Posted on 04/26/2009 6:10:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The way I figured it, since the sour cream is a condiment to kill some of the heat from eating the dang things it would probably work on removing the same elements from skin as tongue and taste buds.
After a day spent picking and then running through the food processor about 20 pounds of habaneros, I needed to do something!!!! 4 hours after putting the last of them in the freezer and having scrubbed everything I had used, my husband could still smell them when he came in the house.
How are your tobacco seeds doing? I’ve got 6 different types planted, but not a single danged sprout.
I think I will try one of those topsy turvy things next year. T/Y for the info.
So we would til twice and then come behind that with my fancy little rig. Voila! got all the rocks and threw them in pile.
Way cool!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not sure. I . . . um . . . forgot to label everything.
*hangs head in shame*
One lesson I learned from my grandmother (and remind my Mother about) is the story Mom told me about the Great Depression in the 1930s.
She told me the story of my grandfather (who had a second grade education) writing a letter, in pencil, to the president of the U.S.,asking how he was going to feed his family (11 children at the time) if he couldn’t get seeds.
My grandmother, in her 80s, saved every seed she could. She had them stuffed in bottles, paper towels, every place. Mom would pick up a plate and seeds would fall off it.
Now my Mom (who grew up in the Depression, but apparently is soft and spoiled) complains to me that I have seeds stuck everywhere. I just remind her of the stories she told me —guess we have reversed roles, I am the parent, she the defiant child.
My granny, on the other hand, would be proud of my doing this (grin).
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t feel bad. I was looking at one flat today and while I know I have a greens mix in it, I also know I tossed something else in after only part of it came up. Now I have no clue what is growing in the other 2/3 of the pan. It might be basil, it might be spinach, it might even be lettuce, or part of the original mix I had put in there.
Wait and see surprises are sometimes lots of fun!
But if I’m planning on doing anything outside in the morning before it gets too hot, I’m calling it a night.
Have a good one all.
I am in the midst of a deluge so won't be any in the garden proper for a few days. However, NOT stopping me from planting in anything I have saved over the years.
My snow peas are up about 6 inches, potatoes about the same and lots and lots of strawberries blossoms. Fortunately both potatoes and peas are in raised beds so will drain nicely. My new thing this year is to try to grow some leeks... We shall see. I have cucumbers of 4 varieties from about two inches to just recently potted, melons, squash in various stages of sprouting to leafing out. I am still not certain there won't be another unexpected freeze so am not in a rush to set them out.
Started from seed several varieties of tomatoes and have re-potted over 30 from seed to now about 8 inches tall. Have about that many just popping through the soil in pots.
So far the freezes have not zapped my blueberries and they are in process of blooming. Grapes are starting to bud and sure am hoping NO blast from far up north to end their progress.
“When I went out to water it tonight, it was completely gone, like someone just pulled it out of the ground. I live in a suburbun area, I can’t imagine what did this. Rats maybe?”
people.
Thanks for the ping girl. I can proudly report Granddaughter and I have planted our first seeds today!
Several months ago we had a bulldozer clear about 2 acres of dead standing wood so we could make use of the land. Much of it is still a mess, with trees to burn and land that needs to be leveled, but we knew going in this was a several year project.
Mr G and I have been working very hard on our little spot that we laid out to garden in. It is about the size of a 2 car garage, and we have pulled about 40 thousand rocks out of it. I think some enemy has sown rock seeds there!
Mr G has made the boxes for us, and today we filled them with wonderful dirt and got our asparagus and carrots started. We need more asparagus crowns, already. I bought some tomato plants and peppers today since I didn’t get seeds started early enough, and tomorrow I will plant lots of other seeds. I will save some so g-son can help after school. Too late to get peas and spinach going. Will try some lettuce to see if it will make it.
We are figuring the garden is too small already.
Mr G’s daddy had a HUGE garden when G was a child. He has worked really really hard on getting this going, and has had a ball. When we start eating from it he will like it even more!
Our next chore is cleaning up a spot to get some fruit trees going.
I love gardening.
I plant in a raised bed 3’ x 16’ and have maters with blossoms, beans that are beginning to take shape, peas that have blossoms but no pods, oregano that is lush and full, strawberries that are almost fully formed but colorless, lettuce that is bursting enough to cut leaves every day and swiss chard that is about halfway there to cutting leaves from them.
I’d love to have an acre or so...
Ed
would you mind posting some pictures of this rig so that I may copy its design? I don’t have many rocks to deal with here in FL, but when I move to where I want to move, I surely will...and remember picking them all too well...
“Jung is one of my favorites, both for the quality and the service. And I am rather quick to recommend the company.”
Thanks! I was a customer for a dozen years before I started working for them. We do know our stuff. :)
It might be too wet and cool for asparagus to get off to a good start where you’re living.
It tolerates dry, hot conditions much better than wet, as it is a ‘root’ and will rot if too wet.
Nope. They won’t hurt anything. The only time you have to really worry about cross-pollinating is if you’re going to save the seed (or potato) for planting the next season.
Most grocery store veggie seeds (like peppers and tomatoes) won’t reproduce ‘true’ as it’s hybrid seed.
Most potatoes and garlic are treated so it won’t sprout; which is a problem if you’re planting stuff from a produce bin.
Our weather has freaked out on us.......90 degrees in the shade and it is still April, unreal.
Well, I grew up on a farm in central Texas in the fifties, and I know what hot temps are like. I remember picking cotton by hand in late July and corn when we came home from school later in the year. I'm talking acres and acres of produce picked by hand when it was hot.
BTW, does that qualify me for retributions?
NOt a bad idea :)
Most likely it was LIBERALS taking what was YOURS and re-distributing your WEALTH to others that are too d@mn lazy to plant a garden. :)
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