“I never believe what they say is the time to harvest, until I’ve grown stuff myself. Too many variables to be able to count on their number.”
Yes, you taught me that. I know now “harvest time” is approximate and “full sun” doesn’t mean cooking Texas sun all day long.
There was a fellow from Texas who commented on the “Fourth of July” hybrid tomato, and he said they ripen in Texas in June, so I believed him rather than what they named it.
Your poor grandchildren will be scarred for life by you - they will enjoy their life more, so I guess it’s okay.
I just made the “one cuppa cobbler” with blueberries. I prefer blackberries but Kroger didn’t have any blackberry pie filling. They had very few cans of pie filling, period. I recall a month or so ago, I looked at Walmart and their selection was pitiful, too. Is the country running out of fruit? I suppose I could buy them frozen and make the filling myself but that takes time to do it.
The kids gave me their halloween pumpkin that they never got around to carving. It's not big. So I need to figure out what I'm going to do with it. It's not big enough to make a batch of beer from. I don't like pumpkin pie. I may just make a savory soup out of part of it (with chicken testes, if I'm going to the Cambodians for the holidays and have to take a dish), and donate the rest to the compost pile.
/johnny