Posted on 05/02/2014 12:25:41 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Globull warming has been avoiding us lately. We are experiencing record cold, and seem more likely to be entering an ice age here.LOL
Quick!
Eat some Beans!
Are there any Amish stores in your part of Mo?
We use a lot of bay leaves, too. We buy them in bulk from Amish stores or other bulk suppliers, where they are so much cheaper than grocery store prices. Same for chili powder and cumin.
That’s so great that your daughter likes to garden. It will be knowledge that serves her well.
Buzzards??? Maybe looking for water or wild life dying from lack of water? Never seen a real buzzard.
Stress sometimes helps plants produce fruit.(Desperate to propogate)LOL.
What’s the GLG? I can’t remember.
/johnny
I did that, too with the first batch I planted..of which two of six are up.. Those seed cases are hard as a rock. It took the first one forever for the leaves to work the brown seed case off. I thought it was a clump of hardened dirt. On the second one, I pried it off..probably not good to do, but it's still alive, and the leaves are greening up. I know they say not to keep the soil wet, but I have it on the soggy side of moist right now.
/johnny
I love those blts. I made a BLT wrap(lower fat kind). I used the lower fat cut of bacon-just one strip, and a soft tortilla.
Spread the tortilla with lite mayo, put the bacon in the middle, and warmed in the micro wave. Then sprinkled with a little cheese, dice up my two ripe homegrown cherry tomatoes, and some shredded lettuce, and rolled it up.
Fastened with toothpicks, and sliced into half inch slices.
You never know when that kind of knowledge may come in handy.
Planted most of my sets in empty shrub pots set into the ground. Drilled holes in bottoms for drainage and (hopefully) root growth.
Plan is that Mr. Gopher will only be able to gnaw up to the plastic.
Last year lost many to gopher and others to the cursed tomato worm.
every day for the fiber.
Good Stuff! :-)
Not sure. We have an Amish Deli about 40 miles away. Noot sure if they have groceries too.
The GLC is the Ground Level Garden, which Marcella calls her dirt garden.
the buzzards had a dead armadillo in the street, but were just hanging out after the meal was over.
The water table is high even with the lack of rain. We have a spring in the front yard by the street that will dry up when it gets really dry. We have a small stream(4-5ft wide) along the bottom of the dune on one side plus, it flows into a much larger creek about 1/8mile in front of us in the woods(Sam Houston National Forrest) so the critters have plenty of water.
We have been entertaining some of the grandkids with the same. Took them to tour some of the organic farms around here too. Showed them how to skim the cream off the milk, and make butter etc.
Missouri
Dutch Country Store
18268 Kelsay Road
Barnett, MO
Phone: (573) 378-4395
H & M Country Store
21910 State Hwy 190
Jamesport, Mo
Dutch Kountry Market
10117 Knob Knoster Road
Knob Knoster, MO
Phone (660) 563-2941
Hall’s
Rt. 6 Box 872
Salem, MO
Phone: (826) 776-3275
Zimmerman’s Wholesale
RR 1 Box 1
Rutledge, MO 63563
Phone: (660) 883-5766
Windmill Ridge Bulk Foods
4100 Highway T
Shelbyville, MO 63469
Phone: (573) 633-1020
Dutch Maid Bulk Foods
17567 Hwy 71
St. Joseph, MO
Phone: (816) 279-8712
Camps Market, Inc.
13157 Hwy 52
Versailles, MO
Phone: (573) 378-4395
Weaver’s Country Market
13920 Market Rd.
Versailles, MO 65084
Phone: (573) 378-4672
Website: http://www.weaverscountrymarket.com/
Schrock’s Country Store
26998 Highway 65
Warsaw, MO 65355
Phone: (660) 438-0019
Kuntry Bulk Grocery
1274 Northeast 1031
Windsor, MO
Hope it works. My garden is small enough that I can usually protect my tomatoes, by pulling off the worm, and cutting him in half/squashing under my boot heel on the concrete.
That blt wrap sounds good, but your cherry maters make it into the house? We thought they were appetizers while picking large maters.
Wife make tortilla wraps with cream cheese and various items and sliced, also.
These Cherry Tomatoes never left the house. They are the only homegrown tomatoes available here at this time of the year, so one has to savor what one has.LOL
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