Posted on 07/25/2014 6:35:12 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper
Oh, I have used a scythe. Yeah, one of those will teach you to appreciate a sickle-bar mower, of all things. And scythes are downright dangerous... cut myself several times sharpening them, until I got it through my knuckle head to wear a heavy glove on the stone hand.
Fortunately I never actually swung the thing into myself. That strikes me as being kind of hard to do, actually.
I planted a batch of Italian Red potatoes about two months ago that seem to be about ready to harvest (the above-ground part is dying off).
Two months from now (late September) is well-before expected first frost.
Can I harvest this batch, dry some for a few days, and replant for another crop this year?
Or do I need to do something else?
Or just plant spinach, which grows fast?
/johnny
rightly, you can stop worrying - I have the required “ring”.
When you live in another area, It takes time to change all your addresses and phone numbers pertaining to companies with whom you have to deal. I still have my house so utility companies and all other bill companies had to be notified where I moved but I got as many bills as I could sent to me by email to cut down on paper through the mail.
As for gardening: I brought all my seeds with me as well as several plants. The Cherry Punch cherry tomato plant is still producing and the sweet banana pepper has new blooms on it. When I left there the first time to come here and then went back, the netting I put over all the tomatoes kept out the squirrels and birds and we collected lots of large, medium, and cherry tomatoes. Those tomatoes were Sweet Million, Fourth of July, Cosmonaut Volkoy, Tycoon, and Better Boy.
I'm going to try to grow a Cherry Punch tomato plant inside in the winter. It was developed to be a container tomato plant and has 30% more Vitamin C than other tomatoes.
Just before I changed my life for the better, I ordered Tom Thumb Lettuce seeds and (from Eden Brothers) bought a bunch of Bronze Mignonette Lettuce seed (one ounce) and Little Gem lettuce seed (1/4 pound). All these make small heads of lettuce. I have the two from Eden Brothers here but don't have the Tom Thumb. I missed getting that one in with the others. I bought these various seeds since I screwed up lettuce I planted earlier in the year. Either I screwed up, or lettuce hates me. I'll try to grow those this fall along with some other tomatoes. When we go to my house in the fall, I will dig up the Walking Onions and bring them here.
Dear Bob is adjusting to my prepper/gardener self. There is a fancy electronic rain gauge here but it isn't set up right now. I've put that on a “Honey Do” list so he will get it reporting. He was a wrestler in college and has superior upper body strength. Finally, someone to lift what I can't. Oh, I just told him I put the rain gauge on here and he laughed and said he would set it up when he goes outside in a short while. I love free labor. :o)
Poor Bob. ;)
/johnny
Bob says that's a accurate description of his situation.
I looked through the papers, etc., I brought to do with gardening and found the two envelopes of lettuce I got to send to you. One of Bronze Mignonette and one of Little Gem. I'll get those in the mail to you, hopefully this evening.
Joe Bastardi's Saturday Summary July 26, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:14:33 PM · by Excellence
Summary :
discussion of low # of tornados and wild fires, and why
end of the month = below temps in Oklahoma and central U.S.
stunningly cool throughout the heartland by the end of the month
expect colder temps this winter , again !! ( just like last year)
super "El Ninio" broadcast by mainstream press is B.S., and designed for the hysterical media's need for headlines and viewership rateings ,
and complies with governmental approved climate change dynamics
I would try it !
Potatoes are fairly cold tolerant, although you might have to cover them in hard frost with a blanket, or with straw on really cold nights.
Go for the experiment !
and Play in your garden .. since it is sn experiment of what you can accomplish !
There was someone selling them at the local farmer’s market ... I asked her, she said to dig a few and wait until they grow eyes, then replant.
I’ll try that.
Most store-bought potatoes have been sprayed with a hormone which inhibits easy sprouting.
and are designed to have potatoes stored for long periods of storage or longer with refridgeration.
/johnny
Hey, rightly wasn't the only one worrying about Bob living in sin. ;oP
Glad you are getting your old life, and your new sorted out, and I can't imagine the big pain it must be to get addresses, and other bills changed over.
Lol, I just realized I still have some stuff in my "old" name from the early 70's..Oh, my!
“I can’t imagine the big pain it must be to get addresses, and other bills changed over.”
It has made both of us realize how connected we are to many, many, companies. I thought about insurance companies today and have to change those addresses. Your taxing city/county entities also have to be told of new address. It just goes on and on. Why can’t we just get in our car and go live somewhere else without informing the whole world? I get this feeling a lot - just leave me alone, world.
I brought the Mandarin Orange tree with me and the four oranges are still on there, growing bit by bit, the way they have been for months.
Bob grew up in Penn., and Polish was spoken in his house. So, he is a Yankee, although he has lived around the world searching for oil, but has lived in Texas twice, once in Houston and here north of Dallas for many years, has been in this house when he built it in 1983. Growing up in Penn., was a different type of life than down in the east Texas oilfield. We were born in 1933/1934.
Lol!
Yellow sticky paper from a plant nursery. I have no idea if the big box stores sell it. I get mine at the mom and pop nursery, and a 6" x 4" sheet lasts over a month..or until covered in bugs.
If I didn't live here, I would want to live in Krakow. He should take you there. He can drink beer. You can drink Krupnik. The cukierna (whatever is plural for bakery) They're a real oinkathon..yum.
Glad that your oranges didn't fall off your tree.
Hey Johnny! I have a question for you. When making sunflower seed butter, is there anything you add to it other than sunflower seeds?
I ground up some seeds in my new grinder and got something that’s too dry for sunflower butter, but not dry enough for sunflower flour.
It did add a new dimension to my beef gravy, though!
The smaller russian oil seeds have more oil content than the large snack variety of sunflower seeds.
/johnny
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