I'm buried in cauliflower right now, and I never had much luck with it until I started doing the row cover as a way to keep the bugs off. I'm sold on it for all the spring stuff.Vanisle_BC wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:35 amNyan, till now I neglected to thank you for responding to my query about cauliflower timing. Somehow I didn't see it until it was quite old. I've never used row cover as early-planting frost protection but maybe I should do that. Usually I just wait till frost danger is past.
On fall-planting potatoes; I've known a couple of people who habitually just put a couple back in the ground at harvest time. If growing different varieties that could be a comparison experiment. I like trying things like that to see what I can learn.
I'm curious. What is it about CHEK TV that reminds you of your earlier midwest home?
It could be I am picking the wrong spuds, as the next bed over had russets and a purple potato come up through a layer of cardboard and filled one end of the bed I had reserved for the neighbors' tomato "stealing" plant. I love the yukons, but the russets and red potatoes seem to do better for me. Maybe that is experiment for next year, but it will have to be in a different bed - because this one is given over to a pecan tree from here on out.
CHEK has the local personality people who have been there for years, and play a part in the community. And I like when they go off script and just have fun. We had that growing up (in a much smaller "metro" area) with different characters that were there for years, and came to any event in the small towns in the area. Can't remember his name, but there was one newsman who lost his arm in WWII that could come to everything, interview anyone, and always had a happy, friendly demeanor. He was there from the 50's until at least the late 80's.
Had another guy who did the afternoon cartoons dressed as a cowboy that was very popular. He did end up with a drinking problem after a while, and got in trouble for pouring a milk for one of the kiddie guests and told her to "come on and have a beer" on live TV. LOL! He got better and became the head of the dairy exposition at the state fair, and toured around giving out bibles at the local schools in later years. I think my sister still corresponds with him about 45 years later....
Several other characters with stories I probably can't post on here but were just classic...
We don't seem to have that now, which is one reason I haven't had a TV in the house for the last 15 years or so.