bluemoons
Favorite team: | New Orleans Saints |
Location: | the marsh |
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Interests: | being awesome |
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Number of Posts: | 5476 |
Registered on: | 10/24/2012 |
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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/23/24 at 10:12 pm
I set up the Florida weave on my indeterminates. All of the cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelon, squash, and zucchini that I direct sowed have germinated. I plan to thin those after the seedlings get about a week under them. Looks like great weather for the plants this week.
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re: Poling skiffs in Louisiana
Posted by bluemoons on 3/23/24 at 9:02 pm
What skiff do you have that drafts 4”?...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/22/24 at 9:06 am
[quote]I planted on Tuesday and it's been wet ever since. They look good, but I'm gonna give everything a peroxide spray soon just as a precaution. I'd hate for any sort of disease to set in early.[/quote]
I'm doing the same today. One of my peppers has some small grey spots on it so going to spr...
re: How is your side by side ins.?
Posted by bluemoons on 3/20/24 at 3:02 pm
[quote]26 years in the insurance industry here, but if you think that little $300/ year policy is going to keep you from getting sued, go right ahead. Maybe it will help you sleep better, but if you kill someone or someone dies on you atv, guess what happens? You’re up shite creek
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I'm co...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/20/24 at 2:22 pm
I'm gonna try the Florida Weave this year with my indeterminates. I'm tired of fooling with the cages. I'm going to use 7' T-posts. At what interval do you add more twine? Every 10" or so?...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/19/24 at 7:05 pm
I got caught buying that stuff once too. Thought it was chicken compost. I wound up spreading it around some of my trees. ...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/19/24 at 10:33 am
I feel like once they get established it's kind of automatic, but I just haven't had one get established yet. Hopefully at least one of the three in my yard now will get there. I have two Owaris and one Brown Select and I planted them in all different spots. The Brown seems to be doing really well....
re: How is your side by side ins.?
Posted by bluemoons on 3/19/24 at 10:31 am
[quote]ATV insurance wouldn’t cover getting sued[/quote]
What? If you're insured solely for the equipment itself, sure, you wouldn't have liability coverage in the event of a lawsuit. Most sxs policies include liability coverage as well, which would cover defense costs and indemnity for personal ...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/19/24 at 8:29 am
[quote]My Meyer Lemon is loaded with flowers and I considered covering it. I've had that tree for 4 years and only got 2 lemons off of it. I'm hoping this year will be different. [/quote]
I've had literally one year that was successful with citrus. At my old house, the second year after transplan...
re: Need help w/ my Gardenias
Posted by bluemoons on 3/18/24 at 3:02 pm
I love them. They were my dad's favorite shrub plant and I like the smell of the flowers a lot. That said, I've had it with these radicans variety. What really doesn't make sense is that half of them are doing totally fine and the other half look like shite. They're all planted in good raised bed soi...
re: Need help w/ my Gardenias
Posted by bluemoons on 3/18/24 at 2:42 pm
Gardenias are finnicky as hell. I have several radicans on the side of my house. They get sun until about 1pm and are protected from the afternoon sun. I've replaced half of them already and I told myself that if the replacements didn't make it, I was ripping them out and replacing them with somethi...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/18/24 at 2:39 pm
I just greenhoused all my beds with stakes and clear Husky plastic sheeting. I put 2 heat lamps in my 12' bed and one in my 8' bed. The other 8' bed is squash/zucchini only and I've had limited germination, so I just covered it. If they die off, I'll just restart them.
This may actually accelerat...
re: Ivy killer
Posted by bluemoons on 3/18/24 at 10:41 am
Triclopyr. Be careful around desirable trees. ...
re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted by bluemoons on 3/16/24 at 5:48 pm
I’m gonna have to cover. Thankfully have plenty of clear plastic. I’m gonna throw a couple of heat lamps under the plastic in the beds just to be safe. ...
re: What happened to the great pitching
Posted by bluemoons on 3/15/24 at 8:49 pm
It’s been kind of an ugly game/just not their night. We looked pretty good early but had a weird couple of innings and then it seemed things just got wonky. We’ll see what happens in bottom of the 9th though. ...
re: ATF released some new NFA numbers for wait times...
Posted by bluemoons on 3/15/24 at 8:35 am
My FFL buddy told me he had one come back in three weeks recently. E-file form 4. ...
re: Question about dog starting to growl
Posted by bluemoons on 3/14/24 at 5:21 pm
[quote]The only part I would even point out (hesitantly), is that you are talking about retriever trainers. How much experience do you have with BMC? I am in no way advocating beating a dog but the BMCs I grew up with are a far cry from the labs I have had in adult hood. Labs want to do the work....
re: Question about dog starting to growl
Posted by bluemoons on 3/14/24 at 11:27 am
There is an ocean of a difference between beating the shite out of a dog and being firm, especially to smart, thoughtful hunting dogs like a black mouth.
I've worked with dogs for most of my adult life as a hobby and I was taught to train dogs by one of the most well-respected retriever trainers ...
re: Question about dog starting to growl
Posted by bluemoons on 3/14/24 at 9:52 am
[quote]No need to beat a dog at all. Train them the way their pack would train them through hierarchy and firmness to learn that they follow the packs' rules, not their own.[/quote]
This is better advice than a lot of the more recent posts. Getting physical with a dog that is aggressive or posses...
re: Question about dog starting to growl
Posted by bluemoons on 3/13/24 at 5:12 pm
[quote]we play tug-of-war so much it gets aggravating sometimes.[/quote]
You should absolutely not be playing tug of war with a dog exhibiting possessiveness. I would cut that or anything else that reinforces the behavior out immediately. ...
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