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Larro Darro
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This is a melon Mamma grew in her garden. She had two this size, and there are four or five more on the vines.
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How does your garden grow?
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tcreeley
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Nice water melon! I've had almost no luck growing it up here.
We picked tomatoes yesterday and froze 8 quarts of spaghetti sauce. Used our peppers, onions, and zucchinis. I froze some vacuum sealed whole tomatoes for later use also.
-Tomatoes are not too pretty, but tasty! - especially sliced and with ground pepper on a single piece of toast!
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We picked tomatoes yesterday and froze 8 quarts of spaghetti sauce. Used our peppers, onions, and zucchinis. I froze some vacuum sealed whole tomatoes for later use also.
-Tomatoes are not too pretty, but tasty! - especially sliced and with ground pepper on a single piece of toast!
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TomSeller
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This look GOOD, real GOOD !
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Larro Darro
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My Brown Crowders had been looking so bad I planned on letting them dry up. But they seemed to have found their second wind, so I decided to pick them tonight just before dark. I didn't get through though. I was in sandals and got wrapped up in big red wood ants. Thank the Good Lord I didn't get bit, but I did break one of my sandals. I could have finished in my bare feet, {and got a better picture of the sunset} but Margie came out to remind me I was responsible for Mamma's supper tonight. By the time I got back from Mamma's it was too dark to do either.
Larro
PS: I did the same thing to my other sandal on the trip down the river, so I know how to repair it. Just a note to folks using Gorilla Glue to repair shoes. It is a good idea to put them on an old newspaper or something like that. I have heard from a good source that the glue might foam up and glue your shoes to the table
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Larro Darro
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I got a chance to work in the garden this morning. It has been so crazy around here all I have been doing is picking what's ready, and letting it all get by the best it could. But the young Crimson Sweets are ready to vine, so they had to be side dressed. Here are before and after shots of them.
Also side dressed the banana cantaloupes, but they were not near as weedy as the melons. It went much faster with them. There are a few volunteer melons growing in the cantaloupes. I saved a couple of the best looking ones. They are blooming already.
Also side dressed the banana cantaloupes, but they were not near as weedy as the melons. It went much faster with them. There are a few volunteer melons growing in the cantaloupes. I saved a couple of the best looking ones. They are blooming already.
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Larro Darro
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I plowed the newest purple hulls a couple of weeks ago and thought I had got rid of most of the volunteer cantaloupes. I was wrong.
Some of the volunteer cantaloupes are really pretty and full of blooms. Against my better judgment, I save a few of them. When I'm hopping around on one foot trying to pick the peas and not step on the vines I'll be regretting that.
Some of the volunteer cantaloupes are really pretty and full of blooms. Against my better judgment, I save a few of them. When I'm hopping around on one foot trying to pick the peas and not step on the vines I'll be regretting that.
Duwop
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Looking good Larro, I've got the winter garden in now and all is up. Late fall and early winter I will get some garlic planted for next summer. Will post a pic later wife's calling me to supper.
tcreeley
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My Brown Crowders had been looking so bad I planned on letting them dry up. But they seemed to have found their second wind, so I decided to pick them tonight just before dark. I didn't get through though. I was in sandals and got wrapped up in big red wood ants. Thank the Good Lord I didn't get bit, but I did break one of my sandals. I could have finished in my bare feet, {and got a better picture of the sunset} but Margie came out to remind me I was responsible for Mamma's supper tonight. By the time I got back from Mamma's it was too dark to do either.
Larro
PS: I did the same thing to my other sandal on the trip down the river, so I know how to repair it. Just a note to folks using Gorilla Glue to repair shoes. It is a good idea to put them on an old newspaper or something like that. I have heard from a good source that the glue might foam up and glue your shoes to the table
Goop works really well too, any of them - marine, automotive, etc. Holds up well under use. I've used it to build heels back up on sneakers, and take care of peeling soles.
tcreeley
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Our garden is winding down. -We canned 7 quarts of our beets using a pressure cooker yesterday, new experience! A few days before, it was 5 quarts of spaghetti sauce in a water bath -also a new experience! Trying to not let it go to waste! No space left in our small freezer, so it's canning. I'm holding off on the potatoes and turnips before digging. Still some cabbage left and the geraniums my wife planted. Most of the tomatoes are past, but there are some romas ripening on old stems. We have a disease that turns the leaves yellow from the ground up and prevents the plant from producing continuously until the first frost.
The local commercial potato fields are starting to be sprayed with herbicide to kill the green plants back, before harvesting. I'm sure glad we are eating our own.
The local commercial potato fields are starting to be sprayed with herbicide to kill the green plants back, before harvesting. I'm sure glad we are eating our own.
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Larro Darro
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My squash are still making, but not very much. This fellow was in the peas today when I was picking. Watching me work must have made him hungry, he ate the moth right after I took the picture. And my volunteer Crimson Sweets must have crossed with something, because they ain't round.
My cucumbers are about done. The hot weather done them in I think. The peppers are still making, but the rain is making a lot of them have soft spots on them by the time they get ripe.
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