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I said I wasn’t going to garden again but I can’t stand not too so here goes.
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For some reason I couldn’t add an explanation to the pictures in the post with the pictures.
The first is where I’ll plant cucumbers. The straw bales are for squash and the raised bed for tomatoes. There’s another raised bed not shown for okra. Everything is minimized since it’s just me.
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I think first you write up a post then you can add a photo..but not real sure !..try doing it like that next time..but the way you did it works just fine too, Sheri !
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That's it...after seeing those pictures I am moving in with Bestofour. 
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt. ![[Linked Image from agardenersforum.com]](//www.agardenersforum.com/images/psd/sunny.jpg)
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That's it...after seeing those pictures I am moving in with Bestofour. What would you do with all your time that you’d save from not having to shovel snow?
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My whole yard would be a garden. 
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I started seeds indoors today; squash, cucumbers, okra, and put some carrot seeds in the window boxes. I think I'll start some tomato seeds tomorrow.
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Sheri, you are making me hungry for fresh veggies.I
I am envious of you. It will be quite awhile before I get to start any veggies...such as it will be.....However, my SIL has begun some onions for me in his garden though. I cannot wait !
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What kind of carrots do you grow in window boxes??
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Carrots in a window box! Never thought of that. That's one way to keep the soil light. The kids and I planted some seeds last week (melons, peppers, cucamelons, cucumbers) Today I noticed all the cucumbers are up and 1 pot of cucamelons. It looks like one melon is starting to push its way up too. I love starting seeds, so much potential. My Hubby got me a greenhouse (plastic covered - 4 x 5 ft) several months ago for my birthday, so we got it set up last weekend. Now we just need the weather to stop dropping below 0C. Not sure when it's safe to put some stuff out there. It just has my potato bags in it, hoping to thaw out the soil.
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Sunny I’m not sure what the name of the carrots is. They’re regular size and orange. I’d like to grow some colored ones but can’t find seeds. The carrot tops add a lot to the flower boxes. Good for you on the greenhouse Shani.
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I didn't think that carrots would grow well in bagged soil, I think that might be a nice idea to add some to the grands flower pots. Thanks for the idea.
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They grow fine in potting soil. I've grown them in straw bales without soil. They're very crisp coming from the straw bales.
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Good to know, Sheri...thanks !
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I might try some straw gardening this year, we have the extra straw here since we sold our cattle. We used to use it for bedding.
The kids have grown Thumbelina carrots in pots before. They are just an inch long though.
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Sunny, if you do so, let us know how yours works for you.
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I have a friend in Indiana who digs a very shallow trench, maybe 1/4 in deep, plants seed potatoes, covers with the left dirt, but then continues to cover with straw when the plants start growing. Gets lots of potatoes this way and it isn't as much work as trying to cover with dirt.
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I have a friend in Indiana who digs a very shallow trench, maybe 1/4 in deep, plants seed potatoes, covers with the left dirt, but then continues to cover with straw when the plants start growing. Gets lots of potatoes this way and it isn't as much work as trying to cover with dirt. Sounds very interesting, Sheri !
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I have a friend in Indiana who digs a very shallow trench, maybe 1/4 in deep, plants seed potatoes, covers with the left dirt, but then continues to cover with straw when the plants start growing. Gets lots of potatoes this way and it isn't as much work as trying to cover with dirt. That's a Ruth Stout garden. I watched a documentary on Youtube about her. She grew her whole garden this way, it was amazing. I plan to try that this year now that we have some left over straw.
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I'll see if I can find her on YouTube.
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~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Thanks Sunny. Great video.
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I started some squash and cucumber seeds in cups March 30th and left them on the kitchen counter in a pan of water. When I came home today I found that the cukes germinated and grew almost 2 inches. The squash haven't done a thing yet. It's too cold to put these cucumbers outside.
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Sounds like you are moving right along, Sheri. Do not worry..one day you will wake up and all of this cold weather will be gone.
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~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Yukon gold are nice potatoes. Good for you, Sheri.
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MMMmmm, they make the best french fries.
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In the past I’ve planted red also but not this year. I’m not sure if all the work is worth it for just me. Planted sunflower seeds today.
