Posted on 04/10/2021 6:03:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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See Post #39. This thread is turning into ‘weird food day,’ LOL!
I’ve had raccoon, too. It’s OK, but I prefer my own home-grown beef. ;)
Coon and Kraut isn’t too bad. Crock pot easy. BBQ Coon is good, too.
Recipes on the WWW.
Nice!
Looks like it would be good for pork as well.
This being the NY Post, the items are only geared towards people from the city and suburbs with only indoor space or small outdoor spaces. If it was more generalized I would have posted it in the Weekly Garden thread.
Weird food ping.
Ive had coon, sop it up with a biscuit..
Thinking about getting ready to plant the usual tomatoes, hot peppers, beets, herbs, flint/field corn. Usually plant the weekend after Mother’s Day. Going to grow romanesco this year and maybe some fennel. Last year was a cold spring and lost most of my quince crop - the flowers never turned into fruit. It’s cold again this spring so worried same thing will happen. Should have a bumper crop of plums though.
Make my own corn meal and hominy from the field/flint corn preserved by drying. Buy the pickling lime online to make hominy. Makes for good cornbread, polenta and posole. Trying to learn how to make cornnuts from hominy. First batch didn’t work out so need a good recipe.
And a good Good Morning to you!
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I live in southern Indiana, Zone 6A
Send some of that rainfall up here! (Foothills of the Alleghenys). We are much too dry for this time of year. Fields being fitted, but too much dust. Praying for rainfall.
Garden soil isn’t too bad, fall-seeded kale and radicchio look good. Sage, lemon thyme, chives, and oregano all doing well too. Time to plant lettuces and spinach. Our honeybees are visiting the frogpond, so we will put out a waterer for them. Woodland leeks are abundant, will be pickling ramps before too long.
Sounds like you have had successful trapping! We had to put out a trap set too- something was eating all the cat food and lacerating our sweet little barn tabbys. And spraying my saddles and cinches. I’m sure you can guess.
Rainy all week, so doing indoor stuff. I got ingredients for my seed-starting mix this week. I couldn’t find the exact mycorrhizal innoculant I wanted, but I found something sort of close.
2 orders came in this week. 5 bags of seed potatoes from Jungs, and 2 packets of the elusive Goldini Zucchini seeds! I’ll be growing those instead of my pumpkin breeding project this year. Hopefully they’ll do well enough to get a seed company interested.
This week the local farm-supply store had canning lids! This marks the second time I’ve seen them in a store in the last 13 months. There was a limit per-customer, but I got as many as I could.
One thing I keep having trouble with in my garden is planting labels. It doesn’t matter what I use to write on them with, by the end of the season they’ve faded so much they’re blank. It doesn’t even matter if the label is wood or plastic. So this year, I’m putting some extra work in and using a wood burner to write with. The annuals are getting popsicle-stick labels, while the perennials are getting labels made from sturdier wood soaked in wood hardener. Writing freehand isn’t working out so well, so I’ve ordered a set of hot-stamp tips for the wood burner in the shape of letters, and a silicone mitt to change them out with. Eventually, I will find a way to label things and have them stay labelled!
Done! Welcome!
Thanks, Pete!
Good idea on the labels. I’d imagine your test plot labels take a beating.
How about metal ones that you can stamp? That might get expensive, though.
Hopefully they won’t die.
Not sure what you mean about pinching flowering tops.
Is there any video that might help me “see” what you are talking about.
Are you talking about creating new tomato plants or increasing more
tomatoes on the one plant?
I’ve thought about the metal ones. Eventually I might use those for trees, but I don’t think they’d work all that well for the main garden.
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