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>>> this morning on "today's" weekly rewind, a look back at some of the week's most clicked on, talked about and unbelievable stories. jenna is here to run them down.
>> some of them unbelievable. some of them quite believable. we'll start with the unbelievable. we're talking canine and cars, not often paired together until now. in new zealand, dogs are not only man's best friend , they are also apparently man's best form of transportation. dogs driving cars. no joke. they're teaching your pets how to handle your cars. truth be told, the whole thing is a publicity stunt by the local spca.
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>> can i just say that dog was a perfect example? he was not texting. it's a lesson for all.
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>> some dogs will stick the head out the window with the mouth open, some drive.
>> truth be told, you see a dog driving your car, that doesn't make your day? i love that dog . next up, we all know that crime doesn't exactly pay, but a teenager in nebraska is literally learning that the hard way. 19-year-old anna was arrested for robbing a bank. how did cops find her? it wasn't hard. she told everyone she did it. the youtube video that she posted has her bragging about the crime and flashing a large wad of cash. police say she also texted her ex confessing to crime and asking her to get a tattoo with her. what kind of defense will her lawyers be able to present?
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>> so there's that.
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>> did that come out wrong? i don't think it was awkward at all. you think floral, woody, sweet. for some, nothing says sweet aroma quite like the smell of calories. the folks at pizza hut canada have come up with the perfect scent. i bring you pizza hut , because when you're going out for the night, it's always important to smell like a freshly opened box of pizza. it began as a fun facebook post. then the company was like wait a minute, i smell a way we can make some money. they made a limited number. just a limit bit.
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>> there you go.
>> should we move on?
>> let's do it.
>> speaking of cheesy, who did not love john travolta and olivia newton john in "grease"? they have reunited for a new christmas cd. let's just say "greased lightning" did not strike twice. olivia newton john in a slow moving convertible. there's actually some country line dancing in this as well. the budget for the video apparently $12,000. some people love the video. others not so much.
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>> is that on the new christmas album ?
>> oh, okay. they're not doing anything from "grease."
>> it's a new one. some of the moves were kind of "grease"esque at one point.
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Oxford United 0, Charlton Athletic 3 (Kermorgant 35 & 58, Green 37) (From The Oxford Times)
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Oxford United 0, Charlton Athletic 3 (Kermorgant 35 & 58, Green 37)
Updated 11:13pm Tuesday 21st January 2014 in Sport By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
OXFORD United's FA Cup adventure came to a halt as Charlton Athletic did enough when it counted to win the third round replay.
A poor start to the game turned on two goals in three minutes, which put the visitors in charge at half-time.
Yann Kermorgant, who scored a late equaliser a week earlier to deny the U's and take the tie to a second game, opened the scoring, before Danny Green quickly made it 2-0.
Kermorgant's free-kick killed the contest before the hour mark as the Championship side made smooth progress.
United were left to reflect on a night where they were not outplayed, but failed to create anything of real substance in the final third.
- Deane Smalley sets off on a run
It took almost 80 minutes before the hosts, who had thrillingly raced into a 2-0 lead in the first game, managed a shot on target as their cup run ended meekly.
Scott Davies and Josh Ruffels, impressive at The Valley, were restored to the starting line-up.
It meant United fielded the same side which began the first game between the sides, with the exception of Deane Smalley coming in for Tyrone Marsh up front.
The playing surface at the Kassam Stadium was much better than the mud bath at Charlton, but a rain shower before kick-off made the pitch greasy.
It contributed to an error-strewn first 30 minutes, as both sides repeatedly mis-placed simple passes.
The scrappy pattern of the game arguably suited the underdogs, who worked hard to put their visitors from the Championship under pressure.
It worked, but when they got the ball back United also struggled to do anything meaningful with it.
- Scott Davies heads for goal at the end of the first half
It was summed up on ten minutes when they forced three corners in succession. Two failed to beat the first man, while the third was caught by goalkeeper Ben Alnwick.
If anything, Charlton were even less impressive on the ball.
But ten minutes before the break a long, hopeful ball forward gave Charlton a chance. Simon Church held off Michael Raynes and teed up Kermorgant, whose low shot from 20 yards had just enough power to beat Ryan Clarke.
It came out of the blue and within two minutes they had taken a firm grip of the tie.
Their appeared little danger from a looping ball just inside the United half, but Church beat Raynes to it and suddenly found himself clear.
The striker advanced deep into the area, drawing Clarke out before squaring unselfishly to give Green the easiest of tap-ins.
It gave Charlton a swagger as they indulged in an extended bout of keep-ball to end the half, but United emerged after the break with purpose.
A bright spell saw them push the Addicks back, without seriously testing them.
Twice they engineered decent positions, but poor final balls from Davies and then Newey let the visitors off the hook.
Charlton responded by putting the tie beyond doubt just before the hour mark, when Kermorgant curled in a beauty of a free-kick.
It effectively ended any hope of a comeback and the game wound down noticeably in the final half hour.
It all means United will host Torquay United in Sky Bet League Two on Saturday, while Charlton progress to visit Huddersfield Town in the fourth round.
Oxford Utd (4-3-3): Clarke, Hunt, Raynes, Wright, Newey, Davies, Mullins, Ruffels, Rigg, Constable, Smalley.
Subs used: Marsh (Constable 79), O'Dowda (Rigg 79).
Unused subs: Rose, Long, Lynn, Shama, Bevans.
Booked: Mullins.
Charlton (4-4-2): Alnwick, Wilson, Evina, Morrison, Dervite-Vaussoue, Green, Stephens (Poyet 81), Jackson, Harriott (Pritchard 68), Church, Kermorgant (Sordell 76).
Unused subs: Phillips, Wood, Lennon, Pigott.
Booked: None.
Attendance: 3,225 (583 visitors).
Referee: David Coote (Nottinghamshire).
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9:47pm Tue 21 Jan 14
adlibber says...
9:49pm Tue 21 Jan 14
South Upper 87 says...
