Posted on 11/29/2013 3:57:22 PM PST by greeneyes
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Rosemary is so fragrant, it’s enough to just have it and smell it, but it is great with lots of stuff chicken, fish, meats, breads, etc. Here’s a link to get you started:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,using_fresh_rosemary,FF.html
I would cut off the bad looking part at the top of the squash, and dispose of it as a precaution.
So you have finally got to eat some of that squash, and you really liked it. That is super. So glad you enjoyed it.
Well I finally did manage to get my garlic in. Tilled up the patch on Saturday and planted yesterday. I need to get it under some mulch but my compost heap is pretty much used up. I suppose I’ll have to make a trip to the horse college for some stall sweepings but my trailer is tied up at the sawmill. Maybe rent a dump trailer next weekend if I can get the starter for my loader tractor fixed by then. That would take a lot of work out of that project for sure.
I planted 3 tiny pots of rosemary around the deck to my garden shed. They are huge. They are beautiful. Now I need to start sharing some.
You are a terrific prepper even if you don't call yourself one. You call it a way of life but you're still a prepper - “a rose by any other name is still a rose”.
Have you tried cornstarch on the ant hills? It seems to work for me. Don’t know if it kills them or they dislike it so much they move....
I’ve given several plants to neighbors as well as limbs for cooking. I didn’t know how large the bushes get when I planted it, and it has basically taken away half of my eight foot yard gate.
OH my! Prayers for your family, and joining your gratitude that everyone is ok. Stuff, while necessary, is still stuff.
I’m not sure we’re REALLY ready, but we’ve done SOME things! Yesterday I raked the leaves out of the ditch so Darlin could follow with the mower and grind them up. Not to the point yet of collecting them for compost, but at least I’m thinking on it! LOL!
Getting ready today for a Christmas party tomorrow. After that, one down and 2 more to go!
Thanks for the clip! In the comments below the clip, TexasPrepper shows how he kills squash bugs. [”Squash Bugs Must Die!”] He uses nothing but soapy water in his garden sprayer. Must squirt them directly in order to kill them, but it WILL kill them!
Soapy water is good for a variety of bugs.
I’m thinking of using a cattle panel arch like he did.
Yeah, I agree...that cattle panel arch is pretty cool!
Thanks for the prayers. They are needed. We haven’t done anything much about leaves. I will probably get out and clear off the patios one of these nice days. Hubby hasn’t even bothered to run the mower over them.
We still have plenty clinging to the oak trees. If he follows what he did this year, He’ll collect them for compost in the early pre spring spot of nice weather.
We have some combo manure, and sawdust coming from a friend whe gets stuff like that for free. I think he said it’s good for taters.
Does anyone have experience growing ‘Arp’ rosemary? It is supposed to be hardy through Z6.
I started doing all this stuff long before I ever heard the word “prepper”. I grew up with family doing all this stuff. It's a way of life to me - people without a lot of money doing what they need to do to protect their family and survive whatever hard times might come their way.
If they want to call me a prepper for that, it's ok. I am just a country gal trying to survive in a subdivision in rural America. If I ever get a fall out shelter built in a corner of the basement, then I'll be a real true prepper.LOL
I surrounded my garlic on three sides with some milk jugs of water, and the bed is backed by a concrete wall on the north east side. Then I put a double layer of row covers on it. Leaves fall on it, but the little fence and milk jugs keep it off the ground, and the plants have plenty of room to grow.
I can roll the row cover along with the leaves etc back a bit so the sun can shine it on warm, sunny days. Mostly, I just forget about it till spring. Usually does pretty good.
—I started doing all this stuff long before I ever heard the word “prepper”.—
That’s me, I had never heard the word till a few years ago on FR. Before moving to Texas, we lived in hurricane country where we were threatened usually several times a year, most years, and suffered hits quite often, four times in ‘05. Smart folks kept canned food, batteries, candles or oil lamps, gas cans, duct tape, plywood, generators, and such stocked up long before someone yelled “hurricane” and the mad rush to clean out the stores began. All I had to do was make a trip to the gas station and we were ready. We keep enough food on hand to feed us for about two months, which is more than plenty.
With all that being said, I don’t consider us to be preppers, at least not in the typical sense. Without access to a pharmacy, all the other preparations would be useless anyway for us.
I guess I will now incur the wrath of all the real preppers now :)
I managed to get my saffron crocuses ordered and in the ground. Well, into some really big pots for this season. We have to build a protected place for it long term. Apparently moles, voles and other critters will dig them out and carry them away. So we’ve scouted a place to dig out, put in a hardware cloth bottom layer and fill in with good composted dirt and mulch.
Hopefully this little project will work out.
The definition of prepper is someone who prepares for emergencies so I am a prepper. It only takes one bad emergency to turn many people into preppers.
I could say I'm not a prepper, I just store in case of a hurricane. That is a case of semantics, if you don't like that word, then don't consider yourself one.
I am a prepper because I prepare and that's what a prepper is, and I will teach as many as I can how to survive an emergency, no matter what type emergency that is.
New words come into being when something needs to be described. A group of people who prepare for emergencies take that normal route for a new word and it makes total sense the word would be preppers because that is what they do. When this generation of people die off, there will be no resistance to being called a “prepper” because that word will be the only one they have heard all their lives related to preparing.
You have lived through a historical period of a new word being formed and used.
I hope so too. If it does, I might try some too.
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