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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 12 2005, 09:40 AM (171 Views) | |
| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 09:40 AM Post #1 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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In my life, especially I work in a cube farm an hour away 5 days a week, Saturday is yard day. Time to get out and work in in the yard and garden. Prune or trim or plant or weed or mow or wash. Doesn't matter. I live for this day. Today I went early for a yard of dirt (compost still steaming in the morning air) and, of course, beer. Time to prepare the garden and start some tomatos and eggplant and peppers and herbs! So what are you up to today? |
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| mychrissy | Mar 12 2005, 09:46 AM Post #2 |
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Besides sitting on my butt posting in the forum, I'll do my usual. Shop, clean, cook and I'm not even home. Kidding about the cleaning, our son is a neat freak. Never would believe that, he was a slob when he was young. See Chris, nothing changes for us women we still have our chores 7 days a week. Frank should be arriving soon, spend more time with our son and maybe have a BBQ with his friends tomorrow. This one friend of Francis's is a Newfie.... Monday we will take a drive west to the mountains in North Carolina and enjoy the scenery. |
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| DylansMom | Mar 12 2005, 09:58 AM Post #3 |
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
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We can't even see the yard!!! I'm just gonna do some housework, and sit here watching the dang snow come down! Boy how I wish it was a distant memory!!!!
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Greg, Dylan & Jasper too! 2005 F350 King Ranch PSD Crew Cab 4x4 Dually; 2005 Carriage Carri-lite KIQ View My Pictures Here
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| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 11:53 AM Post #4 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Hundreds of radishes from over the winter. Kyoko is supposed to keep up with them--I plant, she harvests, but hasn't. I pulled up, so she's going through to pick out best, likely couple pounds. Rest go in the compost pile. Ah, what a day! |
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| mychrissy | Mar 12 2005, 11:57 AM Post #5 |
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Love radishes....................Too bad you're so far away. |
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| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 12:19 PM Post #6 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Just down I10! as Jackie would say.
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| mychrissy | Mar 12 2005, 12:28 PM Post #7 |
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Chrissy
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That "10" will tear the heck of of your motorhome, the road is terrible for miles. I think someone on ORF talked about it. When we went west to San Antonio a year ago something underneath the motorhome got loose. Nothing terrible, but not a comfortable feeling when you think your bottom is going to fall out.
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| Heathertee | Mar 12 2005, 12:34 PM Post #8 |
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Heather-Central Connecticut
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Yes, Chrissy, that would bother the heck out of me!
I would be envious of you getting the garden in so early, Chris, but when August comes yours will be all dried up and baking in the sun while I am up to HERE in tomatoes, eggplant and green beans.
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| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 12:44 PM Post #9 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Don't want to lose the bottom, oh no! Drive slower? McMurtry's Roads covers I10, he had no trouble--though he drove a Caddy. Heather, it's a risk. 15th is average last frost, so could lose everything. Thxis year I feel lucky! |
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| Little Kopit | Mar 12 2005, 01:51 PM Post #10 |
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Where is the green smiley. Just how big and tough are those radishes??? But like Heather says, your peas will be all gone and I will be thoroughly enjoying many fresh veg. Summer squash doesn't freeze well. Heather, end of season, vegetable pancakes, put as many veg. into the product as you can squeeze in. 2 leaves r. chard, 2 leaves, s.chard, 2 leaves n.z. spinach, 2 leaves regular spinach, wax beans, green beans, runner beans, onion, cucumber, baby carrot, kohlrobi, sugarann peas, parsley, chervil....i. Usually, I manage to get up to 11 including all varieties.... Onion and cuc are anchors. Yummy!! Chris, if you like radishes, you'd like kohlrabi. I use it mostly like a radish. Polish veg. above ground turnip, but I like it raw. |
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| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 02:16 PM Post #11 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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A few are the size of major league baseballs!!! I like radishes nickle--oops--thumb sized. I have always had trouble with cucs. One year, fine, next, next, next, no dice. Something I'm missing, not considering. |
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| Little Kopit | Mar 12 2005, 02:33 PM Post #12 |
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You could have started a seed garden. Those radishes should have produced see - if they weren't hybrids, that is. Kohlrabi, try Kohlrabi. Pity about the cucs. Zuccini. LIttle zuccini can be used like cucs. I scrub, not peel. Usually I just dice them into a salad. Bigger than your thumb in diameter, smaller than our quarter. About 5 inches long. Thinned to 4 plants in a 4'x4' space. More than I need. In your climate should feed more people. |
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| Heathertee | Mar 12 2005, 02:52 PM Post #13 |
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Heather-Central Connecticut
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Cukes are heavy feeders and like a lot of fertilizer and lime. I grew 4 plants ....4 seeds!...around a tall tomato cage from Wal~Mart and had so many cucumbers I was pickling them, made relish, ate thousands of salads, and threw dozens on the compost heap. It was a new hybrid type; supposed to be eaten when only four inches long, but most got bigger. Sugar Snap I think it was named. They also like moderate weather so maybe in the years they failed it was too cool, or too hot, or too wet which can also discourage them. Try different varieties. The pickling kind are hardier. Lynne, vegetable pancakes? You mean, using pancake batter? or putting the vegs together? Please clarify; I am intrigued. |
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| cmoehle | Mar 12 2005, 02:59 PM Post #14 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Texas, SA, anyway, is always too. Zucs do fine, and other squash like them, long as they don't mold. Kohlrabi, Kohlrabi, I'll try! Cukes being heavy feeders makes sense, if one year they do well, they're eating up what they need and I'm not replenishing. Lime? When I worked at home I had so much more time for these matters. There is nothing better in life than a fresh tomato or cucumber or... |
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| Little Kopit | Mar 12 2005, 06:54 PM Post #15 |
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Heather, As you know I use whole wheat flour for a lot of things and it's fine. Not vegetable pancakes. WHITE only or you lose some of the flavour. Olive oil is fine too. Try this with a few willing victims around so you can mix a fair bit to start with. It's so easy to have too much & it doesn't save well. Fresh, everything fresh. Dice all veg small, no bigger than 1/4". Toss together. I use very little salt. Mix your batter, at least 1 egg per person, and thinner than normal. Pour over veg and mix together. Have your frying pan a little less hot than normal. (if dial ususally is 5, go 4) If I knew my timing well, I think I might cover during cooking. When you put the batter in the pan, spread with with mixing spoon to close to desired shape. Watch your bubbles closely. I do these seldom enough so I need to watch them more closely than normal. As I said earlier this is sort of an end of season thing for me. I get home and go out to the garden looking, pick what I'm going to freeze that night and then pick what I want for A batch of pancakes. This is especially fun with a year when the first frost keeps on not happening. One thing that doesn't seem to work - tomatoes. Not with other veg. Cucs work best. & zuccini won't replace cucs here, but it's ok. & you might want to try with just few veg first, beans, sugar ann (fat juicy pod) peas, onion size of quarter, /14 c. cuc, spinach (amount = beans and peas). All veg will be chewy. But yummy IMHO. I was served it by a gourmet cook. I'll bet it might be in a Scandanavaian cookbook. When you're getting lots of exercise, maple syrup is nice. I think I might try diced strawberries, that have been frozen, if I were doing for more than one. Never had the guts to do it though.
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