Fine reward for the two and a half thousand OUFC fans who paid up for tonight.
Much said about us finding money for another player, time to use any cash that's available to get rid of Wilder and start again.
10:21pm Tue 21 Jan 14
dorsetyellows says...
Poor v Plymouth , very poor v Scunthorpe , average v Pompey
Average v Wycombe , poor v Charlton .
Not exactly a top of the class report .
New teachers required especially in attacking football .
10:46pm Tue 21 Jan 14
BigAlBiker says...
Funniest thing all night was seeing Neil Lennon sat 10 yards from me in the directors box, he certainly didn't come to watch a football match that's for sure.
Ruffels and Mullins had good games, if Smalley is a striker my 80 year old mum could be on page 3, he must have some gossip on Donkey Wilder as he keeps picking him, Beano has one shot and gets subbed, at 3-0 down Donkey should have put Marsh, Sharma and O'Dowda on for Smalley, Rigg and pick one other, Rigg has lost his pace so has to be offloaded with Smalley.
Tactically Donkey is Cluless as I have been saying, Lenegan takes the mock with his pricing and not getting a striker from anywhere.
The home fans have to kept happy, this is not happening and if it does not buck up in the next few home games god only knows what the attendance will be.
Donkey Wilder out.
11:02pm Tue 21 Jan 14
oldun says...
Chris has had far too long and seems to have lost the plot.
I await the spin, fantasy and excuses in Chris' bit on here tomorrow
11:09pm Tue 21 Jan 14
osney terrier says...
tsmouth and Scunthorpe for telling us exactly where where we are...... a mid table league 2 side
Having enjoyed the highs and lows of over 30 years,this team is not the worst,but where does the chairman see us?
We are tenants to a business man who owns the ground, on gates of 5,000ish,
Until we can buy the ground,this is where we are!
6:55am Wed 22 Jan 14
dovepe says...
7:30am Wed 22 Jan 14
oldun says...
dovepe wrote:Hear , hear!
3rd round FA Cup 80 mins shot on goal under 3 thousand home fans
I have been one of Chris' biggest supporters
but he has taken us backwards since the promise of January 2012 .
Scraped up through the playoff lottery -
yes, yes, yes - we have had many much worse than him
- but he has had over a year too long.
7:57am Wed 22 Jan 14
Brenda Jackson says...
I hope Lenagan 'enjoyed' last night as much as the rest of us who were there.
9:04am Wed 22 Jan 14
learned says...
No more for me.
Wilder as stayed too long and it doesn't look as though Lenegan wants to do anything about it.
The team needs several new players- surely get someone on loan before the end of January.
I have been saying it repeatedly. Smalley is useless. What does Wilder see in him !! A new striker to help out Constable.
Rigg has also been very poor and needs to go.
And the development players ? None are good enough- lightweight and no more than Conference standard.
10:54am Wed 22 Jan 14
Doctor69 says...
It does make me laugh that so many people now realise how poor we are. I know we were flying high earlier in the season, but let's be honest, the performances never matched the results!
As per usual, Wilder Out.
12:29pm Wed 22 Jan 14
hammerthebarstewards says...
1:31pm Wed 22 Jan 14
Manor Born says...
Last night was just pathetic. Spineless, toothless and gutless. We seemed to play as if we had lost the game from the start. Yes the first half hour was pretty even, but in that time we created nothing and gave a poor Charlton side time to settle into their stride and then take us apart with 3 simple goals.
The only thing noticeable about our response to Charlton's first goal was the lack of one. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a one-off, but it isn't, it is the same every time we play at home. Something needs to be done about it before the damage is irreparable and our season goes down the toilet once again.
3:45pm Wed 22 Jan 14
martico1 says...
Yet again CW (of whom I have been a continuing fan) retreats into the dug-out when things go wrong, and seems unable to effect changes that work - nor does he give them time to. And his ignoring of subbed players as they come off is crass and unnecessary (he should have watched Chris Powell to see how it should be done). Suspect IL may not have started those new contract talks yet after all......
4:18pm Wed 22 Jan 14
dave from witney says...
Yet again CW (of whom I have been a continuing fan) retreats into the dug-out when things go wrong, and seems unable to effect changes that work - nor does he give them time to. And his ignoring of subbed players as they come off is crass and unnecessary (he should have watched Chris Powell to see how it should be done). Suspect IL may not have started those new contract talks yet after all......
Well Said.
Just shows that he has lost the 'dressing room', a new manager could with just a couple of extra players pick up the pieces and get us into the auto spots. Even though we have far too many average players, they are playing even lower than their actual skill level, a new man could well raise them to an acceptable level.
3:14pm Thu 23 Jan 14
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If what I have heard from PewterDaze is correct, Yatta the Hutt had his knee scoped and is done for the year. So too bad, if that is really your "hope".
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First things first, players are now to be paid. We're installing a playoff right now, instead of in 2014. The Rose Bowl's really mad about it. A 16-team event, with a whole lot of that extra money going to pay the people doing the most important work. Two problems solved!
Also, conference realignment is no more. All schools that currently play football are frozen right where they are, and all independents and startups have been assigned new homes (they're marked with asterisks below). It was a busy night! The TV-orchestrated realignment black market has been replaced with a success-rewarding relegation system, similar to most world pro sports leagues. You may want to head here for Kevin McCauley with more on how relegation works and here for Spencer Hall on why it will be so great for college football.
The MAC's best team replaces the Big Ten's worst team, but we're thinking about going even further. With teams in every conference now both battling for titles and to keep from tumbling to a lesser league, conference championship week could mean something for pretty much everybody. The SEC Championship Game could have an official undercard now -- the Sun Belt runner-up could get to play the second-worst SEC team for the right to take its spot. We could do that all around the country, at every level. Let's circle back to that one. Also, what to do about scholarship allotments at each level. I don't know yet. We'll think of something.
Here's a look at the five columns, seven tiers each, that are replacing the current BCS-FBS-FCS-D2-D3 setup. It's similar to the excellent version done by Dawg Sports last year, but all the way down to NAIA.
