Mama Bear and the 3 cubs were back last night and rearranged this stack of potting soil by the garage…
Posted on 06/21/2013 12:40:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Yikes! I’d be afraid to mow after that, too! Poor thing.
It’s hard to beat Roma for paste tomatoes. You will have to fight off critters to get strawberries in my experience.
Most of these are newly planted and have the main stem cut about a foot to 18 inches above the ground. We don’t know yet if it will recover, there are no leaves left on the remaining stem.
The first time it happened, it was to a plant from last year that had survived the drought better than anything. Hubby just assumed that one of the large stray dogs or a coon or some other critter had done it and didn’t really look at it.
It is showing signs of shoots coming out of the ground. Since the others were not well established, it is hard to tell we’ll just have to wait and see.
These plants were mulched and very plainly not weeds, so it’s just pure ole malice and disrespect. Since my grand daughter’s ex husband’s grandmother lives across the street, that’s a suspect, but we also had some teenagers that live several blocks over away from the subdivision that could also be the perps.
Grand daughter came to see me one day for a few hours, and while we were downstairs and couldn’t see, someone snuck over and loosened the wheelnuts on the truck. She had a one year old in the truck with her. That’s pretty low down in my opinion.
I have that cookbook too. I really like it. She also gives advice on long term storage for balanced nutrition and planning.
You have made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you install cameras with a recording system? We had a meth lab across the street from us when we lived in the desert, and when we gave the police a tape with the recording of a shooting in our cul de sac, the meth lab was shut down, the house decontaminated, and decent people moved in. It was rather comical since we only wanted to support the leos in an officer-related shooting, and they only incidentally used the tapes to nail the meth people.
My main beef with Roma is that it’s determinate. It ripens all at once and then it’s done. With my health issues, indeterminates are a better match. I can process them a little at a time as they ripen, and if I’m out of action for the wrong week I won’t lose my harvest window.
Besides, I like being unique :p
Look into wiring a alarm for when your Freezer goes out. It’s generally a red light that goes off when the freezer fails
They are red throughout with great strawberry flavor and the core was left on the stem when I pulled them. Pine bark is a little pricey here due to the shipping costs...
Slow slogging, after a cold Spring. Corn will be ankle high by the Fourth of July. etc. We have gotten a few strawberries, though; and the fruit trees are looking productive. The wheat is heading up nicely. The transplanted rhubarbs are doing well, as are the asparagus seedlings.
Put in second plantings of carrots, radish, and spinach; added a small plot each of Toy-Chow, a ‘miniature’ bok-choy; coriander (cilantro grown for seeds rather than leaves); okra; pattypan**; pie pumpkins; and 2 other varieties of corn. Potatoes got their second hilling, after I moved the volunteer leaf lettuce that was in the way.
Most of the short* day, after normal chores, was taken up with hand watering & weeding the 3 oilseed sunflower rows: 400 gallon tank in the pickup, gravity fed to a garden hose.
It was the water left over from doing the same last night to the 5 rows of Sugar Snap peas, which are now in full flower; should begin harvesting next week.
Naturally, having watered, we got an unforecast rain after we left for the evening: we’ll take all the moisture we can get, and the hail missed us again.
Stopped at a grain elevator on our way to Rapid City Wednesday, and they’ll sell us ‘wheat cleanings/sweeping’ at 11 cents a pound, once the commercial harvest starts to come in: cheap chicken feed!
They’ll also order us a 50 pound sack of winter rye seed for $24. I calculated that we need 14 pounds to plant; we’ll put some into long term storage, use some in the kitchen, and feed some to the chickens...and we’ll get straw next year. That should give the birds pumpkins/seeds; black oilseed and Grey Stripe sunflower seeds; wheat; rye; and corn to supplement commercial feed this winter.
* It was a short day because we had to go to an early dinner at another couple’s house, then go with them to an evening melodrama in the next town. Back to their house for coffee & dessert; just got in about an hour ago.
**I found my last 2 original “Benning’s Green Tint” seeds from 2011. Last year, we planted from saved seed, and got some, but the weird weather kept the selected squash from fully maturing, and so those seeds didn’t germinate this year.
We got 50 of those last year in the “yard waste” section of the local dump, and planted them. Doing great; forming the topsets now, and really looking healthy. Makes me want to sing, “Walk like an onion...”.
Any friends that hunt and could loan you a game camera or two? Cutting plants is bad enough .... loosening wheel nuts is malicious.
My kitchen is a wreck. There are tomatoes, getting ready to dehydrate, squash getting ready for the freezer, but what do Everything seems to get ready at once.
I really like picklers with onions in sweetened vinegar. YUM
We’re thinking of putting in a hoop house in our community garden. The one we tried with pvc flopped over in the wind. What kind of braces are you using to hold the cover?
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