The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

I am not sure if I will be able to navigate the new site as well. But it may have something to do with all the issues everyone's been having with this site and their computers? Idk

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am not sure if I will be able to navigate the new site as well. But it may have something to do with all the issues everyone's been having with this site and their computers? Idk

I know now I am on TheEasyGarden.com the sister site it is a tad different not allot we do have have a pm tab you do "conversations"
that did intimidate me to start very nice person on there is sending me mustard seed cuz I could not find any here..
there are people on there I ignore same as ones here that are know it alls in their own minds... jmho

 

[Beer can]

I really like the setup here.
I joined a smoking meat forum awhile ago (though I've never posted) that is setup exactly like BYC is now.
I don't like change either. Hope it doesn't change too much.
Guess it's supposed to be like BYH. I wandered around that site, don't like the setup much, reminds me of the forum 'Permies' that I didn't like either.
On my phone in mobile BYC has basically no advertising intrusion. Wasn't the case on BYH.
Hmmmfff...

Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens .

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I tried going on that site buy my limited internet service would not let the pages load. I did get it to a few times but I finally gave up trying.
That's nice that you found a garden page to interact on.
I like the garden pages on here and I have a couple on FB that I really like.
I ordered some seeds from Berlin seed co. and I got these seeds for a evergreen cabbage that you have to soak overnight before planting them.
And I ran out of bags for my garden and did not plant any. I really don't think I want to deal with those dang white moth's again this year.

I did get some yellow solo cups yesterday to make my bug traps out of. Something is eating my eggplant but I can't see anything on it.

 

[Beer can]

@chickadoodles I use Thuricide on my cabbage and broccoli for cabbage loopers. Will not affect honeybees ladybugs earthworms etc. Couldn't find it last yr, feed store that usually has it didn't. But TSC had Organic Garden Safe worm and caterpillar killer. Didn't say anywhere in the instructions what exactly it was like the thuricide brand does but the active ingredient was the same. Just a short life bacteria that disrupts the caterpillars digestive system and kills them. Safe to use up to say of harvest.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

When the old BYC changed to this format, I pretty much stopped posting/reading posts. I had remained in my state thread, that was it. Wisher had the bright idea to send me a link to this thread and invite me back. Honestly, those two threads are it on here, for me. I don't want to explore, and I hate most new formatting.

Cell phones drive me crazy, too. I can't figure out how to use most of it - still don't understand widget versus app and have a mild panic attack when people try to explain it to me. I DON'T CARE.

As soon as I get comfortable with my cell phones features, it breaks and I have to get a new one. Seems like every time manufacturers come out with the next version of a phone they change things just to change things so it seems new. My phone 3 phones ago had the power button on the upper right and the volume on the upper left. The next phone had them switched. I got this phone and could not locate the power button. Anywhere.

Turns out someone put it on the back of the phone (maybe they were out of options for "new and fresh redesign"??) where it masquerades as part of the camera.

I can't wait to see where the next phone puts it.

 

[Beer can]

Those Egyptian walking onions I got from a BYC member from Oklahoma are up, 22 of them. And I still have two styrofoam cups of smaller ones in a window all winter I might give to someone else or plant in a different location. Think I'm going to put feed bags each side of them to cut down on weeds for now. Have potato onions up also. Long row of peas and spinach. Think I'll plant some kale now, keep forgetting. Everything else will wait till Memorial weekend. We are supposed to get snow this week...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Those Egyptian walking onions I got from a BYC member from Oklahoma are up, 22 of them. And I still have two styrofoam cups of smaller ones in a window all winter I might give to someone else or plant in a different location. Think I'm going to put feed bags each side of them to cut down on weeds for now. Have potato onions up also. Long row of peas and spinach. Think I'll plant some kale now, keep forgetting. Everything else will wait till Memorial weekend. We are supposed to get snow this week...

What's a walking onion?

I, too, am taking the opportunity to plant today. It's the first non-downpour day in a while. Went out at dawn, got the garden hoed, put newspapers down for weed blocking, got the fence installed, planted the cabbage, broccoli, celery, scarlet runner beans and peas.

It is not even warm enough during the day to put my tomato and pepper plants out (even into my cold frame). The grow box inside is getting very crowded. I haven't started my cucurbits, yet... they need about 2 weeks before transplant... no room.

 

[Beer can]

Egyptian walking onions. They grow little clusters of pungent almost garlic like on their tops. They're called walking cause when they fall over the little bulbs sprout and re-grow. They'll pretty much grow forever once started. You can also eat the plant bulb, and use them for green onions.

 

[microchick]

My garden is a disaster zone right now. I lost one row of onions to cold wet weather...wet as in puddles in the garden. It's hard to tell yet whether or not my beets and carrots survived. I need to weed but I can't tell where the rows begin any more because nothing is up. I planted 4 rows of corn. Two stalks are up. I do have sugar pumpkins and butternut squash up. DH and I both love roasted squash and pumpkin cubes in the oven over French fries and I did get my tomato plants and two Jalapeno pepper plants in the ground.

I did go trolling for seeds in my 3 rows of green beans and did find some germinating and my potatoes are up so it isn't a complete wash out.

I do have a question for somebody who knows more about this than I do. I bought a package of Winter Butternut squash seeds from Burpees this spring and started them in the house in generic starting soil. They all came up but then they died before developing their 3 and 4th leaves. I tried more water, less water, more sun, less sun, Miracle Grow, no fertilizer, transplant anyway and transplanting them to the outside. Of the 20 or more that I tried to start. 1 survived to be planted outdoors. The others that I planted outdoors suffered the same fate the others did. I had harvested seeds from a squash I had bought at a farmers market and they are coming up and doing fine.

Don't know what the problem was as it never happened before and I followed package directions. Any ideas?