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Post by woodeye on Aug 28, 2022 13:07:49 GMT -6
I've had seed ticks here in the past, but for some reason it's been several years since I've noticed any. I do have the larger ticks, but since the extreme heat started a couple of months or so ago, they have gone elsewhere. I imagine if I traipsed around out in the pasture enough, I'd locate a few of them...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 28, 2022 13:57:39 GMT -6
It won't be much longer, Moose. Those ticks usually wind down when temperatures drop into the fifties. That ought to be any day now, once September sets in. It's hard to believe the month of August is almost spent. Maybe, because it hasn't seemed much like August this year with all the cloudy and rainy days.
I'm looking forward to some cooler days and a few nights around the campfire. I've been stacking wood for that time of year all summer long. Got my coffee pot and wiener sticks ready to go!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 17, 2022 20:51:26 GMT -6
I sowed some Upland Cress today (along with some Ethiopian Kale) in the bed where I grew corn and Sunn Hemp earlier in the summer. It rained overnight, and it was still raining lightly this morning, so I decided to plant in the cool and damp. I was surprised when I raked up the soil that it was still really dry, and it was lighter colored than I expected. It almost looked in places as though there was wood ash in there, but I don’t put ashes in my garden since I don’t need any pH rise. I think it was just so, so dry because I haven’t been watering that bed in those areas.
I just sprinkled the seed in, then brushed my hands very lightly over the whole area to let it make good contact or get very slightly covered. I didn’t want to compress the soil, and it was still raining lightly at that time. I hope it was enough to get moisture to the seeds. I looked at the bed later in the day when the sun came out and I went out to gather some peppers for our chili dinner, and it looked damp. I understand Upland Cress can be a bit slow to germinate, so we’ll see what happens.
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Post by amyinowasso on Nov 2, 2022 9:16:36 GMT -6
I've grown a couple of kinds of cress. "Garden cress" and "Wrinkled Crinkled". I have seeds for Upland,Belle Isle but I'm am not sure any were germinated. My memory is the leaves of the first 2 were small and I didn't get enough to make a meal. The description from Natural Gardening (seed source for upland): "The easiest to grow of the cress varieties and longest standing in the field. It does best in cool or even cold weather when the dark green watercress-like leaves fill a void for things that are green and leafy. Use in salads, sandwiches and vegetable mixes. The round and glossy leaves are borne on rosettes 6-8"" long. Known as Creasy Greens in the south. 50 days. Approximately 7,700 seeds per 1/4 ounce."
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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 2, 2022 19:33:36 GMT -6
I have a few tiny, tiny specks of green leaves where I seeded the Cress. I don’t know if they are Cress leaves or just weeds starting in the area. I’ll leave them and see how things progress.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Nov 4, 2022 11:19:40 GMT -6
Tiny specks are better than no specks.
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Post by hmoosek on Nov 4, 2022 22:13:09 GMT -6
chrysanthemum
You know, I think I ordered sorrel when I actually meant to order cress. Oh well. It bees that way sometimes.
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