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You have to eat too, Sheri. If you have a cool place to keep the potatoes at, keep them in boxes, single layered, not touching, they could keep until well after the new year. PS I used to keep mine in bread totes like a bread truck uses, or in cardboard boxes that I layered with newspaper... Did I mention I put them in boxes in divided by be size ,? 'cause I did.
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I weeded the daylilies again!!! Where do the weeds come from???!!! Repotted a cone flower, got weeds out of one of the raised beds. Getting ready to plant vegetables this weekend.
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If only our plants grew like the weeds.
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Today I planted tomatoes, cucumbers, some okra but I'll plant a few more seeds, and squash. Also put up a barricade to keep the deer from eating my sunflowers. Hope it works.
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Sounds great. I bought my seeds....that will have to be my share for awhile.
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I bought some scarlet bean seeds today and basil seeds.
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Oh..would you please keep us informed about the scarlet beans ?
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Scarlet beans are so pretty when they bloom but I find the beans have to be picked very small to taste the best.
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Thanks Sunny. I’ve never grown them so I had no idea. Do they get tough if left on the vine too long?
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Yes, they get tough and stringy very quickly....but they are the most beautiful bloom in the vegetable garden. You'll be amazed at how bright and pretty the blooms are in 'real life'. You can also leave them to get the bean seeds inside for eating(I have cooked them is stir fry's)...they have a 'nutty' flavor I find.
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My daffodils are poking up through the ground....that means it is time to start some veggie seeds indoors.
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________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Today I dug out the sods to add another row to my garden.....my garden plot is now larger than the square footage of my house.
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Good for you, Sunny ! Do you know what you will grow in that extra space ?
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It's amazing how different our seasons are. The daffs here have been finished a long, long time and people have had their gardens planted for a month or more. Not me. I planted mine 2 weeks ago then left town so it may be dried up by now. Oh well. I'm thankful I have a very good farmers market 6 or 7 miles from my house where I can buy fresh things if mine don't do well.
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Sometimes the gardens that are not 'over tended' are the ones that seem to do well. I am down to two small mounds of snow in my yard...they should be melted by the weekend.
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Well, my garden is prepped for planting. I plan to put in the potatoes by the end of the week. 
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Well, my garden is prepped for planting. I plan to put in the potatoes by the end of the week. Way to go, Sunny..good for you !!
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My potatoes are up and I've been covering them with dirt. How do you keep yours covered Sunny? The tomato plants look really good this year. I got 2 Cherokee Purple at the farmers market today. I've never tried to start them from seed. Maybe this year I'll give that a try. I also bought a few basil plants because a friend thought he was helping and came and weeded my tomatoes, pulled up the basil and dill that I had started from seed. I didn't find any dill seeds today, will look online. Okra isn't doing so well. I have a few seeds left so I'll put them out tomorrow.
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I do the same with my potatoes although this year I am going to try a plot with the straw method as well. Your friend helped you like GG helped me many years ago....she pulled all the carrots on me when she was three years old.
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Oh my goodness..sorry for your " helper, " Sheri. Otherwise it sounds like your garden is doing well ! YAY !! I. Planted 3 potatoes, in my raised bed. It is all I had room fir. I have no idea how I am going to keep covering them in soil, and I know it is late to be planting them here but even if we only get a few small potatoes, we will have them, right ?? Sheri: how do I care for and harvest Cherokee Purple tomato ? I am trying one again this year, and have no idea what I am doing. Do I pick them before they are ripe ??
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junie, I treat cherokee purple just like any other plant and pick them when they're ripe. They just need to be eaten quickly because they go bad faster than others.
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Junie, you can use grass clippings to add to your potatoes as they start to grow.
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Junie, you can use grass clippings to add to your potatoes as they start to grow. Yea, I thought so too..and I intended to use grass clippings. Rod vetoed that as he is worried that there could be a chance that I would end up with the Bermuda grass in my raised bed. So no grass clippings. I may use them under my blackberries though.
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Blackberry plants are relentless in my garden. I have to constantly dig them up or they take cover. Planted the basil and found and planted some dill seeds. Also found some okra seeds I had saved so got them planted too. Plus we had a great day of rain yesterday. Pill bugs are horrible this year. I’m thinking of breaking out some Seven dust.
