Weds 24 Mar 10

Wish List for the Garden

Clotches and wasp houses

Groceries Getting Costly- Garden More

Roof's Gotta Hole In It

Replanted Peppers

Wasp Houses

Here are some wasp houses I put up. They are just those decorative fake bird houses you get in flower arrangements. When I lived in the country I would put up inverted coffee cans for them to live in and had renters every year. The ones shown here are nice ornamentals put no wasps have moved in as of yet. It's going on three years now, glad I don't pay taxes. I suppose they don't like the neighborhood because just below them are the Croakers......a frog family (also a vacant house but the wasps don't know that, ha)

The wasps dine on cabbage moths, as do the sparrows. They are constantly grooming the plants and carrying away the squirmy prize to a place other than the houses I set up for them.

Raining Cats n Dogs

Clotches

Time to Plant

Temp 43-57 The weather is supposed to be cooler than normal this spring. I started my garden by setting out onion slips along with potatoes. I am planting a full set of cole crops this year in anticipation fo the cooler season. The price of food had gone through the roof. A good reason to grow more veggies. I dug up a lot of iris to make way for the veg garden.

I made some cloutches for the seedlings by staking boards alongside the row. I will put plastic over that & hold it down with rocks & dirt. I'll put buckets over the brocolli seedlings that I put out a few days back.

Welcome to Shangrela, the home of the Stickfigures since 2000. My name is Leanardo de Stickfigure. The author and illustrator of Stickfigure Gardening. The editor is my beautiful wife and fishing buddy Linda Bob Stickfigure.

Last Harvest

Harvested a great batch of award winning size and blemishless turnips.

Lynda (one of my grandaughters) and I planted an iris she had "borrowed" from one of the vacant houses yard. She named it "Lil Kim" after a rap artist....a very lewd one at that. I bloomed the next year with a slightly dirty yellow. The stocks have a tendency to grow bent.

End of the season

While in the yard today I heard this great comotion of birds behind me. When I turned around they all suddenly became quite. There were about 10 sparrows perched in the mock orange bush. When I turned around and headed back to the shop they resumed their squabbling. Suddenly they all lit off in a cloud of aviary angst and into the chain linked fence, then as quickly as they had left they were back in the mock orange and quite.

It is nippy today and the garden has just about gone dormant. I plucked off the spent flower head of the marigolds and put them up for seed next year.

Seagulls in Oklahoma?

Spotted some gulls in the southeast part of town circling 21st and Garnett. The cold weather is coming on with night-time temps reaching freezing.

Picked the last watermelon from the garden and it was deliceous. I saved the seed.

Mother of a Thousand

One of my reblooming iris is blooming....in November?

The mother of a thousand plant that my mom kidnapped one of her tiny children had managed to grow 7 feet tall and is now blooming clusters of bell-shaped flowers.

Black winged dragon flies showed up in the garden. About 8-10 of them.

"Sun City" iris has serious rot.

Planting

For fall garden:

1. Chinese Cabbage (didn't take)
2. Kale (didn't do well)
3. French Radish (excellent)
4. Sparkler Radish (did well)
5. Globe Turnips (excellent)
6. collards (didn't do well)

Next year I'll try starting them from flats.

Planting

Planted Pole Beans (did well)

Harvest

Broccoli - Good crop...had to soak in water to remove worms

Planting

Crowder peas....(did ok but some were attacked by aphids