Weekly Gardening Thread
HR2749 The Food and Safety Enhancement Act coming up for VOTE in SENATE. BEWARE THE RESULTS!
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Posted on 09/04/2009 4:00:01 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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Weekly Gardening Thread
HR2749 The Food and Safety Enhancement Act coming up for VOTE in SENATE. BEWARE THE RESULTS!
Living, Growing Architecture[Heavy Graphics Warning] This One Is Fun!
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Morning,
I went by yesterday and had a bumper crop of peppers. Largest in size and volume of the year. Tomatoes are thinned out and slowing down. I already pulled the squash and eggplant and will pull the old peppers, strawberries and one of the tomatoes tomorrow.
We planted our lettuce and green seeds yesterday and expect to transplant in a week or so.
HR2749 The Food and Safety Enhancement Act coming up for VOTE in SENATE. BEWARE THE RESULTS!
Good Morning RD, thanks for reminder on HR2749..
what a summer !
In WNC daily rain keeps tomatoes scare, been rough sledding .
Thank you for the ping.
Weird summer...many in area had tomatoes wiped out by blight, but I am up to my ears in them. Loaded with salsa; and wife will be taking her first shot at making her own sauce this weekend...hot peppers coming on strong. We have already gone through our first homemade pumpkin pie; others have yet to even harvest pumpkins. G-d Almighty has been with us this year...
It was that wet cool Spring that did them in. Too weak to fight off the powdery mildew and bugs. Everybody in the garden had to give up except for those that grew from seed and had later harvests. Lesson learned. So I will pay close attention to the weather next Spring.
Morning, Red, since you mention eggplant, I ran across an eggplant dish in a buffet resturant recently. I thought that it was lasagna, as I piled plenty on my plate, then I saw the little homemade tag that said eggplant caserole. Well, it was very good, and I have located a recipe for a similar dish that includes mushrooms(optional) also. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think that it will copy the resturant very closely.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1935,155180-249193,00.html
RD
Your group might consider taking a stand against The Food Safety Enhancement ACT of 2009, since it will affect you:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2331751/posts?page=90
Yes we have been following it. Thanks.
All I have left is potatoes and sweet potatoes. They were planted mid June, so probably still a little early to harvest.
Tomatoes did better this year than last, but almost all were cherry tomato size, and those were the Early Girl and Better Boy varieties. So something was not right.
Did fairly well with pole beans. And got a couple of squash. Onions, carrots, cantaloupe and corn were basically a bust.
I’ll have to plan a little better and start earlier next year, and hopefully will have a larger planting bed ready.
Well, I will probably be tilling my garden for some fall veggies today. It’s just so dry here and I pulled up all the summer garden last week.
We do have a chance for rain later today and through Monday, so that should help.
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Corn?
I have health issues, so I barely get anything resembling gardening done and I don’t have room either.
I had a little bitty compost heap-about six by eight. On one of my lazier days, I did a weird three sisters thing there. I threw out some bean, squash & corn seeds in a random pattern & poked them into the compost just for the heck of it.
The plants took off like gangbusters at first. Later the squash got crowded out, but I got enough tiny ears of yummy corn and green beans to have for dinner a few times. I hand pollinated the corn. The ears were really small. I’m guessing because it was so crowded together.
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I have grown potatoes for the first time.
Also planted mid to late June. S, how is it that you decide they are ready to harvest?? Just pull some up and look at them?
Potatoe Newb in Central MD.
That living architecture thread is cool. Sadly, The Reed People portions reminds me of a low-budget set from a Kevin Costner movie, LOL!
The ones around here have no fear of humans, I guess, because of their speed. Any suspicious move and they can get out of Dodge instantly. They have a very high metabolism (1200 heartbeats per minute) and must constantly feed to stay alive.
A handfull of "hummers".
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