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I'm having that problem with my raspberry plants as well Bestofour, I am thinking of digging them out and moving them to the edge of my lawn....that way they can run free into the hay field.
We don't have much trouble with those Pill bugs here....I probably just jinxed myself.
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You probably did jinx yourself. Sorry about that cuz they'll eat lots of stuff. The literature says they eat decaying matter but they eat seedlings too.
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I planted a blueberry shrub and strawberry plants....and gave the flies a lunch.
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Well Sunny, at least you got your berries planted....
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Is a blueberry shrub the same as a blueberry bush? I used to have some bushes but got tired of fighting the deer.
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Yup, the same...these grow 3 ft.
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This is one of my fig trees.
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Window boxes at the pretend greenhouse.
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Squash in the straw bales and tomatoes.
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Wow such nice photos...I am impressed. You have a beautiful house and yard. Good for you ! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, great work Bestofour...keep sharing to keep us updated. I planted four rows of potatoes yesterday....and divided up a few more old perennials.
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YAY for potatoes....I hope you get a good crop.
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Thanks, today I planted onions and carrots. The rest has to wait until after the full moon in June due to frost.
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You are sure moving right along, Sunny. Good for you !
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Thanks, today I put the tomatoes and peppers in bigger pots until planting time. Those little cello packs are too small to keep them in until the middle of June.
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Any gardening is still gardening after all. So yay !..p!us this way they can still grow..😁😁 you will be ahead of the game when it is time to put them into the ground !
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We ate squash from the garden the other night and green tomatoes and cucumbers are on the vine. Sunny, I’ve been covering the potatoes with straw because they’re growing so fast and the dirt supply is getting low. I also put straw down around the cucumbers and okra and probably will put it around the tomatoes because I’ll be gone for a week and hope it will hold in a little moisture. I did this once before and regretted it because grass sprouted and was uncontrollable. But I guess grass in the garden is better than a burned up garden.
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Pretty.
You won't get grass with straw....but you will using hay.
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I always ask for straw but around here it must mean the same as hay because I’ve got grass growing in the squash in the straw bales as we speak.
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Maybe it is the type of straw...here we have oat straw.
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I think we have wheat straw.
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I think we have wheat straw. Hmmm, maybe that has something to do with it???? I have a few potatoes poking through the ground.
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My potatoes are about 1 foot high...I hope they make. I will give them more room next year. My tomatoes are doing really well as is my one pepper plant.
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Yesterday I planted my bush beans, radish, lettuce and some mini cuke seeds.
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The tomatoes, peppers and cuke plants are in the ground. My garden is fully planted. 
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My bush beans are poking through the ground.
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Yay for bush beans.
I have a few tomatoes...even if they are green yet. And OH ! My blackberries are beginning to turn red.
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I ate my first garden tomato today. So good. I've already eaten a few cucumbers and have a frig full of more. Also have squash and okra to eat. Junie, my blackberries are finished already. I got one bowl full and I guess because of the heat the rest shriveled up and died.
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I am so happy about your veggies, but sorry about the blackberries. At least you get some though.
I watered my berries tonight. Some are beginning to ripen. I hope the water helps mine ripen. We have had a lot of 98 and higher weather this last week or so. And little to no rain.
Enjoy your tomato.. And all the rest.
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I am so happy about your veggies, but sorry about the blackberries. At least you get some though.
I watered my berries tonight. Some are beginning to ripen. I hope the water helps mine ripen. We have had a lot of 98 and higher weather this last week or so. And little to no rain.
Enjoy your tomato.. And all the rest.
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Enjoy those tomatoes Bestofour.
I planted my tomatoes in the garden but saved one to plant in a pot. The one in the pot is already twice the size of the garden ones.....I know how I am planting them next year.
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Sunny. Before you make that decision, I would wait to see what kind of harvest you get.
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True...it might be all foliage and no veggies.
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True...it might be all foliage and no veggies. That is why I suggested waiting. I want to see for myself what kind of harvest it I get before planning next year So far I have plenty of green as well, with the exception of one plant..That one is called "Mountain Princess"..I hope they taste good !
