Looks like we will be eating fresh sweet corn in a couple of weeks. The variety is a hybrid called Perfection…
Posted on 07/18/2014 12:31:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Yep! That’ll work! Wonder what the unit costs? Might have some friendly fire casualties of melons or tomatoes though...lol!
We’re doing great here near Philly. So much better than last year.
Tomatoes are loaded with fruit, starting to turn red — I may be canning a bit early this year if everything goes at once! (not complaining) — 2nd round of radishes are sprouting, lettuce is regrowing strong after being cut, peppers doing better. — Already harvested 10 zucchinis (also had to toss a few that had blossom end rot) & there are many more on the way .. will be baking zucchini bread for all! — Plenty of cukes, herbs are strong and we have a watermelon about the size of a coconut — Fun!
Would a dehydrator work to make something like Knorr’s soup mix (that you can make delicious chip-dips with)? I would LOVE that!
Thank you...
White peaches are sooooooooooo sweet and wife loves them. Guess I need to buy a net to put over the tree next year. Mockingbirds decided they taste goo too. Yellow peaches will be ready in a few days. Still firm but have a nice skin color.
I think Wallace was a communist in FDR’s government.
***So, my question is, being in San Antonio, what should I be preparing for the fall season and if I rip everything up now can I start growing anything?***
You sound like my daughter who is also in SA. Her garden was filled with Mel’s Mix. she has drip irrigation, and her garden was a total bust. Even her malabar spinach is failing.
All the nurseries have peppers, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers right now. Go for it. Here’s a Garden Calendar with Planting Dates for SA
http://fanicknursery.com/Downloads/2014/Calendar_2014.pdf
Screened porch sounds ideal too. Wish I had one.LOL
I don’t know. Did you buy the plants or start from seed?
Hubby didn’t plant any zukes this spring for some reason. Just summer squash. However he told me that he is planting some this weekend.
Turns out that I like zuke pickle spears even better than cukes, so I am looking forward to it for sure.
I don’t see why not. Hubby used it to dry a bunch of green onions one time, because we had too many. Then he put them in the blender and made an onion powder.
However, he could have simpley minced them a bit after they were dehydrated for other uses.
Peaches are one of my favorites to can or freeze. Also love to eat a just right fresh peach. Hard to find in the stores.
Could be. IIRC, there were a number of the fellow travelers in FDR’s administration.
Looks like we will be eating fresh sweet corn in a couple of weeks. The variety is a hybrid called Perfection…
Last year my garden had Mel’s Mix. This year I added compost. The “expert” told me to use mushroom compost.
If Mushrooms are a vegetable.......
“I think Wallace was a communist in FDR’s government.”
If Henry Wallace wasn’t a communist he was close enough to do until the real thing showed up.
Even worse, Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States, and if the Democratic Party hadn’t refused to nominate him again in 1944 he would have become President instead of Truman.
My neighbor down the street got an infestation in his greenhouse. There were clouds of them flying off his arugula. He put out those yellow paper sticky traps, and said it got rid of them in just a couple of days.
I always have yellow sticky traps hanging from the inside arc of my greenhouse/summertime shade cloth covered hoop house.
I've done Mel's Mix, both in smart pots, and in the regular garden. To Me, it seemed like the mushroomc ompost dries out really fast.
Being lazy, I have decided I like just using straight up Black Gold Potting Mix. In my regular garden where I'd groen tomatoes last year, I removed the soil down about six inches, and put in the black gold potting mix. It really holds the water plus it has earthworm castings in it which seem pretty good.
My tomatoes look great, but stopped setting fruit when the temps got into the mid nineties with no cloud cover during the day... Now that it was slightly cooler with some humidity, I am seeing some marble sized tomatoes.
12 hours late to the thread.
Spent the day in The Big City, buying feed, and other ranch supplies. Then dinner. Then a double feature at the drive-in.
We left in a thundershower, with light hail. Garden needed it. Radar showed it pop up over Wind Cave, barely 10 miles from us, and move our way. No big deal; we drove out of it as we left Hot Springs. When we just got back, there was TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES in the gauge! I watered good yesterday evening, because it was supposed to be DRY and about 92 today, and headed for 96-100 Saturday & Sunday.
I’ll find out tomorrow morning what, if anything, got flattened by it.
We’re getting salad cucumbers, Napa cabbage, cilantro, radishes, and leaf lettuce. Swiss chard will start to get picked this coming week. Cherries should fully ripen with the weekend heat, if the rain doesn’t cause them to crack.
The grains did need all the moisture they could get, however, as the rye is in the soft dough stage of ripening; and the wheat isn’t far behind. I dug out the ‘grass’ scythe blade (a “grass’, a ‘weed’, and a ‘brush’ blade were all left in the kitchen when we bought) and sharpened it, and got it adjusted to my new snath. There was an old snath in the barn, but it was broken. Youtube makes scything grain and grass look soooo easy and effortless; I can hardly wait...for Mrs. AR to rub me down with liniment afterward.
The adult chickens are too little, too late: 4 eggs from 8 hens day before yesterday; none yesterday; 3 today. Less than a dozen the entire week. Got new Mason lids on sale today, so the chicken canning is that much closer.
Maybe more in a day or three, but I’m done in tonight.
I do have one of my 4x4’s in the sun and one in the shade. What would grow best in each?
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