lakngulf
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You still have some pretty colors there. I enjoy watching those last few plants hang in for all they got. Peppers are beautiful this time of the year, but like you, I give away more than I eat. I love the grow them!
How does your garden grow?
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You still have some pretty colors there. I enjoy watching those last few plants hang in for all they got. Peppers are beautiful this time of the year, but like you, I give away more than I eat. I love the grow them!
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Larro Darro
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I picked a few peppers today. Also the first of the volunteer melons. The ones that I planted haven't grown very much. The vines are full of little ones, but there isn't enough time for them to get ripe. Now I know how late is too late for melons.
Edit: I even found a few cucumbers in the tall grass. I had thought they were all gone.
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Larro Darro
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The longer of the volunteer melons turned out to be a yellow meat. Which is kind of weird since there hasn't been any yellow meat melons in the garden since last summer. It could have used a few more days to ripen, but the vines were dying.
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Duwop
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Today's harvest I'm grateful for all the earth gives to my family. My plan for the turnips is to make them in place of mashed potatoes. I've never had them this way to my knowledge but I understand they are real good served this way. My foster sister says as my foster moms deathbed confession was she fed them to us as kids to stretch the potaoes with having so many mouths to feed. I'm fortunate to have them because I want them, but am trying to teach my children who are now having children creative ways to stretch the dollar. I'm having fun with the gourds too, they think I'm crazy to tell them to convert to natural dishes for some things to save our resources and landfills. I hope my grandchildren want to learn what I have to teach them.
Annie and I gathered acorns today for crafts and to cure for grinding into flour. A Monacan Indian taught us when we first met to do this. He made acorn cakes with wild berries for us to eat and showed us how to cook them on flat rocks by a fire. Peace to all
Annie and I gathered acorns today for crafts and to cure for grinding into flour. A Monacan Indian taught us when we first met to do this. He made acorn cakes with wild berries for us to eat and showed us how to cook them on flat rocks by a fire. Peace to all
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Larro Darro
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Nice looking produce Duwop. We are looking forward to doing the arts and crafts thing with some of our gourds too. I've tried the acorn flour, and some of it is bitter. I can see how mixing in berries would make it better. We have some really big acorns here in NW Florida that the deer and turkey wait under the tree for them to fall. I bet they are better tasting, or have more protein, or something. They don't stay on the ground long. My BIL has some small trees his dad sprouted from them, and has offered me a few. I want to get some of them growing here. We have a couple of the trees at the Civic Center {where I work}, but I haven't been able to get any of those acorns to grow.
It seems young kids today are more open to a green lifestyle. What a single person does doesn't make a lot of difference, but when millions of people do small things it makes a big difference.
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It seems young kids today are more open to a green lifestyle. What a single person does doesn't make a lot of difference, but when millions of people do small things it makes a big difference.
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tcreeley
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Most everything is out of the garden. We've had a couple of frosts. Need to get the rest of the onions, carrots and the potatoes. The potatoes and turnips I tend to leave in longer because storage in warm weather can be a problem. Once the temp drops down our cold pockets are there ready for them. We keep talking of a root cellar, but it hasn't happened yet!
I love making a stew with the vegetables that come out last, especially the turnips. Quite tasty. I always hated turnip as a kid- up until I had one that I grew - couldn't be better!
I'll strip it, till, fertilize and leave it until spring.
Larro: Watermelon- I would love to grow that yellow one- looks delicious!
I love making a stew with the vegetables that come out last, especially the turnips. Quite tasty. I always hated turnip as a kid- up until I had one that I grew - couldn't be better!
I'll strip it, till, fertilize and leave it until spring.
Larro: Watermelon- I would love to grow that yellow one- looks delicious!
tcreeley
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We took some potatoes (russet, red norlunds, red pontiacs), onions, carrots, a cabbage, and a turnip out today. We didn't use any bug killer this year - lucked out, just picked the potato bugs by hand and squished them.
My wife has put a cabbage stew on the slow cooker. More to do. Warm and windy, from the south today.
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My wife has put a cabbage stew on the slow cooker. More to do. Warm and windy, from the south today.
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Larro Darro
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Man those look good. I'm sitting here eating a bland, tasteless carrot right now. I bet those have some flavor.
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tcreeley
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I'm hoping so! Something got in the garden (deer?) and had been eating the tops off and pulling them right up out of the ground!
