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Post by Laura on Mar 2, 2012 18:37:53 GMT -5
We try not to salt too much food. I can feel it in my veins pulsating..& I am a salt lover. Been trying really hard though to stay away from the stuff.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 3, 2012 6:12:48 GMT -5
I try to stay away from it. Sometimes there is that stray pizza that just won't be ignored.....LOL
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Post by colorado on Mar 3, 2012 11:29:19 GMT -5
Sausage has it. Bacon loaded. Food the other night was salted. That hambuger was good. The cake I guess should not eat but I did. Free cake I eat. We sat there and waited for the book drawing. I got to put the ticket out. Why me? I shut my eyes and none of us there got the free book. Some others waiting. Son did buy a book. I will read his. Guy was out of the hardbacks and son will get it later. Paid for it.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 5, 2012 5:08:51 GMT -5
I've got to get into the "big" freezer and get out a bunch of tomatoes and okra today. Can't have them settin' in there when the new ones come in. Actually the okra is year before last's, hope it's still good. Good time to make space tho for what I hope will be a good crop from a few nice tomato plants. I had to get creative with building a frame to hold up indeterminate plants with their roots in 18-gal totes, we'll see how it works. Made out of 2x4, rather it be over-built. We have lots of summer thunderstorms, well year-round really. I need to take a picture when the frame's finished.
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Post by colorado on Mar 5, 2012 18:14:55 GMT -5
Better to and over build and than under and it stays up. I want to do covers for the beds if I ever get that far.
Down home one person had like 4 steel posts in and cover it with plastic for a small batch of sweet corn. I to have mine inverted V cover. Older son had a wood frame and plastic and winters over green and had greens for salad at Thanksging. I covered a late tomato one year and just an old sheet blanket and had tomatoes ripeing to 15 of Nov. Milder. Did not have any more tomatoes to ripen. Things can be done to extend the season. Spring and fall. It had set on only like a dozen as too late of tomato for there. I grew tomatoes and no stakes or cages. Bed should not be too hard to cover. 10 x 25 plastic sheets. But sure is high to buy now. I can buy bed sheets to $1 each. Bigger the better. Wind is the problem. I know not remember on Okra if I can eat. I like the fried I ate that time. What I did with canned was not very good. I could it back then. Guess did not have the right batter. I liked in to soup too. I wan to grow things I can eat.
We got several rains here this winter and is unusal for here. Snow is the norm. Still snow on north shady sides of things. His sheds keep my south side at the alley in snow. That is side I will put my shed and greenhouse on the north side of lot.
I want some hardy flowers out front. I will not go expensive on them.
My son let me read the book first. I am only little into it. Better than his first one.
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Post by Laura on Mar 6, 2012 20:37:33 GMT -5
To both of you for coming over to my forum & posting like you do!! We plan on making crackers. Funny you posted this as we were talking about it Sunday! Theres lots of things we want to make for the farmers markets. & for us.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 6, 2012 21:10:20 GMT -5
Hey, you're welcome. We do need to get some other people interested, but how?
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Post by rockhound on Mar 7, 2012 8:57:06 GMT -5
Here's a shot of my planters, all ready for tomato and peppers in mid-April. I might squeeze in a few radishes between now and then. Should have the time.
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Post by colorado on Mar 7, 2012 10:46:03 GMT -5
You are at least a month or more ahead of us here. I see the garden store part of the hardware is being worked on or getting it ready. Trees and such. 43 the other day. Snow still in shady north sides.
It looks like a good mixture in your containters.
Laura, I enjoy talking to Rockhound. I need to try making crackers and then be safer for me to eat. Oil and sugar and salt. I can have canola oil but not soy oil. Prices.
I just have part of the back yard to plant as part will be lawn. I have not measured it yet due to mud and snow. I am guess that strip will be 30 ft wide. But my greenhouse and i want a shed. That will take up some as I said. And I have to wait till get get his shed out of my back yard.
