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Another plant bit the dust grrr.

StarLiteFarms — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:51:00 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:51 am (GMT 0)

Well, while having the window open slightly, the wind picked up and knocked several of my cups over and broke a tomatillo and 2 cucumber plants... seems to have bent a squash plant and broke it but not completely.. wonderin if there is still hope for it. Lets see.. I also have a couple of new seeds that have green poppin thru.. I did the 'baggie method ' that petunia told us about. I did have the 'mold' problem though and still some of the seeds havent sprouted but a few have. Those marigolds sure do not like me (; The trees im trying again are "royal pioncia" (im not sure how its spelled.. I tried that one last year but daughter helped take care of it and kept giving it a new home thru out the back yard while i wasnt looking (; We'll see this year how it goes lol.

I got tired of waiting for hubby to rototill so i just went and pulled a few weeds and planted 3 of my cucumber plants that are still surviving on the chicken wire that i wrapped around my broken windmill in the garden. I hope i hardened em good enough. I just couldnt wait. It stormed nicely right after i planted them so hope they will do good. If not, all i can say is I tried. (:

The weeds sure love my garden, i sure hope the real plants think the same way! LOL

Thanks for reading. Ill keep ya posted and put pics when needed. (:

Slowly growing but its progress (;

StarLiteFarms — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:25:59 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:25 am (GMT 0)

Well here are a couple of pics of my plants. They are slowly growing but at least most the plants are alive! yay Lol.

The cucumbers edges are starting to turn brown slightly though and almost curlling under? Not sure why. I retransplanted my tomatos to try what sjorde (sp?)did.. sorry i know i got that name wrong lol.

anyways, i think our last freeze happened 2 nights ago and im still waiting on the rototiller from dad. Maybe this weekend. I need help shoveling the manure from the cows since Im not allowed to get in there with them.. if not, ill have to scoot the stuff to the side and shovel it myself. Shhh LOL. (im careful no worries).

Thanks for reading. I know its not that interesting yet.

My Lilac seed has sprouted!

StarLiteFarms — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:01:38 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:01 am (GMT 0)

Well, after thinking it wasnt going to work this year, i decided to glasn in on my lilac green house and sure enough there is one single sprout. I planted 6 seeds just to see if it would happen and yep! there it is! (Pics soon to come). So, i supose now ill just have to reseed the marigolds as I only have 1 single sprout that grew. I am excited to see my squash plants growing so vigorously. Except I will be disappointed if it turns out to be Zuccini instead of yellow crooked neck squash. Only hubby is a fan of zuccini and we really dont eat much of it. Its already got buds growing on it (i thought that wasnt supose to happen til it was out side! lol. oops! now, only if the ground would dry up just enough so we can till the soil so i can plant these fellas! (:

Gardening once again (: w/Pix

StarLiteFarms — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:28:10 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:28 am (GMT 0)

Well Howdy from Central Oklahoma once again!

Ive been semi busy.. besides remodeling parts of my house, I wanted the task of attempting to grow a garden once again. last years veggie garden was a total disaster so of course its time to try try again! (:

I decided to make use of all that clear plastic that covered the laminate flooring boxes and tape several pieces together to get enough to cover my lil lamp. It seems that I have accomplished something!
I of course with the help of my (soon to be 3 year old!) daughter putting dirt in the little plastic containers and of course all over the kitchen floor (is there any other way?) I got to put seeds in as well.
Heres the list so far: Started 3-10-08 (and a day or 2 later)

**Cherry tomatos straight from the tomato that i didnt eat. 6 sprouts out of 10 growing.

**Cucumber -still waiting to sprout since I had to redo it yesterday.

**Tomatillos: all 9 are growing but one or 2 didnt grow the first set of leaves for some reason.

**Globe anthums (Pink)successfully growing 11 plants.

**Marigolds- they were orange last year.. but i think they will be yellow now? Only one single sprout popping up still ):

**Danish Cross- ive over seeded accidentally but they are sprouting so fast (Thanks Bsewnsew) ?? I am sorry Im pretty sure it was bsewnsew ... bethie sent me seeds too. (please forgive the memory problem).

