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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 23, 2012 19:13:52 GMT -5
I can visualize it now. Gulfie with a Tahitian crookneck in each hand, Reddie armed with two massive Cushaws, each running down I10 to meet up somewhere around Lafayette, LA both singing the Theme to Rocky at the top of their lungs! Garden on Boys! Heheh, and we could even get footage on the redneck spy satellite and the gump drone and put it on u-tube! Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 23, 2012 23:24:23 GMT -5
Run AND sing? We'd better have the EMT's following us. I only run if a mean dog is involved.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 24, 2012 8:47:09 GMT -5
Heheh, and we could even get footage on the redneck spy satellite and the gump drone and put it on u-tube! Sorry, couldn't resist. Oh NO, Don't be Sorry, TX. That's a Great Idea. Be infinitely more fun to watch at gardening shows than "Food Inc" ;D Gulfie, I'd take my chances with a mean dog any day over some of the stuff in the swamp. All I could remember driving across sections of I10 was a friend in Florida yelling at me to get back in the car cuz I stopped at a phone booth at the edge of swamp to call her for directions. At least in FL they had ditches. There's a lot of I10 in mid-LA where Ali Gator wouldn't need to crawl uphill....Blech!
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 24, 2012 8:55:52 GMT -5
Run AND sing? We'd better have the EMT's following us. I only run if a mean dog is involved. or cops...
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 24, 2012 9:19:31 GMT -5
Is it illegal to transport Cushaw across a state line?
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 24, 2012 10:20:03 GMT -5
Invasive species don't ya know.
The other cool things about those ditches in Florida is you can just pull over to the side of the road, get out your rod and reel and catch good sized bass.
Great when you get bored of driving!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 24, 2012 13:53:39 GMT -5
I guess I could get the GUMP drone to sow Tahitian seeds across southeast Texas. That way I wouldn't have to fight gators along I-10.
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Post by redneckplanter on Feb 25, 2012 10:00:16 GMT -5
rotfl.... gulfie running with me chasing him with cushaw seeds while born free plays in the background.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 25, 2012 13:40:21 GMT -5
Red getting distracted by a bag of leaves next to the gator swamp. Smart gator!
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 25, 2012 20:07:06 GMT -5
Wheh doggies,
Time to really test out that backy spray!
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Post by redneckplanter on Feb 25, 2012 22:20:13 GMT -5
baaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddd dawg! gulf tho woundest me. pooooooooooooooooooor oliver.rotfl
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 26, 2012 12:37:05 GMT -5
Oliver rotted. Good riddance! How many sacrificial virgins are you going to offer to the Great Pumpkin this year?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Apr 15, 2012 17:49:56 GMT -5
The punkin patch is going strong this year. Tahitian Melon moschata has half the patch, Menina Rajada Seca moschata has about 30%, and Mystery moschata has about 20%. Each bed has one to 3 hills of sunflower also.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 15, 2012 18:24:49 GMT -5
FAncy Patch! And with Sunflowers as well. I love Sunflowers....
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 15, 2012 21:56:57 GMT -5
Go Gcg, go!
Btw, Mystery Moschata came up strong. 12 out of (I think I planted) 12 seeds sprouted.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Apr 16, 2012 11:00:40 GMT -5
That's good! About the same in my patch, 3 hills 5 seed each and we've allready pinched off 2 plants in each hill.
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Post by txdirtdog on May 6, 2012 13:43:46 GMT -5
Giving an update on Mystery Moschata. They are looking happy so far
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 7, 2012 8:48:55 GMT -5
Yes Very! Happy MysteryMosch
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 22:26:15 GMT -5
I couldn't help myself. I was in K Mart today and they just had to put the seed display near the entrance where I'd see it. Found myself picking up a package of Boston Marrow squash to try. Now I have to narrow down all the varieties of squash I have to a few so I have room to grow them. Now which ones shall I choose?
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Post by redneckplanter on Jul 28, 2012 10:07:55 GMT -5
trying a late season maxima medely.lol
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jul 28, 2012 14:59:59 GMT -5
I might pick a few tomorrow. Over all the pumpkin patch is pretty pitifull. The drought and early heat is a killer, not bugs for a change. I'll pick a brzillian butternut, a mystery moschata, and 2 or 3 tahitian melon squash tomorrow. Mystery Moschatas spawn don't look like the one I bought last year. No stripes and they look just like a pumpkin.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 30, 2012 11:12:10 GMT -5
A second crop of winter squash. Tahitian Melon squash and brazilian butternuts. One vine has climbed up on the vence. Definitely plenty of rain but they might need more fertilize.
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Post by txdirtdog on Aug 30, 2012 20:45:41 GMT -5
That's great to hear Gcg!
With the rain and lower temps we had for a while, the remaining winter squash were just beginning to run again and get male flowers. Now the heat has returned with intensity, so it'll be interesting to see if anything made in that window. I'm not super-optomistic. Another week would have probably made a difference.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Nov 2, 2012 16:49:55 GMT -5
Stupid squash are loading up when most of them aren't going to have a chance to ripen before frost.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Apr 21, 2013 19:23:25 GMT -5
The Pumpkin Patch is in retirement for now. I'll be growing 2 hills of Tatume at a different location.
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Post by indigogirl17 on Jul 11, 2017 10:13:49 GMT -5
last fall I was driving around out in the country and came across a pumpkin stand and stopped to get some for Halloween. The woman selling them had these "pink" ones she called Susan B. Komen pumpkins and evidently she was donating the proceeds to Komen. They have sort of a squat appearance, very hard outer rind. I saved some seeds and planted them this year...we will see what they do. Has anyone ever seen these? Here's a picture of her stand..the light pinkish ones are the Komens
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indigogirl17
Pro Member
Blazing here again...90's and dry after aq period of 3 weeks of solid rain a few weeks back. .
Posts: 191
Zone:: 5b
Favorite Vegetable:: sweet corn, collards, turnip greens, yellow wax beans, Cherokee purple tomatoes
Joined: March 2011
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Post by indigogirl17 on Jul 11, 2017 10:14:14 GMT -5
what a beauty!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Nov 6, 2019 12:14:50 GMT -5
The pumpkin patch will make a reappearance this year in a different location. Only two or three varieties though, all hybrids. Still no cushaws!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Nov 5, 2020 13:05:37 GMT -5
Next year might be South Anna. We generally loved Butterkin except for the keeping abilities.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 5, 2021 21:03:06 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy This is my first year with South Anna, but I've had two go bad already - the largest and the smallest. I still got 38 oz of diced squash from the large one, but all of the seed end and about 1 1/2" of the neck were gone, and it didn't look that bad on the outside. Usually I find butternuts with small bad spots, and I can save most of them.
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