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[DeesHens]

For those of a certain age...​

Your youth in pictures How many do you remember?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!

Fun going down memory lane. Thanks! ~mm~

 

[DeesHens]

Check this new tomato out.
I'm thinking of trying this come spring...........
https://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/store/product-info.php?pid1564.html

Picture at link.




Indeterminate High anthocyanins

Open pollinated, Indeterminate 70 days A new release from Oregon State University, from the breeding program of Jim Myers, dept of horticulture.

Indigo Rose has beautiful eye-catching hues of deep purple where sunshine hits the fruit to red/orange where a leaf or stem shields an area from the sun. The saladette sized fruits are excellent in salads, for snacking and I even canned a few quarts this summer.

There has been a buzz about this breeding program for some years because the deep purple colored skins and surrounding tissue are extremely high in anthocyanin. The flavor is quite pleasing, much more so than early selections several years ago.


A classically bred tomato like Indigo Rose is the result of ten years or more painstaking selection. Dr. Myers steadily walked the fields, tagged and numbered the promising lines, and grew out the seeds from those selected plants the following year. These tomatoes were continuously evaluated for color, flavor, and yields. In future years we expect to see offspring of Indigo Rose with additional traits. The presence of a high anthocyan content offers some disease resistance.We are delighted to introduce Indigo Rose as the first high anthocyanin tomato. From fighting cancer to fighting wrinkles anthocyanins are regarded as one of the chief reasons to eat our deeply colored fruits and vegetables.

Neat info! Sent it to my DH as he is our tomato grower. ~Dee~

 

[Greg Richardson]

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LOL! I know the feeling. I was very tired last night so I quit ordering seeds but yes my bill is already getting up there.
I decided to buy more than I need of each one this year to give or trade instead of coming up short.
Decided to try them because they are in Oregon closer to our climate.
I buy seeds all over the US but I like to get them closer to home when I can.

I also liked reading this on their site.................

Nichols Garden Nursery has served home gardeners for more than 60 years. In a time of corporate culture and takeovers, we remain an independent family business steeped in a tradition of customer service and fine food gardening. When you order from us you receive the finest quality seeds, plants and products, an eclectic mixture for the gardener who cooks and wants to eat safely and well.
If you have a gardening question our knowledgeable staff is ready to assist you. We are an original signer of the Safe Seed Pledge, and offer no GMO/Genetically engineered seeds or plants. All our seed are untreated so you don't need to worry about handling our seeds.

Nichols Garden Nursery:
1190 Old Salem Rd. NE,
Albany, OR 97321
ph: 800-422-3985​

Visitors are welcome all year Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 

[Hinotori]

There needs to be a warning for going to Nichols Garden Nursery: I can easily come up with a thousand dollars worth of utterly necessary $5 and under items when I go through that site!

(random not in response to Greg, but I've been guilty of what we call, at my other habitual BB, pattiitus, lately, so I'll just ramble on)

I've got to come up with new accomodations for the BdA junior misses today, and that means they need to go out on the porch, which means the container must be utterly rat-proof, because the coyotes have once again cleaned the neighborhood out of feral cats and the rats are back. I'm failing to properly deploy the rat zappers as they need to go in dry areas and I barely have those INSIDE at this point. If it weren't for the fact we need new tires, I'd grit my teeth and buy a 50 gallon fish tank or enough plexiglas to put something of that ilk together, but: need new tires. Merry Christmas!

Also, well, yeah, here we are, it's December again. I've actually got clothing bought for my husband and three out of four of the younger generation, and am most of the way through two sets of bead stitch-markers for my aquantences the young knitting women. Other than that, though, the most I've got going toward the season is making sure to drop the curtain over the window with the Christmas Cactus at dusk every night toward having it bloom sometime this month. Last year I turned it late and it was randomly Christmas until May on the back-side of it.

My Christmas cactus has been blooming for the last several weeks. Usually it goes on though January. Apparently it likes the window it's in. I need to repot it soon. It's getting to big for it's current home.

 

[Hinotori]

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Oh ok, maybe it wasn't just the red cloth then, I thought for sure it was the color! LOL Yeah they all acted like there was a bear in the yard!

Mine run if I shake out anything. Towels, tarp, rugs. Squawk and gone.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

...... the most I've got going toward the season is making sure to drop the curtain over the window with the Christmas Cactus at dusk every night toward having it bloom sometime this month. Last year I turned it late and it was randomly Christmas until May on the back-side of it.

Another good way to encourage your Christmas Cactus to bloom is to let it get REALLY dry and stay that way for a couple of weeks, then give it a good watering and keep it moist.  I found this out by accident (because I mistreat my plants) and then found out that Cisco was telling people the same thing!!  It works for me every time, and has nothing to do with light.  I can do it any time of the year -- again mostly by accident!    Works the same for my friend, too. 

I learned my Christmas Cactus technique from my Grandma Jane, who'd gotten a start from her mother's cactus in the twenties and kept it blooming until she went into a nursing home: dry from labor day until Halloween, then water it as much as it will absorb and move it into a window in a dark, cold room ungtil the Solstice (which, when I could do that, I did: when the back bedrooms are dredged, I will do it that way again). Mine needs potted on (it's about twenty), but I don't have any window big enough to keep it as it is.

I have screwed up my get-outdoor-chores-done-early plans by forgetting to dry my work pants after I washed them last night. Oh, well, will rejigger the schedule, I guess.