**Lilac seeds (No sprouts ?? Might be doing something wrong?)

**Squash> although Im not sure if it is yellow crooked neck squash or zuccini. The store seemed to mix up all the zuccini and yellow squash seeds and mark them wrong on the packages and I dont remember if i put them in their proper packages last year. We shall see this summer! lol

**Oh and last but not least.. I planted today 3 dianthis seeds. How ever you spell it lol.

I ran out of containers until my daughter east more fruit cups lol. And my green house is very tiny as you will see in the pic. I used an old window to set up on. I'll ask my questions on the message boards next. Ok, heres the lil pics i took. Thanks for reading ! Sorry its been forever. Im soooo glad to be back!! I may have a mint green thumb after all!

Oh and I got to prune my roses too ! (: ouch! lol

Greenhouse:

DanishCross up front / globe anthums back

Squash (biggest plants).. Tomotillos>left side and the cherry toms in back.

Lots of pics.Its been a while!! Hello!

StarLiteFarms — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:42:49 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:42 pm (GMT 0)

Wow, I sure missed this place! ive been busy! So busy, but not as much rewards for all my hard work as i wanted! Well, for starters, in Oklahoma its rained so much that my garden has hardly grown. The tomatos are still puney and only 2 have grown so far and now that the sun has come out and summer heat has started up i think things will be a bit better. I have tiny squash plants which had big flowers on it until the bunnies ate most of them. Now that ive got all the fence up i think there is hope yet again. Cuc's have only grown to a mear 2-3 inches tall and all veggie plants are still yellow. Green beans?? well, maybe 2 inch tall and blend ever so good into all the billions of weeds. I tell you I dont know why i made such an effort!!
The rain has done great for my flowers though! thats about the only good news.. well, and that the front flower bed (turned veggie bed) has grown great! I have a few tomato plants and jalepeno plants that are growing decent. the Zinias there are making for an interesting contrast! lol

My back flowerbeds are growing great! IM so proud!
Ive included several pics and would like to know if anyone can help identify some of these plants.
Thank you for the seeds i was sent! I did grow them! yay!! Now to figure how which plant is which! lol

Having lost all but 4 chickens to some coyotes (we think) and a emaciated stray dog.. things are going okay. Horses are doing okay and cows are growing good. Our doggies no longer dig cause the hot wire is working great. Except, my zinnias and cosmos keep getting zapped and i have to keep trimming them back Lol. Better to trim them, than to have to trash them though!
Hope all is wel for everyone else though!
Thanks for reading, enjoy some pics!

purslane? Thats what the insert says, but its got a fluffy ball type center unlike regular purslane. Any ideas what it is?

maybe globe anthumr;';??

This zinnia grew a xtra zinnia on top of itself.
danish cross??

trumpet vine??

unknown plant? help please? it came with Jasmine plant which is behind it.

sorry this is a small pic. but its the 'after' pic of my bed! (:

They have sprouted!! Pix Too!

StarLiteFarms — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:25:55 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:25 am (GMT 0)

Well, Ive patiently waited for my garden to start growing! Having seemed to of lost a pepper plant to a seamingly cute bunny rabbit i assume, I have gained many green bean sprouts!! I now have Raddishs and I think i do see a couple of brocolli sprouts but I dont know for sure and I dont really know how to grow those.. I replanted my Zuccinni and yellow squash since I didnt like how my garden was (huge foot prints) cause it was to wet.
I will go as far as to say i am sure I see a corn sprout! LOL 1 out of 10 seeds i planted! How odd that will look later? Hey, who knows, with all the ethonal making, I might be able to use my one single stalk and buy myself a new car with the corn off of it!? LOL (wishful thinking). Never know right?

