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Weekly Garden Thread August 31-Sept 6, 2019
August 31, 2019 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

Posted on 08/31/2019 7:42:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you.

If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located.

This thread is non-political, although you will find that most here are conservative folks. No matter what, you won’t be flamed and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked.

It is impossible to hijack the Weekly Gardening Thread. Planting, Harvest to Table Recipes, Preserving, Good Living - there is no telling where it will go and... that is part of the fun and interest. Jump in and join us! Send a Private Message to Diana in Wisconsin if you'd like to be added to our New & Improved Ping List.

NOTE: This is a once a week Ping List. We do post to the thread during the week. Links to related articles and discussions which might be of interest to Gardeners are welcomed any time!


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Hobbies; Outdoors
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To: tubebender

Looks like Lady Bender’s baking skills are beyond compare!

(drooling)


81 posted on 09/02/2019 10:04:52 AM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: MomwithHope

My Grandma always had a veggie garden on her small city lot in Milwaukee. Fond memories of helping her grow food there, and also trips to the Municipal Market, which was the HUGE Farmer’s Market in Milwaukee; this would’ve been in the mid-60’s.

It wasn’t unusual for us to come home with a live roasting hen and we’d butcher it right there in the back yard. No one called PETA to rat us out either, LOL!

I still have her market basket. It will be the last thing they pull from my cold, dead hands. ;)


82 posted on 09/02/2019 1:00:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: tubebender

She loves you, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! :)


83 posted on 09/02/2019 1:01:14 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: tubebender

Give our best to Lady Bender. It wouldn’t be a gardening thread without a picture of one of her pies now and then. A berry pie is my absolute favorite - black raspberrys if I can get them.


84 posted on 09/02/2019 1:06:27 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: tubebender
I think Alaska has 20 hours of sunlight this time of the year?

Research shows... The day we're most directly pointed toward the sun is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Summer solstice is always June 20 or June 21.... The farther north you go, the longer the day. Just north of Fairbanks, the day is 24 hours long. In Fairbanks, there are nearly 22 hours of daylight, about 19.5 hours in Anchorage and 18.2 hours in Juneau...If you add up all of the daylight throughout the course of the year, every place in Alaska receives more daylight than every place in the Lower 48. - https://www.adn.com/science/article/sunniest-day-year-look-why-alaska-has-most-daylight/2015/06/20 /

85 posted on 09/02/2019 3:59:00 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Grampa Dave
One half of this years Garlic crop

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86 posted on 09/02/2019 4:40:08 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

Oh my word! Stunning. I’d love a roasted head of that garlic shmeared on a piece of crusty bread.


87 posted on 09/03/2019 5:00:03 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We’ve been enjoying unseasonably mild weather here in Central Missouri.

Mrs. Augie’s cucumbers are pretty much finished. The tomato plants are finally starting to come out of the funk they’ve been in all summer long and are producing nicely.

I still need to find the garlic that’s buried somewhere in a weed patch. I’ll get to it eventually.


88 posted on 09/03/2019 6:56:37 AM PDT by Augie
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To: tubebender; MomwithHope

That garlic is DIVINE!

I’m with MWH about the roasted garlic paste. Nothing better!

I think I’ll just buy some at market this season and when I have my next ‘dedicated’ raised bed built, it will be for garlic.


89 posted on 09/03/2019 7:08:54 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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90 posted on 09/03/2019 7:09:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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'Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate' is a pretty plant to grow along a fence line or against a building wall. It will self-seed if you allow some to dry and drop in place. It is a late-Summer bloomer and the seed heads dry nicely (and don't fall apart and make a mess) for Fall bouquets and other crafty things. I purchased seeds from Seed Savers.


91 posted on 09/03/2019 7:42:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: MomwithHope
I grew up in south Chicago , the East Side where my Dad had a backyard city garden every year. I was always amazed how he made use of the space and how much food he got out of it. More than enough for our family, and I remember him sending my sister and I up and down the block bringing “bouquets” of lettuce and green onions wrapped in newspaper to the neighbors. And yes all thanks be to God.

You mean a family with more than 1.5 children? How could they do it!