We'll start with the one that was easiest to wrangle into a tidy stack. The Pac-12's column, headed by all 12 current Pac-12 teams and with a WAC that doesn't have to disappear (this one has the toughest third tier in the country):
The SEC has an orderly arrangement as well, but a lack of Southern-only leagues at certain lower levels gives us a longshot daydream of small schools in Big Ten country one day entering the SEC. Small-school stars here include Glenville State, where Rich Rodriguez accidentally invented the zone read. As for the mid levels, we saw last year how much of a headache Southern Conference teams can be for the SEC, and Thursday's relegation simulation by Bill Connelly has one SoCon team in particular establishing itself among the big boys. Teaser! It's at the expense of an Egg Bowl team, too.
Here's a messy one. The Big 12! By adding West Virginia, they went national. So national independents BYU and Notre Dame have a new home, and any lower-tier conference with either a Texas-y theme or no clear home base found itself attached to the Longhorn Conference. As for how relegation plays out in the Big 12 ... just keep hoping Robert Griffin III comes back, Baylor fans. Last year's Division II title winner Pittsburg State plays here.
Another easy one: the Big Ten. As Black Heart Gold Pants discovered by surveying the last decade's worth of standings data, Indiana would be moving down a lot. The geography still isn't perfect, but getting an Alabama school into the Rose Bowl via the Big Ten is something we can all shoot for. The B1G could own Division III, with Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mount Union having faced each other for seven title games in a row now.
The ACC looks like kind of a mess, but at the lowest levels there really isn't a defined East Coast conference. And, yes, the Big East is a tier below the ACC now, but it was only a formality anyway. The ACC now contains the Ivy, which prefers not to play postseason games beyond its own walls, and that's fine! It's the ACC anyway! ACC jokes. We've also saved the CAA by doing this -- the CAA, the sudden supposed FCS power conference that sprang from the A-10 less than a decade ago.


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Tell me if you've seen this before. Dan Girardi's early third period goal has given the New York Rangers a lead over the New Jersey Devils after two periods of utter dominance by the Devils yielded nothing on the scoresheet.
The Rangers have a 1-0 lead, and if the script remains the same in the remainder of Game 3, they're going to run all over New Jersey in the third en route to a 2-1 series lead. We'll see.


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Martell's not satisfied
"I know what I don't want to feel again. I know that's the truth. That's a catalyst for hard work. And I'll continue to keep that burning image and feeling in my mind. So I have something to work off of," Webster said. "I'm not satisfied. I'm comfortable, but I'm not satisfied. Satisfaction comes from my goals and the bar that I raised, not only for myself but for my teammates. So no satisfaction yet."That's what he told Michael Lee of the Washington Post.


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The immortal onion
Here in the Southland, onions can be a year around crop. In fact, we've found that for green onions, we don't even need to seed them anymore.
Now most people think of onions as a summer crop, but it's pretty nice to go pick some fresh crisp green onions for your cooking, in the dead of winter. Actually it's more of a three-season crop, as it will live, but greatly slow its growth in the heat of summer.
Some time ago I was given a large bunch of green onions from the store that were dried out and unsaleable.
I decided that the best thing to do was to plant them.
In six weeks they looked like this:
And when pulled they looked like this:
The wonderful thing is that the story does not end here. When preparing the onions for cooking, I simply cut off the lower (bulb) part and saved it, along with the roots, which I replanted.
These are simply replanted and they grow again. Here's what they look like in three weeks, despite the scratchings (and replanting) due to an errant hen:
This cycle can be repeated over and over for many years, indicating an endless supply of green onions -forever!
Marigold – the miracle plant
I love this flower. It will flourish on poor soil, needs little fertilizer, feeds your pollinators, repels pests, all the while beautifying your homestead. This is dwarf French marigold, Tagetes patula. Our homestead is practically overrun with these. Our bees and butterflies love them.
(If you plant them, be careful never to contaminate the blossoms with pesticides that will kill off your pollinators.)
DFMs are a non-chemical way to control root knot nematodes, which are the bane of many a gardener with sandy soil, especially in the South. Commercial vegetable growers have powerful fumigants for root knot suppression. These are unavailable to gardeners, and dangerous to use, as well.
One can use a cover crop of DFMs in a fallow year, to nearly completely suppress these nasty pests, or one can interplant with the veggies to partly suppress them.
Another nemesis of many gardeners is the squash bug. A heavy infestation can kill your squash plants.
The first year I had a border of dwarf French marigolds around one of my squash beds, I noticed that I had no squash bugs in that bed whatsoever. Yet within a hundred feet, I had another squash planting that was heavily infested. Since then I have surrounded or interplanted DFMs with my squash. And, in the past three years, I've never seen another squash bug in my garden – although my neighbors have them.
(To get photos of squash bugs, I had to visit other gardens that had them.)
DFMs seem to work with cucumber beetles as well. These have vanished from any spot near the marigolds, although there are usually a few on my sunflowers in the front yard. I think they help with other insects as well. But they have failed to be any help with squash borers or pickleworm.
While they repel many harmful insects, they seem to be good hosts for some beneficial insects. I see a lot of assassin bugs on mine, and I am careful to let them alone. They may eat a bee now and then, but they'll also eat aphids, flea beetles, caterpillars, Japanese beetles and many other pests.
Hints for growing your own
T. patula will do fine in the North, but is especially suited for southern USA, because extreme heat doesn't bother it a bit. It will continue to produce masses of bloom when other flowers have faded out. Of course sweltering heat is often accompanied by drought – and I would advise watering as needed in times of drought.
In the South, you can plant these seeds in beds outside in the fall, winter or spring, and they will grow when the soil warms in the spring. To start them blooming earlier, begin them inside as you would tomatoes. I find good results by sowing them thickly in trays in a sterile seed starting medium. Don't overwater, as this encourages damping off. When they are in their second leaf, transplant into individual containers.
