Then 20 minutes Lady Bender opens the door to the garage and the 3 if them had dumped over 3 of the buckets with various bird seed and were chowing down…
Posted on 09/20/2013 12:16:53 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Yes, I think those are the Utah onions.
/johnny
Nice looking rose. Reading through the info, reminded me that our Rosa Rugosa came through last year’s drought without ever watering it.
The rose hips have many nutrients: iron, calcium, Vitamin E, selenium, manganese, b-complex vitamins, trace amounts of magnesium potassium, and sulfur, in addition to Vitamin C. So you’ll get some useful stuff anyway.
The vitamin C is already 20 to 40% more than an orange. So If you cook it for 10-20 minutes, you lose more than 50%, but you still have some. Maybe you should drink 2 glasses of wine just to be sure.LOL
I guess you could always just add a few crushed ones after you open the wine, just to add to the Vitamin C if you want. As long as you don’t have the symptoms of Vitamin C deficiency, I wouldn’t worry about it.
You could always just make a smoothie using rose hips as one of the ingredients. Another thing to remember, is that dandelion greens also have Vitamin C and other good stuff. They tend to grow without effort on your part, and are one of the first things to green up in the spring.
You can also grow green peppers indoors, and get some vitamin c that way. One green pepper has 291% of the RDA for vitamin c. An orange only has 116% RDA.
I like tea, and lots of the teas that I like have rose hips as the first or second ingredient, so I wanted to have rose hips to be able to make my own herbal teas with the rose hips.
Since I don’t use boiling water or steep very long, I figure I am getting some of my vitamin c that way, and some in other ways. I love to put green pepper rings on my salad, and I also love stir fry with green peppers and onions etc.
“ready” meant you start eating them.
What type of winter wheat are you growing?
It was 50 degrees here at 6am. So it’s about time to repot a tomato and pepper to bring indoors.
I love that website. LOL
You can also use onion sets. Hubby plants onion sets in the spring for fall harvest. They look kinda like a garlic clove except they have the same coloring as a yellow onion.
/johnny
Understood.
/johnny
Yes, I like rye. I have enough left over from last year to use this year.
They may have hangovers in the morning, but there should be billions more of them. ;)
/johnny
***”How long, do you think/know, the greenhouse (at the following link) would extend our growing season?”**
Maybe 2 months. It looks really short, height wise, so I am guessing you’re not thinking of tomatoes in it.
Here’s an article about Greenhouse Gardening in Chicago:
Here’s a step by step for the one I’m building..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DKlXs8iov0
My thought for you is that if you have an outside wall-garage, house, brick wall...You could do something like a half hoop..cattle panel, cut in half..then sitting against the house, or a brick wall, that puts out some heat..Then you could skin the cattle panel with 6 ml plastic, or maybe even hang a bulb that puts out some heat at night in there.
It’d have the height, 6 feet 2 “, but only half the width, and half the price..aobut 75 bucks for the little greenhouse experiment.
I am hoping you can visualize what I’m tryig to describe, instead of a quonset hut shape, it’s be half a quonset hut shape..The place you buy the cattle panel ..like Tractor Supply could probably cut in in half for you..
Once you get your hands on some cattle panels, or even the smaller hog panels, you will think of all kinds of things that you could do with them.
My next project, using hog panels, is going to be a “time out” cage for my Mother in Law when she criticizes my cooking and housekeeping! Just kidding, I don’t have a Mother-in-Law.
Then 20 minutes Lady Bender opens the door to the garage and the 3 if them had dumped over 3 of the buckets with various bird seed and were chowing down…
Great pics. This is why we stopped feeding the birds in our yard.
/johnny
My next project, using hog panels, is going to be a “time out” cage for my Mother in Law when she criticizes my cooking and housekeeping! Just kidding, I don’t have a Mother-in-Law.Ruh-roh... Good one!
I am interested in herbal medicines/gardens/etc as well, and when we were at the book store a few days ago, I picked up these two books:
Homegrown Herbs by Hartung
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Homegrown%20Herbs%20hartung
and
Herb Gardening for the Midwest by Knapke and Peters
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Herb+Gardening+for+the+Midwest&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AHerb+Gardening+for+the+Midwest
Why I bought them is because not only do they tell a little about herb gardening methods, a little bit is also given on pests, good bugs, and profiles for quite a number of individual herbs. Some instructions for preparations are also given. What cinched them for me was the information each had for stevia. I figured that if both books were as accessible with that info (which IMHO they are) then they would be good references for other herbs as well.
Such things in the herb profiles cover what kind of shade/sun, tips, harvesting/processing, uses. “Homegrown”
also includes companion and complementary planting, medicinal benefits, and parts used.
That isn’t an exhaustive review, but might be enough to see if it is as interesting for you as it was for me!
Amazing! What state are you in?
LOL! I understand!
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