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Post by daylilydude on Mar 17, 2018 8:56:17 GMT -5
Do you have any garden related sayings or folklore in your area such as the corn should be "knee high by the 4th of July" ?
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Post by meandtk on Mar 17, 2018 9:31:00 GMT -5
We have a warning regarding early planting. Thunder in February, frost in April. 'Tain't true. The conventional wisdom is to plant corn on Valentine's Day and everything else on Good Friday.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 17, 2018 10:27:34 GMT -5
Wait until the pecan leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear. Pecan trees never get fooled by a late frost like the stupid blueberries.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 17, 2018 11:36:23 GMT -5
I plan on a massive planting on Good Friday followed by a family reunion with a massive feed the next day.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 17, 2018 11:58:37 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy, Seeing we're both from South Mississippi, I'm sure we must be cousins. I'll see you for lunch that Saturday
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Post by paulf on Mar 17, 2018 12:49:47 GMT -5
We have a warning regarding early planting. Thunder in February, frost in April.i We had thunder last night..What about March thunder?
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Post by meandtk on Mar 17, 2018 14:04:37 GMT -5
We have a warning regarding early planting. Thunder in February, frost in April.i We had thunder last night..What about March thunder? It typically means rain is close by
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Post by spike on Mar 17, 2018 14:31:46 GMT -5
Always heard the knee high verse around here. Also my Old Uncles swore by planting by the phases of the moon. Above ground crops: New moon. Below ground crops: dark moon.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 17, 2018 14:49:30 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy, Seeing we're both from South Mississippi, I'm sure we must be cousins. I'll see you for lunch that Saturday Well we never turn away hungry people and y
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 17, 2018 14:55:23 GMT -5
ou could you bless the food. Pine Ridge community west of Sumral. I will do some appetizers for which I will post the recipe. The rest of them will cook as the spirit moves them. Presently I am about to put Peruvian spiced chicken thighs on the grill.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 17, 2018 18:35:12 GMT -5
Well it's traditional around here to plant peas on St. Patrick's Day but that's not going to happen here today! We had wind chills in the 20's yesterday and we may see some light snow next week so there is no way the soil is warm enough to plant peas.
Another folk saying around here is the Onion Snow which is the last light snow before onions get planted.
Maybe next week will be the Onion Snow. I sure home so.
People around here also think that their corn is supposed to be Knee High by the 4th of July.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 17, 2018 19:12:36 GMT -5
ou could you bless the food. Pine Ridge community west of Sumral. I will do some appetizers for which I will post the recipe. The rest of them will cook as the spirit moves them. Presently I am about to put Peruvian spiced chicken thighs on the grill. Thanks. That is truly a busy weekend. I just couldn't resist joking. I used to live a few miles south of Pine Ridge on 589. I was about a mile north of the old Locke's Wag-a-bag. That was twenty years ago. I loved that area and still have dear friends nearby.
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Post by aftermidnight on Mar 17, 2018 21:42:09 GMT -5
Don't put your tomato plants in the ground before the snow is off Mt. Benson.
Cover your lettuce plant until after the hail as come and gone in April.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 18, 2018 15:23:50 GMT -5
The only one I know of around here is to plant corn when the oak leaves are the size of a mouse's ear.
...which is about now. Around here, the first planting of corn will be done weeks before the 4th of July. So the "knee high by the 4th of July" saying doesn't apply to us.
I probably missed out on most of the gardening sayings because Mom and Dad didn't have a vegetable garden, at least not in my memory.
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Post by ahntjudy on Mar 19, 2018 7:33:16 GMT -5
My Italian Gramma said that if you cut a new potato, rub it on a wart and bury it under an oak tree under a new moon, the wart will go away...
Pretty sure I tried that waaaay back when I was young...the people down the street have an oak tree... The wart went away and never came back...
{{However, I must add that I also religiously kept castor oil on that wart, as Mom told me to do, until it went away and never came back...I'm sure it was a smothering factor that did that trick...}}}
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Post by Hensaplenty on Mar 20, 2018 13:40:47 GMT -5
{{However, I must add that I also religiously kept castor oil on that wart, as Mom told me to do, until it went away and never came back...I'm sure it was a smothering factor that did that trick...}}} That reminded me of my sweet dad who grew up during the depression. He put Castor Oil on EVERYTHING that ailed! He was the best father ever!
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