Here in South Carolina, I'll be planting about January 20 to February 10 in the trays. They are set out in the ground about the same time tomatoes go out. Do not put in deep shade or boggy areas. Mine bloom from early May through early December. It takes a hard frost to kill them.
I use fertilizer VERY sparingly. I have tried deadheading flowers, but find it's really unnecessary, and very time consuming, due to the large quantity of blooms. About mid-season, the plants begin to get a bit rank, so I prune them severely, removing about half the plants. This stimulates regrowth and dense clusters of new bloom.
Saving seeds
To save seeds cut off dead flowers when they are mostly dry, but not shedding seeds. If you wait too long, they will spill all the seeds from the capsules. Put them in a warm dry place with plenty of air circulation (flat trays or hung up). Protect from mice if necessary. When they are crunchy dry, and the seeds are starting to fall out, hold each seed capsule tightly, and pinch off the dried blossom petals. Then roll the capsule in your fingers over a tray or container and the seeds will fall out.
Flowers are produced by the thousands, but you'll only need a dozen or so to supply plenty of seed for yourself for next year. Just be sure it's dry before you put it into closed containers or it may mold.
I have not tried other types of marigolds, but others who have, indicate to me that these do not work for pest suppression or repelling.
How I cut my garden weeding to less than 15 minutes per week
Many beginner gardeners start off with a bang and are excited and encouraged when their seeds germinate and their started plants take off and grow. But then the weeds begin to show more vigor than the desired veggies.
Even experienced gardeners, who know that you cannot let the weeds even get a couple day's advantage, sometimes lose the garden to weeds, when there's several days of rain and it becomes too muddy to get into the garden.
It's pretty dismaying when you have trouble finding your plants among all the weeds. You can wind up spending many hours of catch-up work, and still find that your plants were severely set back, both by the competition with weeds, and the damage you did to their roots when you pulled up the weeds.
It's been several years now, since I basically solved the weed problem. Sure, there's weeds in my garden, but they are few and far between, compared with what they used to be. I find that just a few minutes a week is sufficient to pull up the weeds, and keep my own veggies growing without competition.
There are three basic reasons why the weed problem mostly disappeared:
1. I no longer till my garden. Every time you turn over the earth, you expose new weed seeds to sunlight and air. Weed seeds can lie dormant in the soil for many years, then suddenly germinate when you've given them ideal conditions to grow.
I've been able to pretty much eliminate tilling because all my gardening now is in raised beds. I was forced to go to raised beds, because our land is as flat as it can be, and we are subject here in coastal South Carolina to occasional heavy rains. These rains would flood my garden and pretty much spoil it. Few of our garden veggies can stand in water without dying or getting riddled with disease.
The raised beds took a lot of work to set up, but once they are up and running, the work forever afterwards is minimal. I started with a mix of about 40% sandy loam topsoil, 40% well rotted compost, 10% crushed coquina (for lime and minerals), and 10% crushed charcoal (to help prevent leaching when those heavy rains come).
These raised beds are in production year around. As soon as one crop is finished, I start with another. About the only disturbance to the soil is when I pull a deep rooted plant like tomatoes, or a root veggie like carrots or turnips. With smaller plants like beans or peas, I just snip them at the soil surface and leave the roots in the ground.
2. When planting or setting out a new crop, I topdress it with about an inch of fresh compost. This compost has very few weed seeds, as it reaches a high temperature during its formation.
My soil remains soft; I can easily plunge my hand up to the wrist into the soil, just by wriggling my fingers and pushing. The soil smells sweet and it's full of worms and insects, unlike most agricultural soils in the area, which are quite barren of life. I always figure that the worms are tilling the soil for me, as much as it needs and in a very natural way.
3. I don't let the weeds go to seed. By having raised beds, I never walk directly on my garden. I have more-or-less permanent walkways between the beds. This means that I can always pull weeds, even if it's very muddy. The weeds never get a chance to get ahead of me.
I can't take very much credit for this system of weed supression. Actually it came as a pleasant surprise. And I had to study it a bit to come to an understanding of why there are so few weeds.
Get your fruit trees from a quality nurseryman!
February 9, 2012
It's time to plant, right now in the Deep South. If you wait until Spring, it's actually too late. The plants need to get established before the heat of summer comes – and late planted nursery stock is much more apt to die.
One problem many homeowners don't recognize is that, by the time fruit trees show up in the Big Box stores, it's already too late. These stores are geared toward the North rather than the South.
There are many other reasons to avoid the Big Box stores and purchase from a reliable nurseryman. Our favorite local nurseryman is Stanley McKenzie of Lake City.
If you are in this area, I highly recommend him. If you are in another area, I encourage you to search for local businesses of equal competence.
Here are some reasons why I prefer my trees from Stan, rather than from Lowes, or Home Depot, or the grocery and farm store chains:
1. Stan knows what does well in the South, and the varieties he supplies are those that are tested for productivity here. The Big Box stores sell the same varieties nationwide, so you often see apples like Red Delicious, McIntosh, and others which do very poorly here. They require much more winter chilling than we get, except in an extreme winter.
2. Your questions are answered, if you go to Stan. At the Big Box stores, the staff usually doesn't have a clue about how to best grow them.
3. Stan's plants are stocky and strong. You won't find any sickly, half dead ones there. I have lost trees purchased elsewhere, but have never lost one from Stan.
4. Stan's prices are very competitive. Nuff said!
5. Stan offers varieties and kinds of fruit that you won't find in the Big Box stores. Yesterday we purchased two plum trees, two rabbiteye blueberries, a pomegranite, and some spring bearing strawberries. I have looked everywhere for spring bearing strawberries, and have only found everbearing – until I asked Stan about them.
Last year we purchased a cold hardy Satsuma orange tree from him, and in earlier years got a Lisbon lemon (potted to go inside in the winter), muscadine grapes, figs, and pineapple guavas.
Stan is famous for his hardy citrus. He is expanding his line, as he finds varities that work here in the Southeast. I find it pretty neat to be able to grow apples (low chill) right alongside citrus trees. I'd be growing a lot more of both of them if I had the space.
