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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 5/18/24 at 7:22 pm
Based on my experiences as an old timer, I think your corn will be as productive or at worst nearly as productive as it would have been. The stalks likely won't be close to as upright as they would've been, but they'll lift themselves up sufficiently to make nice ears well above ground level. :c...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 1/27/24 at 6:03 pm
[quote]Everything I read suggested I harvest broccoli before that freeze. I didn't have enough to worry about. Turns out, it all looks fine.[/quote] A friend had some Green Magic broccoli plants. He picked nice-sized central heads (from two of about thirty plants) on the evening before the first ...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 12/25/23 at 4:51 pm
The broccoli are beautiful and shouldn't take much longer to head. The carrots and cauliflower look very nice too. But you can keep that little friend you have that's hanging out by the compost pile! :cheers:...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 12/9/23 at 3:53 pm
As usual, your vegetable plants look great with nice, healthy, dark green leaves, especially the sweet peas that seem to be thriving! Nice spuds too! :cheers:...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 12/1/23 at 3:59 pm
Wow! That's a cabbage unlike any I've ever seen or heard of, and per this link to Baker Creek it's a quite large one at maturity.[link=(https://www.rareseeds.com/cabbage-filderkraut)]LINK[/link] Best of good luck to you with it! :cheers:...

re: Billy Cannon runback

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 11/29/23 at 3:00 pm
Here's another link, with audio including some additional video and game commentary, highlighting the Billy Cannon Run October 31, 1959 punt return. [link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHdlAg4Uic)]LINK[/link] :cheers:...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 11/28/23 at 10:12 am
[quote]Same with mine, they look decent, but small for being in ground 6 weeks.[/quote] Just a thought, but perhaps the plants need some additional fertilizer, i.e., a side dressing. Broccoli is a plant that usually needs a good bit of fertilizer. Per the following link, [quote]Cabbage, brocco...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 11/21/23 at 4:36 pm
It sounds like you've planted a very nice selection of vegetables in your fall/winter garden. Those broccoli you have shouldn't take very long to have nice central heads for harvest; and, after you've harvested the central heads, the side shoots hopefully will produce an extended bountiful harvest ...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 11/20/23 at 12:33 pm
For those of you who planted broccoli for this fall and winter, it'd be nice if you let the rest of us know how the plants are doing maybe including some pics. :geauxtigers:...

re: The Recruits Labeled ATH

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 11/14/23 at 8:05 pm
Seems 247 shows Michael Turner's postion as a safety. But with his height, track speed running 100 meters, and high jumping ability, you might be on to something thinking he might be a guy who could play CB. [link=(https://247sports.com/Player/Michael-Turner-46140153/)]LINK[/link]...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 10/26/23 at 6:57 pm
[quote]What does this compare to taste wise? Spinach?[/quote] Per the link below: [quote]Frequently asked questions What does Swiss chard taste like? Swiss chard is often compared to spinach in terms of its unique flavor. It has an earthy, somewhat bitter taste when consumed raw and a slightly s...
While there's no guarantee it'd work on crepe myrtles, I've used full strength 2-4D to kill dozens of willow trees of various sizes by girding the trunk of the tree within a distance of about a foot above the ground and generously pouring undiluted 2-4D on the entire girded part of the tree. Every t...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 9/5/23 at 8:52 am
[quote]The first female flower on my Tromboncino/Zucchino Rampicante squash. Pretty excited about this one.[/quote] That's a very healthy Tromboncino/Zucchino Rampicante squash vine and a beautiful first squash on it. I think you've got yourself a definite winner that'll provide you with a ver...
De’Myrion Johnson is a commit in the 2024 class at DT....

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 8/19/23 at 9:31 am
Those are very beautiful Sugar Pie pumpkins, especially taking into account the extremely hot, dry, difficult growing conditions during which those pumpkins were grown. :cheers:...

re: Recruiting

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 8/10/23 at 8:51 pm
Devanta Smith...

re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 7/28/23 at 3:59 pm
Those are beautiful Sugar Pie pumpkins you're growing, along with that very nice (I'm presuming Crimson Sweet) watermelon in the third pic! Although it's a small pumpkin, the best thing about Sugar Pie is it's excellent quality when cooked, beautiful orange exterior and interior color when ripe,...

re: 2023 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 7/19/23 at 6:00 pm
Mustard and spinach are very good fall vegtables, if you like greens. Turnips also do very well in a fall garden....

re: Tough okra…..

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 7/14/23 at 10:59 am
[quote]If you don’t water okra enough it will get woody at a small size. Okra likes a lot of water. Try increasing that and I believe you’ll see a difference.[/quote] Okra also likes and responds very well to a general purpose fertilizer like 13-13-13, which helps the plant quickly grow nice tend...

re: Tough okra…..

Posted by Longer Tail Tiger on 7/13/23 at 11:19 pm
You might want to give Cow Horn okra a try. It's been around for many decades. My family has been growing it since at least the early 1950s, and probably much longer. We pick okra every other day to avoid finding hard okra although we, of course, still find a few pods that are hard. Althoug...