Posted on 03/07/2014 12:18:07 PM PST by greeneyes
Mine are all metal, but I know there are plastic ones.
My mom used it for grating boiled eggs for egg salad sandwiches. She also had a flat hand held grater/slicer much like some of the mandolines I see. I think I have it too.
Mine was great while it lasted.LOL
Hi all, it warmed up yesterday to mid 30’s. We still have complete snow cover up to our knees, some places higher but the birds are singing. What a winter! Good riddance. I am just east of Grand Rapids Michigan where we hit a record of the 2nd snowiest winter ever, 112 inches so far, #1 is 1951 with 132 inches. Don’t think we will top that but you never know. Can’t wait to get in to the garden!
I have my old tin looking mouli I bought about 35 year years ago. It has the 3 drums, fine grate, cheese grater, and slicer.
It was probably the first thing I bought as far as "kitchen gadgets", and I've been a kitchen gadget junkie since. BTW, my first mouli, besides not looking very pretty, works great.
Hey, it's almost 60 degrees here at 6:41 am.
You brave Northern Souls. If I ever had 10 inches of snow here in Central TX, I'd be curled up in a fetal position, under a heated blanket, sobbing hysterically.
Here, if it snowed three inches, they'd be shutting the roads, schools, and businesses down.
I’ve been in Michigan since 1972 and this had definitely been the worst winter ever. So many people unhappy and complaining, me included. These last 3 weeks have been the worst, it just seemed like it would never end. Feel so much better with higher temps and some sunshine. I hope this winter has just been a fluke and not the beginning of a new ice age!
Not enough that I'm actually going to move any plants to the big garden, but pretty sure. ;)
/johnny
Thanks very much for your help.
I will definitely buy some.
Do you suppose I could take mine outside during summer?
It's drizzling here, but I've already hit Lowe's, HD, and my Mom and Pop Nursery this am...
Lowe's had 4 ft/2 gal pot $18 citrus trees, but they only had five icky ones.
HD had all their seeds 1/2 off, and nice 5 ft/3 gal pot citrus trees but they were $31.00
At the Mom and Pop Nursery, they had free red sails lettuce, and mystery tomatoes (people had taken the plant markers out of the tomatoes). I got a free six pack of tomatoes, and 3 six packs of red sails lettuce. I checked, and all were aphid free.
Mom and Pop nursery also put out a free leather roll around office chair, but I skipped that.
Ok, just for giggles, I took some of the overcrowded cabbages and celery out of the cold frame and transplanted them into the big garden. If it does freeze, I can pull some mulch over them to protect them, and the cabbage and celery don't seem to mind the cold anyway.
/johnny
Thanks for posting my pix...
Add me please. Thanks :)
What kind of celery do you plant? Also, do you put stuff around it, to blanch it/ keep it from turning all green?
In my wanderings...between planting seeds this am, I just went to Walmart. They have very helathy looking trees- mandarines, avocado, Meyer Improved lemons, and limes for $29.99. I would’ve gotten an avocado, but they were hass, and I want a Brazos, or Uvalde.
/johnny
The other day when I was in Lowes garden, they had meyers tree and a satsuma, both about 4ft tall and 19.98 each and I passed, so I guess I’m not buying a fruit tree this year. I still not sure where to put one, as I’ve said often, I don’t have many sunny spots to use. A fruit tree needs to be closer to the house so not to have the fruit stolen. That is why I lean towards a meyers tree, I don’t think the thieving age punts would steal lemons. Plus, lemons are expensive here.
/johnny
There are 5 or 6 varieties of apples that are Texas suitable, but non that I’d ever heard of, and who knows what they may taste like.
Ever since we picked apples in Mi. about 4yrs ago, I have wanted an apple tree.
I did cut some boards for my raised, container garden earlier before I had to come inside to cool off.
I culled my mater babies and transplanted the keepers to 16oz cups. 4 Boxcar Willies, 4 Legends, 2 Cherokee Purples. My pepper babies are still in 5oz cups, but looking real good. Looks like it may be a good year for peppers if the babies are any indication. One pepper we bought two weeks ago is about 16” tall, still in it’s 3”cup.
LOL! Greeneyes, I can identify with all particulars of your opening post!
We woke up to a gorgeous snowfall. With a temp of about 35, it was not destined to last, but instead was a lovely kind of rain! It could be a bit slick tonight, so I hope drivers are careful!
The sprouty grocery store onion is amazing! I’m amazed at how many shoots are coming from it. [It’s the one that suffered a near death experience from missed watering also!] I went outside to check on the walking onions, and the cold seemed to knock them back, but the one that had already made an appearance seems to be holding its own with little traces of green.
Still have not sprouted any seeds yet. Darlin and I are still in the throes of fighting off the Krud and are both in the “gorp” stage. Glad that tissues are still relatively inexpensive.
We bought some seeds at our health food store, and one of my seed orders came in. It’s so much fun! One of my sorghum selections was substituted with a dwarf pomegranate seed “suitable for a container.” How intriguing! Never in a million years would I have thought to order that, but now, it may be the first one I try planting!
In my order I have some different varieties of okra than the one I grew last year with such (to me!) amazing success! I’m eager to see how they might do.
I won’t bore everyone here with a full list, but I am looking forward to having the energy again to start fighting entropy and get my gardening tools organized and set up a trellis for the trombone squashies!
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