Another favorite nurseryman, interestingly, is in the North, but they have southern experience and can supply some unique low-chill apples, as well as other fruit. This is Cummins Nursery in Ithaca, NY,so, of course, their items must be shipped to the South. What I've said about McKenzie Farm Nursery is equally applicable to Cummins Nursery.
Steve Cummins is exremely knowledgeble; he has always answered my questions well, and the best surprise is always in opening the box, and finding trees that are twice the size and in better condition than any other bare-root plants I've ever gotten. I certainly can't recommend this family business more highly.
The mass merchanizers have ways to entice us to make impulse purchases. But planting a tree is a long term committment. Perhaps the wise words of Mark Twain would also apply here – "Marry in haste; repent at leisure!"
Low-tech greenhouses extend the growing season
Our growing season for tender plants usually ends in mid to late November with a killing frost. But we can move fall tomato and pepper plants into a cheap homemade greenhouse to add extra heat for ripening and postpone the frost date. It would be nice if we could extend our season to Christmas, but we haven't gotten quite that far yet.
Of course more cold-hardy plants can handle frost or even freeze, but when it gets really cold, they stop growing. This year I am also moving potted broccoli and cauliflower into the greenhouse, in hopes that the extra heat will serve to keep them growing and harestable through the winter. Otherwise we'd have to wait for warmer spring weather to continue their growth – and that sometimes ends with them bolting (flowering and going to seed), instead of heading.
In the spring the greenhouse is perfect for starting plants early. Actually the germination is done in trays at a southeast-facing window inside. But as the seedlings reach transplantable age, they go into separate containers and out into the greenhouse. We'll tell more about this in a separate post.
We have two low-tech greenhouses to help extend our seasons. The smaller is on our deck on the southeast side, and the larger is attached to the southwest side of our house. Both are made of pvc pipe with some 1×2 bracing and covered with six-mil polyethylene plastic sheeting. The sheeting is attached at the top by being clamped between two 1x2s, but the rest is held in place with cheap spring clamps.
The sheeting is replaced seasonally, and is the only ongoing cost. I found that four-mil sheeting will not last long enough, but six-mil does okay.
We do not try to heat the greenhouses, but I do have water containers to help them hold the day's heat and prevent night freezes as long as possible in the fall.
The larger one has served now for two years, and the smaller for a year.
Both will ultimately be replaced (we hope) by more permanent greenhouses, but for now, on a limited budget, they serve quite well. Neither cost more than a hundred dollars, though the larger one might go a bit over that now, with the recent rise in prices.
Here are some photos of our construction of the larger, so you can get a better mental picture:
Three veggies for the long haul
Gardening is tough in the South!
Many southern gardeners have a lot of problems with pests. We think we've gone a long ways to solve most of the pest insect problems by working to build good populations of beneficial insects.
Many of the bad guys don't have a chance here. Our paper wasps, assassin bugs, robber flies, mantises, lady bugs and others, along with our large bird population, keep most of the bad bugs from ever growing up.
It's gotten so that my wife – who likes to raise butterflies – has to capture the larvae and bring them inside to munch on potted plants. Otherwise they become prey for one of our garden predators.
Pests are one thing, however, and disease is another. Heat and humidity seem to compound the disease problems. Even drought doesn't seem to slow down the progress of disease.
This means that many veggies are only temporary. Tomatoes engage in a race with early blight, which gradually defoliates the plants. Our tomato crop was very good this year. But we also had them planted earlier than ever before. Folks that waited until the traditional plant day (Good Friday) pretty much lost the race. 85% of our tomato crop came on early. The rest was a smattering from a few holdout plants, especially the cherry tomatoes.
Squash and cukes race with powdery mildew, which also kills the leaves. I focused on tomatoes this year and the squash got planted late. We had very little squash.
Avoidance of the problems is very much coupled with good timing on plantings – early in the spring to mature before heat, or late in the summer to grow and mature in the fall.
I've come to appreciate a few veggies that just hang on and keep right on producing, no matter how hot and dry it is.
One of these is eggplant. We planted them early, made sure we had plenty of bees to set those first blossoms – and they've never stopped producing from June to now in late September as I write this. As far as I can recall there are only two problems I've ever had with eggplant.
One is pollination – which should be obvious to gardeners, but often isn't. And the other is flea beetles. In past years I've had eggplant eaten up by flea beetles, but with our increased populations of predator insects, these pests were only a minor and brief problem while the plants were young. Years ago, I sprayed eggplant for the flea beetles, but it did little good, anyway.
The second of these favorites of mine is peppers. We don't go in for hot ones, but we grow a lot of sweet bananas and some bell peppers. Like the eggplant, they have very few insect pests (in our current environment), and seem to only have problems if there aren't enough bees to pollinate. Diseases are practically non-existant, and heat doesn't faze them a bit.
The third is an old Southern tradition – okra. I believe okra could grow and fruit in Hell, as it simply loves hot weather. Young okra is a beautiful plant, with large dark green leaves and gorgeous creamy white flowers with red centers.
But as it grows, it only produces on the top, and the lower leaves die and fall off. By late summer it is a rank, ugly plant. Some of mine are six to seven feet tall right now, and look quite disgusting. But they still keep on knocking out the okra pods.
One secret, if you haven't grown them before – pick okra young, before the pods get tough and stringy.
Have you got any favorite veggies that just seem to be long-haulers and failsafe for Southern gardens?
The misuse of a good cause
I recently received an e-mail from "Solutions from Science" that promotes a system of seed sprouting for emergencies.
Now the concept is good. We grow sprouts ourselves, and they are easy to do and highly nutritious.
But I get suspicious when I see that hype and misinformation are used to promote a high-priced product (and it is very high priced).
I have two questions for these folks – "Why can't you tell the truth?" and "Why do your prices seem like a real rip-off?
