Leverhead's 2013 T Patches; SE Texas

[Fisherman]

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[ChuckP]

Re: Leverhead's 2013 T Patches

Is there an advantage to replanting over letting the bottom sucker produce a plant?

Howdy Knucks,

In 2011, we had hurricane Irene come through Virginia in late August with 85 mph winds. It destroyed most of my plants by snapping them in half. Devastated, I just let the garden go and much to my surprise a bottom sucker grew and produced some nice sized leafs in the next two months. Normally, I wouldn't let suckers grow and divert there energy away from growing the largest leaf possible on the main plants. But this year it surely was a great blessing!

 

[leverhead]

Re: Leverhead's 2013 T Patches

It's not a two headed calf, but I thought it was interesting enough to post. At first I thought it was some kind of a funky sucker, but it's Siamese leaves. The smaller leaf looks as though it grew out of the main stalk upside down.

 

[Fisherman]

u live near a nuke plant >?

 

[jekylnz]

What variety is it..some mutant strain???you might be onto something if you could get evry leaf to put out two.lol

 

[leverhead]

I'm sorry! It's Bafra. No Nukes in the neighborhood. It might make a good plant for NZ, it doesn't know which way is up.

 

[jekylnz]

Did you get affected by the storms?? Hows your garden.some of those houses round your way are looking abit worse for wear??

 

[leverhead]

Everything is/was fine here! All the action was quite a ways from here, when I looked last night it was West of BarG.

 

[leverhead]

A few days now, makes a big difference! Pictures this morning of the Turkish section and the Izmir types.

 

[Fisherman]

A thing of beauty!
Dang good looking stand there Mr Leverhead..
Steroids?
Seems the high temps are here for the summer. I will be planting in shade I think now

 

[leverhead]

I heard the Devil was heading North a couple of weeks early this year. No steroids, the ground was broken from grass. That's it! The Turkish seems happy here.

 

[leverhead]

It's been a good week, the rain has given everything a reason to grow and for me to do a little bit of clean-up. I did a group photo from the other end of the patch, I like all the green. The variety's are in the file name, hover your cursor over the photo for that info. The cat has agreed to help me with the harvest in the tight spaces this year.

 

[workhorse_01]

Re: Leverhead's 2013 T Patches

It sure is pretty, tight, but beautiful to look at!

 

[Knucklehead]

Looking mighty fine there lever. I still have some catching up to do.

 

[leverhead]

Thanks guys! The Turkish leaves seem to do more moving than breaking, so there's still hope. I was standing on this side of the patch, taking a break. It looked nice enough to take some pictures, the fence on the other side is too close to get a good view.

 

[jekylnz]

Look how priddie those uniform rows are..looking good there Leverhead..you've obviously put some love.time & care in there.well done bro

 

[Seanz]

Nice looking garden there man

 

[AmaxB]

You already know it looks good so I won't say that. Will say I hope mine does as well....

 

[Fisherman]

WOW

Will be plenty pounds in that gathering for sure. You did mitey fine Mr Lever

 

[leverhead]

Thanks, it's going pretty good. Most of the TLC and patience testing is still to come.