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Posted on 01/06/2012 9:53:54 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
January is not the most hospitable month of the year to be sure. If you're like me those cold dreary days are best spent curled up in a chair (for the guys that don't *do* curl -- sit there very manly) with a cup of tea (insert the manly beverage of your choice) and a stack of garden catalogs that you need a front-end loader to move (got you with the front-end loader, didn't I?).
I've got to hand it to the catalog people, the covers are exceptional this year and, by golly, with all of the $25 to $100 coupons right there on the front ... I saved $475 just walking in from the mailbox!
Your first five minutes spent thumbing through will tell you something, regardless of which catalog your choose: Prices. Are. Up. Must be that ol' supply-n-demand thing, because I choose to believe that MY favorite seed suppliers would never take advantage of a market that is growing by leaps and bounds as people discover that you can feed your family the highest quality foods and save money at the same time. Not to mention, you know exactly how your food was handled and by whom. It must be said -- produce from Mexico just doesn't have the same tropical appeal that it once did.
These are the catalogs I've received as of this morning. I've put these in the form of a link that you can take to that company, if you so desire. You can request a catalog of your own or, do what I do, which is peruse the paper catalog and then place an order online.
Gurney's Seed & Nursery Co.Please let us know about your favorite catalogs and gardening-related companies. I know that we all love to discover something new that will further our fun in the garden.
Musser Forests, Inc.
Michigan Bulb Co.
Agri Supply
Growers Supply
Stark Bro's Nursery
The Greenhouse Catalog
Gardener's Supply Company
Totally Tomatoes
The Cook's Garden
Burpee
Henry Field's Seed & Nursery Co. *
Gurney's Seed & Nursery Co. *
Jung's Seeds & Plants
R.H. Shumway's Illustrated Garden Guide* Henry Field's and Gurney's are one and the same group. I suspect that Burgess is also owned by them, but haven't confirmed
Hey, if we can hang together under zero, we’ll be partying all night long everyday under any Newt and Rick combo win!
I do the same thing. Plus I fill some of the straight sided ones with berries and make rumtophf, all kinds. Now I’ve found some neat jars to make intensified liquer from the liquer plus the fruit it’s made from Neat. I’m a amantuer cook and I’ll try just about anything.
Ok, I’ll make sure the corncobs are dried out. We’ve burned Mesquite in our fireplace and it’s ok. Mesquite burns very hot 5,000 degrees at the bottom of the ashes and the bricks held up, however, we’ve had to replace the andirons, a couple of times.
I’ll hold up on the worms.
If it were smoked, it would be ordinary bacon. It is salt pork ... my granny called it white meat, and some in the south call it fatback, even though it is a belly.
Please excuse me then for butting-in ... I'll be over ------>here, should you need me. :)
Thank you.
My starz! Where do you find the time to accomplish all that you do?
Yep! I like them. They are a bit pricey, but they haven't sold my email to a spam list like one of the big commercial nursery's has done in the past.
I'm just waiting for February so I can start the seedlings. I'll need to build a couple more raised beds, but all should be ready for planting in the ground by the end of March.
I have no idea. Sometimes my house is cluttered because I’m working outside and vice-versa, but it all gets done somehow. Don’t get to hunt and fish near as much as I’d like.
Hi Folks! It’s cool enough to work in the garden, which is what I SHOULD be doing instead of FReeping! LOL
Thanks for the link.
I’ve used them for several years now and they work excellent and are very easy to make. I’ll try to explain but forgive if I flub it.
I take ½ newspaper page. Fold that in half the long way. I use a spray paint can. Place the can laying on the end of the folded newspaper with about 1” of the newspaper off the end of the bottom of the paint can. Roll the newspaper around the paint can. Fold the “bottom” of the newspaper over the end of the paint can and set the paint can up to crease the bottom. Take the paint can out and you have a planter. If the bottom doesn’t want to stay closed increase the amount of pressure you use to crease the bottom. The better you crease the bottom the better it stays closed.
Do you have one of those fancy pants pellet stoves?
She is an omnivore.
She kept the veggie eating trait and left rock chewing behind.
She also fancies acorns.
As someone who cures his own hams, bacon etc. I can tell you that needs to be soaked in cold clean water for a couple of hours before you cook it. Soak in clean water for ½ hour, change water, another ½ hour, change water, cut very small piece and taste for salt, if still too salty change water, soak for ½ hour and check again. Repeat until desired salt level is achieved.
Well, it’s one of those ‘southern’ things. We season our beans, greens and peas with the salt pork and we leave the salt there on purpose. Then we don’t have to add as much additional salt. I grew up on the stuff in all of its salty splendor when fried, even though normal people would remove it. I can’t explain it.
We have a corn stove and a fireplace insert in which we burn regular logs with some corn thrown in for the additional heat. We have central heat, but we enjoy the fireplace and the corn stove was something we wanted to try because we grow the corn.
I’m in SC after having lived 20 years in Fl. I agree on the flavoring other dishes but there’s no way I’m eating salt pork fried crisp with corn bread with that much salt.
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