Posted on 06/05/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by Gabz
"... but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
I will agree with you on ticks! They don't like sunny areas. Tall grass and shady moist leafy areas are a breeding ground. They don't jump or fly but they do crawl. They will crawl up a stalk of grass and sit there and wait with their front legs out, it is called "questing". When you or an animal walks by and brushes the grass, they latch on!
You'll have to tell me how you make the vinegar.
While i plant both hot and sweet, I primarily plant hot for making jelly and salsa.
OOOOOOOOOOO!!! I like the way you do your eggplant. I adore eggplant, cooked anyway!!!!
My guys, and most people round here, just pour cider vinegar over hot peppers and let it steep. It will keep a long time, like from one year to the next. If it gets a little flat during the season, they add more peppers. Make sure you use cider vinegar. Add more vinegar as needed.
UMMMM. Salsa!
Just like you I have tons of lightning bugs al summer long. I love the light shows. I remember when I was growing up, in NYC of all places, how mean us kids were with the lightning bugs. We loved to catch them an then set them on the sidewalk or in the street and smoosh them, dragging our feet --- we'd have light streaks on the ground.
I have never had anything hurt so bad or take so long to heal.
I despise yellow jackets. They are not only mean, they are evil.
Ticks. Oh boy, I had one embedded already. It was bad. I have plenty of these little terrorists.
We have a SEVERE tick problem already. I was pulling them off me at the rate of 2-3 a day a week or so ago, as was my husband and daughter and our friends who live down the road, as well as other friends in other parts of the county.
Jerry Baker to the Rescue!!!!!!!!!
1tbsp dishwashing liquid
2 cups rubbing alcohol
1 gal rainwater or soft tap water
Mix ingredients in a bucket, pour into a 6 gallon hose-end sprayer,and spray your plants top to bottom making sure you get under leaves where they like to hang out. Spray in the evening if spraying on shrubs, the alcohol will cause burns if done during the day in the sun.
My hose-end sprayer (bought from Jerry Baker's website) is making the rounds around the county. All my friends are using it and the mixture, but we're all using it primarily on the grass/weeds around the house where we all congregate or our pets hang out. It seems to be working!
YIKES!!!!!!!
We're supposed to get into the 90s this weekend. 80s I can handle, I start wilting (let alone my plants) when we start climbing into the 90s.
She still wont eat cucumbers but fresh slices of zucchini on her salad, yum again!
I am thinking, if grows in our garden she will try it and find out she enjoys it. Either that or she is torturing herself so I wont be disappointed. LOL
Just loverly!!!
Ahhhhh... New Mexico.
My husband says that about Arizona where he used t ski in the morning and bask at the pool in the afternoon.
We’ve also had extremely high winds this spring. It’s been gusting to about 30 MPH for the past week or so during the daytime. That really dries out any moisture, especially potted plants.
Half the sprinklers on the golf course water the lawns on the NW side instead of the course. They aren’t watering the area next to my house yet. Last year, I hardly put any water on that area.
If that is happening to you, you're not freezing them properly. I've got habaneros in the freezer on the same shelf as ice cream. Never any cross contamination.
In my youth I spent 6 weeks in Flagstaff, Az attending a geology field camp at Norther Az. Univ. I am sure it has all changed but the whole area really impressed me.
ROFLMSS!!!!!!!!!
That describes me when I encounter stinging insects, you know bees, wasps, etc.....
The use of the cider vinegar makes sense to me. I primarily use cider vinegars for my hot pepper jellies. It seems to add that needed “something” to the jelly and I find that especially true with the jalapeno and serrano jellies. It’s not as prominent a difference with the habanero, and so with that jelly I just use what I have the most of.
Don't fight it, which ever is true!!!!
We have had the same type of wind problem, but for the most part we were not having 30mph gusts, but rather 25-30mph SUSTAINED winds.
The winds have been particularly annoying because I have been trying to do my potting and seed starting on my deck, which is 12 feet above the ground and the wind is worse up there.
The tides must be changing because the wind is practically non-existent right now, so I think I will head back outside for a bit before everyone comes home and starts clamoring for dinner!
You are probably right! I’m sure hubby just stuffed them in a ziplock and threw them in! Do you put yours in containers?
The wind never stops around here anymore, just changes direction.
Used to be you could count on a lull, like you said, when the tide’s changing. Not even that seems to matter.
The wife and I were outside yesterday evening and we were wondering how mosquitoes could fly and land on us with the wind. Some birds had to make more than one attempt to land on the high wires.
If I run them through the food processor I will put them in containers. If I’m planning on making a clear jelly (with no pieces of pepper in it) I run the peppers thru the processor, and then just strain it all before I jar it.
Otherwise, whole or seeded and cut up, I just put them in ziplock FREEZER bags. In more than 20 years of freezing hot peppers, I’ve never had a problem.
We wonder the same thing! LOL
Maybe because the skeeters are so light, the wind doesn’t affect them? You’d think—hope—that they’d blow farfar away!
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