Posted on 08/15/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by greeneyes
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So far we have some russets, dakota pearls(best for chips), and red potatoes. Corn is all harvested, processed and frozen. Beet and peppers are left to harvest.
Hubby has bought the lumber to make my "produce cart". It will be kinda like a bookshelf on wheels, except the back, sides, and shelves will be slatted so that air can circulate. The shelves will also be only 5" in between them most everything will just be one layer while finishing up the ripening etc.
Have 3 lbs of tomatoes frozen. When we get another 3 lbs of ripe tomatoes, I'll be making some spaghetti sauce to can.
I added a core conditioning class to my schedule this past week. Wow ouch. Muscles I forgot I had a smarting a bit.LOL
Hope everyone is doing well. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Been waiting for this thread! Thanks!!
Pinging the List.
Working until midnight. Garden burning under Texas sun. Peanuts ok. On tablet, typing is difficult.
Miss ya’ll, but work is work. I’ll be glad to get out of the heels and cocktail dress. ;)
/johnny
Hi Everybody!
((((HUGS))))
I got caught driving in a hue tropical storm today with flash flooding on the roads.
I managed to get home, call my students and cancel the lessons, and lose a day’s pay in the process.
((((SIGH)))))
What’s up in your neck of the country?
Thanks for the post! Come on back later. What’s the job? Cooking, bartending, or what?
Glad you are home safe and sound.
Y’all can have some of our cool and wet.
This summer has been so crappy. Here it is, the middle of August and the high today was 60 and we’ve hardly seen the sun.
Trade you.
Picked most of the pears this week. Mr. squirrel thinks I raised the fruit for him, so I spoiled his play. Take a bite or two out of one pear and start on another one.
Garden is burned up with the 100+ temps. With once a week watering, I just can’t keep veggies growing all summer.
Nah. I like the weather here this year sorta. Been pretty good for crops. Wish you had better, but no trade.LOL
It’s been a GOOD day - we finally, after almost a month, got our big tractor back from the shop today - yay!!! We had a nice rain about 2 weeks ago which greened everything up from a brown and crunchy state. Tuesday, we got 1.5 inches of rain and everything, especially the weeds/grass in the fields is growing! There will be some major bush hogging going on this weekend.
I’ve been making tomato pies to use up the tomatoes before they start rotting and now I’m about “even” .... what is coming off the vines, I should be able to use/eat without too many accumulating. The bell peppers are coming in. I have two baseball-size Cucuzzas and a Trombetta that I’ve let go, just to see how big it will get. The cukes are slowing down - finally. I just wish the poblanos would do something - no peppers on 4 plants and I’ve only gotten two jalapenos on one plant (the other has none) so that’s been a disappointment.
A relative visited Tuesday (great way to spend a rainy day - visiting!) and he said he uses powdered milk to keep his tomatoes from getting blossom end rot - works like a charm. He just works a little in the soil around the plants. I did some research online and some folks also spray their plants with milk to discourage fungus growth - very interesting stuff - here’s a link (good overall website, too):
Milk and Tomato Growing
http://www.harvesttotable.com/2009/05/milk_and_tomato_growing/
Nanny.
/johnny
Well, the crops are doing great, except for the tomato blight, so no complaints there.
It’s just be nice to feel like it’s summer. We have so few nice months out of the year, you want them to be as good as possible.
*sigh*
Yes. me too. I am not going out again tonight.
I get first dibs on the cool . . . it’s 100 here so if I give you 20 we’ll both be perfect at 80 degrees. Could you send some rain with it also. I know, picky, picky, picky . . . Smile!
And, I am glad i was in the car and not on the Harley.
Tomorrows forecast by Joe Bastardi should prove to be interesting !
I think that he said earlier that it would warm up by the end of the month. I hope so .
That’s what happened to us during that extra hot and dry summer. Rain barrels which usually got us through the hottest months were all out of water by end of May. So we had to haul water in for the perennials, and just let all the rest go.
Now we have the swimming pool, and the rain barrels so that we can keep on going with most stuff, and get a good crop of the basics at least.
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