Posted on 08/14/2021 6:17:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Tractor Supply has an 18 lb driver for $35 :-)
Thanks, Pete!
LOL!
I’ve done that with Zuke Spears or slices. Works like a charm!
My Zoodles are strictly for smothering in cheese, butter, herbs and/or Alfredo sauce. You know - all the HEALTHY stuff. ;)
It was another hot week here in Central Missouri. Had a squall blow through Thursday evening that gave us some welcome rainfall.
Tomatoes are limping along. Cukes are hanging in there. Cantaloupe has been harvested and devoured. Pole beans are rocking. Gourd vines are loaded. Peppers still trying. Summer squash are all squashed out. Still need to pull beets and work them up.
Spread the compost that I dumped last weekend, but wasn’t able to till it in. The old Briggs and Stratton said NO MORE! So I just raked it down best I could and sowed a couple rows of kale seed.
The local china tool store doesn’t have the engine that I need in stock, so I’m going to have to look around to find something that will fit the old beast. Shouldn’t be too hard to scare one up and have it shipped to the house.
I canned up 6 quarts of sauce last week, and am looking at probably 8 by Monday.
The garlic is almost dried out and ready for trimming.
I need to dig the onions to dry in the sun.
Fortunately, we’ve had a nice dry spell for a change.
Thanks for the eye candy.
That’s a fantastic idea.
And with just a few clicks of the mouse I found what I needed on Amazon. For not much more $$$ than I was going to spend on a chinese Briggs clone, I was able to get a genuine Kohler.
It’s the same model engine as the one that’s on my pressure washer. That sucker is six years old and starts on the first pull every time. It should be a bolt-on fit for the old Craftsman tiller. If it’s not, I have everything I need to fabricate an adaptor plate to make it work.
Kicking myself for not staking up my tiths .... the one (of 3) that blew over the worst is wilting big time ... I don’t think it will make it. I still have 2 so there will be plenty of flowers, but I hate to lose the 3rd - really big/bushy & loaded with flowers. At least the flowers will still be good for a day or two, even if the whole plant doesn’t make it. I did just water it again - ‘hail Mary’ last attempt to keep it going.
Mrs. Augie tried those several years back. We like them and they do well in the heat of a Misery summer.
If you let them go to seed you'll never need to buy seed again. Mrs. Augie collects the dried flower heads and just tosses em on the ground anywhere she wants them to grow the following season.
The birds help too, I think. We have cockscomb growing all over the place. It looks especially nice growing next to the water on the pond dam.
Good pic! Yes, Kale is tough but nutritious. My teeth cannot chew it all though.
But thank God He knows what is best and this will work out for good, and will balance out, and plants are growing well now, esp. the butternut squash take over the land:n
Whoa! That would be quite some effort! Very pretty!
I love this recipe....going to try it soon. I grow a lot of Lacinato kale in my garden because I love it.
I bet an traditional Caesar dressing with a smidge of anchovie juice would be delicious as well.
Liz, liked your NYT recipe and photo so much I carried it over to the new thread! Thanks!
My sister and her husband have rented a house and a boat for a fishing trip somewhere above Rhinelander. The only thing they love more than gardening is fishing.
The heat index is in the high 80s right now, at this writing, which is nearly 3pm. I have been giving my landscaping assistants Frogg Togg cooling blankets to work with. Just wet them and they get cool. Usually, in Georgia, landscapers don’t install in this heat. We wait till October. I have small jobs to do, with clients who will water 3xweek, so I bring my guys Gatorade and cooling blankets.
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