BerniceC</b>: I love that pond! I could paddle in that!

BerniceC: Awwwwwwww , that looks so doody

BerniceC: got the motor and the underground power is being installed as I write LOL

it works just great and is such a soothing thing to have in the garden.

this was built yesterday and today Im going to get a motor to run the waterfall part of it :)
http://www.geocities.com/tropicalspleandour/pond.html

skipinnz: Mandarins i love in a salad with chicken and almonds.I wish i could grow a few of those trees here.

ajtgirl: Ahhhhhhh fresh sweet cider,i love it.We have an apple orchard here thats called Twin Orchards and they have every kind of aple you can think of.They also make fresh cider.

Foxy Lady:we're eating citrus at the moment and might look at making some marmalade, Mandarins are nearly finished and they are sweet.

Foxy Lady:

My grandfather owned an apple orchard in Missouri and we spent summers there waiting for the apples to ripen.  They were great right off of the tree.  He also had an apple press for making cider.  I can still smell the workroom where the laborers sifted through the apples to ship out or keep for making cider.

skipinnz: Oh wow are biggest fruit coming up is apples in my area.Usually around the end of August

ajtgirl: was thinking of that,I have my grandfather's old recipe

Foxy Lady:It's not only the vegies it's also the fruit. We virtually have our own fruit all year round.

BerniceC: It's the webbie and i hate waiting for anything to download.

skipinnz: I'd could do without the Snow,and would love veggies fresh all year.

nobleheart:

mmmm elderberry wine?

I found a grove of elderberries....mmmmmm

I have tomatoes...both Grosse Lisse and Cherry...have Cues, Capsicum, Zucchini,10mil silver beet plants LOL...beans..both Green and Butter, potatoes, and am putting in sweet potatoes over the next week. My soil is a very sandy loam and anything will grow....we have just taken 1/2 of my 1/4 acre and are turning it into a tropical rainforesty type thing....I have before pics, and will also get pics when it gets a bit more established....we have already planted about 200 plants (including moses edging and mondo grass)...have about 50-60 more cuttings to plant when they establish a bit more....but will give pics when i am able to.

Foxy sorry about the down load timing of the pics but didnt have time to doctor them as geo cities is a bugger of a sight to upload anything to these days....not like the olde worlde days LOLOL

Foxy Lady:We don't get the snow but it gets cold enough. We can grow vegies all year round, they just slow down a bit in July.

skipinnz: Our winters are to brutal here to grow anything except snowmen.

Foxy Lady: Yep, mine's full of winter vegies at the moment, Brussel sporuts and silver beet etc, can't wait to get tomatoes/cucumbers started in the glass house for spring.

skipinnz: Thats some distance,so your coming out of Winter? Do you have a Garden being your going into Spring?

New Zealand

BerniceC: Whew it sure does take time to download.

skipinnz: Where do you live? Were going into Fall here soon,i am anyways.I'm in Central New York State.

BerniceC:
Ornamental Ginger
AFAIK

I'll look into it

BerniceC: Is there any root attached to the plant? It certainly looks like a ginger.

can anybody identify this flower for me...we found cuttings at the local dump and I have never seen it before....Looks as though it could belong to the ginger family.

view the pics here and they will take a while to load

http://www.geocities.com/tropicalspleandour/query.html

Now because I've read all your posts over our winter I'm glad to say the first daffodills are out at our place and spring will be just around the corner.... I can't wait.. LOL

Rose: I hate the waiting for veggies so i buy them and than i have mine lol.

Groucho: mmmmm cherries!
Now I wanna dash to the farm market and grab some fresh fruit!

We don't really have a in ground garden but we planted a bunch of
tomato plants in big pots and put them on the deck.  They are all
growing well and we'll have tons of em!  I love fresh tomatoes  :)

We also have a Cherry tree and this year we got a bunch of cherries.  I need to learn how to purne it though. 

Foxy Lady: Next year I may either start my tomatoes in January or buy ones already started in April. Not the same as starting from scratch tho!

Rose: Our Summers here are very short.I hit the Farmers Market while i wait for mine to ripen.Right now were in a bad heat wave and my lettuce is all wilted.I buy my plants already started,i tried starting them in the house.Didn't work the dog got to them.

Foxy Lady: Tomatoes take so long here to grow large enough to pick (in Eastern Canada) I start mine indoors in March and still have to wait until the end of August to get nice big ones.. sigh lol

Mousetrap: My tomatoes are finally turning red.I picked a few and put them in the window.

My tomatoe plants are doing well! So are the slugs crikey! They are quite big! The tomatoes I mean not the slugs.

Any post Off Topic will be deleted.

I just went out and watered our garden,picked 3 nice size zucchini and gonna have some with breakfast.Were in such a heat wave it's already in the 80's and it's early.

Groucho: Thanks for the link for Poetry

What kind of Shrubbery are you using?

Foxy Lady:  I used to play under the clothes line as a kid.  Made tents.  Once my mom pinned my ears to the line.   Here's a link  where people can post poetry.  :)

amandalove: Nice poem but this is the Gardening Board.Please stay on topic.

amandalove: what a wonderful poem thanks for sharing

THE CLOTHESLINE

A clothesline was a news forecast
To neighbours passing by.
There were no secrets you could keep
When clothes were hung to dry.

It also was a friendly link,
For neighbours always knew,
If company had stopped on by
To spend a night or two.

For then you'd see the fancy sheets
And towels out on the line;
You'd see the company tablecloths
With intricate design.

The line announced a baby's birth
To folks who lived inside,
As brand new infants clothes were hung
So carefully with pride.

And the lines were full of diapers,
So white and bright and clean.
Because in those days of yore,
In stores Pampers were not yet seen.

The ages of the children could
So readily be known,
By watching how the sizes changed
You'd know how much they'd grown.

It also told when illness struck,
As extra sheets were hung;
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too,
Haphazardly were strung.

It said, "Gone on vacation now,"
When lines hung limp and bare.
It told, "We're back!" when full lines sagged,
With not an inch to spare.

But clotheslines now are of the past,
For dryers make work less,
Now what goes on inside a house
Is anybody's guess.

I really miss that way of life.
It was a friendly sign,
When others knew each other best,
By what hung on the line.

skipinnz: No they are smooth skinned.

Foxy Lady:Have they got a smooth skin or hairy like scarlet runners? I hate scarlett runners as all the dandylion seeds stick to them and are hard to clean off.

skipinnz: Pole beans are a climbing bean but are flatter than the ones you normally see.Italian which i am usually cook them,drain add more water with cut up potatoes with a little olive oil,and garlic.Ya got to have Italian bread of course.

Bamboo is beautiful but it is extremely invasive, in spite of what you read
The bamboo shoots can be cut down by mowing but while you are not looking they are shooting the other way and will get under your fences, out buildings, foundations and walkways and they can lift everything out of place after 5 years. I accidentally planted some next to out greenhouse 4 years ago and we cannot stop it's growth. It will require a backhoe to get it all out.

On the other hand, If you have a mass of property and no structures to be concerned with, you can grow a gorgeous jungle with just this bamboo

http://www.lewisbamboo.com/aurea3.html

nobleheart:

Good cartoon
Reminds me of my childhood days

Foxy Lady: aha - gotcha. thank You for enlightening me, Ma'am. :)

Foxy Lady: Pole beans, is that a variety or are they just climbing beans? Reason I ask is I'm always looking for new bean varities, found some purple ones last year that cook up green.