it's going to blow ever belt and fan and stop running at any moment.

Is this normal? I'm not leaving the house because it sounds so awful and I don't want to get stranded.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2024 03:39 PM (1hhkP)

You are always welcome here! What sort of noises? Cold belts can squeal pretty loud, especially if they are worn, and a little loose. My hands-on experience with Subies is next to nil, but I regard them as solid. Is there an independent Subie shop in your area? Having the exterior belts replaced should not run into too much money. I don't know if Subarus use belts or chains for the camshaft timing, but if your car uses belts, and is getting close to the recommended service interval for them, have that done at the same time. A broken or jumped timing belt or chain can trash the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 13, 2024 03:57 PM (tkR6S)

65 Oldcat at January 13, 2024 02:02 PM

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Posted by: KT at January 13, 2024 04:01 PM (rrtZS)

66 Hi
It's cold.
I do not like winter.
The chair story is amazing.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 13, 2024 04:39 PM (t/2Uw)

67 I've been overwintering an inpatients plant for the second year. J likes to put them out front in the window boxes, rd is her accent color in spots against the background of our gray house.
Well someone broke off most of the stems, I suspect our 5 month old puppy but it could be the old cat. I'll have to move it and nurse it along. There is a healthy root system that already has some sprouts.
Cold here in NW IL, 9 w/ wind chill of -6. Tomorrow we get a high of 0 and -19 wind chill. This is after about 10 inches of snow, what fun!

Posted by: Farmer at January 13, 2024 04:52 PM (55Qr6)

68 Texas Cattle Egret... I took a girl I had met on a friday night down to the beach from Houston the next day, stopped along the way at a field of Bluebonnets and indian paintbrush, it had a herd of Brahma cattle as well, when an egret got close to a steer she panicked..."Look out little bird Look Out...He's Right behind you!", nearly in tears...I asked what she was afraid of...She was sure the cow would eat it.
Yeah she was Blonde...
but also 6ft tall, shapely, and had the very biggest Blue eyes you ever saw. We stayed together for nearly ten years, finally broke up just shy of small arms fire.

Posted by: birdog at January 13, 2024 05:35 PM (sYlnp)

69 I'm working on my seed order.

I had put in hardneck garlic pretty late. Used locust spines to act like pine needle mulch. Hoping there is enough snow on the ground to add to the mulch as we are in the middle of the cold weather coming. Going into negative temps the next few days at night and not much better during the day.

I'm working on putting in a drip system to work off my sprinklers to improve my direct watering on the tomatoes. March will be here before we know it.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 13, 2024 05:45 PM (UVyKP)

70 From Boise area: lows 6-30 F, highs 22-39. We had a bit of snow Tues., more Wed., more Friday, and a LOT is falling this evening (might be as much as 10 inches). Last night was the cold one - our faucets on exterior walls, we left dripping all night.

I'm frustrated because I'm usually the one who does 80 percent of the snow shoveling, but I've been letting Husband do it because I don't want to fall and bust my new knees. I would also like to build a snowman since there is plenty of snow - or will be, by tomorrow.

We wanted to join a boardgaming group tonight, but with so much snow falling, instead we're staying home and huddling around the fireplace.

We put out a "game bird seed block" for the California Quail that live out back. I also put a seed feeder out front, which I had not done for months, while I was recovering from getting my new knees. One of our two feeders fell apart on me, so I cleaned the other and set it out - I could not allow the birds to go even a single night without it, now that they've found it, and now that it's so bitterly cold.

Posted by: Pat* at January 13, 2024 07:33 PM (WAYaX)

71 More high winds than snow and ice. Cleaned branches from front yard, but backyard has a big broken limb swinging back and forth like the Sword of Damocles crosses with Poe's Pendulum.

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Posted by: archetype at January 13, 2024 08:48 PM (271TK)

73 I grew habanados last year. Friends loved them. I even canned some. I showed one to a neighbor who thought it was a habanero then took a bite of it. Their jaw dropped.

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