Posted on 07/12/2013 1:19:48 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Country Gentleman is the one I planted this spring and started it indoors. Hubby planted Bantam about 6 weeks after I started my seeds.
About 3 weeks later I planted a variety of almost ancient corn: Anazazi Corn. It is supposed to be less picky about soil and climate conditions than modern corn, so it’s an experiment.
The country gentleman is the one with tassels; Hubby hasn’t mentioned his corn, and I haven’t walked to the back forty lately, so I don’t know how it’s doing.
“Could be a name for one of my Italian ancestors! (’”
If your Italian ancestors have a body build like that squash, they were really weird looking people. :o) Punch on one of those links and look at that squash. :o)
The Gateway to the West. LOL
We had the news on and saw that report too. It’s too hot to be outside, so we actually turned on the TV news. I should have stayed at the fishing well. It was nice and cool there and I caught a few crappie.
Handy skills to have with out a doubt.LOL
We have a chance of rain starting this weekend and lasting a full week. Hope the lake comes up some, but everything is so dry here.
19 straight days of rain in central Ohio. I will not have tomatoes this year for the first time in my life. Really bummed out about that.
What kind of soil did you use?
“You could try growing them next year in a pot with a trellis to climb, using some all purpose potting mix.”
I told myself to buy one tomato barrel with that support in the middle, each month. One is in the 20 dollar range. You can grow any plant in it because it’s deep enough and you have the support in the middle if you need it.
We think that we got some cucumber beetles and that led to fungus in the soil. In 2012 we planted some cukes, but that was in the garden that we just let burn up.
The extra hot solar days with out rain, we are thinking could be why they are doing good this year. So far-less bugs than usual everywhere.
Do you ever get rain in the fall or winter? Missouri is lucky to have several months of good rainfall that we can collect enough water to get us through, but the kind of heat we had last year, you’d need an air conditioned greenhouse to have a hope of growing your food.
Which reminds me, we get 10 gallons daily of water from our air conditioner, due to the high humidity here. We collect it and use it to water our plants.
You have my sympathy.
So now you only have 1 chick left-is that right?
I know we had a snake or lizard get in the house from the way the dog was acting. One time I actually went to the trouble to pull stuff out and see why she was going crazy-found a snake skin, but the snake was gone by the time I got everything moved.
Next time it was a lizard. It ran out between the sliding glass doors while I was moving stuff.
This time I just shrugged and ignored her. They eventually go back outside, and she can’t get to them, and they don’t come out while she is pacing and barking which she does as soon as they move. It’s just not worth the effort to get back to where they go.
Best I remember, this is one of the recommended plants for growing complete nutrition in the bountiful garden booklet on experimental mini-farm.
Sounds like a good plan. I’ll also mention that with new gardens and purchased soil it sometimes takes a year or two before you have the required bacteria, worms, and what not to really have a great garden experience per some reading that I did during my first year of gardening.
One good thing about tomatillos - buy them one year and you will have volunteers forever. I have about ten in my garden this year.
Mel’s mix in 1 4x4 and the other one a combo of peat moss, compost and vermiculite.
Marcella you just answered your own question. yes soups, salads, saute them in oil along with onions and apply to meats or fish. Basil, mozzarella, olive oil, tomatoes on french bread is a tasty and light summer meal. Experiment girl... we know you got what it takes and you will be amazed what you can cook up with spices and herbs. Basil is easy to grow too.
Smart idea. I didnt realize how much water the A/C unit (inside evaporator coil) throws off from condensation until I had a leak last month. Wish my drainage was to the outside rather than down to the sewer pipes or I would do the same thing. Also if a clog develops can hook up a shop vac to the external drain and suck that crud right out to help prevent leaks too as maintenance.
LOL. Hard to beat salt and pepper!!!!!!!! That’s the main spices we had. My parents had a restaurant and so did my maternal grandmother.
My paternal grandmother was the one with the garden who did all the at home canning, and she didn’t have a whole bunch of spices, but did have some.
Dad was the pastry chef-he made the pies daily and pumkin was a favortie. So we always had the nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves.
Other regular spices and flavorings: Onion, garlic, chili powder, cayenne and or hot sauce,ham beef or chicken soup base, parsley, molasses,lard, veggie oil, mustard and celery seed/flakes ,dill seed/weed, pickling spices, alum, chives, bay leaves, apple cider vinegar, sage, Mapleine, old bay seasoning for fish and seafood, are the things I remember sitting around in the spice cabinet.
My maternal grandmother gave me a two teired spice (lazy susan style) rack for a wedding present and it had some new stuff I had to research what to use it for.
Other stuff came later. With pizza came basil and oregano. Basil can be used whole, chopped or dried and crushed. It’s good in soups, pizza, and Italian, and tomato based foods to name a few.
Tarragon I love in a vegetable soup. Ginger I like in almost anything.
Speaking of spice: I was at walmart and noticed that saffron is $17.00 for what looked like about an oz of spice.
So I’m wondering if I can grow saffron!LOL
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