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Interests => Living Off of the Grid & Survivalism => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on April 12, 2012, 11:44:14 AM
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Our church went ahead and plowed up the land on April 1st; and we marked out our garden plots last evening. I'm doing a double plot again this year--20'x30', and I may grab another plot or two of we don't fill 'em all. We have two (I think, at least one) for "Community Service," to donate to area food pantries. I'm putting in red cabbage (yes, the VRWC Secret Agents!) seeds this weekend, as well as a few other things. I've got to start my tomatoes; I may just say "**** it" and buy small plants and go that way.
Anyone else starting their vegetable gardens?
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Our church went ahead and plowed up the land on April 1st; and we marked out our garden plots last evening. I'm doing a double plot again this year--20'x30', and I may grab another plot or two of we don't fill 'em all. We have two (I think, at least one) for "Community Service," to donate to area food pantries. I'm putting in red cabbage (yes, the VRWC Secret Agents!) seeds this weekend, as well as a few other things. I've got to start my tomatoes; I may just say "**** it" and buy small plants and go that way.
Anyone else starting their vegetable gardens?
Already started for more than a month down here. Potatoes, melons, corn, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, okra.
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We usually start ours in May, for the past couple of years we've had to do the vegetables in pots because our soil was infected with a disease and the tomatoes became really messed up.
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I put in a couple of tomatos, and some green bell peppers yesterday. We now have snow down to 3500 ft and our house sits at 2000. :bs:
Our flat leaf parsley however, is going nutz.
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I had our resident gardener at work tell me that he'd wait until May 15th. I figure that I can get some of the potatoes in.
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I'll start next week. I was tempted back a few weeks ago due to the warm weather. I'm glad I didn't start because we've gotten down to freezing the last 2 nughts. Some fellows say they lost all their arden stuff to frost. This should be the last cool spell we have.
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Garlic, onions and peas are up. Everything else is still inside. Will put some greens in this weekend.
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I just kill animals to eat
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I just kill animals to eat
Quit being modest, they just swoon, and cannot survive your sublime visage when they behold you.
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Quit being modest, they just swoon, and cannot survive your sublime visage when they behold you.
Oh Lord.
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Oh Lord.
:rofl:
Include yourself in my rant !
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Include yourself in my rant !
I don't know if that is a good or bad thing. :-)
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Well, I put potatoes in today, and I brought The Heiress with me. I held one seed potato back, as if something doesn't come up, I'll sub it in. Cabbage seeds tomorrow. In seed starters that are on tray tables six-seven feet from me as I type this, I've got 100 tomato seeds in, 25 Purple Blush Hybrid eggplant seeds in, and 25 Tequila Sunrise hot pepper seeds in. The starters are peat moss, which is shipped compressed and requires water to expand. I'm going to Lowe's and getting Brussels sprouts and some cayenne pepper seeds--then starting the cayenne peppers almost immediately. I just may put the Brussels sprouts in tomorrow--a cousin of mine, who lives 4-5 miles from me, planted his sprouts today, along with broccoli.
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We had a hard frost last night . . . but I bought plastic cups to put over the Brussles sprouts. Out of the 17 that I put into the ground, I didn't lose a single one when I took the cups off this morning.
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We had a hard frost last night . . . but I bought plastic cups to put over the Brussles sprouts. Out of the 17 that I put into the ground, I didn't lose a single one when I took the cups off this morning.
WTF are you talking about ? AlGore ManBearPig promised us global warming. Hasn't he sent you some of that yet ? BTW glad you didn't lose any sprouts, no thanks to AlGore ManBearPig.
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WTF are you talking about ? AlGore ManBearPig promised us global warming. Hasn't he sent you some of that yet ? BTW glad you didn't lose any sprouts, no thanks to AlGore ManBearPig.
It was 29 Fahrenheit this morning, here.
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Red cabbage seeds and dwarf grey sugar snow peas in today. I think they'll be alright this week, with a possible nor'easter (no shit!) coming Monday evening into Tuesday.
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Quit being modest, they just swoon, and cannot survive your sublime visage when they behold you.
It's either that, or the smell.
<mamacags mode off>
:tongue:
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We're getting a well drilled tomorrow, right by the garden. Not quite sure which hand-pumping equipment will be used on the well, but it will be hand-powered. The water table is only 20 or so feet down. More to follow.
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It is 80 degrees here in Pittsburgh. It is strange I tell you. If this is a prelude of summer, it is going to be a hot one.
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It is 80 degrees here in Pittsburgh. It is strange I tell you. If this is a prelude of summer, it is going to be a hot one.
A heat wave in the city of Brotherly Love. Let's keep out eyes on that recipe.
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A heat wave in the city of Brotherly Love. Let's keep out eyes on that recipe.
The "City of Brotherly Love" Is Phill(th)y . . .
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The "City of Brotherly Love" Is Phill(th)y . . .
Okay, let's keep an eye on 3 rivers too !
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lol. I don't look for the rivers to be any trouble.
