Posted on 07/09/2022 4:54:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Don’t forget to look at the Full Buck Super Moon, tonight!
Ok thanks for the heads up.
That is one unhappy raccoon, LOL!
Things are looking good. My garlic is ready for harvest; I’ll add that to the To Do List for tomorrow.
Don’t miss the Full Buck Super Moon, tonight!
Now that I see pictures of your ‘climbing rope’ way of staking tomatoes, it makes perfect sense!
Hey my shishito pepper plants are between knee and hip height. One plant has over 20 peppers on it.
You’ll love those Zucchini Pancakes. Addictive! Don’t skimp on the onion (I don’t always have green onions on hand, so I just grate a regular sweet onion and use that) and make sure you have sour cream. :)
I got my little flashlight at Wal-Mart in the camping section, IIRC.
They are also good for showing up scorpions.
After that massive hornworm infestation 2 years ago, I haven’t seen any yet, although I have seen a few chewed up leaves that look like hornworm damage.
I’ll have to go out another night and look for them.
Albeit a little weird at the same time. Extreme training. LOL I missed a few suckers which is a bad thing for this method. Kinda cool having a 15 foot vine that’s not a mess with some laying on the ground while still being able to reach the maters.
The market gardeners are doing some interesting stuff. Eliot Coleman was who kicked the whole thing off I think.
My garlic is starting to turn brown I figure maybe another week and it’ll be ready to harvest.
I need to make some space somewhere to lay them out to cure and keep them separate so I can keep track of the varities.
I braided my garlic and it was separated, we have two varieties. After drying a few days I put each one in a long net bag so the bulbs point downwards. Once the greens are completely dry I’ll cut them off and put the bulbs back in the bag. There should be a picture upthread. I dug them when the greens are halfway brown. I have no space to spread them out. And in my soil they would start to rot if I left them in longer. Harvesting garlic is a joy when you see what you have.
Mine are coming along, but I’m behind you time-wise because I planted late.
And, of course, I had to hang around Walmart all the time, waiting on the ‘Bonnie Truck’ for those peppers, LOL! ;)
“Eliot Coleman was who kicked the whole thing off I think.”
I love his books and methods. Wish I was a little younger and more ambitious and I would have one of those moveable greenhouses! :)
I find that those mesh trays that go under planting flats work really well for drying garlic. (Or herbs.) I have plenty of those on hand.
Harvesting garlic is on my list, today. I tested one two weeks ago when we were cutting off the scapes, so the rest should be looking lovely by now. Northern White and German something...
I’ll be going to Walmart this Friday, so thanks! Prices at Amazon seemed high, but what isn’t these days?
I know how you love mowing, Girl, so:
I had an interesting mower accident, today. I was coming around the corner, mowing along one of Beau’s POS junker trucks, and SOMEONE, not me, had laid a stack of lumber ACROSS the bed of the truck. Now, I don’t know about you, but that’s NOT the proper place to store lumber! Hit that stack of SOLID WOOD with my FACE! Hit the bridge of my nose - I can’t BELIEVE I didn’t break my glasses in half - but I got a good cut out of it, and will probably have a couple of SHINERS by morning. I. Saw. Stars.
So, I managed to drive myself back to the house, gushing blood like crazy-mad. When I got to the bathroom, it didn’t look as bad as I had feared, but it’s a real nice gash RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF MY FACE! Yeah, REAL pleased with myself. Cannot WAIT for Beau to see me when he gets home this evening. I’m not going to tell him until then. And THEN we’re going to have YET ANOTHER DISCUSSION about his CR@P laying all over the place and nearly decapitating me. You know, he’s going to miss me when I’m gone - either I’ll be dead due to some farm-junk-caused mishap, or I’ll be enjoying life in my new Garden Condo. :)
Close call - SO glad you weren’t hurt worse!
My biggest issue mowing is running over stuff that “a certain person” tends to drop or leave laying in the grass where it’s all but invisible. I avoided tearing up the mower deck on a heavy metal grate of some sort that had been dragged into the grass for some unknown reason when mom spotted it going to dump garden debris. The “certain person” spared me running over some old fence wire - not enough to roll up so it was folded. He ran the golf cart over it & got it all caught up underneath. I had to jack it up with a shop jack & use bolt cutters to work it loose. Imagine what that would have done up into the mower blades (deck is 60”, 3 blades).
Still, no mower damage is as bad as “people” damage. Hope you heal up fast & Mr. Beau makes it up to you somehow!
I know you dodge bullets every DAY, LOL!
And you BET I’m going to milk this one for all it is worth; I might just punch myself in the face a few more times for good measure, LOL!
Hope I don’t scare the children and livestock when I go into town to pick up groceries tomorrow! ;)
I learned my lesson. I will let some peppers stay on the plant so I can get some really mature seeds.
Wow glad it was not worse. Yes milk it! Let him wait on you a couple of days and do your chores. If you saw stars you may want to get a head scan. All the braiding on the garlic was dry so I trimmed it all up and rebagged in my net bags. German red and a chinese. Very very happy.
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