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I love stuffed peppers & potatoes!!! The spring garden provides year-round meals & keeps us busy.
Tomorrow, we going to make an eggplant pie for supper (this is an extremely good year for eggplant!!!). Mrs.Ranch said she'd make the pie crust if I cleaned all the 'dishes' tomorrow... LOL!!!
Tomorrow, we going to make an eggplant pie for supper (this is an extremely good year for eggplant!!!). Mrs.Ranch said she'd make the pie crust if I cleaned all the 'dishes' tomorrow... LOL!!!
Fed the cattle.
Harvested more green peppers for Mrs. Ranch to stuff.
Refilled the bird feeders & put up another seed block.
Burned the trash (cardboard & feed bags).
Mrs. Ranch changed her mind on supper, now I'm smoking pork steaks instead.
Made stuffed jalapenos.
Harvested more green peppers for Mrs. Ranch to stuff.
Refilled the bird feeders & put up another seed block.
Burned the trash (cardboard & feed bags).
Mrs. Ranch changed her mind on supper, now I'm smoking pork steaks instead.
Made stuffed jalapenos.
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ksk
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Getting old[er] is not fun.Pinched the nerves in my right arm driving t post and pulling hog panels out of the ground.Doctor prescribed taking Advil and PT. I'm putting a electric fence around the garden next week to keep[maybe] the coons out. They ate over half my peaches,2/3 of my corn and now eating tomatoes [which I have never had a problem]. Still getting cucumbers and squash.Picking black eyed peas.
Suppose to be 98 degrees today... it's 95 now (heat index is 109). I'll cut the grass tomorrow as it is suppose to be cooler.
Watered the garden. asparagus, crape myrtles, porch pots & hanging baskets. When picking up the last basket, I discovered a cotton mouth under it...needless to say it died of lead poisoning. The snakes are thick this year.
Vacuum packed the stuffed peppers that Mrs. Ranch made yesterday.
Watered the garden. asparagus, crape myrtles, porch pots & hanging baskets. When picking up the last basket, I discovered a cotton mouth under it...needless to say it died of lead poisoning. The snakes are thick this year.
Vacuum packed the stuffed peppers that Mrs. Ranch made yesterday.
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Made bread.
Fed the cattle.
Cut the grass.
Made a pot of garbanzo beans for Dieter. Also got a pot od pinto beans soaking for us tomorrow.
Fed the cattle.
Cut the grass.
Made a pot of garbanzo beans for Dieter. Also got a pot od pinto beans soaking for us tomorrow.
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Watered the garden, asparagus, the flowerbeds & all the trees.
Made a pot of pinto beans.
Seasoned up beef fajita meat that I'll grill for supper. I'll make ranch rice to go with them & the pinto beans.
Started spraying RM43 on the roads & around the barn.. I'm about half done,
Made a pot of pinto beans.
Seasoned up beef fajita meat that I'll grill for supper. I'll make ranch rice to go with them & the pinto beans.
Started spraying RM43 on the roads & around the barn.. I'm about half done,
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ksk
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Low humidity this time of year = shredding.
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Jolene Jakesy
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Today I'm transplanting sunflowers, squash & turnips. I'm planning on trying to weave the sunflowers through a cedar grate so I have to make sure I set if up carefully . I'm making all planters from recycled containers and grew them all from seed. I'll post updates when I am finished, heres what it looks like now.
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Finished spraying RM43 on the roads, the entries & around the barn. Also finished spraying RoundUp (liquid edging) around the home site.
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Mr_Yan
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Long 6 days...
Exited my previous employer
Closed on the sale of my house
Drove a 15' box truck with a car on a dolly through Friday afternoon Chicago traffic
Unloaded the box truck
Started the new job
Just got the three moving / shipping pods (10 minutes into unloading them it started raining)
Exited my previous employer
Closed on the sale of my house
Drove a 15' box truck with a car on a dolly through Friday afternoon Chicago traffic
Unloaded the box truck
Started the new job
Just got the three moving / shipping pods (10 minutes into unloading them it started raining)
Harvested tomatoes, green beans, carrots & the last of the leeks this morning.
