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Re: garden
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:04 am
by orin stepanek
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.
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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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:07 am
by Beyond
Orin, so how many pecks of non-pickled cucumbers did you pick?
Re: garden
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:07 am
by orin stepanek
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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:59 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
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In a few weeks I will be tilling the soil to make ready for my garden.
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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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:28 pm
by rstevenson
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
Re: garden
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:12 am
by bystander
Happy belated birthday to your Mrs., Orin!
Re: garden
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:03 pm
by orin stepanek
bystander wrote:Happy belated birthday to your Mrs., Orin!
Thanks! I'll pass that along.
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Re: garden
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:18 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
Re: garden
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:19 pm
by BMAONE23
I wouldn't take it to the police (especially if your wife is missing)
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Re: garden
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:56 pm
by geckzilla
Pics!
Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:35 am
by orin stepanek
BMAONE23 wrote:I wouldn't take it to the police (especially if your wife is missing)
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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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:14 pm
by orin stepanek
I don't know what I am doing wrong but the reply I got was that the image I tried to upload was invalid.
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I can send it as an email to someone if interested.
Orin
Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:28 pm
by Beyond
Orin, did you resize it to 320kb or less before you tried to post it?
Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:06 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:19 pm
by geckzilla
Hmm, that worked. I'm not sure I see what you think might be a bone, though.
Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:29 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:38 pm
by orin stepanek
OK! Did I do something wrong? The picture doesn't show unless I"m logged on.
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What would cause that?
Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:40 pm
by Beyond
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.
Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:29 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
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Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:35 pm
by Beyond
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??
Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:30 pm
by orin stepanek
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.
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If you look while I'm loggged on you can see the picture. Orin
Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:31 pm
by Beyond
![scare-crow.jpg](./download/file.php?id=2396&sid=dfdb0a857f86b77482a93d556410a361)
- scare-crow.jpg (31.24 KiB) Viewed 2833 times
Orin, here's a scare-crow for your garden
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Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:35 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:scare-crow.jpg
Orin, here's a scare-crow for your garden
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I need one for my &#%*
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computer!
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Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:49 pm
by owlice
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!
Re: garden
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:00 pm
by rstevenson
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!
![rockbone.jpg (73.08 KiB) Viewed 2827 times Orin's bone picture.](./download/file.php?id=2397&t=1&sid=dfdb0a857f86b77482a93d556410a361)
- Orin's bone picture.
Rob