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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 42, OCTOBER 18, 2013
Free Republic | October 18, 2013 | greeneyes

Posted on 10/18/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT by greeneyes

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To: mlizzy

My cucumber plant is producing A cucumber.


41 posted on 10/18/2013 1:54:52 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: miss marmelstein

Yeh, I don’t usually compost my tomato stuff, because by this time it has ugly stuff starting to attack the leaves.

I have no experience with egg plant.


42 posted on 10/18/2013 1:55:58 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Hello Miss M. . . . Lowe’s and Home Depot carry Rye Grass seeds.


43 posted on 10/18/2013 1:56:50 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’ll send you the info. by regular email right now.


44 posted on 10/18/2013 2:04:26 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: greeneyes

—Hubby and his family love poke salad and stir fried poke with bacon grease and onions.—

Your hubby sounds like a southern guy.


45 posted on 10/18/2013 2:07:03 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: HopeandGlory

Thanks. I’ll get it. I’ve seen it but I thought maybe it wasn’t the correct thing. I’m probably the worst gardener the world has ever seen - that’s because I don’t know any other gardeners. Sad, really!


46 posted on 10/18/2013 2:12:24 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: tillacum

Ha! We had two squash plants, same thing. A butternut! But it was good... :)


47 posted on 10/18/2013 2:12:40 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: cripplecreek

I started an asparagus bed several years ago until I ran into my waterline.


48 posted on 10/18/2013 2:13:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Anyone know what pepper looks somewhat like a habenero but a wee bit larger and only mildly hot? Too hot to eat straight but a nice flavor used in a dish. It starts out very dark green and later a dark red. It looks nothing like the packets I planted.

Thank goodness for the rain. Lake Travis has risen more than a foot but upstream at Buchanan only about an inch last I heard. We’ve had about 1.25” inch nearly every day so the tomatoes are bursting. It sprinkled again this morning just enough so I can’t get out there.


49 posted on 10/18/2013 2:13:59 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Silentgypsy; greeneyes; JRandomFreeper; All

When Wayne was here, he set the stuff on the new camera I got, so I knew what to click to take a picture. It hooks to my computer so I got them in “My Pictures.”

Then, it took me forever to get them on Photobucket. I don’t have the upgraded Photobucket so had to sit through a commercial every time before it loaded one picture, did that picture after picture. I got them all on there with labels on the pictures, then I quit.

I figured someone would know how to get them on here.


50 posted on 10/18/2013 2:17:27 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella

Photobucket is easy to post.
1. Move your cursor to the selected picture. A box appears in the top right corner
2. Move cursor to box and a drop down menu occurs.
3. Choose “get links”
4. Click on HTML and it copies the needed code automatically.
5. in FR reply box, point and paste.


51 posted on 10/18/2013 2:19:26 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: cripplecreek

Homemade Apple Pectin

3 lbs sliced unpeeled tart immature apples
4 C water
2 T lemon juice

Boil until reduced to half. Strain through cloth. Boil juice another 20 minutes. Store in fridge, freezer or water bath.

YMMV/trial/guesstimate on how much homemade pectin to use in canning.


52 posted on 10/18/2013 2:20:22 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Marcella
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53 posted on 10/18/2013 2:20:33 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: Marcella
I don't use photobucket for several reasons. Postimage.org seems to work much better for me. And less skulduggery going on with it.

/johnny

54 posted on 10/18/2013 2:21:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

My vice is chocolate so I’ll leave the tobacco to you.


55 posted on 10/18/2013 2:24:42 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: greeneyes

Thanks. Chives won’t grow there but I can move the lettuce there.


56 posted on 10/18/2013 2:26:06 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: rightly_dividing

What you wrote sounds great to get a picture on. Johnny is working magic on the pictures and after he gets them on here, I’ll try your method to post one picture to see if I can get it done.

Johnny’s computer is complaining about the pictures but he may have it close to being done now.


57 posted on 10/18/2013 2:30:07 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella; greeneyes; JRandomFreeper; All

Johnny’s single. He has nuthin’ to do. Johnny will post your pictures. (Running and ducking.)


58 posted on 10/18/2013 2:32:17 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (the seed spawn of zor-ketthraa!.)
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To: greeneyes

Duh, polk greens. Silly me, I had forgotten that is what was grown there when I was little. Thanks for that whop up side the head. I’ll dedicate that whole area to various greens.

Some of you all never been down South too much
I’m gonna tell you a little story
So you’ll understand where I’m talking about
Down there, we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields
And it looks some like a turnip green
Everybody calls it Polk salad, now, that’s Polk salad
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
She’d go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
‘Cause that’s about all they had to eat
But they did all right


59 posted on 10/18/2013 2:33:57 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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Hope I can nurture the peppers and hanging on tomatoes along for a few more weeks Lord willing here in N. Tx. The little serrano peppers are starting to pop out after all this time but I planted it a little late from seed in early June. The heat in August almost killed it but it came back to life. Still picking arugula and basil daily to supplement the salads.
I will miss them in the winter or maybe I can cold frame them and see what happens—my first time ever trying it.


60 posted on 10/18/2013 2:38:31 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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