Processed the leeks & vacuum packed them.
Made 8 pounds of glazed carrots & vacuum packed them for the lil' boy down the road.
Watered the porch pots.
Processed the leeks & vacuum packed them.
Made 8 pounds of glazed carrots & vacuum packed them for the lil' boy down the road.
Watered the porch pots.
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Jolene Jakesy
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Where you moving to yan?
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Jolene Jakesy
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Ok so I decided not to lattice the sunflowers, and instead expanded my garden and made some make shift tables. My turnips and radishes needed transplanting, but only half the turnips survived. Heres an update for now.
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MR. G. L.
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I need some advise... been having rats get in the garden (tomatoes) trapped 3 on different nights ... no more evidence of activity UNTIL I picked 2 cantaloupes that were ready hole eaten in the end of both
what can I do to end this ... thinking about a tall barrel with water with bait on a rolling cylinder to dump in said barrel HELP
what can I do to end this ... thinking about a tall barrel with water with bait on a rolling cylinder to dump in said barrel HELP
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ksk
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Canned stewed tomatoes using German Queens that I had never grown before.They are huge and pretty tasty, Watered the garden and mowed around the house.
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Mr_Yan
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Moved from the northern part of the People's Republic of Illinois - about 15 miles south of the Cheddar Curtain - to western Michigan. Now I'm 7.9 miles from my house to getting my feet wet in Lake Michigan. This bumps me from zone 4 to zone 6 because of that HUGE thermal sink. Last winter we hit -33 F at my old house and, according to NWS, the town I moved to only hit 0 F that same day.
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Mr_Yan
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May be worth bumping to a new thread for northern gardens. Have you checked out any of Eliot Coleman's books? The 4 Season Gardener comes to mind.
Just completed another ammo packing machine for a company in Mexico.
Watered the garden & asparagus bed.
Made bread.
Did the weekly shopping.
Processed the remaining carrots, a little over 10 lbs. They will be vacuum packed tomorrow after they're frozen.
Made bread.
Did the weekly shopping.
Processed the remaining carrots, a little over 10 lbs. They will be vacuum packed tomorrow after they're frozen.
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Mr_Yan
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Bought some plants: peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, yellow squash.
Harvested 3/4s of a tub of tomatoes, which I prepped for more Picante Sauce (washed, seeded & roasted). A double batch is now ready to be finished tomorrow. NOTE:The tomatoes seem to be slow ripening this year...
Brought up 14 medium-sized onions from the party barn. Then I harvested another 14 green peppers & 25 of the super hot jalapenos for the above noted Picante Sauce.
The Lima beans ain't doing squat again this year, so they are off my garden list in the future.
Mrs. Ranch vacuum packed the glazed carrots from yesterday.
Brought up 14 medium-sized onions from the party barn. Then I harvested another 14 green peppers & 25 of the super hot jalapenos for the above noted Picante Sauce.
The Lima beans ain't doing squat again this year, so they are off my garden list in the future.
Mrs. Ranch vacuum packed the glazed carrots from yesterday.
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Made bread.
Fed the cattle.
Continued making the Picante Sauce by dicing all the green peppers, onions & jalapenos. Then I harvested 2 bunches of cilantro, chopped it up & added it evenly between the 2 pots. Finally got it all canned up (20 more pints).
We got a pretty good rain pass through here just before noon (1.11" total).
Fed the cattle.
Continued making the Picante Sauce by dicing all the green peppers, onions & jalapenos. Then I harvested 2 bunches of cilantro, chopped it up & added it evenly between the 2 pots. Finally got it all canned up (20 more pints).
We got a pretty good rain pass through here just before noon (1.11" total).
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