Posted on 06/18/2010 4:59:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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...and my wife laughs at me...
Yeh, that’s the “other” trinity. Me I often go for the “quad” celery, onion, carrot, and bell pepper. LOL.
They weren’t kidding about my ‘Tall Telephone’ peas...already grown above the trellis, and pods are just starting to develop...I will not have to bend over or look down to pick these monsters. Triffids...
We used to do that at granny’s house. Always used an iron skillet with a lid and move it like crazy across the burner. LOL. What good memories.
Cast Iron? We used an aluminum pot, because it’s much easier on the wrists.
Granny didn’t have aluminum cookware. We did have a water bucket and I think the dipper was aluminum. Had to go to the well to pump water.
My grand-maw had a 40 ft well by the back door, and I've gotten water from the well.
One of their houses had a cistern right outside the back door that we used for some things. But we had to go across the street to get drinking water from the neighbor's well.
Later, when they were able to move outside town to their own little acreage, their well was located about the same distance away as the neighbor's. The out house was about the same distance the other direction.
My main problem was the rooster. He always hung out close to the outhouses, and he liked to flog the younguns.
"Cold Mountain" desperately needs Zellweger: After she twists the head off that rooster, she screws up that baby-doll face of hers and barks an order to Ada: "Let's put 'im in a pot!"LOL. She’s considerably older and bigger than I was at the time.
I had lunch today at a local bagel shoppe operated by a nice, young, homeschooling family. I know the wife keeps a garden and I asked her about celery, harvest, etc.
She is an avid celery grower, and she says that she harvests it like lettuce, taking the outer stalks whenever she needs a piece of celery. I may try that for a while because it breaks my heart to cut off a whole big head of celery when I need only a small amount.
Did that last double decker say “Packers” on top and “Vikings” on the bottom? ROTFLOL!
Thanks,
MCB
...and my wife laughs at me...
Where are the weeds growing? In the aisles you could possibly get away with Round-Up but don’t spray on a windy day but if the weeds are in the beds you will have to hand weed. Never spray Ortho Weed be Gone in a veggie garden...
I don't think there is anything you can spray the whole garden with that will kill the weeds and not your veggies :(
I think something along the lines of one of these is your best bet.
A Hula Hoe works better. "The hoe with the wiggle."
I harvested my first dozen pea pods this afternoon after work. I ripped out a whole square of radishes, none of which were worth a darn. How do you get them to grow as big as their pictures on the seed pkg. Mine were no larger than small marbles.
Corn has doubled in size over night due to rain last night and heat all day today. One corn seedling snapped off due to the storm. The root is intact. Will it start growing again, or should I transplant another seedling in its place?
Celery is almost ready to start cutting.
What about my broccoli? The heads are really small -- smaller than my fist. I have 5 plants. If I cut them all, it would barely provide a side dish for the 2 of us. Again, how do I get it to grow larger? When do I cut it. I don't want to leave it in the garden too long, like I did with the cauliflower.
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