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Re: WANTED: Cotton Seeds
from katjaqu on 03/30/2015 12:53 AMI would love that!
Thank you!
I have some peanuts from last year if want some let me know.
ReplyRe: Growing National Pickling Cucumbers
from katjaqu on 03/30/2015 12:48 AMThat's good to know! I'll do that this year. They were really bad last year and I don't want them again.
WANTED: Cotton Seeds
from katjaqu on 03/29/2015 04:32 AMI am looking for any variety of cotton seeds.
Please check out my trade list.
Thanks
Kathy J
HAVE: FREE FOR A SASE. Clemson Spineless Okra Seeds
from katjaqu on 03/28/2015 11:46 PMHAVE: FREE FOR A SASE. Clemson Spineless Okra Seeds
Re: Growing National Pickling Cucumbers
from katjaqu on 03/28/2015 11:34 PMHi Maggie,
I use wire landscape pins to hold it down.
I'm sure you could make them out of wire clothes hangers but I didn't think about it until I had given them to Goodwill.
I really wish I had kept them because Lowe's charges a small fortune for them.
What type of bug was it that you had on your squash?
Were they stink bugs? because I spent a lot of time picking them off my zucchini last year.
I would really like to know how to get rid of them.
Re: Where is everyone?
from katjaqu on 03/28/2015 11:14 PMMaggie you are absolutely right! We should all take some time at least once a day andcheck in to keep this rolling.
I've been guilty of not checking in like I should and I promise to do better from now on because I don't want to lose this great website that we have.
This is not just a place to swap seeds but a great place to share and make friends with like minded people.
Thanks for the reminder.
Kathy J.
And let's try to pass the word about this great website.
Re: Ants in my compost pile! Help!!
from katjaqu on 03/25/2015 11:01 PMWe have large black ants and some large red ants, but they are not Fire ants.
Last year was a really bad year here for ants.
My cousin told me about using Borax and sugar to kill the ants, which I did.
It worked real well but I didn't want to have something that could be harmful to the birds and wildlife so I decided against using it.
I found the cornmeal thing online. I had about a half a box of Quaker yellow cornmeal in the pantry so I tried it in the garden around tomatoes.
Also I used some around the Peonies and it works.
I guess you would need to eliminate any other food source to make sure they only eat the cornmeal.
Growing National Pickling Cucumbers
from katjaqu on 03/24/2015 07:38 PMI'm just going to tell you how I grow my cucumbers from start to finish.
This has aways worked well for me.
I have really great soil and I rotate my crops so most everything grows pretty well.
After I till the soil I put down a layer of landscaping cloth not plastic to control the weeds. I do this throughout my garden, adding a layer to it every year as needed.
I use garden poles that are about a half an inch in diameter and about four to five feet tall. I got these at Lowe's. They are used for deer fencing and have a green plastic vinyl coating.
I use a section of lightweight wire garden fence about ten feet long and four to five feet high.
Place the posts in the ground through the landscape cloth in a straight line about eighteen inches apart.
Basket weave the wire fencing through the poles.
Secure the fence with cable ties.
Cut a large X into the cloth every ten inches apart on one side of the fence.
Then go around to the other side of the fence and do the same thing, staggering the holes from the cuts on the first side.
I usually put about three seeds in each of the cuts in the cloth and just push them lightly into the soil.
Water lightly for the first couple of days.
As they start to grow I train up and along the fence. They don't usually need string, but I do sometimes use it.
I water my garden with rainwater in the evening when the sun is not hitting on it.
I have a three hundred gallon water tank hooked to the down spout of my garage close to the garden.
I have a hose splitter connected to the tank and run garden hoses off that to different areas of the garden.
This saves a lot of time and money!!
I let some of the vines at one end of the trellis grow to maturity and produce larger yellow cucumbers. I use those to make Old Fashioned Ripe Sweet Pickles from a recipe that I found online.
http://www.cooks.com/recipe/2h7ss0sw/grandmothers-old-fashioned-ripe-sweet-pickles.html
I scoop out the yellow cucumber seeds with my fingers into a large food colander. I rinse them several times with warm water to remove all of the pulp and let them drain in the colander for about an hour before putting them in an aluminum pie plate to dry.
I shake the pie plate several times a day for two weeks to make sure that the seeds dry evenly.
I store my dry seeds in a canning jar with a two piece lid.
Re: Ants in my compost pile! Help!!
from katjaqu on 03/23/2015 05:04 PMHi, Maggie,
Pour yellow cornmeal on the ground where the ants are.
They can't digest the cornmeal when they eat it so it will get rid of them without using chemicals.
You may want to put some around your tomato plants to control the aphids.
Ants raise aphids for food. Usually on garden plants, so if you control the ants, you control the aphids.
Happy Gardening🐜🐜🐜🐜
Re: How should I dry my parsley leaves?
from katjaqu on 03/17/2015 08:35 PMMaggie,
Here's a great link for oven drying parsley.
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http://m.wikihow.com/Dry-Parsley