Posted on 06/04/2010 5:00:06 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners! Wow June is here already. I hope all of your gardens are flourishing. Can you believe that last year at this time there were freeze and frost warnings for the North, Northeast and some of the higher elevations? This year the freeze warnings seem to be contained within a certain household in Tennessee. I just had to say that, couldn’t help myself!
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Baker Creek...BEST seed catalog ever!
Your fridge is a lock-safe of riches, indeed!
I used to buy a Cabot cheese that was a blend of Parmeson and Chedder. They no longer sell that, and it was delicious. Maybe it was a Provolone and Chedder blend.
Re: your Tillamook — send the Tillamook, keep the banana slugs!
I sure would.
Vermont has a maple smoked that we by once eery couple of years...We’re blessed with AMish cheese nearby.
Been out in the humidity this AM...Looks like Hoomama needs to hydrate....
When I didn’t want to go to sleep, my daddy would let me get up and he’d make me a Tillamook sandwich at midnight, and we’d talk. My mom and my grandma would be asleep and unaware. We’d have this snack all by ourselves!
He’d shave the cheese really thin with his knife and layer it on bread with butter and jam. I wasn’t a big eater in those days, and that was probably the best meal I ate all day. With a big glass of milk.
Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmm. If we didn’t have cheese, he’d make me a scrambled egg sandwish, and that was good too. My mom and my grandma always wondered why I didn’t eat much at regular meals... ;-)
It was just one of the most peaceful places around.
Remarkably, I was very calm and I stepped over a row and took my cell phone out of my pocket and called the hubby. He freaked out totally and wanted to know what kind ... said I needed to find it. At that time I explained to him that I wasn't exactly anxious to meet up with it again, but I would try.
In the meantime, hubby calls both a DIL and a friend of his, who both converge on the garden fairly quickly.
An hour later, I'm feeling fine except for 2 sore fingers at the site of the bite, and DIL and I decide to finish picking the greens. Before doing so, we went down two rows beside each other and parted the greens, examining the ground. Low and behold, in the exact spot where I got bitten, I part the greens and see the 2-tone brown scales and tell DIL that it is still there. While she stands watch to make sure it doesn't get away, I head to the house for the 20 gauge. On the walk to the house I call hubby and he says to get the hoe and drag it out where I can see it then I can shoot it, if needed. I said that this was not going to be a precision operation -- that I was carpet bombing the area, sans hoe.
When I get back out there, she is still watching the spot and says that it hasn't come out. I tiptoe down the middle to the spot and part the greens with the barrel of the shotgun and it is still there. Pow!
I am fine ... the snake is not. Turned out to be a water snake about 3-1/2 feet long. I felt bad having killed it when it was not venomous, but then decided that it bit first, for no good reason whatsoever.
Now I have to go down the road to the sweet corn field to harvest some of that. I am taking the shotgun because there is some grass in the middle of the rows. Figuring the odds are in my favor for not being bitten twice in one day. Wish me luck.
Hubby's a tab bit too brave in your name... if he wants to come home and drag the snake out - that's fine - but you've had enough adventure for the day... That said, it's a funny story - and part of the fun is "hubby's " remarks...
OMG — stay safe. Personally, I’d stay in, but I know that you are made of stronger stuff.
Glad you are okay...
Precisely what I did.
What was bad, but also humorous, was that I was picking the mustard greens for a lady that was coming after them shortly. I finally got her two bunches picked.
Then DIL comes over and, after the snake thing is over, she tends the produce stand for awhile. She sells the lady's mustard greens to someone else. I made her go out with me to pick two additional bunches. She is deathly afraid of snakes and I think she learned to ask if I have something set off to the side. LOL
The produce stand is going very well. Word is getting around and we were actually kinda swamped with folks today. I am thrilled.
I don't like snakes that I didn't/don't see. Snakes that startle me I am not thrilled about.
Snakes serve a good purpose and I am not quick to kill one, even the venomous ones.
I've never been bitten before and I have to admit that I was looking for a wee bit of vengeance.
WoW!!! I wish you were my neighbor so if I ever see a snake again I could yell over the fence for help. If you did that in Calif you would be in jail in a instant and your lawyers would have to file a EIR on the dead snake.
Congratulations on your Farm Stand and I hope enjoy every minute of your “farm” life...
Harvested and ate the cauliflower yesterday leaving me 3 empty squares in my 1st raised bed. Is it too late to plant more lettuce there? Do I need to wait until later, since planting now would make the lettuce mature in the heat of the summer?
Another crop for these empty spaces? How about spinach? Book says no cauliflower in this space. Must rotate to new space.
Planted #3 raised bed yesterday with beans, squash, & canteloupe. Planted cucumbers & zinnias in perimeter beds.
Filled #4 (the last) raised bed and tilled it last night just before dark. Will plant corn and okra there tomorrow.
Everything looks healthy and is growing like gangbusters.
You mentioned yesterday that you were harvesting all your lettuce. Does that mean that I have to give up on mine? (You were harvesting and eating yours at least 2 weeks before I was eating mine — maybe longer.)
How do you know when it is time to dig it up? And, then, do you replant right away?
I FreepMailed you! :)
Thank you!
Last desperate hope, here...
A neighbor gave me a plant that he bought at WalMart, that came with no ‘planting instructions’ tag..
The name on the label is “Veron Roy Candles”, but that’s all the information I have...
“BING” search came up empty...
Anybody out there have any idea whether this is a ‘full-sun’ or ‘partial shade’ plant, and/or any other information that I might need (even if it’s annual or perennial), before I just stick the thing in the ground to watch it die??
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