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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 17, 2021 19:42:48 GMT
I would love to do that, but I cannot eat so many tomatoes, or even make them into sauce.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 17, 2021 20:09:51 GMT
That’s because there are 6 of us. They disappear in a twinkling.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 18, 2021 16:22:51 GMT
A lady I know on another mb is known as 'The Tomato Lady' in Germany, she has sent me heaps of tomato, chilli and sweet pepper seeds. I sent her some flower seeds in return. I wont be firing up my heated propagator for a few months yet. I have started scheming tho...
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 17, 2021 19:48:33 GMT
Bit early for the Murphies?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 17, 2021 21:45:30 GMT
God only knows what that means!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2021 8:23:13 GMT
Murphies are potatoes Bixa... My BiL (the retired farmer) already has his potatoes in tubs in the farmyard Mick, my garden is quite sheltered and I usually start them off at this sort of time..
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Post by mossie on Mar 18, 2021 8:24:00 GMT
He means spuds, a staple food of Ireland. Remember 'the great potato famine' which led to the dispersal of Irishmen around the world.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 18, 2021 8:46:53 GMT
Isn’t Good Friday the day to plant them?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2021 9:06:18 GMT
Well....thats in a couple of weeks. I'd not heard that. Anyway the label said to plant them in March.
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Post by mossie on Mar 18, 2021 9:50:48 GMT
Good Friday is for runner beans.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2021 9:57:38 GMT
A fountain of knowledge so you are Mosie x
I sow runner beans mid-April tho...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2021 10:01:20 GMT
We seem to have hijacked this thread....
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 18, 2021 10:39:30 GMT
Good Friday is way too early for runner beans.
You might get away with broad beans.
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Post by lugg on Mar 18, 2021 10:46:22 GMT
Who would even plant runner beans - loathe them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 18, 2021 11:14:12 GMT
I thought Bixa was talking about Facebook, not Farmbook.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 18, 2021 12:57:31 GMT
I thought Bixa was talking about Facebook, not Farmbook. Yes sorry. Feel free to move to the vegetable growing thread.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2021 10:55:26 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 21, 2021 13:52:04 GMT
No wonder you eat so many vegetables! Actually, my grandparents had a big garden, too. When my grandfather died, my mother made sure that the size was reduced because my grandmother was killing herself with the garden work, even with the assistance of my parents when they were there and family friend Bébert (Mohamed) who was neglecting his own family to come and help my grandmother.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2021 13:53:41 GMT
Such beautiful beds! Is there anything to be done about the attacked cabbages? And, just to be nosy, what is on the other side of the fence?
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2021 14:33:26 GMT
Oh not nosey at all Bixa! That is our BnB property that has my son's house and all the satellite buildings that make up the 4 BnB's. The photo of the pumpkins looks directly at the old tennis court( awaiting finance to be upgraded) and towards the entrance gate. The 5th BnB is in my property and the 6th soon to be launched will also be part of my house. Would you like a tour? Soon to be completed in the next few weeks is the very last accommodation to be offered to exclusive ( not in a posh way) but in a well known way, from previous bookings. Not offered to the general public.
Unfortunately the cabbages will have to be sprayed with a worm devastator. There is no point in growing them just to feed worms!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2021 14:37:55 GMT
Ooooooo, tour! Yes, please!
I did think that looked like a tennis court, so at least I was on the right track. I had not realized that your BnB empire had grown so dramtically, though. Wow!
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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2021 14:53:36 GMT
Bixa we have had my sons property for a number of years now. He built a house practically around the corner from us - a beautiful Tuscan Villa but when this next door property came up for sale I told Mr. Tod to buy it as I didn't want neighbors on my doorstep so to speak. Anyway my son sold and bought next to us. After 5 years of marriage that was it and the house has not been occupied for about 6 years now, but we started to get the BnB going to bring in some cash. People just love the lawns, flower beds, pool and court. At the moment all units are occupied by a UK couple building/renovating a property nearby, a health professional also from UK until end April, and most recently a young female doctor and her Techwiz fiancee until December. The largest unit becomes occupied tomorrow for a month by a mother and son as they search for a permanent residence. Busy busy busy!!
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Post by fumobici on Mar 21, 2021 15:09:51 GMT
He built a house practically around the corner from us - a beautiful Tuscan Villa... Forgive the digression but what architecturally constitutes a newly built "Tuscan villa" thousands of miles from Tuscany? At a minimum it'd have to constructed almost entirely of gray sandstone and have a terra cotta roof, which would be horrifically expensive in most places I'd think.
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Post by casimira on Mar 21, 2021 15:23:28 GMT
Just gorgeous raised beds!! They are exactly what I want to have put in somewhere "down the road".
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2021 16:00:00 GMT
Literal minded today, Fumobici? It's a style, just as my grandparents' house had a "Tudor" roof, miles & centuries away from England.
Tod, that is quite a complex you all have going! Yes again to the tour, please. That would definitely make an interesting thread that I know many of us will be sharing far & wide.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 21, 2021 20:20:04 GMT
So far I've sown:-
Tomatoes Cherry Annie's Singapore Ania Shirley Cherry Fruit Punch Cherry Cherokee Purple
Peppers Lesya Rote Augsburger
Chilli Dong Xuan Market Chilli Sweet Pickle
Also herbs...thyme and chives.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 22, 2021 12:47:55 GMT
At a minimum it'd have to constructed almost entirely of gray sandstone and have a terra cotta roof, which would be horrifically expensive in most places I'd think. Oh the real deal would have cost at least another two or three million. The exterior walls are plastered but the roof is terracotta tiles. It has features no genuine Tuscan villa would have. Modern throughout - for instance the bathroom is in the middle of the main bedroom along with a shower that has a glass wall overlooking the city. The Main bedroom also has a mini-kitchen for serving tea or coffee and snacks at any time, in it's own lounge area. There are many more features the architect put in but in the end the sale was because the grounds were too small for two growing boys, although it had a nice swimming pool. I really liked the open plan kitchen that had it's own herb garden directly off it in a beautifully appointed walled terrace garden.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 25, 2021 11:21:30 GMT
Today is damp and lovely and cool. Real time to plant stuff that will grown in cooler days. Going through my container of seed packets I was delighted to find some seeds I had bought years ago from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield Missouri. They are Chinese Red Noodle long beans: www.sarabackmo.com/red-noodle-yard-long-bean/And Purple Yard -long -Beans: www.southernexposure.com/products/purple-podded-asparagus-yardlong-bean/I wish I still had some seeds of the green ones, but no. At the end of the garden bed I planted a dozen Tom Thumb green peas. My garden man has erected three teepees with long bamboo sticks to help the beans and peas climb.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2021 15:16:19 GMT
Finished manuring and digging the onion and tomato bed and one third of the main bed ready for potatoes.
Potatoes and onions to be planted over Easter weekend, weather willing.
In the greenhouse carrots, spring onions and broad beans are all germinating.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2021 17:47:56 GMT
Growing 11 varieties of tomato this year.
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