I'll leave the reader to judge further about the price. You can go to their site, if you want to see their comercial at: http://www.survivalsproutbank.com/
But here's what they said in their e-mail with reference to the pollinator crisis:
"If only it was [sic] the weather. Unfortunately, it's something much more insidious and much less understood than climate changes. It's called "Colony Collapse Disorder."
With Colony Collapse Disorder, you have entire hives of bees dying off, and no one has been able to ascertain why or pinpoint a cause.
You may wonder how this affects your garden.Look out the window. Do you have beautiful tomato plants… with no tomatoes? Are your squash plants leafy and vibrant… with no squash? Are you looking at a luscious green garden with little or no produce to show for it? That's what a dearth of honey bees will do. You have to have bees to pollinate in order to make many vegetables and fruits."
Tomatoes – honey bees? Nope! It's true that honeybees will work tomato plants – when they reach a saturation point where little else is available and honey bees are desperate. And they may accomplish a little bit of pollination.
In all my years as a beekeeper and flower observer, I've seen honeybees on a tomato blossom maybe a half dozen times. Now I've seen bumblebees many thousands of times, and even seen sweat bees a whole lot more often than honeybees.
I love my honey bees and I maintain a few hives in my back yard. But it would be a phony argument for me to ascribe my tomato pollination to them. I have two species of bumblebees that consistently visit my tomato blossoms. And that's the truth!
Squash? Again, it's not a favored plant for honey bees. In a garden setting, which is what these folks refer to, honeybees aren't likely to even visit squash blossoms. They are beat to the draw by squash bees, bumble bees and sweat bees.
Now in a large field, where there is little competition from other flowers (and there are few squash bees), honey bees are brought in to pollinate the squash. And they do a fine job, with a little help from bumble bees.
They go on to say: "According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about a third of our food comes from pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination. Larger bumblebees cannot pollinate as effectively (if at all) as the smaller honeybee. Today, wild populations of bees are nearly gone. Instead, the bee has become dependent on the human population to insure its survival, and beekeepers struggle to maintain vibrant bee colonies."
Struggle? I'm not struggling to keep my honey bees alive. They are doing fine, thank you – as long as my neighbors obey label directions in using pesticides, I'm confident they will continue to do fine!
Bumblebees not pollinators? HA! A bumble bee is about three times more effective in pollinating cucumbers than a honey bee!
And many flowers are almost exclusively pollinated by bumblebees. Now in an agricultural setting, honey bees are more important, partly because they have 30,000 hive members as opposed to around 100 for bumblebees, and honey bees are portable and manageable.
But to question bumble bees' ability to pollinate? That's the biggest one yet!
What bothers me (and I see this a lot, particularly when someone is selling something) is the mixture of fact and fiction. When that happens we wind up with "myth" or "hype."
And I'm not going to buy anything from those who play fast and lose with the truth!
Why are my cucumbers falling off, or becoming deformed?
It's time for a short course in cucumber pollination. On Internet gardening groups and mailing lists, this question keeps coming up, over and over: "Why are my cucumbers falling off, or becoming deformed?"
To answer the question, we have to go back to some basics, because many new gardeners don't understand them.
First off, cucumbers have separate male and female flowers. They are produced on the same plant – and the plants are basically self-fertile, although there is evidence that pollination is improved when there is cross pollination between separate plants.
Pollen must be transferred from the male blossoms to the female blossoms. It's amazing to me that many people assume that this heavy, sticky pollen will just jump from one to another all by itself. Believe me, it does not jump – it would take a gale wind to move pollen from the male – and that kind of wind would destroy the plant.
Some plants are wind pollinated – corn, grasses, pecan and hickory trees, ragweed – but these make light, fluffy pollen grains that are produced by the billions.
Bees are the workhorse pollinators for cukes - basically honey bees and bumble bees; with occasional minor help from other bee species. Some will also say some beetles, ants, and other insects can tranfer pollen – but these are negligible.
A brawny and fuzzy bee is the best possible pollinator. They are totally equipped with branched hairs and strong electrostatic charges to carry pollen. A bee pushes its way through the flower structures and picks up large quantities of pollen on its body.
Now a bumble bee has been shown by studies, to transfer about three times as much pollen per flower visit than a honey bee. But honey bees make up in numbers what they cannot do in comparison to bumble bees. A typical bumble bee colony is about 100 workers, while a honey bee colony may have 20,000 to 30,000 workers.
Many gardeners assume that when a bee goes to a flower, that it is instantly pollinated. While this can be true for a fruit with a single seed (like a peach), it is not true of multi-seeded fruits like cucumbers. Many grains of pollen have to be delivered – and this takes numerous visits by bees.
If no or very little pollen is delvered, the fruit simply aborts. There may well be spoilage, starting from the blossom end. This is due to an opportunistic fungus, but no fungicide will fix poor pollination.
Well suppose then, that a few more grains get delivered to the flower – and some seeds get fertilized by those pollen grains.
The fruit may grow, instead of abort, but it will be slow growing and can be highly deformed.
The only portion of the cuke that developed was the portion where the seeds were – which is on the outer curve of the cucumber. On the inner curve there are NO seeds, so the flesh didn't develop in this area at all. Also note that on the top end, there were very few seeds that formed, so the top end is also undersized.
When a full complement of pollen is delivered and evenly distributed across the stickly stigma of the female flower, the finished cucumber will look like the top one. It will grow rapidly, and be crisp and good flavord.
If some pollen is missing – and some seeds do not get fertilized the deformation of the fruit in the area of the missing seeds will show up in the shape of the fruit, as in the lower example in the photo above. The fruit forms a "neck" on the right side, due to missing fertilized seeds.
Cucumbers need to grow fast to be of good quality. Lack of water, excessive heat or cold, fertility, or plant disease can slow down growth. This makes the flesh tougher and dryer – and it can be bitter as well.
Anything that slows growth can cause bitterness – and this includes inadequate pollination. A poorly pollinated cucumber of the same size as a well pollinated one will usually be a day or two older. It will be tougher, and is more apt to be bitter.