E(dit) T(o) A(dd): I could, if I wished, have a commercial layer operation here, if I were totally lost to ethical considerations. It's zoned Agriculture, and Lacey has a "freedom to farm" ordinance. Sometimes when the neighbors get particularly annoying, I dream of making an eight-foot-wide by quarter-mile-long peafowl run on the north property line, but the fact my grandmother drummed Matthew 5:43-47 into my head along with the rules for keeping Christmas Cactuses means that even if I had the money, I wouldn't. And even dreaming about it violates my Matthew 5:28 alarms.

On the other hand, after a summer when a neighbor bought a trampoline and had many, many middle school boys whooping it up in his back yard, I do not feel guilty about a mere few too many young roosters in mine.

 

[Greg Richardson]

These kids need some old fashioned justice done. I hope other kids turn them in. These types of kids can't keep their mouth shut they will tell others how close they came to getting caught.





Vandals severely damage Covington holiday tree

By KOMO Staff Published: Dec 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM PST

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COVINGTON, Wash. -- Covington city leaders have decided to go on with their annual community tree lighting ceremony, despite the fact that vandals tried to saw the tree down early Saturday morning.

Police responded to a call Saturday morning that someone was sawing down the tree, which is located in the Don Henning Roundabout at 168th Place. When officers arrived on scene, the vandals were long gone, leaving behind a metal wedge and a severely damaged tree.

"We're going to try to do everything we can to recover evidence from the items," Covington police officer Kyle Riches said in a news release.

City arborist Bill Dealy said the cut was made with a hand saw and went through 80 percent of the tree trunk.

"That damage is a death sentence for the tree," he said.

The city's annual tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday evening at 5 p.m., and officials say the event will go on as planned.

The city's public works crew has secured the tree for the lighting, but it will have to be removed soon after. The 35-foot tall spruce is valued at roughly $10,000, according to city officials.

Covington Mayor Margeret Harto, who will provide opening remarks at Saturday's ceremony, was shocked to learn of the vandalism.

"It is sad that someone would be responsible for such a selfish act in a season that's all about giving,' she said. "I know this community won't let it dampen their spirit."

 

[FirewifeJess]

These kids need some old fashioned justice done. I hope other kids turn them in. These types of kids can't keep their mouth shut they will tell others how close they came to getting caught.





Vandals severely damage Covington holiday tree

By KOMO Staff Published: Dec 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM PST

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COVINGTON, Wash. -- Covington city leaders have decided to go on with their annual community tree lighting ceremony, despite the fact that vandals tried to saw the tree down early Saturday morning.

Police responded to a call Saturday morning that someone was sawing down the tree, which is located in the Don Henning Roundabout at 168th Place. When officers arrived on scene, the vandals were long gone, leaving behind a metal wedge and a severely damaged tree.

"We're going to try to do everything we can to recover evidence from the items," Covington police officer Kyle Riches said in a news release.

City arborist Bill Dealy said the cut was made with a hand saw and went through 80 percent of the tree trunk.

"That damage is a death sentence for the tree," he said.

The city's annual tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday evening at 5 p.m., and officials say the event will go on as planned.

The city's public works crew has secured the tree for the lighting, but it will have to be removed soon after. The 35-foot tall spruce is valued at roughly $10,000, according to city officials.

Covington Mayor Margeret Harto, who will provide opening remarks at Saturday's ceremony, was shocked to learn of the vandalism.

"It is sad that someone would be responsible for such a selfish act in a season that's all about giving,' she said. "I know this community won't let it dampen their spirit."

This makes me so angry!!! I was gonna take the kids to the tree lighting this evening WHO DOES THAT?!

 

[TerrorBird]

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COVINGTON, Wash. -- Covington city leaders have decided to go on with their annual community tree lighting ceremony, despite the fact that vandals tried to saw the tree down early Saturday morning.

Police responded to a call Saturday morning that someone was sawing down the tree, which is located in the Don Henning Roundabout at 168th Place. When officers arrived on scene, the vandals were long gone, leaving behind a metal wedge and a severely damaged tree.

"We're going to try to do everything we can to recover evidence from the items," Covington police officer Kyle Riches said in a news release.

City arborist Bill Dealy said the cut was made with a hand saw and went through 80 percent of the tree trunk.

"That damage is a death sentence for the tree," he said.

The city's annual tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday evening at 5 p.m., and officials say the event will go on as planned.

The city's public works crew has secured the tree for the lighting, but it will have to be removed soon after. The 35-foot tall spruce is valued at roughly $10,000, according to city officials.

Covington Mayor Margeret Harto, who will provide opening remarks at Saturday's ceremony, was shocked to learn of the vandalism.

"It is sad that someone would be responsible for such a selfish act in a season that's all about giving,' she said. "I know this community won't let it dampen their spirit."

This makes me so angry!!! I was gonna take the kids to the tree lighting this evening WHO DOES THAT?!

The Grinch, maybe. But much Grinchier than the one in the book/cartoon. It's a shame that they did that.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

So I am sitting in the tractor watching momma teach the chicks and see they are eating grass. So I go get a shovel full of dry dirt for grit. Momma immediatly starts bathing in it, and it hit me, she hasn't bathed in a month. So I got the bathing tub out of the coop and put it in the tractor. She jumped in and went to town. I put the chicks in the pocket of my hoody with my hands and they went to sleep. She got a good 10 min bath.