Sure is good to hear from you guys!

Still having problems with my computer, among other things. Life is NOT boring here!

LIZ,

Hope the mower got fixed. What got the spagetti squash? Don't even ask me about my garden! That is definitly a long story! Did get some Jacob cattle beans though. Beans are all that is happening here

Dave, I will try your experiments, but I figure anything like garlic, that I plant now, will definitly get murdered by the cold with all the top growth I will get. But, ya know what? I did stick a couple tiny onions back in the ground just to see what would happen. Now ya know this crap is going to divide to high heaven, but big individual cloves is what we are after, so, What the heck!

So.

MHG, where ya been? Everyone else is present and accounted for.

What's for supper tonight?

I decided to rotisserie a chicken (haven't started it yet, but it is marinating). And I made some potatoe salad that didn't turn into mashed potatoe salad for a change( that is mellowing as I type)! Woo Hoo! And corn on the cob.

I keep getting booted off here, and I keep seeing strange pop ups? Anyone know what all that could be about?

Taking a break until DW is ready to make some apple juice. We picked 3 boxes of transparents today. I gave Cody the goat a heaping shovelful of soft and semi-soft apples. He was so happy, he snorted I picked half of my red potatoes first thing this morning. I surprised DW with a big breakfast. Home fries, with our garlic, texas super sweet onions, yellow zucchini, and herbs with all of it except the olive oil from our garden. YUMM! Bacon and cheese omelette to go with it. Poor dogs got no free bites, just clean plates to lick. Speaking of dogs we had thunder storms off and on all night. Our DD's lab Sadie is spending 4 days with us. All the dogs were scared every time thunder struck. 3 spent the night in our bedroom. Every time I woke up to thunder there was a spotted brown dog sitting next to my face watching me. 3 days of 100 degree weather finished off my second round of peas. I was cutting them down today and the pony came over to help. I tossed a few stalks over the fence and he loved them. I stopped cutting them up for compost and gave them all to him. Cheap thrill. Harvested a bunch of softball sized beets that were hiding. Oh-oh.Gotta go make juice. Later,

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Alaskan:

How's the baby and the rest of the clan? How many flies are in the house today? Smiler Did ya ever post a pic of the sunflower? How are the chickens? Are you getting eggs? Now ya know I am interested in all that, so please tell me!

Baby is growing, all the boys are doing well (no more blood loss than usual).

We had 3 days in a row of lots of flies (what was interesting was that the flies were so small) then after our maybe 1 week of summer.... well, I think it is fall now.

Sunflower pic: Nope, never did. I thought I had taken one, but when I looked through the camera I only had a pic of the bud. Sunflower dead now....

Chickens won't be laying until November I think. Makes me think I should have gotten quail..they lay at 5 weeks of age.

That one week of warmth made the grass seed that I had planted back in the spring sprout. Kinda funny, that was over 2 months ago. I had thought it didn't sprout because the seed was bad. Nope, it was just WAY too cold.

My peas I planted early spring (well, the 6 plants that didn't rot because of no warmth), are now over a foot tall and sporting flowers.

BUT HEY!! At least my new lilies look groovy. Looks like they might even bloom this year even though it has been so cold.

What got the spag squash? First time, didn't germinate. Second time started inside and transplanted out, plus direct seeded some more. Perhaps didn't put a big enough chunk of "good dirt" into the planting area within my freshly-sheet-composting bed, because a few I think keeled over of natural causes. The last one was looking pretty good until the slugs ate it. Every last morsel. They are merciless!

Last night for dinner we had (that would be me & Max) left-over beets with yogurt sauce, left-over beef & tomato stuff (the pot roast taco mixture, made milder than usual for mom who didn't like it too well anyway so I stuck the rest in the freezer until she left) and a mashed giant potato that one of the other vendors at the farmer's market gave me. Boy was it good! Hoping for a few of my own eventually, but I got 'em in late so they're not ready yet.

Fill us in on your fun, LisaAnn. Did you find your contacts? (Just got that 3-week old message yesterday.)

andlifegoeson

So LisaAnn, it's Monday. You've had the whooooole weekend to play in the garden (except for when you may have been at the fair). So how's it going? How's your corn? Brussels sprouts? Etc????

I almost forgot to take pix of my veggies without your asking to see 'em! Better get out there b4 everything freezes, don'cha think? We've had some lows in the 40's already, so fall is coming...

Okay, it's been awhile since I have done a FRIDAY post, but I have a 4 day weekend, (I love 4 day weekends, don't you?), so here goes.

FRIDAY ACROSS THE NATION! And it's finally raining here and we've had almost an inch of rain, and can't go out to play so Hubby and I are listening to and watching it rain and doing what every good gardener should do!

Toasting the rain!

Liz,

Did you post pics of your garlic harvest?

What can you send me? I have nothing to trade. Sorry. But, I would love to have a bulb of your favorite garlic to try this fall, to say, that's Liz, my friend's Garlic. No point in going in to detail. The past is the past now. I'm trying to move forward.

My brussel sprouts are doing pretty good. Not many bug bites. Sprouts on the plants are not big yet, but I have loads of time. No frost here till at least Halloween.

