Posted on 11/08/2013 12:23:38 PM PST by greeneyes
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This porch has three solid walls and only one 20’ wall with six 32”x58” openings. It was a 20’ x 10’ concrete slab that somebody enclosed into a storage room. It was an eyesore and falling down due to roof leaks. I removed the long wall last year and redid things a little differently, I planned on putting glass in the openings, but Sweetheart wanted to have it open, so that is the way it is. it is built so as to be able to screen it or glass it if we choose to later. I did insulate the ceiling while doing all that remodeling on it.
We had club sandwich several times this week with ham, bacon, cheese, lettuce and tomato. Nothing better than a little bacon and home grown tomato on almost anything.LOL
If it were me, I would cover up the veggies whenever there are going to be temps of around 32 degrees or so.
Well the list is on my profile page. I think it is more than 500 people, so you might not want to write the whole thing.LOL
There is a reason that squash is considered one of the “survival” foods. They are prolific, considered kinda easy to grow, and the seeds have more calories per pound than many foods like beans, wheat, corn. Squash is a decent source of magnesium and potassium as well.
I am not a big lover of squash, but I do like summer squash stir fried with other veggies for asian stir fries. I like the winter acorn squash baked - it tastes like baked sweet potatoes.
When my freezer worked, I sometimes just froze the berries until later, so I didn’t heat up the house during the summer. I used the juicer to make a syrup and jelly. Then took the pulp and made fruit leather with the dehydrator. I have tried canned strawberries, but didn’t like the mushiness, but that’s just me.
I sent you a FReepmail for later.
When I was a kid, we had a back porch that Dad enclosed. It had windows on all three sides. My sister and I shared it as a bedroom.
Great memories of taking a nap and soaking up the sfternoon sun in the winter time. It seemed huge to me. After I grew up I would return for a visit, and look at that room, and think how in the world did we ever share such a small room? LOL.
what do your Ukrainian Sabres look like? and taste like? only one seed company appears to offer Uk. Sabres - and enthusiasts on tomato forums debate whether it is a real Uk. variety or just something the company renamed. Some companies offer plain Sabres.
Anyway they appear to have done well for you.
I will be posting pictures soon
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Lol! You strike terror in the little-bitty hearts of squirrels everywhere! That’ll fix ‘em for trying to steal food they didn’t plant, the little buggers.
When I ordered the knee saver, there was also a row cover package in the box and I don't remember ordering that but I'm glad it's here as it is a little heavier than the row cover I already have. I'll put this new one over the strawberries.
I just got back from Walgreens across the street to pick up a bunch of refill medicines and as a rejection/rebellion of the fact I have to take all those pills, I bought a box of Queen Anne chocolate covered cherries. I think the cherries will fix what's wrong more than the pills. :o)
I think that cherry filled candy is just the ticket!LOL
So, you live just across the street from Walgreens? I used to love to go to Walgreens, back when I worked in Downtown St. Louis. I would go there during lunch and pick up sales and stuff so I wouldn’t have to shop after work. It was only one and a half blocks away from where I worked.
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. I remember the part about changing plants, but didn’t know what to plant.
If you have neighbors who collect their leaves and put them in plastic bags , round up a few of them for mulch.
They will be partially muched by springtime with what little moisture there is in the bags, and then placed on the surface of your garden.
The freeze ,..thaw, freeze , thaw ,.. etc., etc. helps to break the leaves down and encourage the microbes within the bags to help break them down.
Also for those with raised beds those black bags filled with leaves place alongside the raised bed will help insulate the bed for a couple of additional weeks.
In the days of my youth ,farmers would collect bags of leaves and then place them against the house foundation for additional insulation , preventing water pipe freezes.
You could plant a cover crop that takes nitrogen from the air and “fixes” it in the roots and spade them in next spring. I ave used fava beans, bell beans, common vetch, clover or austrian field peas. The taller plants would be cut up an added to your leaves and the roots spaded in...
Pumpkins are related to the squash family ; consider a change to a root crop (beets , carrot, potato , chard ,onion , etc.) at that location , or a leafy crop.
Since you manuered the area a while ago , it should remain fertile, without excess nitrogen ; over a period of time , nitrogen leaches out of the soil .
Crop rotation and soil testing (to determine soil fertility and mineral inadequacies ) will insure crop productivity .
What do you do with the Paw Paw? We have them wild here.
Man you lucky dog! They are delicious and nutritious. Mostly if we can find them we eat them ripe. Not too many to be found in west Michigan, so I am growing some trees.
Going out of town for a couple of days. Will be without a computer-almost unbearable to think of. See ya’ll Sunday or Monday.
Travel safely, FRiend!
Wow! Thanks for the leaf hints!
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