Posted on 10/02/2021 5:44:15 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Lemony Kale Pesto..........yum.
Many years ago we came home from church to find all 5 of our dairy goats in the yard outside the barn and their pen. Evidently they figured out how to release the locking hook from the gate. Had to use that and a bungee after that.
Ahhhh—more excuses to eat pesto!
Exercise may stop cancer in its tracks
It’s still too warm here. Going to be 80 this weekend. Uncle! I. Want. Fall! (And NOW it’s raining - hasn’t rained ALL summer!)
Waiting for a string of dry, cooler days to pull more spent tomato plants and get garlic and spring bulbs planted. The puppies did a number on one of my garden beds and dug up my Allium and my FAVORITE tulip bulbs; I salvaged a few, and have replacements on order from Jung’s - BUT shipping from Holland has been delayed. :(
Goats are SO smart. Good thing they don’t have opposable thumbs or we’d ALL be in trouble, LOL!
I wasn’t planning on getting all the garlic done today, but decided to push through it get it done anyways.
So I planted 48 Romanian Red, 42 Music, and 24 Great Northern White.
Now I need to fill in the raised bed a little to get the depth right and then mulch it.
I’m going to try shredded up leaves more than straw this year. Straw in NY was a good deal. Straw in NH is ridiculously expensive.
But we had LOTS of leaves.
PawPaw; Variety Sunflower is supposed by some to be self fertile and does not require 2 pawpaws to germinate
However! https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1856630/is-the-sunflower-paw-paw-self-fertile-and-other-q-s
https://onegreenworld.com/product/sunflower-2/
https://ediblelandscaping.com/products/trees/Pawpaws/SunflowerPawpaw.php
Good luck!
Very cool! Thanks!
So far I have had zero luck finding any paw-paws at my local small independent markets. I haven’t made it to the weekend Farmer’s Market yet, but if it’s still going in, this should be the last weekend that we have one.
I may have to venture into the big city farmer’s market. Or someone can send me one if they have any left over. I’ll pay if that’s even feasible.
I planted garlic too. Mulching tomorrow with cypress mulch. It worked great for us last year.
Garlic is a great crop. Easy to grow and low maintenance and virtually nothing bothers it.
big frost Thursday night going into Friday.....came back from a trip and yep, we got it good...picked peppers...lots ...and green tomatoes and I’ll bring them in an see if they’ll ripen....
Ten Tricks To Ripen Tomatoes More Quickly:
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