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I hoed up the garden...everything is up now although my carrots seemed to skip in a few places. I think regular seed was better than the pellet type I used this time.
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Glad everything is up, Sunny. I got 2 tomatoes last night. One cherry, and one Mountain princess.
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I was tickled to see blooms on the scarlet beans and the okra is doing well. Ate okra, squash, cukes, and tomatoes tonight.
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The flowers on the scarlet runners are prettier than the taste of the beans.
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We've had 3 evenings of really nice rain so the garden floweth over. It's great.
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You are very fortunate. We have had 1 inch of rain a few days ago. We have had not more than a drizzle or so for weeks. It is quite sad really. I am SO happy for you, Sheri.
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Night before last we had 2 inches of rain and it's pouring today. Unfortunately all this wet stuff is causing the tomatoes to split. Thankfully we have gotten a few nice ones but if this keeps up the next ones will definitely be throw aways.
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Yep have had to throw away lots of tomatoes due to splitting.
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I’m at Ginger’s. I hope the bugs or heat don’t take my garden before I get back.
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Yes, I understand that...We are at my youngest's DD and I hope my plants are ok by the time I get back as well......
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Yes, I understand that...We are at my youngest's DD and I hope my plants are ok by the time I get back as well......
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Junie, I heard you the first time.
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Junie, I heard you the first time.
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I picked the first of the yellow bush beans today...yum.
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Got some okra today and cooked it and some squash for dinner and had a fresh cucumber too. My garden has done very well this year. Remember the scarlet runner beans??? The flowers are pretty but I haven't gotten one single bean.
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I am glad you got the okra, squash and cucumbers out of your garden, Sheri. AND if you got pretty flowers out of your scarlet runner beans, you did get something out of the plant....so score ! I am glad your garden is doing so well. 
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Junie, I guess that's one way to look at it. 
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The flowers are prettier than the taste of the beans anyway Bestofour. Of all the beans I ever grew, scarlet were the prettiest but the least favorite for eating. My garden is flourishing this year. I am ever so thankful. 
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I am so happy for you, Sunny. This is a good year for that to happen !
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I'm still getting everything from the garden but it's starting to die off. There won't be much more squash after this week. I'll miss it.
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You should freeze some squash meals for the winter, Sheri. Then you can smile while you eat it when it is cold.
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I blanched and froze bush beans today....they'll be delicious in the middle of Winter.
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Why yes they sure will ! ( And you won't have to pay to eat them, so score !)
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I just did a walk thru in the garden, I will have enough cucumbers ready to make pickles later this week.
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You're right. I should freeze some squash. A friend told me his mother canned it and would boil it in the winter add a little salt and pepper and it was great. Might try that too. Sunny, cucumbers and my yard are great friend. That's another thing I'll miss in the winter because store bought ones just aren't tasty.
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You could even prepare it how you like it, them freeze them, when they are froze then wrap them up again to prevent freezer burn.
Ok I will go away now...
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You could even prepare it how you like it, them freeze them, when they are froze then wrap them up again to prevent freezer burn.
Ok I will go away now...
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More bean picking and preserving today. I am going to make some 'dilly beans', I have never made them before but we'll see how they taste.
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It's way toooo hot for me to even go out there today.
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Yay for more thing to put up, Sunny. Good for you!
Sheri, you can always go out this evening to check things out.
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It hasn't been cooling off in the evening either. It's rainy today so it's cooled down a little. I don't like the heat.
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Yes, I do not like the heat either
I desperately need to trim back my blackberries that note this year. BUY it has been so hot I have not made it out to do that. I sure hopes the weather cools off soon.
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Being too lazy to clean up the garden has paid off.
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Fresh tomatoes in November? Mmmm, enjoy them.
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Yes. So glad for you! I too had some of my tomatoes from my garden 2 days ago. I did have to pick them half ripe but hey, I still had them.
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They'll ripen. I pick mine before they get ripe in the summer sometimes so the worms don't get them.
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Thanks and yes I know that. Who would have thought that we would be here in November with tomatoes from our gardens. Can you say we are happy?
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