Posted on 07/12/2013 1:19:48 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Yes some of my people came to MO from KY and some came to MO from VA. One branch emigrated to OR and then to CA, while the other branch moved to NV and then CA.
I guess MO was the great “jumping off” place.
Yes some of my people came to MO from KY and some came to MO from VA. One branch emigrated to OR and then to CA, while the other branch moved to NV and then CA.
I guess MO was the great “jumping off” place.
Adjusted, it works well. When I first tried it, I was just making sunflower puree on the strike plate. Maybe it was hitting a little hard. ;)
/johnny
If this can be found, I'll find it and tell you where. If it's resistant to critters, it's worth a try. I could also grow it in a tomato tub that has a circular lattice kind of thing in it. That would be perfect for this plant. Let me see if I can find it - I went to that link and read about it.
Zinc phosphide is the active ingredient.
It’s a real climber .... so a lattice would work great! Also, it curls up on the ground, but supposedly, if you grow it vertically, the squash is straight! Thanks for the research. :-)
I’m amazed that your hubby is feeling good enough to give you trouble so soon after a total knee replacement! I had my knee done in April, and I’m milking it for all it’s worth. To tell you the truth, I don’t remember anything about the first 5 days. Then I went to rehab, and all I remember is pain. Then home and outpatient rehab. More pain.
It’s been 3 months and I am pretty much pain pill free and pain free, as well. But, I’m not back to normal yet and don’t expect to be until I hit the 6 month mark. Some people say I shouldn’t feel entirely normal for a year.
You can get the squash here and I’ll post other places:
http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1100/400
Let's hope that Obama lets us keep those aids.
I’m already excited just thinking about trying this out! The “squash experience” this year was SUCH a bummer!
I’m liking this a lot: “Vigorous moschata plants can bear all season in areas where insects are a problem for other summer squash.”
My cucumber plant is huge. No cukes. My bush bean plants are use. No beans. I have 4 tomato plants, one has tomatoes. The same size they were three weeks ago.
Basically I am growing compost. I guess the 4x4’s are worthless.
I got some cukes last summer in spite of the heat and drought. Made a whole batch of dill burger slices. I’m out of butter pickles so those are first on my list soon as I have enough cukes to make the mess!
If you go here, you will see them grow straight down. Think I will get mine here at Bountiful Gardens. I so do want squash and so didn’t get any as the borers killed mine. I hate this learning curve to know how to grow food plants. I’m so glad you found this squash. Eat it any time of the year from spring through winter. When it ages, it becomes like a Butternut winter squash.
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/prodinfo.asp?number=VSQ-5469#.UeB-QYwo5jo
I visited with a fellow gardener yesterday and she's getting a few squash and tomatoes. She got three buggy ears of corn before they burned up and said no one's garden here is producing this year. I might get a couple ears this week. I've been setting the alarm so I can get out at the crack of dawn before it's too terribly hot. Mostly weeding and weeding. It looks like I'll be getting some yellow pear tomatoes if they can just hang on a bit. Don't know how they're managing in the heat but I'm not complaining. The other tomato varieties aren't doing squat.
Our one little grocery store here is the pits so while I was in the city the other day, I stopped in at a real grocery store. Wow! It was almost scary with all the neat foods!!! I'm sure everyone knows this but they have dried veggie snacks. In the future, if I can get a harvest, I might try dehydrating green beans and okra. I forgot to check the spices that were on them but it shouldn't be rocket science to figure it out. I did buy a dried bean soup mix so separated out a few of each bean variety to try in the garden one day. At Walmart, I picked up a few 20 cent seed packages for next year because sometimes I can't find the basics out here in podunkville.
Not really--more like licorice. Still so awesome for cooking flavor--basil. Or as the Brits pronounce it as 'bah-zil'.
All I am growing this year is FUNGUS.
Heard frantic peeping downstairs on my way to bed about last night. I went down to see what was wrong, and found a large bull snake had somehow gotten inside. Long story short, 1 live chick; 5 eaten chicks, and 1 dead snake. Hate killing bull snakes, but this looked like the one that I caught twice last year trying to get to the bluebird nest under the eaves; relocated it way past the garden into good habitat, so it had already had all the chances it was due.
Also last night, I put 2 6-cup packages of rhubarb (cobbler recipe size) and 1 4-cup pie sized pkg in the freezer. As soon as I get around to getting 6 more stems to go with what was left, there’ll be a second pie-pack frozen.
Our chomped-off grape has rebudded heavily, so is only set back, not lost.
First buttercup squashes are set; and the Topsy-Turvy Better Boys have clusters of golf ball sized maters.
Wednesday, I chased a dozen loose cows & calves out of the garden area, shut the gate & called our pasture lessee: they weren’t his, but he had a good idea of whose they were, and called him. Meanwhile, they went AWOL from here, heading for the tall timber on National Forest lands.
Never a dull moment.
Your using those odds and ends, junk, to make what you need is why you will survive better than 99.9% of the rest of the people.
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