garden

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:04 am

I got 4 cantaloupes this past season; but they never got any bigger than baseballs. Two of them were edible though. The other two rotted before they ripened. My watermelons were a complete disaster; one only; the size of a tennis ball. All light pink inside when harvest time came. The weather got too cold to get it to develop. I used a liquid fertilizer. My tomatoes plants were about 8foot from ground to top. I'm going to keep them trimmed next year as they get too top heavy.

I let the cucumbers twine up into my chain link fence. That works really neat as the fruit hangs from the fence for easy picking.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:07 am

Orin, so how many pecks of non-pickled cucumbers did you pick?

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:07 am

beyond wrote:Orin, so how many pecks of non-pickled cucumbers did you pick?

Keeps me in cucumbers 'til the end of harvest. Four plants is all I need. About 4 or 5 cucumbers per week.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:59 pm

Ahhh! Now that Spring is around the corner; I raked out the leaves from the flower beds. The daffodils are ready to join the crocus in bloom.

In a few weeks I will be tilling the soil to make ready for my garden.

I almost bought a Concord grape plant at Walmart. It was only $5; but I better talk to my other half first. Don't want to spring any surprises on her; especially since today is her birthday. The surprises should be something for her.

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:28 pm

We pulled the bags of leaf mulch off the garlic last weekend. They'd already begun to sprout a little out of the soil. We plant, in late November, about 65 bulbs along the base of a stone wall. They will keep us in garlic most of the year. Everything else comes from the store, since our lot is hilly and stony and forested. I tried a couple of tomato plants in half-barrels a few years ago and could hold the entire harvest in both hands. Green thumbed I'm not.

Rob

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:12 am

Happy belated birthday to your Mrs., Orin!

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:03 pm

bystander wrote:Happy belated birthday to your Mrs., Orin!

Thanks! I'll pass that along.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:18 pm

I was digging out some half buried; huge cement stepping stones; from my garden Saturday. My spade hit a chunk nearby that turned out to be a clump of cement. Upon examining it; there is what looks like a bone half covered with the cement. If it is bone; it must be petrified as it is as hard as the cement. I'd like to take it to be examined; but don't know who may be interested.

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:19 pm

I wouldn't take it to the police (especially if your wife is missing)

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:56 pm

Pics!

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:35 am

BMAONE23 wrote:I wouldn't take it to the police (especially if your wife is missing)

My misses isn't missing!

geckzilla wrote:Pics!

I'll take a pic tomorrow; but I tried to send one before and didn't have any luck.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:14 pm

I don't know what I am doing wrong but the reply I got was that the image I tried to upload was invalid.

I can send it as an email to someone if interested.
Orin

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:28 pm

Orin, did you resize it to 320kb or less before you tried to post it?

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:06 pm

: Click to view full size image

As you can see the bone is embedded in cement! It is also very hard; like it turned into rock itself. I see I will have to practice with these pictures.

Thanks to Robb for help with this project.

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:19 pm

Hmm, that worked. I'm not sure I see what you think might be a bone, though.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:29 pm

geckzilla wrote:Hmm, that worked. I'm not sure I see what you think might be a bone, though.

The picture doesn't do it justice. The white part when you turn it looks like it could be part of a jaw bone. It just doesn't look like white clay or other material. The dark grey on the bottom is concrete. I don't think it is calcified material like you might find in a cavern.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:38 pm

OK! Did I do something wrong? The picture doesn't show unless I"m logged on.

What would cause that?

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:40 pm

Orin i just clicked on the blank spot and it says 'the attachment dosen't exist anymore'. Maybe you'll have to do it over??
I didn't get to see the picture before it went - by-by.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:29 pm

Beyond wrote:Orin i just clicked on the blank spot and it says 'the attachment dosen't exist anymore'. Maybe you'll have to do it over??
I didn't get to see the picture before it went - by-by.

It's like I said; The picture is there as long as I'm logged on. I don't know how to fix it.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:35 pm

Orin, you resized and then saved the picture to your library as a JPEG picture, and then you went to the forum and clicked attachment and then uploaded it??

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:30 pm

I didn't have to resize; and I followed Owlice's instruction page. Rob tweaked the photo but I uploaded it. Evidently; I have to be logged on for the picture to have a reference point.

If you look while I'm loggged on you can see the picture. Orin

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:31 pm

: scare-crow.jpg (31.24 KiB) Viewed 3015 times

Orin, here's a scare-crow for your garden

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:35 pm

Beyond wrote:
scare-crow.jpg
Orin, here's a scare-crow for your garden

I need one for my &#%*

computer!

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:49 pm

Orin, I cannot see the image at all; I get the same message Beyond gets, whether you are online or not. Might you try again, please? I'm now wildly curious about this bone!

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:00 pm

When I check Orin's post in which he managed to upload the now invisible picture, I see the [img2] tag and no picture. When I look at Beyond's post of the er, um, scarecrow, I see the [attachment] tag and the picture. Does that observation help in any way? [Edit: this post too uses the img2 tag, and it works -- I think.]

It's almost spoiling your fun, but here (from the email I sent back to Orin) is the image. Let's see if I can post it.
Click the "Upload attachment" tab.
Click the "Browse..." button and select the file.
Click the "Add the file" button.
Type a file comment.
Click the "Place inline" button. (What a lot of clicking to do!)
Et voila!

: Orin's bone picture.

Rob

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