I'm going out to the garden in a bit to do some more clean-up. We've had a HUGE Asian lady bug hatch today - BLECH!
Posted on 10/19/2019 6:28:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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that’s a lot of knives! Nice looking pumpkin flesh.
I'm going out to the garden in a bit to do some more clean-up. We've had a HUGE Asian lady bug hatch today - BLECH!
Wish I had a nickel for every pound of Carola potatoes I sold when I worked for Jung’s. ;)
Great potato. :)
WOW! So important to preserve these gorgeous ‘homes.’ :)
The grounds and gardens are preserved as they were when the Carsons lived there. The building to the left was added with a commercial kitchen, fancy dining room and a full bar in the 1950s for revenue from weddings, class reunions other get togethers...
She just brought you every one you could possibly need.
Nice!
Your mural looks like a scene out of a 40s movie! I hope that you both enjoy the mural and the view for a long time yet!
Now I saw your peppers and the sunrise... Do you have any potted fig trees, or are figs so commonplace that you would rather just go to the marketplace and buy local varieties? (There are a lot of good Spanish varieties!)
Thanks so much I’ll be making this for a hot soup—mornings and evenings are cool, so it would make a great evening snack. Might use some of my homemade bone broth that I canned last winter —use half and half with the veg. juice.
It’s not off topic. Any sort of homesteading info fits right in. Making clothes or scarves etc. is part of homesteading.
Thanks for keeping the thread going.
Hmmmm bone broth. Sounds good. Funny when I saw the recipe I thought for sure it had potato feelings in it.
Potato feelings?????? Sorry meant peelings.
Finally felt up to working in the garden a little today. Hubby has partially redeemed his mixing up my beds with a bunch of clay dirt containing rocks.
He got half of my garlic patch sifted, and helped me lift the compost bags and spread those around. Got the Siberian garlic planted Saturday.
I was supposed to have 12 bulbs, but more than half are not the Siberian. They look like soft neck—so I ordered some more Siberian from another source. I’ll go ahead and plant the “not Siberian” to see if they will survive winter here.
Have a 3 x 6 raised bed cleared and ready for winter Rye. Got about half of the greenhouse reorganized. We are going to try growing lettuce and herbs by putting them in the Small plastic covered greenhouse—They look like the same ones that Eric has posted pics of.
With that unit inside the big greenhouse, and using a heating mat - maybe that will be enough heat for Jan and Feb—electric space heater was too costly.
I’ll have to bring in the lemon trees and aloe vera - don’t think they will fit on the shelves, and don’t want to risk losing them. Both are starting to bud now and should start blooming soon.
That sounds really delicious. I’ll have to give it a try.
I dug up a couple of peppers one year in the fall. Brought them indoors, and we had smaller green peppers all winter long. Unfortunately, none of our peppers grew this year.
Hubby put a whole bunch in seed starter, they anemic looking and didn’t ever get any bigger after he planted them out side... It was weird.
Beautiful.
Are you the one and only greeneyes?
LOL. Yes, I try to make some bone broth each year. Chicken is easy to get, but beef....not so easy.
Now and then the grocery store will have soup bones in the winter—never in spring, summer, fall. So I have to make it and can some for use in other seasons.
Once upon a time, in the 1960s-70s, I would get round steaks, and carve off the bone with a little meat left on and freeze it. Then I’d pound the rest with a meat mallet and make cube steaks for smothered steak, country fried steak, or swiss steak for supper. When I had enough bones, I’d make bone broth soup.
Chuck Roast used to have bones too. These days the only beef in the store with bones year around are T-bones. I can’t afford T-bones often enough to get enough bones for soup.
When we bought half a beef from a local farmer-wonderful shanks with a nice amount of meat. Used that up before the steaks—I love a good beef bone broth soup.
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