Here is hoping you get a few clusters of these guys!
Posted on 06/06/2014 12:39:39 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Both of my brothers and a brother in law crossed paths at Normandy. My oldest was a Combat Engineer and spent a year or more in England preparing the infrastructure for the invasion and then helped set up the first floating docks soon after. BiL was with a engineer company for the 9th Air Force and helped build the first air field for the P47s on D-Day + 6 or 7. My other brother was a bombardier on a B17 and his first mission was behind the area on D-Day + 15 or 16. They all made it home and raised families and yes, they all had gardens...
Nice corn! It’ll be another week before I can plant mine;same for beans.
It got all the way up 58 today, but is back down to 42; we even lit a fire this evening. Supposed to warm up enough to plant in a few days, but also get more sky-spit, keeping it too wet to work the soil.
At least the cool season stuff is doing good, as are the various alliums.
We are in the midst of a toad-strangling thunderstorm down here in Wright Co, Mo. The rain is coming down in waves and I expect the Gasconade River to rise 10 feet or more in the next few hours.
More than 4,400 killed on that first day. I once visited their hallowed burial ground and the tears simply flowed.
Same here when I visited. the news footage, or military footage that showed in the museum there..Our guys just getting mowed down. It was horrific.
Here is hoping you get a few clusters of these guys!
Oddly, here in Mo when weather is dryer, my garden does better. I have 6 volunteer squash plants that have come up on the edge of my compost pile and are setting fruit. Garden is great this year.
I try to let my garden dry out a little bit after rainy days before I let my drip system provide them more water and fert. I think a lot of us tend to over water. I think a little stress from drying the soil out helps some plants get get a boost and stronger with a drying out. The root system grows healthier buy spreading out looking for water.
Prayers up that you get well soon!
Prayers up that you feel better soon.
Or raise your own chickens. Ick, to each his own. I don’t understand the popularity of raising backyard chickens but the direction our food supply is going, I may have to reconsider. It’s going to take a lot of reconsidering since I haven’t recovered from raising 100+ of them back in high school. The Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Rocks had good dispositions but those evil White Leghorns would dive bomb anyone who went into the coop and they’d fight each other. Mean things. Glad to see them off to the grill.
The kittens have their eyes open this morning. Mama hasn’t moved them into the larger box. Something is going to have to give since the little fur balls are nearly half her size already. She was grumpy and didn’t want me around but still was eager for breakfast. LOL, the bouncy slobber bucket insisted on making a quick trip into town with me yesterday and walked right by their box to get into the car but was clueless and never looked over there. Got back home and went straight into the house still clueless. Some watch dog, not!
Off to handwater the side beds and turn on the sprinklers. Need to pick some beans to go with pork chops tonight, yum.
I wouldn’t be surprised about the slug. I found a slug on
the side of my keyhole garden, that’s when I ordered my
molasses. I spread the molasses flecks all over the cabbage
the soil, on the bean leaves, then around the bottom of my keyhole garden. No fire ants, no slugs, nothing is touching
my squash and they are flourishing, can’t keep up with them, and I have only a few. My broccoli leaves looked like
lace until the molasses was spread. I’m getting some nice
looking heads now, in fact later today, I’ll put some molasses on the heads, just in case. Gotta run, the D-Day
festivities begin in a little bit. Take care, behave.
Thanks!
How do you apply the molasses? Is the stuff you get from the feed store different from what you buy in the supermarket?
The molasses is not liquid. It comes in a 40 pound bag.
It is dried and in tiny flecks. I just spread it, really,
on all of my gardens. On the ground and on the leaves and down in the areas where the squash begins. So far, I think,
it’s good stuff.
Must try it—thank you!
What’s the molasses recipe? We’ve had an invasion of snails this year and there are two ant beds that won’t go away.
Well, well, well, I’m not worthy enough to gaze upon the kittens but apparently I’m good enough to guard them. While I was out just now picking beans, mama kitty who likes keeping me company in the garden, decided it was a good time to take her morning constitutional. When I turned around to take the bucket to the garage and start watering, she was coming back in. Haha, she stopped and the look on her face said she knew she’d been had. Uh huh, we’re going to have to have an attitude adjustment. Poor thing, they’re really taking a toll on her.
Of the roughly two dozen ‘Appalachain beans’ (greasy, cut shorts, etc.) that I am growing here in Red Hampshire; ‘Lazy Daisy’ greasy beans were the first to break the surface of the soil. Go figure.
My trip is going well. Won $150.00 at a casino yesterday. Also went to Harbor Freight sale here, and bought an 18 Volt drill and bit and driver set.
Prissy is fine and she and geologist chase each other around furniture.
I like having a lot of cream in my clam chowder, as well as celery. Both seem to cut that “fishy” taste. Once the weather turns reliably warm and the tomatoes start to ripen, we often have gazpacho. I love soups and chowders.
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