Love that chart------I make sure I have 2-3 of servings those delectable veggies everyday.
7 out of 9! LOL!
(Don’t like beets or kale, but so far, I get plenty of calcium in CHEESE (Yum!) and my liver is OK!) LOL.
Central Konnecticut:
- Harvested 3 dozen garlic bulbs end of June.
- Great crop of Black raspberries (matter) - wife put up four pints of jam.
- Strawberries yielded about 5 one gallon bags (in freezer for later canning).
- Peppers (bell, jalapeno, hot banana) doing, and tasting fine.
- Lots of cuke growth and flowers, but no cukes!
- Squash and zuccinni doing well as usual.
- Still waiting for tomatoes to get red ("come on, man!").
- Another good year for green beans - ate our fill and wife pickled five pints.
Would love to hear how other harvests are doing.
Rain this morning here in Central Missouri. I was on my way to the fishing hole when the lightning started. Decided very quickly that today would be a bad day to have my boat turned into a smoking hole on the water so I turned around and came home.
Mrs. Augie is still making pickles. Yesterday we finally got enjoy the first BLTs of the summer at supper time. This has been the worst year for tomatoes since we built this place.
The worms wiped out Mrs. Augie’s kale patch. For some reason she thinks casually mentioning to me that she saw a worm automagically registers in my brain that it’s time to spray some sevin. lol
Made some good progress towards the resurrection of Mr. Clarence. Finished up all of the electrics, installed the radiator, all of the belts and hoses, and did some engine tuning. Then came the set-back... while I was tuning I noticed a bit of coolant seeping out from between the cylinder head and the crankcase, then after shutting him down he was pushing steam out of the crankcase vent. So at he very least I’m going to have to pull the head and replace the gasket. Hopefully that is the only problem there. Also discovered that the clutch disk is stuck to the flywheel. If it’s not terribly stuck it should pop loose a little fiddling. If it is terribly stuck I’ll have to roll him into the shop and split him in half to fix that. Not really a big deal, but an exercise that I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
Home tomato harvest/share season is full-blown here at last.
“Better Boy” is the favorite to grow here,
A friend has quite a few “Purple Cherokee”. So good, almost like they’d been smoked in a fire.
I have tomatillos forming! They looked like empty husks but there are little round things in them getting a little bigger everyday. The onion sets that were half dried up-the very last bag from WalMart I’m surprised they even grew-are making little golf ball sized bulbs. The green onion roots I planted in March or April are still producing-I cut some off of those every week.
I planted a few more lettuce starts in a shady spot and so far nothing has eaten them.... I have red butter and romaine going to seed. I’ll try and save those because I don’t have any.
I have a couple of melons forming out there someplace. I think one is canteloupe and one is honeydew that I got from saving seeds from grocery store melons. We’ll see what develops. Might be a weird mutant. I’ve never been able to grow melons any bigger than a tennis ball.
There’s also volunteer tomato plant that suddenly exploded. I didn’t think that one would do anything.