Two Beds in the Greenhouse Doing Well…if you like weeds

Well… “top of the morning to ya!” We hope all is well in regards to you guys! Deb, Cheyenne, and I are doing just fine.

The weather is absolutely beautiful, and we had an inch of rain a couple nights back. Good night it had been dry, dry, dry! I’m thankful for every drop, but this year rain is in short supply. But this is our dry season. We normally don’t have any and just catch them out ahead of a front.

In the average season we won’t see much until June, then, the afternoon showers start, many times daily. If it rains early and the sun gets back out, it’s just like a dern sauna. You catch one late in the evenin, sit out on the porch, swingin and that good breeze blowin through…that’s livin!

Well, the greenhouse is still coming along, and boy are we enjoying this. This really is truly a great experience for us both.

We had gotten our beds in as we’d told you guys earlier, and boy did we get a surprise in that we have dern weeds comin up in two of our three beds. Startin to look as if we’d planted a cover crop.

The two beds with this problem were the two beds we had used Miracle Grow garden soil. It’s amazing the amount of weeds, and grass, that are coming up in them! Plus, we’ve not put ANY water on them as there’s nothing growing in them at this time?? I honestly don’t know what this will be once we do start watering in these beds?

But, I’ll contact Miracle Grow today and speak with someone about this problem. I really, or would like to believe they’ll do something on account of this. We’d bought over 300 bags of their soil mix. This cannot be the product they are turning out consistently on a full time basis. If so, then I just imagine their product would not continue to be used period, if, this were the case.

I do know firsthand from being a small business owner that there are times…you’re only as good as the people around you. Someone not paying attention to what he or she is doing, or getting in a “bad batch” of material being used. This has happened before in our business, by simply having a bad mix of asphalt, for example.

So things DO happen from time to time that are what you’d call, out of your hands, or even human error. I want to think that this will be Miracle Grows understanding as well, and honestly I think that will be the case.

I’ll keep you guys updated in this regard.

On the flip side of the coin however, we had bought Lowes out of the Miracle Grow, and had to switch to Jungle Growth out of necessity. In this bed, there is NO weed, or grass germination at all…not one!

So I have to say, from our experience, the difference in the two products has actually been remarkable! No comparison.

But again, we are both of the belief that there are times things do go a little haywire, and until I speak with Miracle Grow, I’m keeping an open mind.

Let’s talk a little about our vegetables that we planted from seed, which we bought from Bakers Creek Seeds by the way. We’re “happy as a pig in slop” so far! For those unfamiliar with that term, it simply means…we’re ecstatic.

The seeds have done well, although our eggplants, and pepper plants had us a little worried. We went out this morning and looked over our seedlings, and lo and behold…little eggplants jumpin up everywhere. Yes!

Also I told Deb that I’d read last night that pepper germination sometimes takes considerably longer to “pop up” than say, tomatoes. Felt better immediately. LOL! I also read where the soil temp needs to be around 72, and honestly we’ve had very little of that.

Daytime temps, yes, but nighttime temps still dropping occasionally into the 50’s. So I’m looking for the peppers to be germinating any moment now.

We didn’t start any indoors on heating mats, or under lights either…straight into the greenhouse, the tray cells filled with soil, and then seeded. But again, we’ll be transferring a lot of seedlings into 4” pots over the next few days.

Ole Deb is already looking at other things now. She wants me down the road a little while, to buy her an umbrella canopy, and sit at our gate where she can sell some vegetable plants, and fresh produce on the weekends.

I told her that would be a little while cause, shoot, we really don’t have any vegetables to speak of even in the beds growing off yet. You know what she told me? She said, “I know that dummy, I’m letting you know in advance…so you can save up to buy my umbrella canopy!”

Dern if she ain’t right……….again!

Well, that’s kinda what’s been goin on here at Dub and Deb’s. As usual, ole Dub’s busy, and ole Deb’s crackin her whip. Nothin ever changes fellows….when they say, “I do,” without a doubt…you’re done!

Here’s our last video of what’s goin on in the greenhouse, and it shows what we’re experiencing in our beds from the weed standpoint. We hope you guys enjoy it.

Well, what ya think?

On a lighter note, we’ll leave you guys with an e-mail we got from our good buddy, AP. You may have seen this before, I had, but felt it worthwhile putting it up today…

Curtis & Leroy

(Don’t underestimate these good-ole boys)

Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS. and bought a mule for $100

The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day…

The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.”

Curtis & Leroy replied, “Well, then just give us our money back.”

The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already..”

They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”

The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”

Curtis said, “We gonna raffle him off.”

The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!”

Leroy said, “We shore can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!”

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked.

“What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”

They said, “We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.”

Leroy said, “Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.”

The farmer said, “My Lord, didn’t anyone complain?”

Curtis said, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.”

Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.

They’re overseeing the Bailout Program.

You guys have a great day and God Bless. Deb says to tell you guys to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!

Dub and Deb

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2 Responses to Two Beds in the Greenhouse Doing Well…if you like weeds

  1. Jennifer Lewis-Olin says:

    Love your video and insight!

    • admin says:

      Thank you Jennifer, your comments were very nice, and very appreciated as well! You have a great weekend and God Bless!

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