Monster devouring the world
Kidding.
It's just a crawdad in a bucket.
Posted on 01/02/2021 6:43:19 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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We’ve had ice the last 2 days also. At least the workers got the rest of the walls up on the shed Thursday. When it’s finished, hubby swears he’ll clean out the garage and all the extra stuff he’s stashed here and there all over the house.
It will be nice to have a place to park my car again, and to be able to use the utility room off the kitchen again. It has a nice big window facing south east that could really be used to grow some more plants in the winter.
reminds me, I need to go through my seeds and see if I have any spinach seeds left.
Your last post on food insurance was excellent! Happy New Year!
Cattle panels make fabulous arbors for anything that vines.
I’ve got ~30 of it that I can walk under in the garden. I usually wind up planting pole beans on it. I’d like to set up that much more to plant winter squash on.
Congrats on the new shed. Speaking from experience, it will fill up a lot faster than you expect.
This is the 2nd winter in a row that my truck has spent parked out in the weather due to no room in the shop.
Once I get Pops’ little Massey Ferguson fixed and out of there I might be able to rearrange the rest of it enough that I can get the truck inside. Maybe. lol
That’s right! Outside: I noticed that some of the Dutch Iris bulbs I planted in late November are sending up green shoots already. Still have a few more to plant, as well as a few daffy bulbs. Indoors: Sowed lettuce seeds and planted a few more Dutch Iris bulbs. Ordered seeds from Botanical Interests. I’m ready for warmer weather so I can really get started! Happy New Year to all in the group.
I have leqning towards not growing the San Marzano Tomatoes this year.
I got a lot of tomatoes per square foot last year but I can only use the San Marzanos for 1 purpose....tomato based sauces like spaghetti and chili.
I have 3 other heirloom tomato varieties that produce as much or more tomatoes per square foot....an unknown variety I call Chelan heirloom which produces half to 3/4 lb (an occasional 1 pounder) juicy slicing tomatoes of varying lovely shapes, another large slicer that I believe is Brandywine (delicious and juicy as heck with a pretty pink hue) and some black Krim that I bought from Costco and harvested seeds from.
The brandywine take forever to mature but I actually made some delicious spaghetti sauces out of them.
I also will have some cherry toms (sweet 1000s) but I am open to another medium sized variety that matures in 75 days or so....
Any suggestions for something good for zone 8b? I should add I have a greenhouse to start tomatoes early.
So true... Yesterday - I thought ‘Hey, it’s January - my gardening vacation is almost over - time to get busy with the 2021 vegetable plan.”
I’ve been walking on Medicine Lake. The ice is about 8” thick. Not thick enough for snow mobiles and trucks. It’s going to get warm, which doesn’t help the ice formation. (highs of 28)
Winter where is your wrath?
Minnesota
It’s the first recipe in the Monthly Cooking Thread for January, 2021. Just a basic broth soup with canned beans and kale and some other veggies.
I made the Panera Copy-Cat Broccoli Soup today and it turned out really good!
I posted that recipe in that thread, too.
Glad you liked it. Hope it was helpful. My winter projects include:
Cleaning out my clothes closet...
Getting my craft ‘stuff’ organized and/or donated...
Working on stocking my pantry more productively...
Planning my garden for 2021!
Wonder which will take priority? LOL!
I use my San Marzano-type tomatoes for everything; Canned Salsa, Drying, Pasta sauce, fresh Salsa, V-8 Juice and my Bloody Mary Mix.
I like them because they have less seeds and aren’t as ‘wet’ as other tomatoes.
Of course, I throw other tomatoes in there, but it’s mainly the Roma-types.
So, I’ll be the one growing more San Marzano/Roma types this season; I didn’t have nearly enough last season. We’ll balance each other out. ;)
Kidding.
It's just a crawdad in a bucket.
Hi, Ern... I used to use Shutterfly a looooong time ago when it was getting such good write-ups. I don’t use any photo hosting sites nowadays, though I might still have some pics stored over on Shutterfly. But kind of doubt it; I haven’t logged in over there to check for probably 10 years now. All these pics are things I’ve found recently after doing Google searches, and they come from all over the web.
OK. Thanks, I’ll hunt it up.
Maybe I’ll plant a couple of midget melons and see how they do with the vining.
Well he actually added a one car garage to the shed and a few other things. So instead of a 500 sq foot storage shed with underground storage.
We now have a 1000 sq. ft. shed/garage with a basement of the same size. If he puts some shelves in and organizes it will hold a lot. Walking through the door and dropping something in the first available spot is an issue. Ha Ha.
It’s also supposedly built to withstand a sizeable earthquake. So theoretically we would have a shelter if the house is destroyed by a New Madrid quake.
Cattle panels mounted in a garden bed at about a 60 degree angle are great for tomato plants. The vines can grow up the panel and the tomatoes can be picked from the underside. We did this one year and it worked great, we just don’t want that many tomatoes anymore.
check out the monthly cooking thread for January - this months theme is soup and I have seen at least one recipe with kale.
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