Another problem with poor pollination is that the deformed area is the first place that spoilage will occur, if the grower tries to store, or send to market his or her cukes.
All in all, we see that good bee populations are critical to obtaining the perfect cuke.
Now, it is possible to hand pollinate cukes – yes, we can do the bee's job, and we'll talk about that in future articles. But, if you have more than a few plants that you are trying to hand pollinate, you'll quickly come to appreciate the tremendous service the bees do for us!
Why am I talking so much about pollination
Some have commented to me that I seem to spend an inordinate amount of my blog on the topic of pollination, and have asked why.
There are several answers. One is that good pollination information is hard to find, though there are many sources of inadequate, or just plain wrong information online. And a lot of garden and farming literature simply ignores pollination completely.
I was just looking around on the Internet at various Extension publications about watermelon culture, both for those who sell them and those who just raise them for home use. It's surprising to me how many of them say nothing about pollination. To me, this is a disservice when a serious Extension publication purports to teach growers, yet assumes pollination will just take care of itself.
I have seen entire fields of watermelons, squash and other crops that were unharvestable or had to be severely culled, because of pollination failure. Pollination is a vital input in agriculture today, but it's the least understood of all inputs.
So, as you can see, I am working on an article on watermelon pollination. If you don't understand watermelon pollination, you don't understant the plant!
A second reason that I concentrate on pollination is that this was my livelihood and specialty for my career. Although I am now retired from active duty in the contract pollination field, I figure it's my responsibility to make sure I share the things I have learned in years of experience, observation, and study.
A third reason, is that I have available the many years of photos that I've taken, so I can usually well illustrate the points I make – and this makes it more interesting and clear for my readers.
You could say, this is the payment of dues for my spot on this earth. And I hope it does help!
You can avoid corn pollination failure
Many gardeners, especially new ones, are dismayed to find that the luscious ears of sweet corn that they expected look more like this:
Only a few kernals are present on the cob! All that hard work, fertilizer, watering, and all is just wasted!
(Please note that all the illustrations of corn pollination are with field corn, as I do not currently have room for sweet corn in our garden – a problem I'm working on – but the illustrations will work fine; all the principles are exactly the same.)
There are two main reasons why we have failure to pollinate: one is that the pollen is dead, and the other is that the pollen just did not reach the female flowers.
Dead pollen is common in years of extreme heat and drought during the pollen shed time for corn. Corn is rather unique among plants in that it is on an exact schedule from the day it is planted until the day it is harvested. When pollination time comes, whatever will happen will happen, and it only lasts a few days, after which the opportunity is gone. The corn will go on doing its thing, but all the inputs of the farmer or gardener are wasted if pollination doesn't occur.
Corn is generally wind pollinated. Lack of wind can be a big factor in corn pollination. When one sultry day follows after another, corn pollination can fail.
A morning thunderstorm can do an immense amount of pollination in that first rush of wind before the rain starts. There is normally a flush of pollen shed in the morning just after the dew dries, and there may be another smaller discharge in the evening as the air cools. The male flower is the tassel at the top of the stalk.
An acquaintance of mine had a charter helicopter service in Illinois, and he was kept busy during the corn pollen shed, by contracting with farmers to provide wind for pollination. He would hover over the fields, moving up and down the rows – and got paid for it, because it was a valuable service for the farmers.
The pollen is produced inside the anthers:
Gardeners generally have pollination problems for the second reason – pollen doesn't reach the female flowers at the right time:
The silk is the female flower which can be seen at the tip of the incipient ears on the side of the cornstalk. Each thread connects to a single incipient kernal on the ear. When it is green and tender, it is receptive, but it will turn brown in just a few days and the opportunity to pollinate is gone.
When a grain of pollen falls and sticks to one of the silks, it begins to grow a pollen tube down inside the silk strand, right to the incipient seed, which it then fertilizes.
The problem with garden pollination is that there are usually few plants; not a whole field; there is a limited amount of pollen available – and it may blow the wrong way. New gardeners are frequently advised to use four short rows, rather than one long row, for this reason. Corn planted in blocks does pollinate a bit better.
For even more pollination insurance, do it by hand – it only takes a minute. When tassels first appear, pollen shed is only a day or two away. If you look at the tassels in early morning light, you can see the pollen, if you look toward the sun. If you shake a tassel there will be a visible dust from it, if it's ready. If you shake it too hard, of course you'll shake loose the anthers themselves.
So, when the tassels are ready, in the morning just after dew is mostly dry, bend a tassel over the silk (on another plant) and shake it.
Or you can snip a tassel and go down the row, "dusting" each silk. If you do it gently, focusing as much of the pollen on the silks as possible, you can do 10-15 ears for each tassel.
On bigger patches, you can simply walk the rows with your elbows out, so you give the stalks a bit of a jar, which will shake loose the pollen.
Some gardeners claim the process works better if you play soft music (but that may be a myth).
Corn is considered a wind pollinated plant. It's pollen is tiny, and millions of grains are produced; only a small portion of them falling onto the female flowers.
Some falls on the leaves, some on the ground, and some will fall on your car hood, if you are downwind of a corn field.
Because the grains are small and have very little protein, they are not a priority pollen for bees to gather to feed their brood. However, many times corn pollen shed is during a general time of pollen dearth; on these occasions honey bees and bumble bees will vigorously gather corn pollen.
In the process of gathering, they will shake loose quite a bit also – and this can fall on adjacent plant silks. So, while corn is basically a wind pollinated plant, bees can be significant in pollination, particularly if there is no wind.


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Finally a step in the right direction. Pleasanton downtown doesn't serve the young families that live in Pleasanton. And by "young," I mean under 60. Compared to Livermore downtown, it's dying a slow death. And by closing up around 9pm, we're like Mayberry.
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what would you love to see turned into a movie? I think A Weird Tales/pulp magazine based anthology/period picture would be great... something with:
Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo
H.P. Lovecraft's the Festival
bookend it with Robert Howard's In the Forest of Villefere and Wolf's Head
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Floydian Trip
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Reliquary - Instead of a remake or a sequel to a bad franchise why not something good with lots of monsters? Maybe Relic bombed but it needs to be made.