The garden in my front flower bed is growing really nicely so far. I have a couple of Jalapenos on a plant or 2 and I had a tomato on one of them but it fell off. There is one tomato on one of the plants in the back though. (: I dont think my carrot seeds were any good. I cant seem to grow carrots for some reason. I decided I wont grow potatos since i cant afford any more soil. My little helper was of course getting in all kinds of trouble while I was trying to water and plant more seeds. I think shes thinking her name is "No! get off the plants!" Lol. She did secretly plant some extra beans i found out today. They started showing up when i was watering. LOL. She did a wonderful job helping water my flowerbed. (: Here are some pics (:

Kayliana watering 4 me (:

she found a fuzzy worm lol and squeels if it tickles her too much!

Codi has a new friend taking a ride on his back. Look closely near his tail. Kayliana was trying to chase them both.

Just a pic of a butterfly

This butterfly was trying to find some nector on a the pink flowers on the statue Lol.

Just a pic of my clematis that is VERY slow at growing.

Will it ever get done?!

StarLiteFarms — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:09:49 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:09 am (GMT 0)

Today we were going to go get some plants but after hubby got home from school last night and we left to do our final paper delivery route (TG we are done with that)! , We went out to put the babies car seat in and hubby said OH NO! I forgot to roll up the window last night! Of course, I wasnt mad. Just kinda bummed. Who knew of all nights the weather men would actually mean that 50% chance of rain meant UPPER 50% lol. We were woke up this morning by strong 70 MPH winds and heavy rain! Needless to day, the car insides were soaked and sopping! The radio was trying to turn ON while the car was OFF! The seat belt sign wouldnt go off even though we both had them on! Geesh!

Anyways, we didnt get to go get the plants. So, i rearranged how i wanted my garden planted and skipped a few sections and just planted a few seeds. Im running way out of time! I dont think I can wait much longer on things! I was going to plant the green beans but was having trouble just walking around! Mud alllll over!

I was glad I at least got some of the other tomato plants and Jalapeno plants that were left over from the ole dying ones were still okay and planted them. I planted Tomatillo and Sqaush and zuccinni seeds tonight. I guess I'll go to plant the beans tomorrow. LOL my garden will be so zig zagged when its all started growing!! I had it all mapped out! Now its going to be a crazy un even setting!

Thanks for reading! (:

Whew what a lot of work!

StarLiteFarms — Sun, 27 May 2007 13:07:16 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:07 pm (GMT 0)

Howdy !

Today is rainy right now, so i finally get a small break from all that shoveling dirt!! 12 cubic yards of it! I think we are half way done moving it from the front of the yard to the back! Thank goodness for pickup trucks!
unfortunately, we didnt have anything to cover up the dirt overnight so i know its going to be heavier today! Any volunteers?! LOL

Well, I have 3 new things growing!! FINALLY the danish cross is growing!! Teeeeny tiny babies have decided to show themselves as of 2 days ago! They are so cute! The other things that decided to grow are a tomato and 2 Jalapenos! Mmmmm Sure glad I planted them in the flowerbed! We bought our garden seeds yesterday too (along with 30 fryer chickens that we will resell in the next week or so!)
We are waiting to find Habanero pepper plants. Oh my! I almost forgot to ask about bell peppers too!
We will be having yellow squash, tomatos, zuccinni, Cucumbers, green beans, cherry tomatos, tomatillos, bell and Habanero peppers. Jalapenos.. and I think thats it! Next year we will add onions. We didnt have good luck with them while they were in the hard clay.

My flowers are doing pretty good. The cosmos are growing nicely and I cant remember the other ones i planted, but they are growing good too! My roses bloomed again so now i have 2 yellow rose bushes and the orange one blooming together. I finally got to see my lonely rose bush bloom. I think its a fragrant cloud. My Tiffany rose bush bloomed and it smelled absolutely wonderful!! I think its my most fragrant one! I am considering putting a new rose bush in the flowerbed where one of my trees is. Its dying and its lopsided because I had to cut alot off. Its ugly and theres no hope of 'unlopsiding it' Lol.
I will post some pics soon. Ohhhh and im excited because i have a couple of maple trees growing from seed! Im going to try to grow a couple of willow trees from seed as well!! Hope that works for me! Anyways, tonight ill try to get some pics.
I hope everyone has a nice holiday! Be safe and careful! Thanks for reading!! I know im forgetting to tell you all something, but thats what happens when ya have a short memory LOL.

