Posted on 08/08/2014 1:25:23 PM PDT by greeneyes
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My Granny gave us a whole big box of jelly when we moved out of state for a year. Grand dad died that year, and she sold the farm.
Her new place in the city didn’t have much room for gardening, but it did have some wild grapes, so she would get to make a few jars.
She didn’t get to live there too long, before she had to go to a nursing home. So no more jelly making.
We actually kinda hoarded that jelly, and would just open a jar for a holiday now and then. That was in the 60x. We opened the last jar in the late 70s. It was so good. She always used paraffin to seal it as well as having jar lids and bands.
I am so happy that “Hope” and “Glory” were “saved” . . . Smile!
Now, I'm 20 miles north of Dallas instead of 40 miles north of Houston, but the grow zone isn't much different. It's going to be colder in the winter here and warm weather will be later than Conroe. However, the swell heated garage will allow for seeds to germinate at the same time as when I was in Conroe. I do have my grow lamp with me. There is an unused big bathtub here and an unused regular size tub and I'm thinking one of those is the place for the grow lamp - out of the way and Yorkie can't get to it.
I'm going to my house this week and will note the condition of plants and when I return, I'll know for sure which varieties I will plant next time.
I brought a container of Burpee Sweet Banana Pepper with me and it has kept producing even in this hot weather and it's in a fairly small pot. There are three peppers on it now. The number of this pepper is 62976A. Will definitely grow it again.
The Burgess Fooled You Pepper now has new deep green growth and one bloom and keeps making peppers in this hot weather. This is a Jalapeno without being hot.
There was another new bloom on the T squash this morning.
When I get back from my house I will make a report on the condition of plants there and a full list of which plants are the winner producers. Maybe I will have more produce to bring back - or maybe not. :o)
No gardening for me this past weekend, only enjoying the produce.
We went camping and floating on the Meramec with some friends.
Fresh tomatoes, sweet corn, a ratatouille that Mrs. Augie made, homemade cackleberries, pickles and probably some other stuff that I forgot.
Nobody went home hungry.
I had to look up cackleberries..The dictionary said the term was widely used during the 1950's.
I've been wondering about Mr. Stevia, and his friend that is also a stevia. Hope they survived.
Now that’s some big honkin’ taters.LOL
Here’s a link to an article Pinged to the garden thread by Diana:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3191637/posts
Anti depressant microbes in dirt.
Thanks Diana, I’m going to try to remember to ping this again on Friday.
Sounds like a great time. I haven’t been on a float trip in a coon’s age. Not sure I good survive and turn over, and we always had plenty of those.
We had a little lightweight fiberglass canoe. You had to carefully balance or it would turn over and dump us. We actually got pretty good at keeping balance, but I wouldn’t want to go through that again at this late date.LOL
Sounds like a pretty good set up at the new location.
I'm going to have a bunch of figs this year.
Fig 'Petite Negra' (Ficus carica)
I wondered if anyone would catch that.
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