Posted on 07/04/2014 12:43:46 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I planted a little early, spun the wheel,
We may redo the back yard so doing a bucket or planter built-in w/ easy moving garden ya can eat makes sense. Ya see the price of veggies lately?
Berries have held steady pricewise but some fruit, no way. Fortunately we have a lot of smaller oriental markets locally that have decent produce at a good price.
Man must eat.
But going broke doing it
Is not a good option.
Nice berries. Well, you do what you can, and that’s all you can do. I guess that’s why farmers I used to know had so many kids, so they had helpers.LOL
I will definitely grow bush cukes from now on. I like getting a bunch of little once all at once and doing pickles and then letting them go for cukes. I was desperate for some fresh kosher dills so I got 2 packages with 4 perfect baby cukes in it each at the store. I had a coupon for a dollar off. I split them in half and put them up with garlic kosher salt a aplash of vinegar and my usual spices. In a week I’ll be feasting. I never can pickles, I like them crunchy.
I meant to comment on the person who grows Fuji apples. They are one kind among many recommended for pies. My very favorite are and have always been Jonathan.
Anyway I bought some beautiful Fujis at the store, then didn't feel with messing with a 2 crust pie. My daughter left most of a box of red hots on the dr table for days so I make some cinnamon apples. I love them, never had them before, have bought more red hots and made some more. They cook down and I eat them pretty fast. But I noticed the Fujis don't get mushy after maybe 30 min cooking. The recipe said to cook uncovered which I do and stir occasionally.
I had a choice between some Braeburn and MI Jonagold. I chose the Jonagold and will do a pie with those.
Now I have this thing I want to make a key lime pie. They actually have bags of them at the store (we have a pretty good store overall). I will wait for my birthday and have it all planned out how I want to do it. Squeeze out the juice in a deodorized garlic press lol.
Have to zest quite a bit first. Then save some seeds and see if I can grow a few trees, might be happy in my sunroom in the winter.
I would have no problem deciding not to go, but that is just me. I like to be home when it rains, thunders, or gets stormy.
Corn plants have rather shallow roots, and they make some seed especially for planters. Marcella got some from Burpees called deck corn.
It’s on my list to plant in July, since we planted the early variety and some heirloom corn this spring. The deck corn has a shorter growing season, so I am hoping to squeeze in an additional corn harvest this way.
I love pie, especially key lime pie. It’s a perfect combination of tart and sweet. My husband loves apple pie. :)
Yes, I used to pick them for my grandmother, not realizing that with her arthritis that might have been too much for her where as she could do some potatoes, onions and ground cherries which self seeded. So many nice memories of things like that.
Yeah... I’m still home. I took my boots off.
Yes. That was another motivation for gardening here. When spinach hit 3 bucks for a small package, and E coli recalls of spinach hit the news, that wasy it.
I planted a bunch of seeds of lettuce and spinach indoors, and starting growing my own. Peppers were also out of sight. So I started growing peppers, and of course there’s nothing like the taste of a home grown tomato especially compared to the taste of what passes for tomatoes at the grocery.
Now my goal is to get as independent of the grocery as I can, without using pesticides and canning/preserving stuff without weird sounding chemicals.
I canned some Kosher Dills last year, and they were crunchier than most of the pickles, but the zukes still had them beat.
I have to can dills for hubby, and he really doesn’t care whether they are crunchy or not.
Thanks for the info!
I have had good luck growing lemons on a tree indoors in front of a south west facing patio door, so the limes should do well too. Might take a while from seed before you get fruit.
Me too. Memories of days on the farm with my Granny, and making home made bread, churning butter, drinking raw milk, collecting eggs, helping milk the cows by hand. Those were the best days of my childhood.
I love apple pie too. I just hate peeling and slicing the apples. And I don't do it like some on youtube. They waste a lot. I'm getting back to learning how to roll crusts and making great progress. For years, I used to take a 9X13 or 11X15? glass pan, had my own Jonadel apple tree which I finally lost do to a bigger tree branch in a storm.
How do you do your key lime? I won't buy any more Pillsbury refrigerated crust, don't like it, but they took the trans fats out of Crisco so I've lost the traditional flavor of that but never used butter for pie crust like so many do. I really miss the old bad-for-you Crisco. My sister brought me some farmer's lard. It is not satisfactory so I think I will deep fat fry with it.
The lard rolled out like a dream, no pre-refrigerating, made a perfect circle just like my mother-in-law's used to be. But the bottom was too thick, didn't cook, was a custard pie, and was yuck.
Other than the blossom end I have no idea. Blossom end could be the dreaded rot. Calcium deficiency is indicated by that.
I’ve never made pie, but you’re right..all of the recipes that I’ve seen include sweetened, condensed milk.
I would love to have that pile on my place. My soil is all caliche. The only way I can grow is in raised beds.
In other news, I've started on new raised beds on the west side of the house. They'll be 12ft x 3ft x12in high.I'll have to enclose the entire area to keep out the chickens and deer though.
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