Holy cow and Crazy horses (;

StarLiteFarms — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:45:50 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:45 am (GMT 0)

Lol hows that for an attention getter of a title! LOL

Well, i have a pic to show yall. Its a few days old.. its of the cosmos!! Here..

There they are.. my babies that i grew! And they are STILL alive!!!

I also got to mow mow mow. Yuck lol. I usually enjoy mowing but with this wind, it was totally rediculous. I had to mow the pasture next door. I think it was only 3/4 of an acre but on a small riding lawn mower and the brush was at least 3 foot high .. it was tough. Especially not knowing what you are going to run over!!! And talk about to much stinking cactus!!! And no clue how to get rid of it!

Let see... if i had hot wire, Id just send the 3 cows up front and let them have a hay day.. or in that case.. weeds, cactus and grass day.. That sure would help me out. Some day we will own a tractor! but for now, our trusty ole murray lawn mower will just have to do. Although i do think those 'Quarter Horse " mowers are a tad bit more expensive to run than ole murray, Im gonna hate to sell those 2 boys!

anyways, other than a few cactus needles in my ankle, finding a nice sized snake skin... running over a few rocks and finding out I have a Sand plum tree .. my day was LONG and tiresome yet accomplished and ummm relaxed? (:

OOh and i got some weeping willow seeds!!! now, only if i can grow em! (:

Finally, Im getting my veggie garden!

StarLiteFarms — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:08:55 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:08 pm (GMT 0)

YAY!!

With things going so wrong for me this past 1/2 of a year, something is starting to go right. With my husband losing his job of 7 years due to the plant closing down, and all the bad things that came with that.. I finally got something good. The starting of our vegetable garden!! We had one the first year we moved here. it did AWESOME! Ill post pics of that soon if i can find the pics. The reason? Well, when we planted it, there was already a fenced in area where chickens stayed previously before we moved in. Well, we tried the garden the second year having a less success. So, after the 3rd year, we kind of gave up. Well, I have been craving my garden since then. So, this year we moved it into our back yard so it will be easily accessed and easily watered. Thats one reason the garden failed the previous years before. Dragging water hoses long distances didnt work good for us. Also, we were under major drought and were worried about water running dry in our well. We have not gotten above on the drought so now we're pretty confident on not using all our water lol. Except with all the pools being filled up who knows Lol.

Anyways, heres the making of our new garden. We got 9 foot rail road timbers for $5.00 each. So our garden will be about 18 x 27. I think its an improvement on our old one. I cant remember the exact size of that one. I turned into a human kite though yesterday as i was laying the black paper down. Wind was 20-30 mph and decided to take the paper and fly it around lol.
The second pic is of my front flower bed. I didnt get to buy any flowers for it and my hubby went and bought some Tomatos and Pepper plants from his school but then things came up and we didnt get the dirt in time. So, I had to put them in the front just so they wouldnt die. (1/2 are almost dead anywys). So far they are doing great. I might end up retransplanting them to the back garden since we will be getting dirt on Friday.

