Posted on 09/06/2013 11:58:59 AM PDT by greeneyes
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Red Devil may be able to answer your question about figs. I myself have zero, zip, nada experience with figs.
Yes darn it. The older I get the faster go the years.
We’re planning for next year’s garden even though this year’s is still producing. We can’t keep up with the bushels of various peppers producing this summer and have had to buy tomatoes at the farmer’s market. Next year, more traditional tomatoes and fewer odd ball peppers.
Sorry to hear about your tomatoes. At least you have some others coming on. Hope you get enough to last through till spring harvest.
Each year we learn new lessons, and get to fine tune our efforts.
I want information on peppers - all kinds of peppers. Which sweet and which kinda hot and which hot do you guys plant? I don’t know where to start with peppers. Johnny grows two hot ones and that’s it. I would bet his hot ones will curl your toes. I don’t want one so hot you can’t breathe after you get a taste of it.
I am serious about this since I have absolutely no pepper seed of any kind.
You could have sent some rain to TX. As Arrowhead said, the lakes are the lowest they’ve been since the 1950s. We’re at about the 50 day mark of 100+ degree but it’s suppose to ease into the 90s this weekend. Blah, I missed watering the last two days and just came in from watering as every leaf had wilted. The basil has kicked the bucket and something ate the beans I’d planted in the herb bed. I really need to buy more chicken wire.
After the neighbor cut down his bush/tree along side a couple tomatoes and okra, those have gone into shock from no shade. I’m still only getting a handful of cherry tomatoes a week despite having over a dozen plants. It’s the heat. They just won’t produce in this weather. Maybe when it gets cooler. Last year, I didn’t have any until right before the Nov. freeze.
Something got most of the cukes. Looks like there’s one plant left and it has one on it so I’m watching it closely.
Arrow, have you had flies? It has been Amityville around here for a couple months inside and outside. Open the door and they swarm in. Go outside and I’m constantly swatting at them. I’ve never seen them here like this for so many weeks. I have fly swats in every room and beside the computer. Hubby hung fly strips on the porch back in July and I’m to the point of letting him put them in the house, ick. BTW, do NOT buy fly swats from HEB (made in China) because they break into a dozen pieces at the first swat.
I may get the tiller out this evening and work up a spot to plant the fall greens. Should have a bunch of peppers ready to pick. And maybe some okra. I could do with a nice mess of fried okra with my supper tonight...
Hubby doesn’t like hot peppers either. Jalepeno is about as hot as I like. Hubby grows the Californa Wonder sweet bell.
I grew Patio Red Marconi, Ozark Giant, and Fooled you Jalepeno this year. They all are doing well. The Fooled you has the jalepeno flavor with reduced heat.
Planted the bush beans in 5 gallon grow bags with bags mostly full. If I have a plant that doesn’t require a lot of depth for the roots, I don’t have to fill the 5 gallon bags full of potting soil. I can put as much as I want in there. That’s why I didn’t buy 1 or 2 or 3 gallon size. Those would limit me but the 5 gal. gives me options to use as much soil as I need. The sides of the bags can be turned down so you don’t have a lot of extra pot from the plant to the top of pot.
Transplanted the three blooming flower plants supposed to attract butterflies and hummingbirds, Lantana, Hummingbird Bush, Gold Black Eyed Susan, into larger pots and I hope they don’t die from cutting the roots and trying to spread them out like the lady at Lowes said to do. It was almost impossible to cut the roots as they were solid around the soil they were in. If I were one of those plants after someone mutilated my roots and tried to spread them out, I would die. At any rate, they are now sitting in pots on the ground dirt in the garden and well watered. If I ever see a butterfly or hummingbird come to one of those plants, it would make my day.
Now, regular onion plants have sprouted under the grow lamp. One of the regular squash seeds has sprouted but I’m going to dump those two paper cups so no regular squash will be on the deck. Just want the “T” Italian squash out there to see if moths/borers stay away from it. Have another one of the “T”s about three inches tall to transplant.
So, every paper cup with seeds has sprouted under the grow lamp in the house. There is no way I could have gotten that to happen outside.
I got three packages/boxes delivered by post office yesterday. One was a little over two feet long and I thought that one might be the battery operated sewing machine. There wasn’t a label that said this side up, so I cut open the box and soil started falling out – it was the 25 Chandler strawberry plants from Garden Harvest Supply Inc. I had opened them upside down. Darn, had I just destroyed the strawberry plants? I rushed the box outside, turned it over, and opened the box again. There were the 25 plants in excellent condition in little connected plastic pots and it was so wet in the box, two sheets of paper in there were water logged. I read the instructions and it said to immediately pour water over the plants. Even though they were wet, I did pour water over all of them. I covered them with row cover so squirrels or birds couldn’t get to them over night or early this morning. I have removed that cover now so they will get sun today. Have to commend Garden Harvest for the excellent condition of the plants.
A small, heavy box had the battery sewing machine in it. Another even heavier box had the granite mortar and pestle in it. That is unbelievably heavy and it’s the 1 1/2 cup.
I had sent an email to BIMBO about the shelf life of their already made toast. I know it’s at least three months since what I bought a few days ago had Dec. 11 for the good until date. I had to put my phone number on there or the email wouldn’t go from their website. Yesterday, a lady at their company at New York City called me. In the end, she was going to contact someone to get more information about the shelf life for sure from the time it is made. We had a nice conservation and I asked her where these were sold. They are sold across the country in stores that have items for Spanish people. The Spanish have used this toast for a very long time. So, any store that has a large number of Spanish customers, likely has this toast. Walmart has it, and in this area (Houston) certainly the large Fiesta stores have it. There is a Spanish type grocery not far from me and I would bet they have it. HEB might have it but I haven’t checked. She told me in her area of New York City, a grocery store, “Fine Fare” has it.
In my opinion, this toast makes a great emergency food – good for at least three months and it’s good for me all the time since bread goes bad here in our humidity pretty soon, like maybe five/six days. There is Regular in a blue/white package and the ones I got this time, are Double Fiber and the package is green/white. The Regular tends to break too easily. The Double Fiber is a much stronger toast and won’t break when you put peanut butter or jam or whatever on it and naturally double fiber is better for you. I will only buy the Double Fiber from now on. Well, I say that, but if you want to put a cooked egg on it, the regular would be better for that as the double fiber is a strong toast, not easily broken up.
Now, let’s say the same of the toast correctly. We are saying BIMBO – the correct pronunciation is “BEEMBO”. Consider the “i” a double “e”. The lady really did tell me this so I would say it right. I don’t know if the lady will actually call me again about the exact shelf life.
I gotta finish digging potatoes, pick a punch of peppers, and do some dishes before I do anything else when the heat dies down. I sure wish I had little elves that would keep the dishes done. The dishwasher died, and I hate to think of replacing it.
LOL that’s the Spanish pronunciation. I kinda like good ole American Bimbo myself. I have to ask Hubby for the translation into English.
I am going to check at our Walmart to see if they have the double fiber kind, if I can remember it the next time I go to Walmart.
/johnny
Thanks for the pepper names, I’ll look them up. Especially like that Fooled You Jalapeno.
/johnny
I like the name.LOL
You are welcome.
My dishwasher broke about 15 years ago. I miss it, sniffle.
You are welcome.
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