Friday Five

[learnteach]

1. Pickles are good. Pressure cooker? Good. Fondue? Fabulous. Fresh Farmer's Market Feed? Fantastic! I seem to have slipped into an earlier mode of food. Now, to learn how to can, to work on my sundrying, to learn how to salt meat.

2. The computer can suck my good habits right away. I need to get away from this thing. So what am I doing?...

3. Companion planting, I want to learn more about it. Anybody out there doing much of it? And why did the tulips fail again?

4. Best Gig ever: Substitute teaching...on a martial arts beach campout. No, really!

5. Still haven't had a chance to teach my demo lesson. Might be a fail. Ah well!

6. This California Election? Why are we wasting the money?

Comments

Did the fridge thing

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Leaves come up about 4" then die. It's either the Varmit Cong, eating them; the soil not being loose enough/rich enough, or the roots of the California Buckeye poisoning them.

Re: Did the fridge thing

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

Coming up 4 inches, then dying, doesn't sound like the gopher to me. Do the leaves turn yellow before/as they die? If yes, it's most likely a nutrition deficit. Next year, give them some food when you plant them, then another shot as the leaves come up.