Posted on 07/17/2021 5:45:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Glad you liked it Di.........
Nice to know another Japanese food lover.
Because of strong interest from top U.S. bartenders, Midori® Melon Liqueur was consumer-tested and launched in the year 1978 in NYC.
The same year that it was released, Midori Melon Liqueur is the main ingredient highlighted in “The Universe,” a cocktail that wins first prize in the United States Bartenders’ Guild annual competition.
The Universe cocktail is made from Midori melon liqueur, vodka, pistachio liqueur, pineapple juice and lime juice, and served in a chilled champagne glass.
INGREDIENTS
15 ml / ½ oz. Midori melon liqueur
15 ml / ½ oz. vodka
15 ml / ½ oz. Lime Juice
10 ml/ ⅓ oz. pistachio liqueur
30 ml / 1 oz. pineapple juice
METHOD
Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a chilled champagne glass.
My onions are doing GREAT!
The garlic is starting to ripen.
The potatoes look fantastic. No hornworms yet this year.
The tomatoes are hanging on.
That’s the one! I priced a bottle of Midori at the package store today; had to run and get groceries, anyway.
$25 a bottle. Eeeek! Wonder what Pistachio liqueur runs?!
I do remember ‘The Universe’ being a tad pricey, but one was more than enough...and worth it! :)
All good news! STILL looking for my potato fork so I can dig some New Potatoes. Beau is claiming ignorance. ;)
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We bought the place too late to do a garden.
Deer topped my Cherokee Purple tomato plant
Patio tomato plant is doing well
Massive volunteer Cherry tomato collapsed. We are just going to leave it there.
Basil looks great
Weed update: Two female plants, not sure about the others yet. I have an adviser helping me. Feeding organically, soon adding 0-30-10 to the feedings to encourage budding. Next learning process: creating clones
Well, keep us up to date, but I’m not doing an ‘Everything MaryJane’ Edition, LOL!
I just checked my potatoes and got a huge one!
I expected the small ones but this one surprised me.
My /Brussel sprouts are loaded with baby ones.
How do I tell if they are ready to eat? I know you harvest from the bottom up, and not all at once. Too young and they are bitter.
My pumpkin plants are huge but so far no female flowers.
They won’t be ready until the fall. They’re usually the last thing I harvest. They’re one of those things that like it cool again, and get sweeter after a cold snap or even some frost.
I broke my foot in August of 2011, so while my Mom and MIL and other friends came over to help me with everyday stuff and to harvest my garden, I told them to leave the BSs in. We had a huge dump of snow before it got really cold, so they were well insulated and I was able to harvest them the following spring! They’re tough as nails. :)
They’ll come! Squashes tend to do that - put out the male flowers first, them females later, then more males.
Give them a ‘Bloom Booster’ if you want, along the lines of a 10-52-10 formulation, but little if any nitrogen.
Phosphorus helps with blooming and fruiting.
I’ll look for something to do that with.
Daniel: The tomato that is doing well, remember to plant that one again next year!
Here is a link to a site with an article about using baking soda to treat fungal diseases! (Cheap solution!)
It lists the advantages and the disadvantages.
https://www.greenandprosperous.com/blog/how-to-use-baking-soda-as-organic-fungicide
God bless and good growing!
"A common preparation: 1 gallon of warm water. 3 Tablespoons of Baking Soda Mixing it in the sprayer and then spraying on the plants can be an effective preventive method against any fungal diseases or insects. A wider range of protection: 1 Gallon Water 1 Tablespoon Baking Soda 1 Tablespoon Oil (Preferably Vegetable Oil) 2 Drops dishwashing liquid"
Thanks, I intend to try this, The plants are doing better since the weather pattern improved from rain coming 16 out of the first 18 days of this month, and diseased plants that I removed diseases leaves from seem to be coming back.
But as re the future, with this being the 6th year of planting tomatoes in the same spot, I think it may be time to give it a rest next year, and replenish the soil. Yet i do not want to spend much money on the garden. I have composted in the past using a upright barrel (and I had have plenty of greens to compost via the surplus food we have been able to distribute, thank God) but that is very hard to mix. So I want to build a contraption that would hold a 64 gal barrel and enable me to rotate it.
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