Posted on 10/18/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT by greeneyes
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My cucumber plant is producing A cucumber.
Yeh, I don’t usually compost my tomato stuff, because by this time it has ugly stuff starting to attack the leaves.
I have no experience with egg plant.
Hello Miss M. . . . Lowe’s and Home Depot carry Rye Grass seeds.
I’ll send you the info. by regular email right now.
—Hubby and his family love poke salad and stir fried poke with bacon grease and onions.—
Your hubby sounds like a southern guy.
Thanks. I’ll get it. I’ve seen it but I thought maybe it wasn’t the correct thing. I’m probably the worst gardener the world has ever seen - that’s because I don’t know any other gardeners. Sad, really!
Ha! We had two squash plants, same thing. A butternut! But it was good... :)
I started an asparagus bed several years ago until I ran into my waterline.
Anyone know what pepper looks somewhat like a habenero but a wee bit larger and only mildly hot? Too hot to eat straight but a nice flavor used in a dish. It starts out very dark green and later a dark red. It looks nothing like the packets I planted.
Thank goodness for the rain. Lake Travis has risen more than a foot but upstream at Buchanan only about an inch last I heard. We’ve had about 1.25” inch nearly every day so the tomatoes are bursting. It sprinkled again this morning just enough so I can’t get out there.
When Wayne was here, he set the stuff on the new camera I got, so I knew what to click to take a picture. It hooks to my computer so I got them in “My Pictures.”
Then, it took me forever to get them on Photobucket. I don’t have the upgraded Photobucket so had to sit through a commercial every time before it loaded one picture, did that picture after picture. I got them all on there with labels on the pictures, then I quit.
I figured someone would know how to get them on here.
Photobucket is easy to post.
1. Move your cursor to the selected picture. A box appears in the top right corner
2. Move cursor to box and a drop down menu occurs.
3. Choose “get links”
4. Click on HTML and it copies the needed code automatically.
5. in FR reply box, point and paste.
Homemade Apple Pectin
3 lbs sliced unpeeled tart immature apples
4 C water
2 T lemon juice
Boil until reduced to half. Strain through cloth. Boil juice another 20 minutes. Store in fridge, freezer or water bath.
YMMV/trial/guesstimate on how much homemade pectin to use in canning.
/johnny
My vice is chocolate so I’ll leave the tobacco to you.
Thanks. Chives won’t grow there but I can move the lettuce there.
What you wrote sounds great to get a picture on. Johnny is working magic on the pictures and after he gets them on here, I’ll try your method to post one picture to see if I can get it done.
Johnny’s computer is complaining about the pictures but he may have it close to being done now.
Johnny’s single. He has nuthin’ to do. Johnny will post your pictures. (Running and ducking.)
Duh, polk greens. Silly me, I had forgotten that is what was grown there when I was little. Thanks for that whop up side the head. I’ll dedicate that whole area to various greens.
Some of you all never been down South too much
I’m gonna tell you a little story
So you’ll understand where I’m talking about
Down there, we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields
And it looks some like a turnip green
Everybody calls it Polk salad, now, that’s Polk salad
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
She’d go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
‘Cause that’s about all they had to eat
But they did all right
Hope I can nurture the peppers and hanging on tomatoes along for a few more weeks Lord willing here in N. Tx. The little serrano peppers are starting to pop out after all this time but I planted it a little late from seed in early June. The heat in August almost killed it but it came back to life. Still picking arugula and basil daily to supplement the salads.
I will miss them in the winter or maybe I can cold frame them and see what happens—my first time ever trying it.
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