Posted on 10/09/2009 5:31:49 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. Running a little late with the post this morning. My garden area is now clear of plants. If the daily rain showers will just by pass me for a few days I will do a final tilling and remove a few more of the roots left behind. To all of you with Fall/Winter gardens I wish you the best.
Look at a map of the eastern US. We were just beginning to dry out. :( No rain for months and then it’s like a hurricane. We’ve actually had hurricanes when we got less rain than the deluges we’ve had recently.
Snow? Freezing temps?
85 here today, and same tom. :) That’s why I live here and not where ever y’all are!
Megga dittoes! we're having Dumby for dinner tonight: Swissed round steak. He made the mistake of raidng our garden in broad daylight, in season, lst year.
We call them Dumbies, because if the wife sees one about to run into road while I'm driving, I'm liable to say, "Yes?" if she says, "DEER!"; but, if she says, Dumby!", I KNOW what she means. LOL
I'm going to try making (half recipe) the potato donuts (hope they taste like Spudnuts!) using the recipe posted on the thread last week, so Mrs. AR is making extra mashed potatoes, and doing them earlier than otherwise. Raised Potato Doughnuts
Hot Springs: snow falling all day. We have a gallon of fressh apple juice; a couple of apple pies in the freezer, and several quarts of frozen sliced apples put away.
The utility room is full of tomato plants that we pulled before the big freeze hit last week.
Try this: 
Let me know how they come out! Naw you wont have any potato taste.
I’ll post how they come out tomorrow, since the devil-dough takes so much punching.
Hubby ran into so many for so many years, it got to the point where we just called the ins agent and said “Again.” He’d cut us a check.
As far as I’m concerned, every one in my freezer or on my stove is one less I have to worry about hitting or being in my garden.
Hard to believe that at the turn of the century—1900—they were almost extinct in NC.
Dumby. I like that. :)
“Dumby” is one of the more polite terms we have for the antlered rats.
I do know for certain that they are Democrats: brainless, destructive, travel in herds, and live by freeloading.
Deer hunting is not a ‘sport’; it is a necessity. The meat is just a bonus.
That sounds WONDERFUL! ‘Delicata’ is a recent find for me; FIL grew a ton of it for me this season. It’s yummy! :)
They did pretty well, actually. I just did one stack, and got a goodly amount of German Butterball and some ‘red’ potato that I found loose on the floor at work (I work at a garden center) and I just threw that in for giggles. No duck-shaped or Nixon-head taters, though...I keep tryin’, LOL! (I need to throw a few big rocks in there, I’m thinkin’.)
Not enough to store, but enough for a half-dozen meals between then and now and some awesome potato salads.
I don’t grow a lot of taters; Wisconsin is 2nd only to Idaho in potato production, so they’re always cheap around here. I’ve purchased 50 lb. sacks for $10 in the past and they are always a ‘loss leader’ at the local grocer. Clay soil, like I have, doesn’t produce much in the way of root crops, but 30 miles north of here with their wonderful sandy loam is Root Crop Heaven. A carrot field is truly a thing of beauty. One wouldn’t think so, but it is! :)
Just bite me!
And that is said with ALL the love and tenderness I can muster between chattering teeth while pulling on my long johns...with flap, LOL!
It’s snowed here in October before. I remember my kids Trick-or-Treating in a near-blizzard one year. Such troopers! I think they scored the most ‘pity treats’ EVER that year, LOL!
Glad it worked out for you.
20 cents a pound isn’t bad, any more. Around here is it usually $3.50-$5/10 pound sack, and not exactly the freshest.
We got spoiled by being able to stop at ether the fields, or the packing sheds in Idaho on the way home from our trips, abuy 100-150 pounds for 5-7 cents a pound; and at the right time, get 50 pounds of onions, too.
Mmmm....onions! :)
LOL I hear you! Every time I hear some brainless whacko gushing about how cute the rats with antlers are.... GRRRRR
I read somewhere that there are more deer now than when Columbus landed—b/c there’s more for them to eat now. Cut down the big trees and let all the undergrowth go crazy—it makes sense. My sister lives in the middle of Raleigh and she has deer in her yard.
OTOH—people plant shrubs and flowers and veggies=deer buffet. Bad for them, good for me. :) They plant more, the deer eat more, they plant more... You get the idea.
So sorry! I don’t know how you stand it, and don’t bother telling me you get used to cold!
I’ve heard it said you might be from the South if you’ve run your heat and your ac in the same day. I had the heat on in the truck going in to work—mid fifties, cool for us. The ac was running full blast this aft. Running as we speak.
If it’s any consolation at all, the mosquitoes just about carried me off this evening while I was putting compost around my broccoli and collards. :)
You ever hear of Amish Friendship Bread?
I took about 50 or so onions out of the yard (they were there when we bought the house) and planted them here at the ranch about 5 years ago. I now have a wide row, about 35-40’ long that is full of them.
Some are reds, and some are yellows. They are an old fashioned perrenial, non-bulbing type, that just keeps splitting, and splittting, and splitting... .
You pull a few for use mainly as scallions; divide the bunch, and replant one or two from each bunch.
I had a neighbor in town who fed them, and even put out a salt block.
We moved.
Last year, the town reduced its herd size by 150. Some of the Bambi huggers were unhappy, but the food banks rejoiced.
So did the gardeners.
A lot of the clueless here feed them and the hunters are the worst! LOL For what they spend on feeding the rats, they could probably buy groceries for a year or more.
Used to here, if you hit one with a vehicle and you didn’t want it, you could donate it to the prisons. Not now—guess they’re better’n us.
My garden looks like deer grand central, but so far they’re just passing through.
It is currently 28F and dumping snow. I have not mulched over the garlic yet. Got to do this before too much snow to rake up leaves and pine needles. Fireplace wood burning stove insert is stoked up, burning hot and inside it is very comfertable. Telemark skiing is in the near future.
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