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Mojo
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Oh! So this is what's up...

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Post: # 38739Unread post Mojo
Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:06 pm

*appears*

I haven't been as active online as I used to be --RL (not PL) gets in the way. But since I just finished moving several cya. of dirt to the beds (one dump cart at a time, just me and 9yr old El Boy), I thought I'd come online to give an update...

--and discovered that things had changed, to put it mildly. So then, here we are.

I'm still down in Zone 9a (I think that's Sugar Land), increasingly devoting time to citrus trees and figuring out what I can plant that the nutria will not try to make their own. The last few years have been substandard tomato years for me, alas. Two years ago I got in a load of substandard dirt (insufficiently composted) that wrecked my spring crop, but produced a respectable number of fall tomatoes. Last year I got decimated by some kind of burn, origins still unknown; that was a shame because I had rediscovered a lost cache of seeds from the 2010 SETTFest and many of them actually proved viable. This year, fresh regular soil mix is topping off the bed and that's about it, and I'm limiting varieties to proven-for-around-here.

I think this is the right place: someone still looks like his cat...
There is no such thing as too many tomatoes, and anyone who tells you otherwise should be shunned --you don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

SW Houston, Zone 9A

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worth1
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Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:13 pm

Howdy Mojo.
Been awhile hasn't it?
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.

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Post: # 38741Unread post Whwoz
Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:17 pm

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Mojo

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Harry Cabluck
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Post: # 38761Unread post Harry Cabluck
Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:41 pm

Welcome... from 25 miles northwest of Bastrop, Texas.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

HenriSportif
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Post: # 38762Unread post HenriSportif
Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:57 pm

Hi Mojo, welcome! Good luck with your new / amended soil - hope you get lots of what you want from it!
~Bee

This then is life - How curious! How real! Underfoot, the divine soil - Overhead, the sun.

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Post: # 38764Unread post MissS
Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:35 pm

Welcome to the Junction Mojo! So glad that you found us here. You knew you were in the right place when you saw the cat was here.
~ Patti ~

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Post: # 38774Unread post AZGardener
Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:00 am

Welcome to the Junction!
You might like Black Gumbo Southern Gardener's Youtube channel. He lives near Houston.
USDA Zone 9b, Sunset Zone 13
Average Rainfall 9.5 inches
Climate: Sonoran Desert

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Post: # 38782Unread post Nan6b
Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:24 am

Welcome from PA! Looking forward to progress reports & more.

Nan

PS- don't know if you can grow rhubarb in 9A, but nothing up here likes to eat it.

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Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:30 pm

Welcome from the UK
The behaviour of light means you observe me as i was then, and not as I am now.
I cannot change history, so I do hope i gave you a good impression of myself

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Post: # 38815Unread post Shule
Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:13 pm

Welcome, [mention]Mojo[/mention]! It's good to have you. 🍅🍅🍅
Location: SW Idaho, USA
Climate: BSk
USDA hardiness zone: 6
Elevation: 2,260 feet

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Post: # 38964Unread post Rockoe10
Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:09 pm

Nan6b wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:24 am ...
PS- don't know if you can grow rhubarb in 9A, but nothing up here likes to eat it.
Just the Japanese beetles. They were terrible last year. The leaves looked like Swiss Cheese.
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Rob, ZONE 6A with 170 days between frost dates, Western Pennsylvania

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Post: # 40184Unread post LindyAdele
Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:49 pm

Hello and welcome from Canada!
I just landed here myself! So jealous you get multiple crops a year! I'm basically in the frozen north here so I should be grateful I can grow tomatoes at all?!

I had the same issues with garden soil once. Did you find it got better over time? Hoping you have the best garden season yet!
LINDY

zone 5
short season, with hot summers, Ontario Canada
Enchanted by colourful vegetables that can be grown in her city backyard, world cuisine, forests and firelight.

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