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Lupara

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  1. For the performative unwoke: Every generation grows more tolerant than the last unless fascism rules.
  2. The Mrs. has been admiring them on the morning walks. Yesterday I stopped, took a pic and told her I knew who to ask.
  3. Seed display racks in the big box and hardware stores were largely wiped out as well. Now the question is how many new gardners will continue gardening after life gets back to somewhat normal. My guess would be around half.
  4. I don't know about Dubois but the greenhouses sold out very early this year in Elk Co. One owner said there were many starting a garden for the first time. He said the food plants sold out weeks earlier than previous years and they couldn't replenish their stock.
  5. They've responded all right. To about everything the Bible could throw at them. First famine in starting them in a medium where roots couldn't grow enough for the plants to feed. The peat pelt lot didn't establish well at all. The second lot established ok then came the insects. In treating the pestilence I committed the sin of spraying them with a Dawn solution in the morning of a sunny day. All this happened is in the upper garden. I planted some other pepper varieties in the lower garden that haven't been bothered by any insects.
  6. Dappled it is from now on. I put the second group of tomatoes under the deck umbrella for a few days with good result. When high winds were in the forecast Friday the umbrella went to half mast.
  7. One problem I had was when I hardened off the tomatoes I had some significant leaf burn from direct sunlight. I put them out in the morning in full sun on a sunny day. Brought them inside in the evening. After two days the burn showed up. Too much sun right away or lack of fertilizer? I can describe the plants as leggy. Tall. Some nearly 2' tall with smaller leaves if that was a factor.
  8. Soil blocking looks like the way to go for volume propagation. I'll start about 30 tomatoes and peppers. The paper pots I used were about 2 1/2 " wide by 5 in. tall. Since it isn't many plants I don't know the advantage of blocking. I will look to improve the starting medium. You start the seeds directly in the Jiffy Mix or some type of seed starting mix?
  9. OK thanks. Good to know. I've purchased my last pellets. The method I described above for the second run worked fine.
  10. I cut through the mesh of the pellet as suggested. After more that a week, maybe two there was little or no growth. I carefully lifted them up and peeled the mesh off. By then I believe it was too late. They remain stunted. I'm sure the problem was the pellets. I planted another lot of the same seed without the pellets about 20 days after starting these and they did fine. They're in the garden now. The medium for those was potting soil with some seed starting mix at the top.
  11. No but it occurs to me since you said this that the large round ceramic in one of our crockpots could be used in the oven. Temps called for bread baking range in the high 300's to low 400's so I suppose you could use the whole unit.
  12. First attempt at bagels this afternoon. Good but I'll try other recipes soon. 1 tbs. minced leeks was a nice touch. I'll get my daughter to help shhape them next time. https://www.artandthekitchen.com/bread-machine-bagels/
  13. Made soft pretzels this afternoon with my daughter. Easy. Really easy. Versatile kitchen gadget when you start googling recipes. We'll stick with this version. 25lb. bags of flour for hotels and restaurants are showing up in the local grocery at about 50 cents a pound. Sauteed a tablespoon of minced leeks to mellow them. Blended them into 8 ozs of cream cheese for a spread. I can see jalapenos and cheddar in the near future. https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/soft-giant-pretzels/
  14. This has been a staple lately. It originally was a whole wheat roll recipe but works just as well with regular flour making a loaf of bread. In order into the machine: 1 1/4 cu water 2 tbs. oil 4 tbs. honey 1 1/2 tsp salt 4 cu flour 1 tbs. yeast Dough cycle until ready. Place in pan. Cover with plastic wrap. Let rise for 40 to 60 min. Our convection oven on bake takes 25 to 30 min at 350*. Golden brown or an internal temperature of 180* A pic appears in the Bread Recipes Topic.
  15. They were are all of 15+ yrs. old. Left over from my seed starting days gone by. Since I wanted to reproduce the orange tomato, I started back up. I remember they swelled with water right away. These, as you described, were like getting a brick to absorb water. I almost gave up. After more water and some time they finally swelled. I threw the bag away so I don't know what the material is. I did start the same pepper variety in seed starting medium surrounded by potting soil about ten days ago. They are just coming out now. I'll watch for any yellowing with this lot and report back. Thanks again.
  16. I'm seeing some leaf yellowlng and in some cases the plant dies off. Not watering much. A couple tsps. a day I would say. Lavender, Petee. Any advice appreciated.
  17. I'll have to contact them to see if there is a hickory list.
  18. I'd appreciate a heads up when its time to start peppers and tomatoes. Any chance of having leeks at the plant bazar this spring?
  19. Here is a pic of the "Orange Holdover" tomatoes alongside some Yellow Pears. I've saved plenty of seeds for spring. The flavor is initially sweet with a slight acid finish. Tasty.
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