Posted on 08/18/2017 11:47:23 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Is that something that you mixed up, or is it a supplement that is available. I got some bedtime tea, but can’t tell that it does anything. LOL
A FR friend from Illinois sent me some turmeric too. So far they are surviving, and I put them in pots too. They may have to be transplanted into another pot.
We finally have the money saved to get that green house Lord willing and the crick don’t rise. LOL
Sounds like a pretty good bounty. Better than we got for sure, thanks to hubby’s accidentally using up the water before the really driest and hottest part of the summer.LOL
Don’t feel bad, I didn’t get a single tomato this year. I only planted one and the horn worm got it, is what I think happened. He also got a good part of the pepper plant that we dug up and transplanted to a pot.
We were out of water, and the hubby’s pepper plants were dying, so I told him to dig up two and I would use some of my rain barrel water on them.
Hubby got some tomatoes this year - he accidentally left the swimming pool water on and that’s why he ran out for everything else. He only got enough for one batch of canning and some eating - but it was better than I got.
Last year though, he planted a whole bunch of maters and got zip. When he told me that his maters weren’t doing well, I went to Walmart and bought three a beefsteak and sweet million type, and cherry.
The cherry was a bust, same as this year, but no hornworm. The beefsteak was so so. The sweet million grew like no tomorrow - it looked like a Christmas tree in a five gallon bucket. LOL
I also got some grape sized volunteer tomatoes - no idea where they came from - not like any thing I had ever planted, and they came up in the middle of my day lilies.
You just never know how it’s going to go. We hope to get our green house this fall too.
Glad to hear about the hand fert of corn. I’ll have to try it. My corn didn’t fill out much, but most of it was due to lack of water at an important time, I think.
Hornworms are edible...fry em up...
https://www.thedailymeal.com/recipes/fried-green-tomato-hornworms-recipe
Hops as medicine...
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/natural-medicine/herbal-remedies/hops-herbal-remedies.htm
Thanks for the advice. I actually used my shop vac for a period of time since they were so bad. I probably captured 300 of them as well as many wasps and a few grasshoppers.
well, there you go - necessity is the mother of invention. LOL
Freezing is my preferred method, because it’s so easy and I’m rather lazy at times. My dear ole Granny told me to just wash them, cut them in quarters, put them in freezer bags and use them as needed for soups stews and chili.
So that’s what I do. I have some that have been in the freezer for a while, that I think I might take out and practice making tomato juice or salsa or something. They are Romas.
I did can a batch of tomatoes this year, but used the pressure canner, because it was easier than water bath and doesn’t use as much water so it isn’t as heavy.
For me, it’s passion flowers. We live right on the edge of their territory. A couple of summers back, one came up volunteer, and hubby recognized it and sort of saved it and tried to plant it in a bed around an old tree stump.
Well it’s spreading every where and he is letting it do so. Last year I couldn’t even get to some of my raised beds. So this year I go out when he’s not around and pull them up from in front of my beds.
The critters like the fruit, so it’s hard to get any that are ripe. I did get one last year, and it was a citrus type flavor with lots of small seeds.
I think I might be able to freeze the pulp or dry it and use it to make a citrus drink like you would for lemonade.
I’ve read that the leaves are good for sleepytime tea, but it doesn’t taste very pleasant, so I’d have to find other stuff to mix with it for that.
I freeze mine mainly - if I have freezer space. Right now all freezers are full, so I had to can the only batch we got this year.
If we get any more, I’m going to dehydrate some. I think that would be a good way to have tomato sauce fast. Now and then, I need just a couple of Tbls. for a recipe or to make a pizza on tortilla, but don’t want to open a whole can of sauce.
I’m wondering if I could open the store bought tomato sauce, and put it into half pint jars and reprocess. I have some that are close to expiring, and I don’t really have any need for those big jars, now that it’s just the two of us, and we don’t have any big doings on holidays - just me and hubby usually.
When I was in elementary school, my parents ran a cafe. One day they had corn on the cob, and I was hungry. I ate 13 of the ears - size was like what you get at KFC the shorties.
Any way, Dad wouldn’t let me eat any more-said I might get sick and I should eat something else if I was still hungry.
You can freeze that corn right in the husk and then cook it in the husk in the microwave too.
For fresh corn, I take two ears and wrapped waxed paper around them - twist the ends of the paper. Put into the microwave for about 1.5-2 minutes. Your microwave may need more or less time.
Take them out using potholder gloves. Chop off the stem end with a knife. Grab hold of the tassel end and shake till the cob falls out. The silks and everything will stay with the husk-no precleaning needed.
I think I could live on corn-on-the-cob with butter and salt and pepper (maybe some paprika too) 5 days a week. About 3 a day in one sitting per day.
Eww.
Great weather this past week in Central Missouri. KC area got hammered by rain again last night, but we were spared the deluge. I poured an inch out or the gauge this morning. We got 1/2” one night last week and then another 2/10ths” a couple nights later.
Kitchen garden is thriving with the moisture. We’ve been foundering ourselves on BLTs. Mrs. Augie picked ~3 gallons of green beans and a couple gallons of russian cucumbers yesterday after the eclipse viewing festivities. I dug up a 25’ row of yukon gold potatoes. I’ve still got four rows to dig but it’s hard to get motivated for that kind of work when it’s so stinking hot out.
I noticed over the weekend a few pumpkins around the edge of the patch are starting to show some orange color. I’ve pretty much left the pumpkin patch to mother nature for the last six weeks or so. We’ve been getting enough rain that I haven’t felt the need to run irrigation on it. The weeds are waist-high so it’s not easy to see what’s out there. I guess I should take a closer look and find out what I’ve got.
I spent quite a bit of time taking dirt out of the pond. I’ve got the base elevation down to the depth that I want and now I’m moving that cut north, away from the area where the dock is going to be built. The accumulated water from last night’s rain will have to be pumped out and it will take a few days of dry weather before I can get back in there, but I’m gaining. Probably not fast enough to get it finished this year like I’d hoped to. We’re going on vacation for a couple weeks next month, and I spent a good bit of my dock money on materials to build the coondo for Rocket, so unless we have a really dry fall it will be next spring before that project is wrapped up.
Sorry you didn’t get much produce after all that work. It is frustrating.
LOL I planted lots of butternut squash - because I was feeling lazy . Don’t have to weed those OR can them! I figured they were a for sure thing. But now all the leaves have died back. I just hope the vines stay viable long enough so the gourds can harden.
I have been harvesting tomatoes and eggplant. Roses continue blooming. Caterpillars of all types continue feasting on the parsley. I always plant extra parsley so they will have lots to eat.
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