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bjrogg:
Good luck with the morels Eric. I tried it once but it didn’t work for me. I would like to try it again. Maybe I did something wrong or conditions were wrong. At any rate, hope it works for you. Never can have to many morel hunting spots.
The grill looks great. I have a big four burner grill I kinda inherited from a very good friend. I had to change burners, grates and heat deflector but it is working great now. It was so awesome to light it the first time and smell the familiar aroma from my friendsj cooking.
My sister in law just gave me her husbands smoker. I got it working in time to smoke my last batch of smoked summer sausage. Once again it was so awesome to smell my passed brother in law’s cooking and I feel like we both contributed a little love to that first batch.
Your grill looks great.
Bjrogg
Pappy:
You are about like me Eric, lots of projects going on. :) I had a guy at the Classic a couple years ago give me a big bag on morel spores and told me how to plan them, I did pretty much what he said I think :-\ but didn't work for me either, someone told me sometime it takes a couple of years for them to come up, we will check and see again this year. Hope yours works out. :)
Pappy
Eric Krewson:
Poke picking time, we have had a lot of rain this spring, I have never seen as much poke weed coming up alongside the exercise trail that I walk. The poke was too small last week but just right this week so I started stockpiling it to put in the freezer.
I have never fried the stems but have watched the videos on how to do it safely so I brought home some stems as well as leaves.
I put up 4 packs on the first round and will pack my Walmart bag much fuller on my trip to the trail today. I blanch the poke 3 times dumping off water with the toxins in the process. I freeze the blanched poke leaves unseasoned and season it when I cook it.
Pappy:
I use to eat a lot of poke when my Mother in law and Miss Joanie Grand Mother was alive, they both loved it and knew how to cook it up, poke and eggs was their favorite . I have a lot of it around the farm and use the berries from time to time for stain. :) By the way Gil got the Yew stave, now when the Classic is over I will help him fashion a bow out of it, very nice piece of Yew for sure. :)
Pappy
Eric Krewson:
Time to start on the garden, the ground turned up perfectly. I plant through black plastic, I have to for several reasons. I have put so much barn yard fertilizer in my soil over the years that that the weed seeds in the stuff are so thick that I would have to hoe the whole garden every day to keep the weeds down. The next reason is this old man can barely hoe a row much less than a 20X60 garden.
The plastic is a pain to put down, I make giant staples out of grape arbor wire to hold the corners down, gallon jugs full of water and 20 or so 6' T-posts scattered about keep the rest down. The wind will lift the plastic like a sail if it isn't held firmly in place. After the plants grow a little keeping the plastic down is not a problem. I recycle the plastic for as many years as I can, I usually get two years, sometimes three before the sun degrades it and it falls apart. I take the plastic up in September to plant my greens, I fold it up and keep it in my shop.
The dirty plastic in on its second year, I put last year's ground side up to cut down on the glare, the sun's reflection off fresh plastic will burn young plants.
I may decide to plant something different than the previous year in a piece of recycled plastic, I fill the old holes with newspaper to block the holes and cut new holes.
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