Posted on 10/02/2021 5:44:15 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I they are soft eat them right away they ripen quickly. If they are more hard to the touch put them in a brown bag and check daily.
I've been piddling at putting some green beans in the freezer. I expect I'll have plenty stored away by the time frost kills the vines. The late-planted okra is starting to make pods. There's probably some ready to pick now. Pepper plants are loaded and needing some attention. Still getting a few tomatoes off of the one SuperSteak that survived the monsoon.
Mrs. Augie and I spent a couple evenings dunking nightcrawlers in the pond this week. Yesterday we had #1 Daughter, her BFF, and Pops over for the first, of what will hopefully be many, fish fries with our home-grown bluegill. We transferred ~50 <7" fish to the bait pond, 24 7"-9" fish were released to the grease, and the >9" went back in the drink to grow some more.
The yellow perch are catch and release until after the spring spawn, then they will be on the menu with the bluegill. There ought to be 100 or so this size in the pond now.
You are simply brilliant! Grow Your Own Fish. I LOVE IT! That counts as ‘gardening’ in my book, LOL!
I would kill for some Yellow Perch. Caught and ate it all the time when I was a kid, fishing with my Grandpa.
Beer Batter on the fish? No! That beer is too GOOD for that, LOL!
Use a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, LOL!
I did a cream and egg wash. Turned out really good, and was a nice pairing with fresh green beans from the garden.
Is that the original wood clapboard? It looks wide, and in glorious shape. I always figured porches were painted sky blue to emulate the sky.
What a wonderful home to come home to, or, even better, to stay home to. Kudos all around!
What a harvest! I remember all the pictures when you were digging out your pond. Beautiful bluegill picture, you look like a professional fish gutter :) Bet they were delicious. I grew up eating perch that my Dad caught across the Illinois birder with Indiana. We had fish every Friday, always deep fried in batter with the heads on. Thanks for posting.
Fantastic! So jealous. ;)
Actually, the house faces South - but when I took the picture the sun was in the West, and we have a large Maple that shades the porch and that side of the house. It’s going to be TRAGIC if anything ever happens to her. She is home to tons of birds and squirrels and the occasional raccoon which the dogs just love. ;)
Metal siding, believe it or not. Beau replaced the shingled roof with metal over the course of 8 years - but it is DONE and he shouldn’t have to be up there again - other than to spray for wasps which also love to build up there.
The house was built in 1900. The kitchen was added in the 1950’s; the front porch was just a cement slab, no overhang. Beau bought the place in 1985-ish. It had been standing EMPTY for 5 years, and was in rough shape. He’s one of those handy guys, so he moved the raccoons OUT, and started remodeling it. I think the porch was added in the 90’s sometime. Beau added a large Family Room (to the right) with a fireplace and a 2-car garage beneath. He did all of the stonework that matches the original foundation, and the retaining walls with rock dug out of the hillside! (I THINK it’s Limestone or Sandstone.) Our project this past winter was new wood-look flooring in the Family Room; good-bye gross carpeting! Our Foster Son does flooring and painting for a living, so he helped us.
We have people stop buy from time to time to see the house because they once lived here. The guy that fills our Propane tank grew up here, and he brought his Mom back to see it, as well as his young daughters. His Mom cried and cried to see how nicely it’s been restored. Their Grandpa (the 2nd original owner after his parents passed) lived in a house trailer behind the house, also now long gone.
Also - when Beau’s wife was alive, there had been 14 Foster Kids through here, too! I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was once part of the ‘Wisconsin Underground Railroad’ moving southern slaves to FREEDOM!
Lots of History, lots of memories. VERY happy to be here. :)
Thank God and for the potential to be much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNOvA3diDU
One hour long but good info. As per the screenshot, a reading of 12 or higher on a Brix test means healthy plants. He also goes into, only healthy plants can produce healthy food.
If you have Aphids, your plants are pretty unhealthy. Grasshoppers will eat pretty healthy plants though. He prefers to see plants at 14 or higher.
I knew they wouldn’t; I didn’t know they couldn’t!
What part of NC? I have lived in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Boone.
One Weed plant is harvested and is curing. We have seeds (yay). The other needs more time. The state brought in helicopters to search for illegally grown but I was doing everything by the book.
The golf ball sized tomatoes is still growing and putting out fruit. The Cherokee Purple and Patio are dying back. The Asian Spinach is doing very well but starting to look a little tough. We have a huge crop of chestnuts(4 large trees) that we are taking to the wildlife center
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