indeed! There are excellent ones at small farmers markets in LA. That's how I got the first seeds =)
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I read a post on a board somewhere a couple of years ago, from a guy who said he'd eaten a second-generation cucumber from his garden that was unimaginably bitter and had been hospitalized for three days. And he'd only eaten a tiny piece, given the taste. I was never sure what to make of it-- if that could possibly be true. I guess it is.
Could you build a chicken-wire cage around the plants? Then all you'd have to worry about are rabbits and crafty gophers.
In your country you have birds that eat tomatos? Cool =) Our birds totally ignore them. We have green flies and white flies galore, though.
They are tough ones
The only thing they hate is if you keep them permanently dripping wet. They are plants of arid regions and have no problem with long dry spells.In German, they are called Geldbaum (money tree) or Pfennigbaum (pennytree)
Yes! I long to enclose everything in chicken wire, but at the moment I don't have access-- or the skills. I was looking at chicken wire... cloches? on Amazon to protect my anticipated ground cherries, but they were ridiculously expensive. And the way things are going so far, I probably won't need them.
What nice polite birds you have
Are they eating them? All I know is, they take one gigantic bite/peck out of every single one they can get to, the little creeps.
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my brother grows wine for a hobby and he pulls old nylon stockings over the fruit so that the blackbirds can't eat them. Maybe that would work with your tomatos? But yu'd then have the problem that if further blossoms open on the same cluster of fruit, youd have to impollinate them by hand since bumble bees that usually do that job can't get through the stockings.
That's where chicken wire, in a large enough radius around the plants, works well. It won't stop bees, but will stop birds. And again, rabbits are another story.
1/2" mesh would do the trick.
Oh. I do want those. And the raised beds too.
That's an ingenious idea-- I have tried cheesecloth but they actually seemed to go through that; it's the red that attracts them. Also tried a scarecrow made of newspaper plastic bags and half a statue of the Virgin Mary: not effective. Likewise, reflective ribbon. Not sure I'm up for hand-pollinating at the moment-- did once do that with corn, though.
Planted on First Contact Day. Auspicious.
oh! beautiful!
I'm no expert but I do have two inherited jade plants, and after eleven years they're still going strong despite being frozen, baked at 110 degrees, ignored, and having tree volunteers take root in their containers. So, I think they're pretty tough, and once in a while they even bloom. So, I like your chances
I'm no expert but I do have two inherited jade plants, and after eleven years they're still going strong despite being frozen, baked at 110 degrees, ignored, and having tree volunteers take root in their containers. So, I think they're pretty tough, and once in a while they even bloom. So, I like your chances
Bloom IDK that would weird me out i would take pictures and such ,, if that were to happen .. woe.. I do have to transplant the baby jade ,,, when I can find dirt you know.. ,, that is going to be a possible killer going on.. with the root system and all I think I will just keep the roots together.. and move the whole container into a new pot without the container just like that I will need more help when I get the dirt and then the new pot .. we will see.. then---
Life ambition achieved.
We hope to plant a garden in some garden boxes outside. But we have a lot of work to go on the ground before we can do that. But we planning on it, does that count? And I have a brown thumb. I get that from my mom. I just have to look at a plant and it dies. The weeds grow though.
lovely =) and half my nick 
Planning is the best part.
How about planting pretty weeds? There are rather handsome ones and many weeds are edible, some are even delicious. Ground Elder is excellent in cottage cheese, herb butter or a herb soup. Wild Origano is just as tasty as its tame brother. Nettles are delicious with feta cheese as a stroodle filling or a filling for ravioli (not suitable for people with gout, kidney problems or with a malfunction of the parathyriod gland). Daisies are very tasty on bread and butter or in a salad. Dandelion flowers make a nice tea but you can also roll cheese balls in the petals: looks pretty and tastes very good. Young dandelion leaves make a good salad (if you have liver problems you should eat only little, though).
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