I do not know which direction to do the bed. 4 x 8 and plant cross ways. This all new to me and cost I can only do so many. I have not priced board yet but should be cheaper in big city then here. I know they were buying things for this house that way. They were buying at Home Depot.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 8, 2012 4:44:07 GMT -5
Is there a sawmill anywhere around you? They usually have cheaper boards than Home Depot. They might be rougher, but they're just gonna have dirt on them anyway. I used to get a load of slabs to cut up for the woodstove, then pick a few sorta straight ones to border the beds. Oak lasts longer than pine but I don't want any pressure-treated or creosote wood near my food. I'd rather get new boards after a few years. I did finally soak some radish seeds while I went out and planted them last evening. Sprinkled the top with red pepper. Hickory nuts appeared in my soil mix over the winter, lol. No hickory tree in sight, so squirrels like the loose soil I guess. I hope to get a few radishes before 'mater planting time.
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Post by colorado on Mar 8, 2012 12:17:20 GMT -5
I have not heard of any saw mill here. No timber area I think. My older son not here get slabs to burn. Native lumber be better as be a little thicker. Too far to haul from there. I plan to get just cheap as I can stuff. First bed can be for root crops and peas. Stuff that can be planted early. Then make more for later stuff. I am in a gas and oil field area. Oil shale in this county some where as news says Shell is going ahead with their there project. Chevron has quit it said. They have leases on goverment land for it. Back in 80's oil shale caused a boom and bust here is western Colo. They are trying to prevent it happening again. WAs going slow. Suppose to have a new process. They have been trying since the 20's to get oil out of the shale. Gilsonite they could make work. It is way different.
I am not sure when son will go to city again. I am not out of anything. I will go next week to the doctor but got on the senior bus. He wants to check me every so many months. My scale was haywire and this morning 107 and I knew could not be right. I put in the new battery and it said 112. That should be right. That is what I should be. Where he wants me.
I plan to get my seeds when we we go. I am debating which way to run the beds. North / south I know for rows in a garden. I plan to plan cross ways so which way. Maybe when I measure to see how much land there I will have to run to fit the gound? How many can I care for okay? Start small. ? Afford to water. I am trying to figure the water bill out.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 9, 2012 6:44:26 GMT -5
You're right, you don't want to plant more than you can get water to. So far water has not been a problem here but I understand in western states there are a lot of water situations. Good idea to build a bed or two and plant the early stuff, then add on more later. I hope it works out well for you this year. Me, I just want to see those ripe tomatoes!
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Post by colorado on Mar 9, 2012 10:03:19 GMT -5
Water is town water. I have p;enty of hose. If I can pay for it. I take it not much rain here. I went out yesterday dry enough in part to walk with out getting in the mud. I figured I could put in 16 4 x 8 beds in like 30 x 52 space. 2 feet between each side and end. Is that enough walk way? Buying boards and fertilizer and water will add up. By then the heating gas has let up, so working on budget. But it has been warmer here since I been here. Not not normal winter for here. But it was colder in Dec before I moved here. I have some rolls of plastic. I would love to have salad greens but I can not eat that. I can have iceberg lettuce a little. I need my diet list. 50 some the other day. Days are warming up. Nights still freezing. I went with son at Xmas time when he fed the cows and chickens. I think he still goes out and feeds the cows. He is suppose to take to out see the calf when it comes. So now have to do a figure on cost of 2x6's.
Do plany any other color of tomatoes beside red? I was growing different colors and shapes. I hate to give that up. I was planting a good half acre of garden.
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Post by rockhound on Mar 9, 2012 22:31:16 GMT -5
I'd make sure there is enough room between beds to run a mower if possible. By the time the plants grow big they use up the path. I like 3 feet but it depends a lot on what you're growing too. Another thought: if you put 2 of those 4x8 ft beds together end-to-end, you'll save one 4 ft board. It's not much but when you have to buy every board it can add up. It's 1/6 of a bed, so 18% saving if my math is any good.
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Post by colorado on Mar 10, 2012 14:38:13 GMT -5
Thank you, 3 maybe better. From alley to the bottom of the slope is 36 feet I guess. I need to take the tape out and be sure how far between posts. I though 8' lenght wise I will have room. A 2' bed along the fence. 36 seems big when I think about it. Those post are 8 feet apart but the ne id 3' and not 4'.
I see the neighbor has a hose of some kind along the fence top. I found a steel rod or post sticking up couple inches. On back fence line I think. I understand DIL is planning a fence between us. Then that leaves me to put that back fence in. I measured and layed rock for the green house. Has to run eats and west so the long side is to the sun. 6 x 8. My son had said he could move it. I will have to draw it out on paper and I can not figure shed size really into it, till get it.
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