Posted on 06/05/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by Gabz
I think he just threw them in whole, probably in a Walmart bag. LOL
I do not like hot pepper ice cream!
I actually like sweet peppers—they just don’t like me. :(
I can eat the flavor as long as I don’t eat the actual pepper itself. Otherwise, I taste them for about a week. Blah!
I decided to let them lay out in the sun and turn brownish before I used them. No workie! The ones I have used are very weak and break at the joints.
I found a couple of my tomato plants I used the bamboos for almost laying on the ground. The bamboo was breaking at the joints.
I think the bamboo needs to really dry out and cure to stiffen up it fibers.
Just thought I would pass this info along.
We live on the marsh. The only thing worse than our skeeters is when the wind comes out of the east. The downeast skeeters are the size of hummers and I don’t think anything will kill them! When you swat them, they just laugh and come back for another round!
June is here and in a couple of hours, my garden went from winter/spring to summer. Pulled out all the pansies as they were heat beat. Also pulled out all the arugula and most of the lettuce. Will have a nice salad for dinner. In their places, planted basil, geraniums, zinnias, double impatience (looks like mini-roses) and petunias. Also, put together a planter with tomato and cucumber plants for a neighbor. Watered well as rain seems to be skipping around Virginia Beach.
Sorry your bamboo idea didn’t work! OTOH, it could be a good thing! You’d have a tough time convincing Mrs. RD to eat that!
Skeeters are the regional “bird” of DelMarVa. I swear some of those buggers are bigger than birds.........or at least it seems that way judging by the welts on my legs.
Ticks also like to drop on you from the trees.... and since I live in the woods, we get lots, from every direction, top down and bottom up. The worst is when you step in a nest of seed ticks. It looks like cinnamon is running up your leg. They are teeny tiny, but if they bite you they itch as bad as the big guys. I finally learned to deal with them by using packing tape to pull them off.
Love your garden! As I said, I live in the woods, so I can only enjoy the gardening by proxy. We just can’t find a place that gets more than about 3 or 4 hours of sun, and even then the deer are merciless.
I had a pear tree many years ago. The best thing I did was make pear butter. YUMMMY!!!! And zuchinni soup is pretty wonderful as well! Hopefully my neighbor with a garden will share.
The way some of those skeeters are growing, we may need to put “Low Flying Aircraft” signs up on the streets,
It has been a very windy spring. I personally just get annoyed by the wind. Starting to get hot down here in SC too.
Ticks- I have been all over my woods and property, have yet to pick one up. Maybe the cool spring again. If you can, employ some guineas or chickens and let them free range.
Skeeters - worse this year than last. I heard about the Listerine thing too, but have yet to try it. Martin houses, and even though they creep some out, bat houses! One bat can eat up to 600 per night. Think carnivorous hummingbirds. May take a year or so for them to locate the houses though.
On the aphids, you can purchase ladybugs online.
I am new here and know I am preaching to the choir on a lot of issues, just throwing out my 2 cents, not trying to insult the intelligence of many who have been doing this much longer than I.
A couple years ago they were the worst I’ve ever seen. You had to run from the house to the car. I had skeeter carcasses all over the inside of my car. You couldn’t even take a breath outside without sucking some in.
That’s interesting about the bamboo, and totally unlike my experience with it.
Bamboo grows pretty much out of control along the property line at the Moose Lodge and 3 years ago when the guys went in to cut it all back I told them I wanted it. I’m still using a good bit of it.
We just dumped the trailer hauling it and I cut off all the green and just left the poles. I’ve used it for staking maters, and for making trellises for pole beans and peas.
When Mrs. RD and I first met, my Aunt invited us and my Dad over to supper. My Dad had given my Aunt some artichokes and she decided to have them with supper. My Aunt either boiled or steamed them and had the sharp points trimmed off and they were served cool with a mayo dip. While we were eating them my Dad just burst out laughing. Mrs. RD, to be, was attempting to eat the whole leaf, not just the tasty fleshy part and it was not working out very well. She had never eaten or encountered an artichoke before and she was determined to eat that first leaf.
My Dad told her to watch, he pulled a leaf off dipped the tip into mayo and showed her how to eat it and placed the rest of the leaf on the "bone" plate.
She tried it and liked it. She was so embarresed, but so relieved that she was not going to have to try eat the whole thing!
We laugh about that to this day! So don't count out my bamboo!
This was fresh green bamboo and only sat in the sun for may be a week after cutting. When I cut it with my tree limb lopper it was like cutting butter. I did cut down one that was still standing but was dead. It is just as tough as one would think bamboo should be. The green ones need some aging.
You've got to be kidding me? We've been practically flooded here on the Eastern Shore and according to news reports I thought Hampton oads/Tidewater area has also been getting hammered.
Around here there are bumper stickers and T-shirts with a take off on the Blood Drive “I Donated” stickers that sport a huge skeeter and the name of whatever particular beach you have been at!
The problem for me is that I live here, and am a skeeter magnet, so I donate multiple times EVERY day!!!!
I’d be in the same boat because the only thing I know about artichokes is how to spell it!
If I was Mrs RD I wouldn’t worry about it too much—the first time my mom cooked shrimp, she fried them with the shells on!
Skeeters don’t seem to bother me so much—it’s the sand gnats and yellowflies and greenheads that I hate.
If it stings or bites, it’s gonna get me.....I guess it’s because I’m just so sweet :)
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