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mullet:
I pickled 9 pints of okra yesterday and 10 pints of salsa. I also ended up with 9 quarts of pork from the hog I cut up.
I use the Bull wire fencing also for my beans, muscadines, and tomatoes. I have 12' of wire loaded with giant speckled Lima beans right now and another section with Aunt Bea speckled Pole beans. Getting ready to make a bunch of Cowboy Candy with my Jalapenos.
PaulN/KS:
When Mitzi Gaynor sang about "being as corny as Kansas in August..." she was singing about field corn. July is the month for sweet corn around here and the local sweet corn growers have been picking. If the flags or banner is waving by the gate the sweet corn is in. Picked up a couple dozen while I was heading to Leavenworth yesterday. They give you a good amount too as I got 27 ears for my 2 dozen. :)
We'll freeze some but right now it's corn on the cob time... ;D
Eric Krewson:
I had some frozen blueberries left from last year and turned some of them into jam, while I was at the stove I pickled some okra as well. I make onion, garlic, jalapeno pickled okra.
Eric Krewson:
I planted more tomatoes than I needed so I could keep my neighbor supplied, but again, he is out of town. In the past I had trouble giving tomatoes away but this year I found plenty of people who wanted them, one lady will even come over and pick, it turns out that two of my neighbors down the street will come pick them up as well. They are not garden people so I find it best if I pick the ones that are ready, throw away the bad ones and have them ready for my neighbors to pick up.
I picked these after I took the picture and gave 20 tomatoes each to 3 of the 4 families that I supply. In a couple of days, they will be ready to pick again and I will call the lady that likes to pick so she can come over and get as many as she wants, I think she cans them.
Eric Krewson:
I have been putting out a garden every year since I was 24, I rented in an old farm house out in the country back then, for my early gardens I had the land owner disc up a place up for me to make a garden. After I was divorced and moved into an apartment, I snuck in a small garden near an old share cropper cabin in a cow pasture that no one could see from the apartment house, I used a turning fork and a rake to make that garden.
When I married Miss Glenda and bought a house in a subdivision, I used the same turning fork and rake to make a garden in the back yard for the next couple of years then bought a front tine tiller to use.
The ground in Muscle Shoals was once a swamp that had been drained and developed, the soil was the richest I had ever planted a garden in and was completely devoid of rocks no matter how deep you dug. The rich soil plus a few tons of barnyard fertilizer and chicken litter produced this.
I used the same tiller when I moved to the country and could have a bigger garden. It took me all day to till up my garden with the old tiller, the ground is very rocky and the tiller beat me to death.
I had acres to mow at the new house, the old snapper mower used 5gal of gas to cut it all, again it was an all-day job.
I finally wised up and bought a tractor with a belly mower and a TILLER. Mowing the grass now takes about 45 minutes, tilling the garden takes about 15 minutes.
I often wonder why so few people plant a garden now, looking back I realize that I grew up picking out of my parent's garden and wanted the same when I started out with a family, money was tight and a garden just made sense. People that didn't grow up with a garden in the backyard don't have a clue about where to start to make one.
If I didn't plant through black plastic and have a tractor to do the heavy lifting and tilling I wouldn't have much of a garden either at 77 years old.
My brother just sent this from the Kroger store he shops at, down-right scary, I just put up 40 pints of green beans that cost me less than $5 to produce. I hope this isn't the wave of the future.
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