Just another day in the garden

StarLiteFarms — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:42:11 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:42 am (GMT 0)

I found some really good dirt that I had accidentally found when i pulled up a dead stump. I had planted a few little bushes last year but they didnt survive. (what a suprise) lol

So, I took the potting soil from it and sprinkled it in my garden in the low spot and planted the Danish Cross Seeds that Bsewnsew sent me. Now, maybe they wont drown. I havent put all of them down since I dont want to use them all up so i can keep trying if i fail more than a few times LOL.
I also planted a few more Cactus Zinias and asther. now that the dog cant get in the flower bed, I think the seeds have a 50% chance of living LOL

Dog Gone it!!! GRRRRrrr

StarLiteFarms — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:05:26 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:05 pm (GMT 0)

What was to be another just fine day starts out to me having to unburry another set of rose moss... replant what tiny seedling cosmos that were growing and uncover yet another stepping stone that was covered in what my dog thought was a nice bed! SOOO
I did what i wasnt wanting to do. I put up the hot wire. OUCH!
It wasnt even all hooked up yet and i got shocked... then i was uncovering yet what i thought was a rose moss which turned out to be only a stem of broken rose moss. I thought Dogs were supose to be peoples best friends! lol.
Anyone want a golden retriever?!?!

Anyways, now if only my 2 year old will stay away from it. And, while im pulling weeds etc, I will not get shocked! maybe I'll go find some cattle panals cheap some day and place them in front where the dog cant get to them.

Oh, I think i also have a trumpet vine sprouting!! And, i got a few wisteria, and honey suckle cuttings and also a sage plant all planted. yay!

what a bummer

StarLiteFarms — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:05:22 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:05 am (GMT 0)

Well,

This weekend we stayed at my parents so we could stay close to the city and work on S-In-Laws house ... had to leave my pretty flowers and newly growing seeds that i planted.

We got home late last night so i just fed the dogs not thinking about my flowers. I got up this morning to go water them and boy was i mad again! That darn lil bailey got (or should isay big) decided she was hot and needed a cool spot in the cool dirt AGAIN! I havent had the time to put any fence around it yet. So, all i could do was put my baby dianthis plant back in its new /old spot and uncover my 2 or three rose moss plants and rewater them. I was lucky i even found my broken stepping stone under the dirt. My jasmine that i had just planted recently was fortunate to get only a few little leaves pulled off. Unfortunately, my rose (whose name tag i found and wouldnt of found except for the dog digging showed up so I now know its a "Sacred heart rose' and not fragrent cloud. ) anyways, the rose lost a tall fresh newly growing stem broken off. So, now its down to a small bush at the bottom and 1 1-2foot stem ! ): Well, so some of the seeds that i tried planting are now probasbly lost forever. Ill have to replant them. But im going to wait i guess til i get something put up.

Anyways, who knows what tomorrow will bring when I wake up . Hopefully some smiling flowers and another leaf on my clematis (: Its up to about 2-3 inches tall now and has i think 4 small leaves on it. lol all the 4 leaves put together are still no bigger than my pinky nail but its alot faster growing than last time! I did SOMETHING right Lol.

I grew something! Lol

StarLiteFarms — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:47:34 -0400

Author: StarLiteFarms
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 3:47 am (GMT 0)

Well, Ive never really written a blog before.. so here is a bit i suppose..

Well, I got most the seeds that i have planted!
I started last monday with the seeds..

I planted some Zineas, spanish rose moss,
pink globe anthums, more zineas and I found some old trumpet vine seeds..
I planted on Tuesday and Wednesday my seeds from Bsewnsew and Bethie
Thanks friends!!
and Guess what!!
I have 2-3 sprouts of cosmos coming up!!! How excited I got when i was pulling out baby trees and i glanced down to see something different! Woohoo!!

I still have a little of each type of seeds that they gave me to sew but not sure when that is going to happen. Maybe next week. I have to find some potting soil etc.

I also started my first real compost pile!!
I had been thinking about it a while back, but just didnt know how to get started.
My sister bought some "Oklahoma Gardening' magazines at a garage sale for 3.00! It had 3 subjects that i had been thinking about in those magazines!! Compost, Roses, and Digging pets! (:

So, now all i lack is 2 -4 more wooden pallets so i can finish the compost compartment! (:

Well, thats all I guess I'll write for now! I'd share pics but theres none to really share right now (;

Thanks for reading. Ill keep you posted! (: