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Bestofour #403302 Aug 7th, 2019 at 08:42 PM
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I have read that water softener water is not good for use in watering plants...the house plant or outdoor variety...so we have a switch on the water softener that allows us to bypass the softener so we can just water items like a normal person would.

Sheri, how do you fix egg plant.?


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Bet your right about the softener. Will save you having to add salt too.

I've only fixed eggplant a few times. Last time I cut it thin and roasted it and made sort of chips. I think I'll try deep frying it this time. Or I might give it away to someone who likes it. I'm not planting it again.



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Thanks for telling me, but I think I have lived this long w,/o trying it, so I think I will not be trying it.
Thanks for telling me though.


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My yellow bush beans are ripe...yummy.

I have bought a few eggplants in my life but the best recipe I found was slicing them thin into a lasagna.


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Now that I have heard of...egg p!ant lasagna. I imagine anything with sauce and cheese would be yummy for sure.


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I did half noodles, half eggplant. Although the recipe called for all eggplant...I thought that was overkill. lol

Cherry tomatoes are ripe.


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Sounds like a yummy and healthy compromise on the eggplant lasagna.

I love cherry tomatoes. I have told Rod I want a place to plant tomatoes into the ground next year.


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Everything that I planted in pots got invaded by earwigs. I will have to find an organic insecticide for next year.


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Originally Posted by Sunflowers
Everything that I planted in pots got invaded by earwigs. I will have to find an organic insecticide for next year.

Oh no! I am so sorry!

I hope you can find some good insecticide for next year..


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Originally Posted by JunieGirl
I have read that water softener water is not good for use in watering plants...the house plant or outdoor variety...so we have a switch on the water softener that allows us to bypass the softener so we can just water items like a normal person would.

Sheri, how do you fix egg plant.?


I gave them away. smile



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Originally Posted by Sunflowers
Everything that I planted in pots got invaded by earwigs. I will have to find an organic insecticide for next year.


Oh no.



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I didn"t plant potatoes this year but plants volunteered and the potatoes have been beautiful.



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Isn't that a wonderful surprise...I bet your 'purposely' planted ones don't grow like that. lol


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Home grown potatoes are THE best!


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I started my fall seeds this week. It's still so hot I hope they do well.



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I haven't started my lettuce or radishes yet. Hope to get them out tomorrow. This cold snap may have been the end of the okra and cucumbers.



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It is so cool how you get to garden again. My garden will be dying out within this month.


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It's been back in the 80's and everything is growing fine out there. I put out lettuce and radishes today. Pods are forming on the bolita beans.



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Good for you, Sheri!


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Originally Posted by JunieGirl
Sounds like a yummy and healthy compromise on the eggplant lasagna.

I love cherry tomatoes. I have told Rod I want a place to plant tomatoes into the ground next year.


I don't know about your climate, but every year I plant 1 cherry tomato plant and get hundreds of cherry tomatoes. They're so sweet. I eat them straight from the garden while I work out there. I sent my sister some seeds I saved year before last and she had volunteer plants this year. My one cherry plant always out performs the regular size tomatoes for me.



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Well see, the people who used to live here planted Bermuda grass in the back yard and to put a plant in the ground there will be a very hard process. I know what you are saying though as back at the farm I had my cherry tomatoes reseed themselves as well. I had a nice Garden there.


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Junie if you start digging you a hole now by planting season it will be ready. Maybe cover an area with cardboard or landscape fabric to kill that Bermuda grass. If you can find a straw bale or pine needle bale or 2 to sit on top of the area, the grass will be dead and you can maybe work it through the winter. I'm going to leave the bales I planted squash in this summer in the spot they're in and move them in the spring, tiller a little and plant potatoes there. There shouldn't be any grass growing under them.



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I appreciate the advice, but if you kill bermuda grass the neighboring Bermuda grass can send roots up to 6 inches down to spread back to the cleared area. So it is very invasive. And that is my problem. I can clear away a place but by the end of the season the plants will be chocked completely out. If one is to have a garden in an area of Bermuda grass the best thing to do is to either make a very deep raised bed, and but a strong barrier down past the raised bed walls to keep the grass out of thebed, or if you want to use the area at ground level you need to use some type of metal plate and force it down well past the 6 inch depth, and then make sure all 4 sides of the metal meet so the grass cannot force it's way thru even a small crack.

I will probably make a place where there is still regular grass.....and use that area until the Bermuda grass spreads to that area. Then I guess it will be time for a tall raised bed.
But again, thanks.


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That's just awful. I just read an article about eradicating it and the number 1 thing is Do not rototill the area. You will break the rhizomes up into small pieces that will create more plants. And weed eat as close as you can then cover with cardboard or carpet and make sure it doesn't grow over the cardboard or carpet - keep it wet and make sure the edges stay down. I feel for you. I didn't realize that wire grass is bermuda grass. I have a patch of it come up once in a while and I dig it out by the root. I'm going to start bagging it up and putting it in the trash instead of throwing it in the woods.



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Yes, please do throw it away....I have a motion that the lady next door told the lady here to plant it..when I was complaining about it to her, she said yes we have that too...Then last week she said it had chocked her beautiful line of iris and that she had to pull the grass out...but by the spring it will be back....smh


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Oh no. Are the iris's all gone?



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She says all she has to do is pull out the grass, we shall see come spring....


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We are eating the pole vine bean pods from the seeds that Junie sent a few years ago. DH now calls them "Carol's beans" ....I make sure to let a few pods ripen on the vine for the next year, that's the great thing about heirloom seeds.

Thanks again Junie kissie


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That's great sunny. I'm growing some bolita beans from seeds a friend sent me. Aren't friends great.



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Sheri, what are Bolts Beans ??I

Sunny...that makes me smile.. " Carol's beans"...... So how do you fix " my" beans ?

Yes friends are great..I have tons of houseplants that were gifted to me...feeling is wonderful!


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Junie, your beans are slow boiled, drained and tossed with some butter.


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The friend who sent me the seeds says they taste a lot like pinto beans but are a little milder. Not exactly sure what that means but we shall see.

I've never added butter to beans like Sunny but I'll give it a try. The same friend who sent the beans microwaves whole beets and puts a little butter on them before eating. Says it's delicious. Gonna try that too.



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We shall see about beans...I love beets, but I eat them pickled. I do a ice box pickling that is fabulous...to me anyway.


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how do you ice box pickle Junie?



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I picked the last of the cucumbers today...then discarded the dying plants.


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So sorry for that, but I hope you get a lot of cucumbers so you can put more good tho vs up for winter, Sunny.

Sheri..I am so sad....I have spent hours and I cannot find my pickled beet recipe..I am assuming it was in one of those little cook books that are out up by organizations...and I got rid of a big box of them when I moved. So I thought I will look online and surely I will find the recipe...well nope....

If anyone can help me...here is what I can remember: 1 can of sliced beets..reserve liquud. sugar, cloves, cinnamon, vinegar, reserved very liquid or water.....

I have a sad can of beets in the pantry waiting to get pickled........


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Yesterday I dug up a drill of potatoes...I wish I had a full garden of them, they are so nice.


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Yes, I do miss my fresh home grown potatoes. I would grow 4 rows of them...I would buy 5 pounds, cut then up and then plant. I know I have said, but I had potatoes until the new year. Yep, I miss them dearly.


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I didn't plant potatoes this year. Only had 2 volunteers show up and I realize how much I miss them. Garden potatoes are so much better than store bought. Planning on growing them again next year.



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It's good to see you check in Sheri...we were worried.

I agree, they taste so much better...I'm wondering if it is because we don't 'poison' them?


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