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Post by Sylie on Feb 15, 2019 21:19:14 GMT -5
back down into the freezer here, yesterday morning we had a high temp of 51, it very quickly dropped off in the afternoon for a low of 5 last night. Today our high was 9. Don't forget that dang windchill either, it hasn't hit the above zero mark since 3 yesterday afternoon. Thankfully it's supposed to go up and we'll bounce around in the upper 20's and lower 30's for the next 10 days or so. Hopefully this will be the last of the really cold.
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Post by maryellen on Feb 16, 2019 7:18:24 GMT -5
Lol dawg i had 4x4s , did a bit of 4wheeling with a bunch of friends way back when. It was so much fun . Had a blast with it.
Now i just make sure my mud boots are zipped tight lol.
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Post by seminolewind on Feb 16, 2019 11:43:27 GMT -5
Sylie, 5 degrees down from 50? Sounds kinda like here but a bit colder.
Yes I zip up warm in layers. Yesterday I went out and gave the chickens snacks. I found a nice big brown egg. I put it in my pocket. Well you know what happened. Yuck. Coat went in the wash.
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Post by Sylie on Feb 17, 2019 0:04:54 GMT -5
Sem, I had to laugh when I read that. I did the same thing this past summer except it was in the slash pocket of my skirt so my hip and leg got it. The skirt and I both had to go into the wash lol. Never hip check the truck door (it needs a new hinge pin) with an egg in your skirt pocket! (as my son would say "Mistakes were made")
Weather today was a balmy 12 degrees and the sun came out. At the moment, we are getting the next big storm, snow is accumulating at a very fast pace. They are saying 3-7 inches by the time it's over tomorrow night. They were talking about heavy and light bands that would move very slowly along.
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Post by seminolewind on Feb 17, 2019 11:17:37 GMT -5
Balmy 12 degrees? Ha. I think the weather here is supposed to be the "norm" this week . 40's days and 30's nights. Cloudy, drizzly, etc. I hope we see the sun sometime. But I still have to say it is drop dead beautiful here. A few days ago there was an "overnight" pond and there were a few geese enjoying it.
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Post by maryellen on Feb 17, 2019 15:33:45 GMT -5
35 here. I didnt need a sweatshirt over my tee shirt as there was no wind beautiful crisp sunny day today
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Post by dawg53 on Feb 17, 2019 20:52:31 GMT -5
Expecting record heat later this week, upper 80's. 70's for now, guess I oughta enjoy the cooler temps while I can.
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Post by Sylie on Feb 17, 2019 22:32:09 GMT -5
Well, big shocker, we didn't get as much snow as they forecasted. I'm not complaining mind you, just saying.... We ended up with an inch and half. I bought a couple of short sleeved shirts, maybe give Mother Nature a hint that I am ready for better weather.
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Post by maryellen on Feb 18, 2019 10:13:07 GMT -5
Ice ice baby.. everything is coated... makes walking fun lol
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Post by seminolewind on Feb 18, 2019 11:40:37 GMT -5
Light snow. Was 35-40 last night. My chickens have been on 900 watts of heat vs the 1500 watts from the past 2 months. I try to keep it around 40 in there.
I played with the hose system yesterday. Trying to get water to the chickens and horse (opposite ends) in an inconspicuous way like along fences.
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Post by Sylie on Feb 18, 2019 22:59:11 GMT -5
ME, we have been dealing with huge amounts of ice too. In areas where the chickens and animals of any sort don't go, the cheapest way to handle ice is to get a bag of water softener pellets, break/crush them up and use that instead of ice melt, it works much better than ice melt and is a fraction of the cost, you just have to do a little work breaking up the pellets. Around here, we've had so much ice that everyone is out of ice melt so we had to find an alternative and this is what we did. For areas that can't have salt on them, we use pine shavings or playground sand for better traction. You can buy both at any farm supply store (Orscheln's/Tractor Supply/Fleet Farm etc) Just please don't fall and get hurt!!
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Post by maryellen on Feb 19, 2019 8:30:02 GMT -5
Thanks sylie! I use construction sand when we have no salt. Works great:)
Another storm tomorrow morning into Thursday.
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Post by Sylie on Feb 19, 2019 23:40:31 GMT -5
Well, we were supposed to have 4-7 inches of snow tonight and into tomorrow, that must be the storm you are talking about ME. But, they have downgraded it for us to 1-3 and they said we are currently getting snow, my town must have some sort of snow thwarting bubble around it because we haven't gotten a single flake. I'm not disappointed in any way, I just like to harass the weather guys. I am soooooo ready for spring, I am tired of snow and ice and cold.
I bought 12 pots of tulips at walmart the day before yesterday, they were valentine leftovers, each pot has 5-6 bulbs, most of them are dead I think, the green leaves and flowers are dead. Maybe I can save the bulbs though. I watered the heck out of them and put them in a sunny window and most of them perked up and a few even bloomed. I did notice that each of the pots has at least one viable, living plant, most have at least 3. I am going to have quite the tulip garden this spring. When my husband and I got to walmart and I saw all of those dead/dying plants I couldn't resist, I told him that we have to "save them all!!!" and he laughed, he said I could get 2. We wandered around the store with the 2 pots and I kept mumbling (playfully) "wanna save 'em all" and by the time we were ready to check out I had every last tulip plant in my cart bahahahaha!! Now it's a joke in my house "save 'em all!". If the dead plants' bulbs are still alive down in the dirt, and I am able to actually get them all to grow again, I will have 72 tulip plants...maybe I should have done the math? I just really hate to see plants and animals abused and neglected and wal mart is infamous for not taking care of their plants. They were so dry it was maddening. (at least I got a good deal on them, 50 cents a pot!)
