Anyway you cook and serve it, it's a winner.
Posted on 06/05/2021 5:12:14 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I hope our County Fair is back to full strength this season - it should be with all the masking dropped for us now and people getting their shots. I love walking through the cattle barns and all of the 4-H animals the kids work so hard to raise. We always have a huge number of entries for foul and rabbits. Love them all. :) Our neighbor boys (twins, 14-ish) always win big with the horses they raise. Those kids were on horseback before they could even walk! And I NEVER see them walking - they’re either on their bikes, in the 4x or on a horse. ;)
Also, I’ve got to re-peat WIN another Blue Ribbon this year! I crocheted an afghan this winter for Beau to take up to our cabin, but I told him it had to sit at the fairgrounds for a week, first. Hopefully, I didn’t win the Blue Ribbon just because I was the only entry last year in the Senior Division. *SNORT*
Our county fair is strictly a youth fair, about 85 years now. I have volunteered or 24 or so years. We are hoping for a good fair this year as are many other counties.
*** Weather guessers are thinking we might get some rain...***
It’s nice to hear another person refer to them as “guessers” too.
I often say that most everyone who gets their work wrong 90% of the time should be fired from that job, so that they can look for something where they can have more success. Alas, they are never fired, at least not for their terrible forecasts.
Beautiful birds!!
Here’s one of the better plant ID apps that I’ve started using for my unknowns. It’s called Seek by i Naturalist. I think it does more than plants, maybe some bugs or other creatures but I haven’t tried those features yet.
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
I quarter a lot of them, pack in the fresh herbs etc for spaghetti or chili, the seal em in the foods average plastic and freeze them for winter meals.
Last year was the 1at year U had that many plants and did this saving method. It worked pretty well.
I’d love a rosa rugosa, but I’m pretty sure it’s a primrose with those serrated leaves..
Anyway you cook and serve it, it's a winner.
Probably. I couldn’t really decipher the leaves from the pics.
But, if it doesn’t have big rose hips later in the season, it ain’t Rosa Rugosa.
Hahahaha!
Yes, that’s a great weed killer that doesn’t harm beneficial pollinators and other insects.
If you want instant gratification, use boiling water. Bit tricky carrying the kettle out to the garden, but worth it. Works great on the patio too, where the weeds like to come up between the bricks.
I buy larger tomatoes so I can snip off all the lower leaves and plant it deeper, so the denuded stem grows tones more roots.
I am pleased to report that I have one dozen pea plants. In a garden of some 1250 + square feet. BUT !!! I finally got the last corner fitted with chicken wire, and now I just have to roll out, bend and zip tie, that last side + a few feet around that last corner to the gate. Two feet on the ground, two feet up the fence. 4 ft. wide chicken wire is a drag to work with. But we learned our lesson about shortcuts and now I’m going for overkill!
This has taken forever. Didn’t help that Mr.L won’t help. And he used to be so into gardening!
I’m glad I didn’t have much in there though because yesterday I found a stray groundhog inside the garden. That got me getting back to work on my fence. It’s been a giant pain, but the critters around here make gardening pointless and heartbreaking unless you build Fort Knox. Nearly done.
That’s a good strategy, too. My plants were bigger than normal when I got them planted this season. I clipped off lower leaves and planted a LOT of stem below the soil line, which will save me some additional pruning time, later.
All are doing beautifully. :)
*APPLAUSE* I hope it makes a big difference for you!
I am blessed to have very few critter issues. I think having two cats roaming the perimeter of the garden and house yard at night makes a difference, though the chipmunks always help themselves to the strawberries and the platform bird feeder. ;)
I think it will, lol, as I don’t know how anything but birds and chippys can get in there once the final chicken wire is up.
Oh, and bugs - ewww.
The fence is six foot tall, with the chicken wire zip-tied up the side two feet from the ground, and extends two feet out on the ground, with the corners double reinforced. Sod laid over the wire on the ground (mostly to protect it from the lawnmower). It will grow down nicely. The fence ain’t pretty, but it will do the job. I only wish that I could have afforded to make it all look like a professional install, and everything uniform. But I had to do some mix and match. :(
If it doesn’t rain tomorrow I’m planting cucumber and green beans. They have enough time to grow. And I have four tomato plants, just four, lol, to put in. Oh well.
Mine are a few inches above the soil in my big tub. A sigh of relief I planted 6 halves with eyes - they were pretty small.
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