Posted on 09/12/2014 12:29:15 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks. I need to investigate boo. I have an invasive home going up next door and need a screen.
Pecans are known as “the Cadillac of hickories.”
Yep we like the ‘wet’ here in Tx. The cold front moved through and dropped some rain here in DFW area, yay. Hoping for another month or so of mild weather so the peppers can produce as we had so little production. Tomatoes were a complete bust. Next year I will pot them with good soil not this lousy clay although its conditioned with compost and mulch. Still got the swiss chard and cinnamon basil for the salad fixin’s going good. Happy weekend all.
It’s cold here finally, love it. I got some Okra from the garden today, this is about all that is left.
Here’s my Spicy Navy Bean recipe:
I scrub, rinse several times, and then soak 2 cups navy beans with fresh water overnight.
In the crockpot with water 2” over beans for 5 1/2 hours on high:
3 ounces of vegetable oil (Smart Balance Omega)
2 small okra (cut up)
3 small green onions (cut up)
7 or 8 small dried whole red pepper pods (Hot) or a teaspoon of red pepper flakes if you don’t have any
1/4 teaspoon Mexican chili powder (just for the beautiful golden color)
1 teaspoon seasoning salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper
After in the bowl I give it a couple twist of a Peppercorn Medley Grinder
I was just in the N.MA. and S.NH. region this week on job assignment. The weather was awesome as you posted. One little garden I saw in the Haverhill area had lush squash and tomatoes on the vines still going good. I can only wish...
I love it.
Good sounding recipe. We have our beans many ways depending on the mood. I love navy or great northern beans with a big ham hock and seasonings.
Throw in a handful of fresh onions chopped on top and cornbread on the side, maybe even maters if we still have some. That’s some good ole cheap eating.
Well there’s dreams, and there’s reality.LOL Either way with this summer’s produce here, Life’s pretty good.
I’d trade a pecan for one of the hickories. Lots easier to shell and get to the nut meat.
Hubby’s really happy with his pepper production. Best year for him ever, now that he finally got a patch away from the walnut tree.
That was his first reason for rehabbing the garden, he wanted to make stuffed peppers to freeze and heat and eat over the winter time.
I am glad you weren’t bamboozled by the invasive negative comments! :-)
What a lovely post!
I do not know where this summer has gone. Tomatoes did not do well for many folks here on this little spit of eastern Virginia, although the cat did produce prolifically!
I’m getting more maters now than I did through July and August, zucchini, summer squash and cucumbers are still going gang busters. Peppers are finally producing, but the broccoli was a total bust. Almost time to dig up the sweet potatoes and I still have small melons, called ice cream, coming on.
I’m working right now on designing labels for the 100 jars of jams, jellies, and pickles I have made so far this season and plan on spending most of next week restocking my non-existent supply of pepper jellies in anticipation of the inaugural of the first farmers’ and artists’ market in 15 years in a nearby town. It is starting the first Saturday of October and I am thrilled to have been asked to be one of the charter vendors. The whole family is excited.
No, I haven't seen it recently. Tomorrow, I don't have grandkid responsibilities and school and all of that, so maybe I can see the garden tomorrow.
I did sign up at the school for their 'Dads (GRANDADS INCLUDED) that Garden' program.
My grandsons were bragging on how they got to garden with grand-dad this last summer. Yay! (It's going to kill me).
/johnny
Thank you. Ice cream melons sounds good. We have had some really good successes this year. Can’t seem to grow any melons or water melons here. Cukes do okay once every 3 years or so.
Keep us posted on your Ice Cream Melon and the Farmer’s Market too.
Sounds like a great way to bond a little more with the kids.LOL
We took our youngest grand daughter and oldest great grand daughter out for dinner. That was a hoot. It's always fun to see them interact.
I bbsit every day during the week with grand daughter before and after school. Then on weekends I babysit with the other 2 great grand kids, but the oldest is usually visiting the other great grand mother or her Dad.
Since we haven't seen her since June, I wanted to do something that she and my grand daughter would like to do. They like Huddle House Waffles. (too sweet for me). I had the MVP breakfast for dinner.LOL
They so want to see the back of me sometimes, riding off into the sunset.... I'm with them a good part of their day (less now, that the boys are in school)... but grand-dad is a PITA. And he never relents...
/johnny
We were blessed with nut trees on our lots which we bought in 1976. For years, we mostly left them for the critters.
Now that we are retired, we collect the best ones for us. The walnuts, butternuts, and some of the hickory. We don’t do anything with the acorns, and the other nut which I forget what it is.
We also have a couple of sugar maples, which we do not tap, but could. The persimmon tree is very productive, but we didn’t do much with it. Now, I go out and pick breakfast once they start to ripen, that’s my fruit. I don’t make the jelly yet, as I still can’t always telling by looking and feeling if they are just right to eat.
I have several recipes, that I’ll try one of these days though. Then we have the wild blackberries and elderberries, chicory, and dandelions, passion flowers, mullein, poke, and several others that I can’t even think of.
Get down to it most of the best stuff was already here and native to the area. Such good fortune for us.
Yes, grand daughter mentioned the other day that she sees more of me than she does her mother. She’s getting to that teenage stage in about another year.
Sometimes, I like that age, and sometimes I don’t.LOL
Busy busy busy.
Built two more raised garden boxes - brings the total to 6. getting things set up for the fall crops. Watching the pomegranates, going to freeze the seeds and make some jelly later in the winter. Also looking to plant apple and pear trees this fall. Been a good summer learning how to do this the best way.
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