The Terror - Another great monster tale in an arctic setting. Would be expensive for sure but with the right person behind the camera could be epic.
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Sexy Mcmanbeast
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:40 pm
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Ok, thank you for making me feel ok about liking Reliquary. I never wanna tell people I read it cuz of that movie...
I think a good (emphasis on good, Creepshow was fun but good?....), Stephen King anthology movie based on the shorts in one of his collections would be rad. Sadly, Nightmares and Dreamscapes already got raped by TNT. That leaves me thinking Night Shift would be a good pick, if only to make everyone forget the shitty movie. As much as I love Jerusalem's Lot, I don't think it would do the story justice to have it as a short, but stories like the boogeyman and strawberry spring would be great back to back, both as 45 minute to an hour long movies.
In terms of Lovecraft I think that a decent anthology movie based on his works is possible, but it needs to be done by a good film maker, like Guillermo Del Toro or Frank Darabont.
I'd love to see In the Vault, Pickman's model,(a good version, not the night gallery one...sighhh) The Music of Erich Zann, the Colour out of space, and in the walls of eryx made into a horror anthology short.
Clive Barker needs to have more of his shorts from the book of blood made. I think the yattering and jack, sex death and starshine, in the hills the cities, hell's event would be good. There are so many, though I'm too lazy to wikipedia it right now to remember what other stories were in the first three volumes.
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I didn't think the Night Gallery adaptation of Pickmans Model was all that bad. I liked it quite a lot.
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What's with all my double posts? Have I been drinking? Drinking and mixing pain meds recreationally?
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Well, I mean specifically the monster in it when I talk about not liking it. I didn't mind the actor, but I just never pictured his model as looking like the abominable sewer rat on hind legs ape thing.
I pictured it as being more reptilian, though its tough for me to pinpoint exactly what I think of.
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Bradford Dillman was the actor. Maybe I'm wrong but I think the rat/ghoul thing was an early Stan Winston.
But yeah, it was goofy when seen in full. But that neat kind of goofy.
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Sexy Mcmanbeast
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:54 pm
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Well whatever, moving along, what kind of horror anthology movie would you liked to see based off of an author?
Oh, also I think an Algernon Blackwood anthology would be awsome, though admittedly I have only read a few of his shorts so far. Still, I would love to see the man who loved trees, accessory before the fact, and ancient lights.
The only other one I've read was the willows, but that has movie all over it.
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Floydian Trip
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:24 pm
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I know what you and everyone else thinks of Relic. I agree too, so much was cut out and changed that the movie ended up being very different from the book. What can I say? I still liked it though. I loved the book when I first read it but never thought they'd make a movie out of it and it pretty much snuck up on me so I was really surprised and didn't nit pick it. I very recently picked up Relic and Reliquary again and flew through Relic because it's such a fast paced book and had every intention of getting right into Reliquary but got more interested in other books so it didn't happen. I'm bad with books like that.
Reliquary is even better though, imo, and definitely has potential as a movie. I'd rather see it than another remake for sure.
I'm reading In Harm's Way right now. A book about the sinking of the Indianapolis. While it'd definitely be considered a war movie I think horror fans would like an adaptation too. What's scarier, a giant fake shark or facing hundreds of sharks in a true story?
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without a doubt i'd love to see j.r wards black dagger brotherhood books
on the screen, with all those hot sexy vampire warriors,hell yes!
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One of these days I'd love to see a (good!) movie adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's "Hap and Leonard" series.
Mr. Lansdale told me last year that Bill Paxton was somehow involved with the most recent option on one of these novels, and there was a possibility he could end up directing.
God, I'd love to see this happen. Judging from Paxton's FRAILTY, he could *nail* the Southern atmosphere . . . .
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Paxton like a mu'fucka
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There's just not enough Ramsey Campbell stuff out there. Someone needs to get hold of...well, anything by him really...and do a decent job with it. Like King, a lot of Ramsey's stuff is psychological; much of the terror is in the minds of the protagonists. But something like The Doll Who Ate His Mother or The Face That Must Die would work really well, where he uses the location very effectively to create a sense of unease and mounting terror (like Poe and Lovecraft before him). Stories like these wouldn't need a big budget either, which is surely a plus point for any studio.
Interesting to see Joe R Lansdale's name here. I like to drop in on his site from time to time, read the free stories he posts there. I first heard of him in a preface to one of Ramsey's short story collections, where he mentions the "relentless violence" of The Nightrunners. Been searching for that book ever since but to no avail.
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Location: Australia
Richard Bastard wrote:
bookend it with Robert Howard's In the Forest of Villefere and Wolf's Head
THAT would be, as the kids say, tits
Hell, yeah!
I love Howard's concept of the werewolf mythology which, as far as I know, hasn't been copied by anyone yet.
Howard's idea is that you have to kill a werewolf in its wolf state for it to die. If you murder it in its human form (considerably easier, obviously) then the curse of the werewolf then goes onto you.
Howard wrote some great horror yarns. Especially his Cthulhu Mythos stories. Which apparently his friend H.P. Lovecraft didn't care for.
Speaking of Lovecraft, I've read Guillermo Del Toro's script for AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and it's pretty damn awesome. He took Lovecraft's spooky, elusive tale and successfully grafted a big-budget action/horror film onto it.
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Floydian Trip wrote:
Reliquary - Instead of a remake or a sequel to a bad franchise why not something good with lots of monsters? Maybe Relic bombed but it needs to be made.
The Terror - Another great monster tale in an arctic setting. Would be expensive for sure but with the right person behind the camera could be epic.
A movie adaptation of The Terror would be awesome.
If At The Mountains of Madness succeeds at the box office, I would like to see a big budget version The Call of Cthulhu. It's high time for Cthulhu to rise and take his proper place in the public consciousness and pop culture.
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