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We tried to put the point in today. Well, we got the pipe in the ground, but the driving cap we have on the thing has been tearing the shit out of the threads of the pipe. The point is down 14 feet. We figure that we've got to go about 3 to 5 feet more to get water, but before that, we've got to find a pipe rethreader for a 1 1/4"-diameter pipe. It just so happens that my brother-in-law's father has one, and my BIL is going to see his father tomorrow. I don't know when we'll be able to actually use the rethreader; probably next weekend.
I've got my Yukon Gold potatoes poking through the ground now. Maybe another type, too--I really can't remember what. Also, 8 of the 9 peas I planted have sprouted. Something has eaten most of the leaves off of two of my Brussels sprouts plants. The others have grown about 1 to 2 inches since I put them in. No joy on the red cabbage (VRWC Special Agent type) yet.
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Well, it finally got hot so the low spot I plant in is now suitable. So, today I planted.
2 rows pink eye purple hull peas.
2 rows crowder peas.
2 rows lima beans.
2 rows ford hook beans (large lima or as the wife calls them butter beans).
2 rows colored limas....I'm not racist :-).
4 rows silver queen corn.
Tomorrow I plan to plant 2 rows of squash and one row of bell peppers and cayenne (SP?) peppers.
50 Tomatoes and a few cucumbers next week some time.
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Out of the 100 total tomato seeds I started, 83 have sprouted. That includes 51 of 50 Red Beefsteak tomato seeds. :???: 19 of 25 eggplant seeds. (I'm gonna have a lot of eggplants.) Only 2 of 25 Tequila Sunrise hot peppers. But, since one Pakistani guy at work offered to pay me for hot peppers I grow, I've obtained Cayenne Golden seeds, Habanero seeds, and normal Spanish Cayenne pepper seeds.
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Okay . . . I put in habanero seeds, zucchini seeds, cucumber plants, and Big Boy tomato plants in my plot over the last week. I also put some Big Boy tomato plants, aong with some of the cucumber plants, into the Community Service plot in the garden. Seeing that one of the eight red cabbage seeds sprouted, I'm going to have to get the hardier VRWC-hybrid red cabbage plants in this week.
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I'm sure the SWAT team working for the US Dept of Agriculture is taking note of all this unregulated gardening goings on.
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With all of the rain lately, I haven't had to water a thing. I kinda like that!
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'Course, now I'm singing a different tune (about watering and the rain), but I did get six straightneck summer squash out of the garden over the weekend. My zukes are coming along, but for some strange reason, the ones I started from seed are doing a lot better than the ones that I bought as immature plants. A couple of cukes, some tomatoes coming along, the Yukon Gold potaotes seem to have their foliage dying (should be ready to pick two weeks after that; have to set the skins on the potatoes); the Hot Portugal pappers I put in already had some peppers on them when I got them; the Cayenne peppers are coming along nicely; and things seem to be going along well otherwise.
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Seems to be a good year for peppers. I made a few quarts of raspberry syrup yesterday and braided up my garlic.
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Cayenne peppers : How big should I let them grow and what do I do with them after I gather them?
A fellow gave me the plants and I have no idea what to do with them.
I've eaten plenty of squash, put up 20+ quarts and given away a bunch. I'm beginning to tire of squash. :-)
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Because we have a short growing season in Maine, i normally support Bonnie Plants in the garden center....Mother Nature is going thru Menopause I swear. One day it is cold and rainy, the next day, hot and broiling.
My mum has raised gardens with covers(lots of different veggies).lots of raspberries and blueberries. She has a major green thumb, I swear she could make a dead stick grow...
I helping her tomorrrow with her garden, since Deano passed, she is overwhelmed i think.....
She has some empty grass spots that need to be filled, so I bought some grass seed, top soil, organic hummus and manure at my Walmart. I actually went up to have my ears drained, and made sure the boys were behaving...
I will fill empty spots in those tomorrow for her.
I also bought some red and white geraniums to fill te whiskey barrel in front of my apt for the fourth....
which brings up a question about the American flag. I have the whiskey barrel, with a lamp post inside of it. I have a white trestle, that I want to hang the American Flag. Is it ok to hang the flag vertically as long as the stars or in the upper left corner?? I don't want anyone going into Heebiejeebies or get arrested..because of improper flag ettiquette..
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Cayenne peppers : How big should I let them grow and what do I do with them after I gather them?
A fellow gave me the plants and I have no idea what to do with them.
I've eaten plenty of squash, put up 20+ quarts and given away a bunch. I'm beginning to tire of squash. :-)
How did you preserve the squash?
As for the cayennes, whatever you do, do not bite into one, unless you enjoy pain. Wait until they turn red before you pick them. Mega hot that way. I've got a bunch of co-workers who like them. One even left a cayenne in his car for a day, sitting out in the hot sun. He had to drive home with his windows wide open, A/C on full blast, and his eyes were still running down his cheeks. It'd be a heluva idea for a practical joke. :fuelfire:
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I have about 15 or so jars of pickles. Had a bad garden year otherwise....got some squash and beans at the beginning, but the soil apparently had a nitrogen deficiency, so not much else is growing now. :bawl:
The temps are doing their work to it too.
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How did you preserve the squash?
Parboil until soft (about half cooked or less) and then freeze in plastic bags.