Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[SnapdragonQ]

Well if anyone wants variety suggestions for USDA zones 5b-6a and wet clay soils from their catalog, I have some (dozens). XD I've been buying from there for almost 7 years.

I had brown wet clay in PA...not all that far from you actually...but here I'm on even heavier, thicker, and slicker red clay. Whole different beast! Though the zones are close...6b winter here and hotter than hades in the summer. Horribly humid too.

This is my seed list for this year. Excited to try out some newer varieties.

Nice list! I've grown some of those in PA and they did well for me there.

https://territorialseed.com/

These guys are an hour from the house. I’ll be spending way too much money with them in about 45 days.

I'm so desperate for their new catalog to arrive I was reading and marking up last year's catalog the other night. Hoping to get a head start! Probably a good thing I don't live close to any seed places like that. I go a little crazy with seeds....about like going shopping for fabrics or yarns!

 

[MROO]

Seed people...
I just received my free Baker Creek Heirloom seeds catalog and OMG!
Not sure how I've never gotten one from them before since I tend to get all the good big catalogs over the years, but I browsed it quickly and was pleased to see the prices seem to be in line with most other good places (ie: no major price gouging...must use "speshul" coupon just to prevent being ripped off...you know the ones I'm talking about...)

And, free shipping.
Think I might have to give them a try.

Let us know how it goes, please!

 

[MROO]

I had brown wet clay in PA...not all that far from you actually...but here I'm on even heavier, thicker, and slicker red clay. Whole different beast! Though the zones are close...6b winter here and hotter than hades in the summer. Horribly humid too.

Nice list! I've grown some of those in PA and they did well for me there.

I'm so desperate for their new catalog to arrive I was reading and marking up last year's catalog the other night. Hoping to get a head start! Probably a good thing I don't live close to any seed places like that. I go a little crazy with seeds....about like going shopping for fabrics or yarns!

My best bud introduced me to a new fabric shop in DE. It's a small specialty shop, packed to the gills with goodies ... and I'm afraid to go back! Y'know how JoAnn's marks everything ridiculously high so they can hand out super savings coupons that bring prices back down to the "still too expensive" range? Well, this place is priced at JoAnn's "regular-to-intermediate" prices ... but has the super-high quality to go along with it. Their quilting cottons flow through your hands like silk. Since I deal mainly in piece work, I can get their quilt scraps and jelly-roll strips at a crazy-cheap price. I got three pounds of really high quality scraps for $6.00. When it was sorted, I had 43 different fabrics - all in scraps perfectly sized for my current passion - tiny doll clothes. I'm a happy camper for awhile!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

My best bud introduced me to a new fabric shop in DE. It's a small specialty shop, packed to the gills with goodies ... and I'm afraid to go back! Y'know how JoAnn's marks everything ridiculously high so they can hand out super savings coupons that bring prices back down to the "still too expensive" range? Well, this place is priced at JoAnn's "regular-to-intermediate" prices ... but has the super-high quality to go along with it. Their quilting cottons flow through your hands like silk. Since I deal mainly in piece work, I can get their quilt scraps and jelly-roll strips at a crazy-cheap price. I got three pounds of really high quality scraps for $6.00. When it was sorted, I had 43 different fabrics - all in scraps perfectly sized for my current passion - tiny doll clothes. I'm a happy camper for awhile!

Ooohh, sounds like my kind of place!
I'm a touchy feely shopper...gotta touch the fabrics, pet the yarns, rub and smell the herbs...Yeah, I'm that girl. The one you don't want to be seen shopping with!!
I do stop short of smelling the batiks though...mostly because quality batiks still have a strong enough wax smell that I don't have to lean in. Kinda like a bookstore... I just walk through and inhale.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

@SnapdragonQ I feel that red clay thing tho, ours is red too. We have 6" of what could generously be referred to as "topsoil", and then you just hit solid clay bed the whole way down. Everything floods every year. Our surprise 'did well last year' test variety were the brulee butternut squashes. Really decent yield and did better than the honeynuts planted in the same bed. We're excited to do them all over again.

 

[electrycmonk]

Ivermectin is a wonderful drug, BUT I can't imagine self medicating with it!!!
More Darwin Award winners???
Mary

At the very least #DAC
#DarwinAwardContenders

 

[electrycmonk]

FYI.... Yesterday I ran across an actual article with proper scientific published docs and some links that have a few interim published articles referenced in the middle about how the research has been going all year AND years before during MERS & previous SARS.

Subject for your curiosity:
sleep and melitonin, the circadian rhythm and the resting of the bodies immune system.

I emailed the article & link to myself for rereading later.... I'll try to post it *Late tonight or some point tomorrow.*

 

[Beer can]

Seed people...
I just received my free Baker Creek Heirloom seeds catalog and OMG!
Not sure how I've never gotten one from them before since I tend to get all the good big catalogs over the years, but I browsed it quickly and was pleased to see the prices seem to be in line with most other good places (ie: no major price gouging...must use "speshul" coupon just to prevent being ripped off...you know the ones I'm talking about...)

And, free shipping.
Think I might have to give them a try.

I've ordered from them. Good reviews from here. The catalog has perty pics. Can't find many of their stuff anywhere. Sandhill preservation center is another good one for super variety of heritage seeds. They don't have the pics though.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I've ordered from them. Good reviews from here. The catalog has perty pics. Can't find many of their stuff anywhere. Sandhill preservation center is another good one for super variety of heritage seeds. They don't have the pics though.

Thank you! I've been trying to remember the other site similar to rareseeds, and could not for the life of me remember it was Sandhill.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

@SnapdragonQ I feel that red clay thing tho, ours is red too. We have 6" of what could generously be referred to as "topsoil", and then you just hit solid clay bed the whole way down. Everything floods every year. Our surprise 'did well last year' test variety were the brulee butternut squashes. Really decent yield and did better than the honeynuts planted in the same bed. We're excited to do them all over again.

Girl, you are lucky to have topsoil! We had some over in PA, but had that hard layer of clay and shale underneath. It was a start though and took amendments well. I could grow anything I wanted so long as it could take the climate and shorter season.

Not my pic below, but describes the area well. I've got a very similar but bigger bank to one side of my house where the house, driveway, and barn area was cut into the side of the ridge. When I had some driveway work done upon move in, the excavation opened up areas of much darker and redder clay. We also have more rocks and boulders here too, which were helpful to use down by the creek and for a natural retaining wall in front of the house. I've built that area up with compost and amendments so I could have flowerbeds.
It's all steep ridges and valleys here and any topsoil that was once here is long washed away from the hard rains so I had to have topsoil brought in, and I also made compost to create any garden areas.

I can't garden down by the creek because it floods a lot, but the soil down there is rather nice on top of the rockbed. If I still had my tractor I could bring some of that up here and I'd have wonderful raised beds. Anyway...here's what I'm working with now..