Posted on 03/20/2015 12:49:03 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Even in Germany, I had a kitchen, floor space, about 4.5 feet wide and about 7 feet long. Yep, that’s where everyone squeezed, when the food was ready, everyone moved to the dining area and that’s where we finished our time together. Tonight we’re having a meeting, and you guessed it, in the kitchen. (that means I need to clear the island)
Hmm, I guess I forgot the glasses. Oh well, still a nice looking man.
/johnny
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The Lake of the Ozarks has a family of mussels that can grow quite large but I don't care to eat these suckers...
/johnny
An Exacto knife for grafting tomatoes should do well, providing it is extremely sharp
Providing the grafts are the same size as the rootstock, it should work.
I would reccomend supporting the graft as you would in airlayering so that they continue to match up, with no stress on the joint at the graft
It sounds like an interesting experiment
The only way to learn is by trial and error.
Good on ya !
Ocean fish come already salted !!
Better to use in the garden as a nitrogen source, as the American Indians did to fertilize corn, and other nitrogen dependant crops.
Freshwater sushi involves the existance of fish Body worms in the heat of summer, around here, therefore not interested in consumeing them, without careful cleaning .
/johnny
/johnny
I’m not convinced, either. :)
Please keep tools used with tomatoes different from the tools used for tobacco, or sterilize.
See disease known as 'tobacco mosiac virus'(TMV) for identification. Affects only tomatoes .
Since I have been a smoker , I wash tools and hands in diary milk which suppposedly renders the virus inert ( according to organic grower sources, ole-timey treatment).
I have used the milk bath on the hands in the past; better safe, than sorry !
He is much better this visit than the last visit a couple of weeks ago. His voice is clearer, understood all his words. He's walking well with purpose in his steps. He is slowly gaining weight.
Being Johnny, he's documenting his calorie intake to make sure he eats enough to put on weight. His taste is varying from one food to another as it does going through this type illness.
He has some walking onions up and a few other veggies may come up without his doing anything. “Farming” that whole garden area isn't going to happen. It would be wasted energy since his food tastes are changing almost daily. He's putting his energy in his art corner, creating what his brain composes. Yes, he had two brain surgeries but those didn't affect his amazing intelligence.
There are four more days of radiation, and he speaks to the chemo people this week. Pity the poor doctors who have to deal with Johnny.
Johnny is in total control of his life. He told me he's glad he is single because he doesn't have to remember anything. Guess he means doesn't have to remember anything to please the woman if he had one. It's not fair as he and Bob gang up and harass me.
We'll be back to see Johnny soon.
(There is a Johnny cup in front of me in that picture.)
After blowing the tiller engine last Fall, the corn patch and the dug, hummocky potato patch never got tilled. Today, that changed: got the correctly shaped tuit & cooperative weather, and spent an hour and a half in the garden.
Potato patch is smooth, and tilled full 8” depth, and the corn stalks are finally tilled in, and the patch cross tilled, as well.
Rhubarb’s first red nodules are beginning to show at the surface, and the horseradish is sprouting. All of the various perennial onions are doing fine, as are the ‘runts’ I wintered over instead of harvesting last Fall.
The Winesap I sat outside surprised me again: the “blossoms” have turned green. They were light-deprived leaf buds that were opening.
That is way too much garden for me. I might do that one little patch where the asparagus/walking onions are.
Maybe. We'll see. It was great to have a visit with you guys.
/johnny
Thank you, TO!
:-D You are most welcome!
We liked them. Hubby has grown them for 3 years now. This year he decided to try a beefsteak variety, because the store he was in didn’t have a packet of Mortgage lifters.
And he’s also growing Roma’s.
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