Posted on 08/24/2019 6:00:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Like George Carlin said, There is no blue food.
Does dish soap kill soil fungus around plants? I have a Satsuma mandarin in a large pot that has toadstools popping up. Removing the soil and replacing, washing off roots and stems can be done, but will be a mighty chore. :o( (how about oxyclean?)
We have had luck with over spraying the plants with mixture of lemon dish soap and hot sauce mixed in a hose end sprayer. Really. Just spray the plants and the ground around them. The smell deters nibblers and if they really want to have a taste of a hosta, the hot sauce residue stops them from taking that second bite. You have to reapply after it rains and washes the potion away. I have also just sprinkled ground cayenne pepper on a couple of lone plants that the deer like and once the take one bite, they remember not to snack in my garden!
Tell Daddy-o to go tend to his roses and you’ll put the food on the table, LOL! ;)
Somebody has all the blue food.
Somewhere.
We got yellow, green, orange, red, brown, purple food.
Somebody has taken all of the blue food.
The best way to spend a Saturday Morning - if you’re not up to your butt in home-grown produce, LOL!
Super! No hot-sauce damage to plants I assume. Cayenne? I love it.
Have you tried fertilizing it with something like ‘citrus tone’ (espoma)? That’s got good microbes.
Also try watering it with the ‘great white’ stuff in distilled water or some other ‘myco’ product.
I have these gorgeous cucumbers that are producing well but they are slicing variety not pickling variety.
They are degrading rapidly after being picked so I don’t believe I’m going to use them again but just plant the pickling kind.
I picked all my grapes yesterday because some varmints ate about half of them. I saw an inch thick pile of spent grapeskins behind the chicken wire on the fence.
I wound up with 21 pounds of grapes but 4 1/2 of them are still green. All of them are in the freezer, in 3 1/2 lb baggies along with some meat I need to can. No time for canning right now.
Finally got a couple pounds of ripe tomatoes! Whooppee! I gave my mom some tomatoes and cucumbers and made a big bowl of salsa yesterday after doing yardwork all day.
We made superburritos for dinner.I used canned pork and canned pinto beans that I doctored up quickly and threw some rice in the cooker with tomato, chicken and GOYA seasoning.
Cheese already grated, chop avocados and there you have it.
We only used a half pint of meat!
Before I started canning I would cook a mess of meat in the crockpot, beans in the pressure cooker, make salsa, make salad make rice without cheating I’d be cooking for hours.
I love canning. I can have a delicious healthy meal with a minimum of effort and no weeks worth of leftovers to deal with. Best fast food ever.
I really like it as a fertilizer - any deer repellant properties are a bonus for me. I work it into my garden soil in the spring & add some during the season when the veggies are heavily feeding. Mom is the opposite - deer repellant first, fertilizer second.
I used Milorganite for conditioning my straw bales when I did a straw bale garden experiment year before last. It worked really well and the plants grew nicely in the composting straw bales. I need two more raised beds .... considering using straw bales to expand the garden rather than building beds, but I have to figure out how to fit them in with my PVC/netting fence configuration.
Worse than the deer are the crows. We have a ‘murder’ of crows (about 11 now) that hang around our place . They use the bird bath and love it, but then they dry out on the board fence around the field (& near my garden) and keep a keen eye on what is growing on the plants. If I don’t have the fence up when veggies first appear, the crows peck or steal stuff & they really destroy semi-ripe/ripe tomatoes. With the fence up, I have to laugh .... they hop around it, looking in, but can’t get to anything. The beds are narrow enough that the crows have no room to fly in & land/takeoff. So far, they don’t sit on the PVC fence. Fun to watch, but they are terrible ‘rascals’.
I had Sweet One Hundred that reseeded volunteers for over ten years.
LOL. Funny.
Whatever they are we had lots of them this year.
If you have a dehydrator you can dehydrate cucumbers to make cucumber powder (it’s good in condiments like salad dressing/etc).
It takes a BUNCH of them to make even a small jar of the powder so it’s a great way to use them up if you have too many.
I believe it. I never actually planted tomato down there. But I did toss some store-bought scraps into that soil.
I did try Sweet Million last year. Maybe I tossed some scraps of that down there. There are a couple of tomato plants going but only one has produced (very few) tomatoes.
I’ve gotten 2 small ones. There are 3-5 starting to take shape down there. Haven’t looked for a few days.
Ooh good idea! Thanks!
I remember reading that you could dehydrate them but forgot what you could use them for.
Doh! I just remembered! That greek cucumber/yogurt sauce that goes on gyros maybe?
That yogurt sauce would be a great place to try the cucumber powder. Would give it some zap and wow along with the fresh ones in there!
Just remember to de seed your cucumbers. I made the mistake of not doing that. It was the dickens to get the seeds out of the final product when I was done. Way worse than dehydrating tomato slices and then just sifting the seeds out later.
Thanks for the tip.
:)
..... a flock of Raccoons
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Did you know?: A group of raccoons is called a ‘gaze’.
I did not know about the ‘gaze’ ... I just looked it up out of curiosity.
Recently found out a ‘flock’ of hummingbirds is called a “charm” .... I think that’s such a lovely name. They don’t eat corn, either ..... ‘extra’ lovely!! :-)
I saw some geese heading south a few days ago. Maybe 5 days ago. I’m in the Midwest. So I don’t know if we’re the halfway point or not. I suppose that’s probably normal for this time of year but I thought I only saw that with a cold spell years before. It’s been anything but cold for awhile now. Though some 72 degree days are coming up.
One of the recipes for apple cider vinegar used only cores and peelings. Looks like you have enough apples for one pie and a bottle of vinegar:)
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