Posted by (Susan Gillespie) on August 29, 2010

Oops! I was asking about this bulb before I knew there was a whole article about it. My friend Tom gave me a voodoo lily——or maybe it was a voodoo bulb—-is there a difference?. It was supposed to be black and stink like rotten meat. I had no idea it could turn into a mini tree. His bloomed but mine never did. I wonder what would happen if I planted the bulb (you weren’t supposed to—-just an air bulb of some kind). Cool score, Pumpkin. Love those volunteers.

Posted by (Pumpkin) on August 29, 2010

Susan, Your name is on one! This plant is in the front yard of an old vacant house and it grows right in the middle of another tree. It showed up about two years ago. It has never bloomed. Pumpkin

Posted by (Chip) on August 30, 2010

Is it me or do the volunteers seem to just be healthier, live longer produce more fruit,or flowers? Who knows what we all “weed out” sometimes Diane will put seeds directly on the ground those areas become no weeding zones. I cant tell the weeds from what we planted until it matures! That is why I like to start most seeds in trays it is just easier to tell them apart that way. B.T.W. 80 percent of what I started on the full moon is up the two slow pokes are my tomato’s and celery those two are slow anyway a week to ten days for tomato’s
celery just when you give up it makes a show. I ran out of seed trays so when I thin out I will use Ricks newspaper pot trick and the kid will get my extras ..“Chip”

Posted by (Susan Gillespie) on August 30, 2010

How funny. There is a show on WUSF (channel 16 on Bright House) on Saturday mornings called Your Southern Garden with Walter Reeves. Farmer Rick recommended it on one of his posts on FB. I have been DVRing it ever since. They just did a segment on making newspaper pots and how to use them. There is a lot packed into his half hour shows and I love watching it. Anyway——they put tape on the bottom of theirs as well, which is why I am mentioning it.

Posted by (Chip) on August 30, 2010

I spent most of the day making news paper pots. I used both tape and put a dab of Elmer’s glue on them. I made a bunch and now I need a bunch more. I was worried the seeds I had were old so I put in a lest three per, well they all came up so need not have worried!...“Chip”

Posted by (RickBrown) on August 30, 2010

Chip, Have you had any luck with heirloom tomatoes? They sure taste good but I am not sure which ones work best here.

Posted by (Chip) on August 31, 2010

Rick, This is the best time of year to start heirloom tomato plants. For very good reasons, temperature wise our fall is more like the spring you get “Up north”  and heirloom tomato’s just don’t like the heat. But its not the daytime heat you have to worry about and that is the catch! It is the overnight temps once in a 24 hour period it has to cool down or the plant will not set fruit! different types of tomato’s have higher tolerances to heat. I have had years with mild winters that my heirlooms went all the way from fall through the next spring. Planting carrots right next to your tomato’s helps in more ways than I have room to say ...“Chip”

Posted by (Chip) on September 01, 2010

Penny we have tried a lot of different types. I always go back to the brandy wines I have pink brandy wines now about 6 inch’s tall. But I have done pink, purple, black ,striped you name it and I have tried it or want to! the more exotic the harder it seems to be. But I have had my best luck with any at this time of year. So if you have a kind of tomato that you have grown up north but have not had any luck with here try it now. If all of the tomato’s I have in seed trays now start I will have a very full garden. the tomato’s and celery are they only thing left to come up but I already had a few that I started earlier. ..“Chip”