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Post by dawg53 on Feb 20, 2019 6:34:21 GMT -5
Sylie, I've bought almost dead or dying plants from Walmart and Lowe's real cheap and brought them back to life. I usually transplant them into a larger container using Black Kow mixed with potting soil and they grow beautifully. I didnt buy any last year nor this year so far. We have alot of spider plants hanging around the back yard, wandering jew, aloe plants and others.
I'm working on growing 4 o' clock plants and it's been a challenge. I managed to grow only one last year. We'll see how it goes in the spring.
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Post by maryellen on Feb 20, 2019 11:07:17 GMT -5
Omg dawg my 4oclocks come back every year triple! I can send you seeds this year if you want, i get white red pink and orangy colors.
We are supposed to get 1-8 inches of snow, high 28 today.
And tomorrow to be 51...
Sylie i always buy that way lol, the bulbs are pretty hardy so you should have a beautiful tulip explosion come this spring or next year
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Post by seminolewind on Feb 20, 2019 11:35:26 GMT -5
I love daylilies. I brought my best producers with me and hope they are still alive, LOL. Lucky they don't get planted to deep. I love ornamental grass of all kinds. Looks here like many have the big massive ones like in a row. My daughter hates them. I explained to her how to take care of them . I guess I'll be looking at getting some of hers.
I don't want to get ahead of myself with planting because I have so much other stuff to do. I'd love to get 4 posts in the ground and start that pen for the chickens.
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Post by dawg53 on Feb 20, 2019 21:43:46 GMT -5
Omg dawg my 4oclocks come back every year triple! I can send you seeds this year if you want, i get white red pink and orangy colors. We are supposed to get 1-8 inches of snow, high 28 today. And tomorrow to be 51... Sylie i always buy that way lol, the bulbs are pretty hardy so you should have a beautiful tulip explosion come this spring or next year Thanks ME. I still have 2 packs of seeds out of 4 left, all mixed colors too! I tried growing some in pots and plastic containers. They grew crooked and if you touched them, the 'branches' would easily break off. Two things I didnt do was soak the seeds in water prior to planting and the other thing is that they didnt get enough sunlight, my mistake. I took one pack and spread it on top of the soil in a flower bed. Then the hard rains we had practically each day for 3 months straight mustve washed the seeds away. Then I noticed ONE 4 o'clock growing right next to a bunch of aloe plants. How it got there, I have no clue. It had red flowers and sure enough, they'd bloom around 4pm each day! They also dropped plenty of seeds on the ground too. This year I'm going to presoak the seeds and try the pots and plastic containers again, this time in more direct sunlight on the west side of our house. I guess I need to get started since it's going up in the 80's the rest of the week. I've already got tons of baby spider plants growing off the mama plants sheeesh! |
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Post by Sylie on Feb 20, 2019 23:05:52 GMT -5
My daughter is in love with the 4 O'clocks and last year she planted morning glories, 4 O'clocks and moon flowers so that there were similar flowers blooming at all times of the day. It was really cool.
ME, I really don't know that much about tulips, I'm more of an herb person than a flower person, any insight on growing them would be appreciated. For now, they are in their pots in the window sill, I have to get some larger pots and potting soil next payday. With as many as I have, I am thinking about just planting them in a very large, shallow ish storage bin. I'm not entirely sure how deep they need to be but I know they are currently root bound so I need to do something very soon. (would those "underbed" storage bins be deep enough?)
I know I had 7 blooms today, I dead headed the ones that the petals have fallen off of. I only took the flower head near the top of the stalk, I'm not sure if the kind I have are perennial or annual. None of them have any identification at all or those little plastic care stick things. I read that you should dead head perennial types near the top of the stalk and the annuals down near the foliage (or the other way around? I forget now what I read) so I just took the tops off.
Will they bloom again this year since they are blooming currently? Or not until next year? I have a variety of colors, purple, pink and maroon with yellow down in the middle near where the pistil attaches to the receptacle. (I don't know if that says anything about them but it sure is pretty)
Dawg, I am jealous of your spider plants, where do you get them? I used to have one but a parrot I was babysitting dug it up and I have never found another. Wal mart doesn't carry them and that's the only store in town with plants. Well, I guess we have HyVee but they are so expensive it's just not feasible to buy from them. (I looked at a tiny fairy garden plant one time but they wanted 12.50 for it).
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Post by seminolewind on Feb 21, 2019 1:27:12 GMT -5
rainy, 36-40's. 2 more ponds where there were none.
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Post by dawg53 on Feb 21, 2019 5:33:11 GMT -5
Sylie. I bought two or three spider plants at Walmart a long time ago. If I remember right, it was the following summer that I cut off some the babies that had roots on them and started them in separate pots. I've got them hanging everywhere now. I also transplanted the originals into bigger containers a couple years ago. Some hardware stores like Ace Hardware have decent plants, shrubs and trees at good prices. Check your local hardware stores if you get the chance.
Sometimes feed stores carry plants, not many and are pricey. Some flea markets have plant vendors and I've seen quite a few spider plants there as well, kinda pricey though but if you make a lower offer, they might accept it.
It's real warm outside this morning and has been showery the past few days, this morning as well. The weatherguessers are really on the ball...they have been forecasting clearing for the past 4 days...haha, the jokes on them boneheads. I wonder what forecasting school they went to?
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