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This is likely the very last DK SMGB that allows multiple images in a comment, without making your own collages. I say we go out with a colorful bang. Post your very favorite photographs. Load those comments with a memorable vibrancy. If you would like more info how to create a photo collage, inquire in the comments. Let us know if you prefer to make one via laptop or cell phone.
June Collage — Made With Photo Grid on iPhone. It’s in the Shortcuts app, which your iPhone should automatically have loaded up, free
DJ and the Tulips
DJ and The Winter Squash
Hey, let’s use all the functions too!
My White Whale No More — Bloomquist Jean! And asshole grasshopper
Those who received dahlia tubers from me. You can propagate dahlias very easily. One tuber can be harvested of up to ten new plants! So if you like the variety and have a longer growing season, let the tuber supply you with multiple clones of that variety. I’ve done it myself, with wonderful results. Don’t even need rooting hormone! Check YT for videos of the very quick process. Dahlias will give you sprouts without much soil/moisture support. They genuinely do not need much water until the roots are supporting a solid growing plant.
Care Note: If planting the tuber in-ground, do not water the tuber until you see a solid sprout a few inches high, above ground. And water then only if the soil is dry. If planting the tuber in a pot, moisten the soil when planting and only slightly water/moisten the soil if it is bone dry, again until you have a plant established above the soil line. Dahlia tubers rot far too easily. Do not plant a tuber where there is a possibility of ponding or standing water after a rain. I learned these lessons the hard way.
Dahlias also benefit from solid support. I have used stakes and a Florida weave system, this year I setting up a Florida weave system with t-posts.
For a bushier plant, I would top the plant after 3-4 sets of true leaves. This is not required.
Pests: Grasshoppers and thrips. I’ve never had a vole or bunny go after them (yes I knocked on wood) yet cannot speak to deer.
I know we have a few experts in these parts, what dahlia wisdom can you share with us?
Bonaventure dahlia
What have I done this week? Curse the cold days, play during the one warm day. The last of the seeds started indoors are planted. Melons, squash and some bush beans. I moved rocks. I tilled. I planted onions!
“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” ~ Will Rogers.
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I think some carrots are funny
A Charentais Cantaloup – sweet, delicious and juicy. On the small side of melons. A favorite of many.
Menu This Week
Pasta with garlic and pine nuts
Steak on the grill! With banana cream pie and probably grilled veggies
Beef peanut Satay with a veggie quick pickle and steamed broccoli
Breakfast for dinner. My favorite french toast and sausage. Maybe fried potatoes
lot of leftover and scrounge nights
May Harvest
June Harvest — Bean Circle, so much easier to harvest
July Harvest
August Harvest
September Harvest
October Harvest
Other Chores This Week — It’s a Big Week!
Dig a trench and place the new anti-bunny fence in the main garden
Mix the soil for all the pots, then fill all the pots
Plant brassica, snaps, carrots and broccoli seeds
Till area for dahlias, potatoes and front flowers
Begin hardening off plants (done 2 hours today, Friday)
And that is just this weekend! My back hurts already.
Variegated Cotton Seedlings from Malarky Matt! So unique
Will there be polls at the new site?
Anyway, better wrap this up, I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
PS. I will also have a new name at the new site. Will depend on what is available.
More dahlias — Collage also made on iPhone in Photo Grid — free
Happy Saturday!!!
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