Hi! Everyone :)
News from the Bucket (nftb), July 10th, 2009 ~ Vol. I ~ Edition XI:
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle; Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Something I do to make me happy is, when I rise from the night's sleep I throw on a shirt and my shorts go outside to the yard, and slowly take a walk 'round the property.
It's a peaceful time, as I walk to each of the plant locations to make the first of the day's observations, and in my travels I will have moments of solitude where I give thanks for everything around me, and hope I can be useful today.
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After posting nftb last week we had our 50% of showers come through to the tune of 0.51”. Nice, low humidity, breezy, in the mid70's.
Rainfall for the week at BBX 0.51” ~ KCXY 0.96”
Chance of Showers, T-storms Sat. Sat.nite, POP 60~70%
New rainfall amounts between a quarter and, one-half inch except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
BB's still looking healthy, hasn't grown much though, only 2 more inches to 59 and girth to 40. He's gained two more toms, makes 20.
At first he took off after the one pruning, but now has leveled off and is pushing his energy into quality of production.
The pruning is doing what it's designed to do, i.e. change plant quantity into quality an that's okay with me. So if you want all the toms your plants can produce, just let the plant grow.
Been busy with other gardening chores. Besides BB, the DW and me have:
- Banana Peppers,
- Red bell peppers,
- mini-straight-neck yellow squash,
- Red raspberry
- Mulberry
- Elderberry
Flowers include: - Hosta
- Calla Lily
- Hydrangea
- Marigolds
- Bearded Iris
- Burgundy Clematis
- Crimson Mandevilla
- Red and Pink Double Impatiens
- and two that you saw in the “fried green zucchini” pix on pg. 14;
- petunia and
- verbena
After the asexual post, the wiley 'mark got me to thinkin' 'bout manual pollination. So now when I go by BB, I started using my index finger to jiggle the blossoms a little, but switched to a long artists brush. I smoke :( and didn't want to take a chance on transferring the residue to BB. I wish I could quit cold turk, and am down to a pack every fortnight and an occasional cigar... I'll get there :)
'bout the Pink Impatiens, while in transport we had a couple of stems break off and I hated to just toss 'em, so I put 'em in a bud vase with plain tap water and after one week they've started to root. See pix. The first is the Mother plant, I had a problem posing them to show the roots so I procured one of Eddies friends (Skelator) to help me.
Impatiens is an annual. See: Annual plant - Wikipedia but if I remember correctly Mom had these forever. You can even do it with a carrot, Just change the water once a week an their happy :)
We have a total of ten Botanists now. In order of appearance- binx44
- Just Dahlia
- tick
- jmjoseph
- twinkiedooter
- shazzmatt
- culyben
- jomercer
- firmbeliever
- George Leigh
See Ya 'round the compost pile!
K
