Beefsteak Heirloom 'Maters. Part of my Inevitable Zombiepocalypse Emergency Mobile Garden.
Posted on 05/08/2015 1:13:04 PM PDT by greeneyes
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That’s really good for Michigan, if that’s where you are!
Procrastination - that most natural trait with which I excel. LOL
Beefsteak Heirloom 'Maters. Part of my Inevitable Zombiepocalypse Emergency Mobile Garden.
Thanks so much for posting this information. Good stuff - each week.
I love cayennes. I dry them on super long green twist ties and use them up during the winter. I also like to take a bunch of dry ones and put them in a bottle of canola or light olive oil. I poke them with toothpicks first and leave the bottle out of the fridge for a week or so. the oil will get reddish and just a few drops make anything taste good.
Sounds good. My oldest grand daughter is coming in on Saturday. She tells me she has a “perfect everytime” recipe for pizza, that she’s going to make for Saturday supper.
I figure that I’ve got a little time. Hey, it’s only since yesterday that all possibility of frost is behind us in NC. I’m almost an overachiever!
Doing fine here. Finally decided to stop harvesting the asparagus but it was a fine season. We had some every day and plenty in the freezer.
The only other thing I'm harvesting right now are the wild blackberries which are VERY good with all the rain, some strawberries that I put in mostly for ground cover (they don't grow well here) and plums. Still waiting for the thornless blackberries to come in as they are loaded.
Tomatoes are doing well as are the potatoes. The corn looks, at best, just okay. Have no clue.
The big success story is some basil. I had tried to remove a rock but it turned out to be VW sized so I filled in what I had dug out. Ran into a bunch of basil seeds I'd harvested from last years crop and kinda spread them around the loosened soil and bingo, a huge number coming up and an inch tall.
Also started up some homemade kefir for the first time. Had bought some at the store a couple of weeks ago and had forgotten how much I liked the taste so I got some "grains" and have already made a batch. Gonna be a lot cheaper than store bought.
It’s been in the low 80’s here the last 2 days 9west Michigan). Everything is sprouting and growing fast. I have about 1/3 of my garden planted, seeds. I may get brave and put some plants in too this weekend. Looking forward to my irises and I’m trying a few new things too. Ill post pictures if it all works out. Hubbys been under the weather so I’ve been super busy outside plus I painted a closet yesterday. There is always something to do. Happy Mothers day to all our FR mothers.
Amazon? I actually use a coffee grinder that I picked up on Sale from a local store. Black & Decker- It is a Burr type and has several settings. I just grind enough to use immediately since nutrients are lost pretty quickly after grinding.
Since I use a 50/50 mixture with all purpose flour, I like the wheat to be a little coarse. So I grind it once on coarse, and then again on a little finer. I do just a little at a time and pulse it so as not to get the wheat/flour too hot.
I also have a hand grinder in case I need to use it during our periodic electrical outages, but rarely use it.
Hi greeneyes!
There is a tree that started out as an ornamental shrub (introduced) that has taken over my part of south Florida. It has nasty, greasy little flowers that destroy the paint on our cars and cause me sinus headaches and hives.
The stupid “hippies” on our city council will not allow our complex to remove them because they are “mature trees”, even though they are officially an invasive species.
Oh...and they smell like rotten meat.
Too bad chain saws at midnight would wake up the neighborhood!
Cool! .....I mean HOT!
I managed to sneak in a bit of garden time in the evenings this week, and now we’re getting some nice rain showers.
I’ve deep-sixed 22 tomato plants so far. The other 10 will be stuck in their pots for a few days until the ground dries a bit. I noticed yesterday that a couple of the cucumber seeds that I stuck in the dirt last weekend are peeking out. The patch of cilantro that came volunteer is almost ready to harvest. There is volunteer dill everywhere that hasn’t been tilled. I’ve got a few squash seedlings ready to go in the dirt.
Now that it’s rained I’m not sure what to do with myself this weekend. I still haven’t bought my peppers so I better make a run to the nursery before they’re all gone.
There’s got to be something a little quieter, and not as obvious as to the cause. Something to pour out onto the soil around the tree, that would seep into the ground and kill the pesky suckers?
I am growing a ‘death assortment’ of hot ones this year; Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, 7 Pot Bubblegum, Carolina Reaper, and the next world’s champion for heat, Jigsaw. I have a couple of pizza dumps here in soviet Red Hampshire that could use a leg up on the competition. Hmmmm...
Ooooooo...sounds perfectly clandestine and rather romantic! LOL!
Bring the hops shreds indoors, provide bottom heat , give'em a shot of nitrogen fertilizer , and they may recover. They are a perrennial, after all .
Same thing for the tomato plants, but water down the nitrogen fertilizer so that they are encouraged to leaf out and recover, but not so much that they get "leggey'.
Same with squash plants since they don't like the roots disturbed, and don't transplant well.
That's why they call famers/ gardeners as the world's first gamblers.
A two liter bottle of gasoline mixed with 1 cup motor oil applied at the roots is quiet enough.
I'll give it a go. I don't have a lot of hope, because I sprouted these from seed, and they were only about an inch and half tall, so I doubt any of the rhizome got to develop. I'm going to see if I can pick up some cuttings locally and try that way.
That's why they call famers/ gardeners as the world's first gamblers.
Ain't that the truth!
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