What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Hickory. Not sure which species. Nut does not look like shagbark or shellbark. A thin husk could be bitternut or pignut. In any case good pig food.

We have shagbark here & I agree it doesn't really look like it. They nuts are much bigger. But a pic of the whole tree could help too.

I will get my dad to explain how he makes the roti flour and post it.

Please do, I'd love to hear. I've seen it done on PBS & thought it neat.

 

[Sally PB]

I got the last of the potatoes cleaned up and stored in the basement. I have a lot of potatoes. I also have a 5 gallon bucket of ones that won't keep as well. Mostly because I hit them with the shovel. Bad me.

 

[igorsMistress]

I got the last of the potatoes cleaned up and stored in the basement. I have a lot of potatoes. I also have a 5 gallon bucket of ones that won't keep as well. Mostly because I hit them with the shovel. Bad me.

I wish we had a basement here, I don’t have a way to store root vegetables for long as it’s too warm in the house.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Grey roof is our root cellar long before us concrete cinder bloc.
We us it as a garbage out of sight room.
We have like 7 rat traps in there catch the beast dead.
No basement here either !

 

[CNJ]

That's what I thought. Although, with the LED shop lights, I could provide more daylight hours than a full sun out in the garden.

BTW, I got my 4 foot long LED shop lights on sale at Menards this past winter for less than $10.00 each. They work so much better than the old light bulbs I used to have, and at a fraction of the cost to run. All I did was to make sure the light spectrum on the LED shop light was within the growing range for the plants.

Or, you can buy "grow" lights for $80 each in the garden center that do the same thing.

You should check out grow tents on you tube, you probably could grow anything with the right environment setting.

 

[CNJ]

is there any special variety of bananas that can be eaten green or you can cook any unripe bananas? lately there are a lot of green bananas for sale here. people just buy them and wait to ripen.

Any green banana will taste the same when cooked but must be hard and green not half ripe. I am eating the green Chiquita type banana called Grand Nain.

 

[CNJ]

They are growing, but no bananas, I harvested some leaves for rice cooking on fire.

They will fruit if you use the fruiting type fertilizer once a month when the plants are big enough.

 

[CNJ]

Yes, I do. Is that so strange?

It's amazing how people around the world are connected by the internet.

 

[gtaus]

I got my lights on sale, 40% off, and one was damaged so I got it for half off the sale price on that one. Shop lights don’t work in my set up well, but I wish they did. We tried those first, but they’re too big and cumbersome; now they’re going out to the garage for more light in there.

Oh, I understand. A 4 foot long LED light might not work for a lot of household setups. I bought them to use as grow lights on a starting shelf I built, which was 4 foot wide. So, perfect for my needs.

More importantly, I want to shout out that you can buy inexpensive LED shop lights that have the good light spectrum coverage for plant growth. When I bought my lights on sale for less than $10, the store was selling their plant "grow" lights with essentially the same light spectrum specs for $80 each. You can save a lot of money by buying your grow lights in the shop department instead of the gardening department. Just check out the light spectrum you need as not all lights are the same.

 

[gtaus]

You should check out grow tents on you tube, you probably could grow anything with the right environment setting.

Thanks. I'll look into that.