92 posted on 09/03/2019 8:13:59 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

There were 4 of us kids. His garden was as long as yours but a couple of feet wider. My mother used to swear that each year he took a little but more of the lawn. He even grew potatoes and sweet corn. He made great use of space, planting root crops next to leafy crops early yield stuff next to late yield. He even planted his cucumbers in with the sweet corn and had the vines training up the corn stalks. He had really built up the soil. He fished a LOT in the Calumet River and Wolf Lake from the shore, buried catfish and fish guts in the garden. He also drove his car across the state line with Indiana (blocks away) and would shovel horse poop from the riding trails into the trunk of his car.


93 posted on 09/03/2019 8:22:26 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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94 posted on 09/03/2019 6:15:34 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You’re just plain evil... (but I agree with you) I had Applesauce bread for a late snack


95 posted on 09/03/2019 10:30:27 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Potatoes were a success for 2019. The two dried up rows are Yukon Gold, the next two are Desire a red skinned variety and the last two are Carola…

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96 posted on 09/04/2019 12:15:47 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

Carola is a great potato! I’ve stopped growing Yukon Gold as they’re so readily available now - but years ago I always grew them and was Fingerling-Nutty for a few seasons there, too. Yukon’s are pretty much the perfect potato for flavor, IMHO. I’ve still got 8 hills to dig - waiting for my squash vines to die back some more so I can get at them.

I had to improvise this year because it was way too wet for either the squash (Butternut-type) or the taters to go into the lower garden. They had to share a bed with the squash growing over the side and into the grass on top of cardboard - that the puppies re-arranged for me every other day. ;)


97 posted on 09/04/2019 12:23:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
You all have such perfectly measured recipes. I am more of a wing it, throw it together cook. When is why when I do bake it is not something where I have to measure a lot. I had some older hot dog buns in the fridge - 5 of them. Cut them into small cubes and set aside. Had 5 eggs I wanted to use up, put those in a bowl with about a cup of sugar, some nutmeg, some vanilla extract, some raisins, some slivered almonds, and a chopped new honeycrisp apple with the peel. Lazy today. Mixed all well then added in the bread cubes. Poured into a 8X8 buttered glass baking dish. Added more almonds on the top so they would toast. Baked at 325 for an hour and a half. I shake my bread pudding a little and if the center shakes than I know it is not done. Yummy!

Ooops there's already a square missing.

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My actual bread pudding recipe which is pretty old calls for coconut which I did not have but is great in bread pudding with dried cherries instead of raisins.

98 posted on 09/04/2019 1:49:31 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Berry baskets still lurking in the fridge? Make the cake layer day ahead, then assemble when you serve it.

French Almond Cake with Berries and Cream

ING •4 oz almond paste•½ cup ea sugar, butter •3 large eggs

Cream Cheese Topping: •4 oz cream cheese •¼ cup powdered sugar•½ cup h/cream•¼ tsp. almond extract

•For the berries: •½ pound strawberries (hulled and sliced), cup ea raspberries, blueberries or blackberries, 2 Tb conf.

PREP Grease/flour 9" round tart pan w/ loose bottom (foil outside), or 9" round cake pan. CAKE Crumble 4 oz almond paste into processor. Pulse in 1/4 c sugar til fine-ground. Add 1/2 c softened butter; process smooth. Add 3 lg eggs; process/combine. Add •½ cup flour•½ tsp. baking powder •¼ tsp. salt flour, baking soda, salt; proc/ blend. Spoon evenly into prepared pan. Bake 375 deg 20 min (browns/springs back pressed lightly in center). Cool completely in pan on rack. If using a cake pan, cool in pan 10 min, then invert on rack to cool completely.

TOPPING elec/mixer four oz cr/ cheese smooth. Add quarter cup conf; beat well. Add 1/2 c h/cream, droplets almond extract, increase to high; beat light/fluffy. Fridge/Covered til needed.

BERRIES Steep 10 min 1/2 c strawberries, cup ea raspberries, blueberries or blackberries, 2 tb conf.

FINAL Remove pan sides. W/ knife or metal spatula, loosen cake; place on server. Spread on top to ½" from edge ¼ cup seedless raspberry jam (stirred up well, so it's spreadable). Spoon on cream, spread/cover all but edges. Spoon berry mixture over cream.

SERVE immediately.

99 posted on 09/04/2019 6:22:44 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: MomwithHope

That looks scrumptious.

Some of the best things can be just thrown together with whatever is on hand if one has that skill.


100 posted on 09/04/2019 6:50:37 PM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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