I didn't plant corn this year. Been buying it at the farmer's market though. Silver queen is still the most popular variety here. I would have thought by now, a supersweet variety would have replaced it, or some heirloom like country gentleman would have come back in the limelight, but nope. Heirlooms are getting more publicity here lately though, in the paper and on the news, so things are looking up in that reguard.

One oddity:

I planted brocolli this spring. Harvested the heads and side shoots, ripped out all the plants, by mid July. Well, anyway, one plant had kind of died in the spring and never really grew, and I left that one be. Lo and behold, that sucker is finally making a head NOW! CRAZY! Been out there since April and finally started to do something. Late bloomer? Stubborn? Oh well. hahahahah

Dave,

I don't want to go into detail, but could you spare a Dave's Monster bulb? I have no cloves to plant this fall. I'm begging, and I have nothing to trade for it.

MHG,

Happy Friday! 3 day weekend for you I guess! I suppose you are going to be digging in the dirt?

Okay Guys, Enjoy the weekend.

Hi lisaann, sure I can spot you a bulb. Did you eat all of yours? Nope, you sold them all for 5 bucks a piece, huh?
Send me your address again. My buddy grid showed up here now that Beth is looking for someone to put in the magazine. I want to hear about grid's great tomato experiment. He never answered the questions, nor posted any pics. Did it fail or succeed????

Dave,

Don't have any contacts on email. Another long story. I'm full of long stories, like allenwrench. hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Anyway, slip it in. I'll get it and let ya know to take it off! I'll be here a bit yet.

And dude, Thanks!

oh2fly AT clearwire DOT net

Thanks Dave,

Watch for mail.

Hey there LisaAnn. I'll find you something. Haven't finished cleaning it yet. Just been out of the ground a few weeks. If I forget next time, make sure I take ALL the scapes off! No second guessing! But I got a few decent ones.

My corn & cukes $ucked. Obviously I don't have enough space to give as much to corn as I did this year. Yet another lesson. Tomatoes are just beginning to turn. Can you believe it? Most of the heirlooms are still greener than green. 2 warm days forecast and then a week of highs in the 60's (55 forecast for Tues). I hope things perk up after that or my tomato factory is going to be out of business before it ever takes off. Ha ha.

Glad you're back! Stick around! We miss you!

P.S. Max says hi to Lucky. He nearly got roughed up again this week. Police were called...

MHG's in the house! Howdy, where you been?

lol...hi dudes an' dudettes.....warden wasn't lookin', so I stole his Coronas and snuck out....give me a few minutes to do some reading here....lol

ROFLMAO !!!!!!

I see a little bit of everything has been posted while I was on my sabatical from OG.....

Dave's got a couple of pics to post here for me. Thanx buddy.

....well... let's see if I can work up a time-line here to catch up....

As I recall I had just gotten into the garlic when I had to get off here and knuckle down.....

Garlic was harvested and hung. Not all of it has been processed and delivered yet. Not only did a 5(+) inches of rain just after we got started slow the harvest, it mostly rotted my early-mature varieties. Salvaged enough for seed stock. The rest of the harvest quality isn't bad; average sized bulbs, but with huge individual cloves. Very buff and sexy looking.

HyVee ( major reginal grocery chain ) has my poster hung over the produce section. Kinda makes my head swell whenever I am in there and see it. .....(everybody sing) ".....get a copy for my mother..! "

Finally let loose of my wallet enough to buy that tractor. Massey TO 35....too late to use on the garlic, but cousin brought over greatgrandpa's walk behind potatoe plow and we used that on them.

Wife got a bad hospital report. We're dealing with that.

Tater's were the best I've ever grown ( Yukon Gold ). Can't believe I didn't take time to get pictures, but I had potatoes the size of Acorn squash, very few that weren't smooth or blemished.
Because the garlic harvest was delayed by the rain, that set the potatoes back also. I missed out on my hospital account, my only real potatoe competition beat me at gettinng them out of the ground and got the first foot in the door this year. Had just a wee-bit of a bad feeling that I might be buring 600 (+) lbs of potatoe in the compost pile if I didn't find another outlet quick. The TaterGod smiled on me and the next day I got an email saying a local school would take the whole load in one shot. And that has turned into a conversation about me supplying three local school districts next year. ( ...anybody wanna volunteer their vacation time to dig, wash, dry, weigh, bag, store, deliver potatoes next year....?? )

Finished hauling the spaghetti squash in and laying out on pallets as they finish turning a lovely shade of yellow. Retail right now is $2/lb. here, so I'm grinnin'....

Started haulin' in the Acorns tonite. That's gonna take the rest of the weekend if it's all I have to deal with......but it won't be....

Onions are sold and gone. All of them went direct sale, which upper their return.

My horseradish wants soooooo badly to be dug and ground, but there just isn't time. 400 ft. of tomatoes have also been left to themselves as time constraints have gotten overloaded this year. And it has been a most excellent growing year here; except for that untimely 5 incher.....damn'd if there isn't some of the purtiest 'maters out there....

Carrots,beets and cucumbers are done and gone. Won't be putting in a fall crop other than the garlics, though I had requests.

Butternuts have a couple more weeks yet before I'll have to start working them. Be back working on garlic ......should finish just in time to start planting it again.....roflmao !!!!

..........and now it's time for another Corona.....