Posted on 03/02/2024 6:26:35 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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IKEA products are well designed visually pleasing cheaply made products for the masses! Kitchenware products, glass, metal, should last a long time if you do not drop them. Furniture is generally only going to give you several years use before the composite board starts to fall apart, which makes it fine for someone attending college. They use canola oil in a lot of their bakery products so I will not buy them.
LOL, it was too good a deal! Everybody wanted one.
Johnnies is pricey, but has great products. They have some excellent disease reistant basil varities! Prospera is a great one that held up most of the summer without problems and was a great choice to companion plant with my tomatoes. (I should probably start my basil and lavender this weekend, and next week my tomatoes.) Off to do stuff and the garden! Have a great day!
“Sadly the sugar season is already over, when it’s usually just getting started.”
We had a terrible sugaring season. We boiled it down yesterday and got a total of 4 pints. :( That’s OK, though - we have tons still from previous years.
We had about a 2-week window this year; our Maple trees are budded out right now. I fear for my Magnolia; she SO wants to bloom! Hearing Robins, though I haven’t seen any, yet. No Sandhill Cranes around quite yet.
Thank you! I am now researching places to get the dwarf lemon trees that Bob recommends.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/surviving-holocaust-contributed-to-longevity-study-finds/
and
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323605
I just use taters from the store.
No, I imagine it would be hard to grow them in coral sand! (Probably hard to grow anything in that list in sand!)
Saw a chart today where potatoes have gone from 30 to 90 cents a pound. That and tomatoes were my beginner veggies to grow.
Aw...Shucks! Thats too bad!
People need to develop some experience with growing their own food, especially the "Not Rich". Better to learn when you do not need to. Also good to have a library of heirloomseed secured in a cool dark dry place.
I’ve had decent luck with potatoes here in Ctrl MO and the low pH keeps them scab free. Any further South and sweet potatoes or yams might be better. Squashes are good too. Dried beans is another one. Storage crops and a place to keep them along with some kind of meat is how people used to survive the non growing season before electricity.
Right now, we can buy canned goods from the store fairly cheap and they last virtually forever. There’s no telling what tptb will do to keep Trump out of the WH or to make sure things come crashing down when/if he does end up president again.
I replied to your post 109 before I read your post 84 and came up with some of the same things.
Correction; On shishitos..... More like 65 days from germination, probably about 40 - 45 from transplant.
I am trying Alma pepper this year to see if I can make my own Paparika.
Correction; On shishitos..... More like 65 days from germination, probably about 40 - 45 from transplant.
I am trying Alma pepper this year to see if I can make my own Paparika.
A flock of 6 or 7 robins were on my lawn a week ago. My Daughter's cat was outside and made a run at them and they flew away! I saw a sandhill crane the day of a trip to Menards. (I think it was a sand hill crane. The new couch in the living room looks great!
(Sometime around 1997 we visited a friend in Whitewater WI. We were driving through the Kettle Moraine area when we came on a flock of about 20 cranes walking in a field next to a lake. I got out of the car with middle daughter and we walked into the field for a better look. (But not too close!) I certainly remember it, although she might not.)
(Thanks for the reports and all the great info Diana!)
A 'Moraine' (tree-covered hill) on your left, a 'Kettle' (lake) in the far-center distance.
I don't know WHY you all don't move here! Wisconsin has it all! :)
You can store dried chick peas, lentils, and beans in 1/2 gallon lidded sealed glass jars if you include silica gel and oxygen removal packets. You can buy both of those packets on Amazon. Things like Black Beans lose their antioxidant value in a couple of years, but the carbs and protein will be good for at least 5 years in in glass storage.
I like things like red lentils that cook quickly. Pressure cooker speeds cooking for beans and chick peas.
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/how-to-store-beans/
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