PS… This is one of four known to make nocturnal visits to the Bender estate.
Posted on 06/13/2014 12:33:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I have my first baby cucuzza. I hope it got pollinated ....
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Woo hoo - baby “C”!! I have a gorgeous T blossom today - big orange/yellow one. No C blooms yet, but I think it grew a foot yesterday! We have a ton of bees - bumble mostly, but I have been seeing honey bees this year. The field where the raised bed garden is located has a lot of clover and while I keep it mowed, there is still enough clover that escapes the mower to keep it busy with bees. I hope they are pollinators for the squash ... if so, I should be good.
Visited my SIL’s garden earlier today - not good news for her baby T’s. They aren’t getting very big, then turn yellowish and rot. Maybe it’s because we’ve gotten a lot of rain lately ... not sure of the problem. My one baby T still looks green and growing. The regular old crook neck yellow squash in mom’s garden is acting weird - not getting big at all and she’s disappointed. I never knew squash could be such a difficult, interesting veggie to grow - we never had problems of any sort until last year when we had the squash bug invasion.
I wouldln't be surprised if my baby C didn't get pollinated. The flowers are beige, and very plain looking. I am jealous of your ton of bees. I have one bee..no kidding..one. I hope he lives a long time.
I made my 23" T squash into 2 loaves of zucchini bread, er, Trom bread, plus, I had enough left over for zoodles, er, tromboodles.
Did you have any luck at Goodwill in your zoodler quest?
Something came up last minute and I ended up having to go out of town so my chance to go shopping didn’t happen. I won’t have a chance to get out to Goodwill until Wed/Thur of this week ..... at least I have no Trombettas large enough for harvesting/noodling yet.
Thanks for blueberry info. Copied it.
Well, my 23" grew pretty fast, but I left it on the vine until it started plumping out. BTW, the Tromb bread turned out great...I've eaten a half a loaf slathered with butter.
I totally skipped cooking the tromboodles, and having the bread for dessert. Tonight dessert was the dinner.
Glad to hear from you. Hope you get better soon.
http://www.seedandgarden.com/shop/products/Ceramic-Watering-Spike.html
Check out the above link. I have some of these for my “special” plants like the lemon tree in a pot. It has a ceramic stake and spike adaptor for the soda bottle.
It doesnt’ empty real fast, but of course my pot is only about 8 cubic feet.
You’re welcome.
I’ll have to try some zuke noodles, if we get any this year.
I consider all sorts of stuff, but it is up to Hubby to execute. The orchard is all his.
I suggested he put sheets or plastic over them and run a cord for a shop light with 100 watt bulb. He did it for some of the trees, but not the peaches.
It’s funny because when we have canned fruit, he always goes for the peaches over anything else. But when it comes to the garden, they are last on his list. Makes no sense to me.
All kinds of lettuce is easy to grow as well as spinach. Spinach is very expensive at our grocery. Don’t know why, because it is easy to grow.
Haven’t tried it, but keep us posted on the onion experiment, we’ll all learn from you, and then see if we can replicate your process.
I’ll say one thing, I usually have to put a ton of pepper in my homemade soups, but I didn’t need to add any to the radish soup.
I thought it was just right, but Hubby thought it was a bit too spicy.LOL
Thanks so much, greeneyes! I’ll get some of these. I know the ceramic (unglazed) works. All of this years’ garden is in containers (5 gal, the big tubs, & jumbo potato bags. They were soaked & I *thought* the bottles emptied as the soil dried out, yet they were all drained within half an hour. But these will work because my mom used to use them (some like them).
I’ve been watching the radar & it’s supposedly been raining, so we’ll see. The stuff I put under the patio cover (herbs, sea grape, allamanda, & bougainvillea- oh & the strawberries), I dunno.
Thanks again! Have a great week.
That recipe really surprised me.
Que Sera Sera. You have a good week too.
It was a busy weekend here in Central Missouri.
Had to replace a leaking fuel line on Mrs. Augie’s 33yo John Deere lawn tractor. It belonged to her Dad and she has this irrational sentimental attachment to it, so I just keep on fixing what breaks.
Pond is all pumped out again. Hopefully we’ll have some sunny weather to dry it out while Nanner is at the tractor doc.
I’m almost finished making the deck safe in preparation for #1 Grandson coming to visit. All that’s left to do is build a pair of swinging gates at the top of the main stairway. The skirting and stairway to the upper level deck can wait for awhile.
With the exception of my eggplants, everything in the garden is doing very well. Maybe it’s been too wet to suit them, but they look pretty sick. They’ll either snap out of it or they won’t I guess.
One of Mrs. Augie’s co-workers gave us a duck on Saturday. We put him in with the chickens, which was probably not the best thing to do, but it’s the only place we have right now to keep him safely fenced in. I’ve got all the material I need to build a new pen for him, so add that to the honey-do list.
We rounded up the cow herd yesterday. Loaded them all and took them to the sale barn. There’s just too much city around the farm now to safely keep them there so we’re selling out. 150yo bloodline scattered to the winds. Shame that, but I’m not going to miss any of the other stuff that goes with being in the cattle business.
er, NY Strip Steak. Decent thickness.
PS… This is one of four known to make nocturnal visits to the Bender estate.
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