Posted on 06/06/2014 12:39:39 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Polk is one of our most successful green plants. Grows right next to the butter nut tree, where nothing else will live. Hubby loves polk stir fried in grease with onions and garlic and some bacon pieces.
I’m not much on wilted greens. However, should harder times come, we’ll have enough polk for the whole neighbor hood.LOL
I also use glucosamine/chondroitin, along with some heavy duty NSAIDS to relieve my chronic back pain. I don't believe in it, but they seem to work.
I'll be heading to my PCM next week to have an assessment and figure out a strategy to nip the problem in the bud before I can no longer walk.
We have a horrible clay soil here. I got around it by using raised beds and mixing and dumping in the mix that I wanted, I dug up the grass and turned it over. Shook out all the dirt and threw the dried grass and roots into the compost pile. Then I filled in the beds.
I have one bed that I just covered the grass over with cardboard. It worked for several seasons.
Hubby has amended his gardens by mixing lots of organic matter, and soil, topsoil, and old barn sawdust and manure etc. He gets good results in his beds now, and the soil is more loam than clay now. He also has buckets and buckets of rocks that he removed from the garden area.
I like to add extra potatoes and potato broth to my clam chowder as well. Less fishy taste. I try to keep enough clams on hand to make clam chowder once a month for a year.
I also keep 6 or 8 cans of the chunky clam chowder soup on hand for a quick microwave warm up.
They really like my rosa rugosa. We set out the hanging Japanese beetle traps, and they worked real well. I’ll have to try some tide.
I am allergic to tide though, so I’ll have to be careful mixing it.
Schwans used to have really good breaded clams for a quick fix. They discontinued them several years ago. Also the boxes just about disappeared form the stores.
Last time I was at Red Lobster, they had some, but the were quite small compared to what they used to be. I was thinking that they were maybe getting scarce.
Last year, I got a really good batch of fried clams at Joe’s Crab Shack in Branson.
I am thinking more than ever, that an attached green house is going to have to be in our future here, especially if the winters keep being so cold.
Or even a “sun porch” with windows all around on three sides, and regular roof, or maybe just one row of clear panels as a boundary over the windows.
I could open the patio doors and walk right into the area. Grow some tall columnar fruts and loads of spinach, tomatoes, etc. All the stuff that is expensive in the grocery during the winter.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll pass them on to Hubby. Now that they got his blueberries, he’ll be serious about trying to get them.
Thanks for the link. I never heard of cooking them before. Worth a try for sure.
Have you heard from Marcella lately? I’ve heard nothing for several days now.
I used to have blue nigella, blue and purple larkspur, and those big pink shirley poppies, plus some white marguerite daisies that would come up before my lawn really gets going. These would reseed every year, and it was such a feast for the eyes.
This is a war department photo promoting Victory Gardens. I see Sweet Potatoes, Okra and Tomato plants…
Aww those are cute babies.
I found some links for the victory gardens with interesting facts to know. Also one of the links has additional info on gardening for several decades - not just the war years.
Posted below for all who are interested to enjoy:
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html
Here’s a link to some info about Omaha beach and the other beaches of D Day and has General Norman Cota’s famous statement:
Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let us go inland and be killed” General Norman COTA
http://www.executived-daytours.com/omaha-beach.html
Great looking corn. I have got to try some of that for sure.
Vioxx made my legs swell, so they changed me to Celebrex 15 years ago or so. It is pricy, but at this point I would do nearly anything to have reasonable mobility again. I have told my ortho docs in 2 states that if a cure or major relief med is coming down the pipes, to throw my name in the hat for the clinical testing.
How are the peppers doing?
Thanks for the links. I really need to do more research...
One of these is an advertisement for tours, but it gives a very nice summary of what the purpose was for each of the 5 beaches and some info about the troops that were assigned and how well they achieved their objectives.
I have to be honest, I am kinda nuts when it comes to WWII. I always watch all the documentaries and stuff.
All my life, I’ve been trying to figure out how in the heck a loser like Hitler was able to rise to power so fast. I really couldn’t understand it till 2008. Now I can understand how some people can be duped with the right propoganda machine.
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