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Edibles - '09 - Part 4
Wow - very jealous! Would love to try watermelon but they sprawl so much.
would take over the whole 1/4 acre i bet!
Ooooh Pixie, yummmmmmy.
Thanks all, my secret is not a secret... pure organic cow manure.^_^
Composted first?
You got an organic cow?
Is there inorganic poop? I guess if the cow eats astroturf?
Yes - inorganic poop comes from Washington DC.
You gotta have an organic cow first.
Actually Brian takes the Tundra over to the farmers barn, George (the farmer) scoops up a big bucket full with his tractor and plops it in the back. Brian brings it home and uses a dung fork to throw it on top of the garden. Then Brian uses the rototiller (about 3 X's) to mix it in.
That's pretty slick Pixie.
It's pretty smelly too. ^_^
It's a good smelly ^_^
So it's slick, smelly, pure organic!
All this happens before you plant, I'm assuming. Wouldn't really work to do all that tilling AFTER planting, I guess. I'm an EarthBox girl, myself.
No cows in the neighborhood---there is a horse farm up the road a piece---maybe they'd like to donate to my garden---or isn't horse manure as good?
Yupper RobinDog. The scoop on poop http://www.plantea.com/manure.htm
I have it stuck in my head to use the horse manure in the fall... because it can be hot and burn your plants
not sure if that's true or not though ... I can get composted horsey poop... when ever I want.. just a mere 1/2 hour drive away.. when they flip that pile... just pure black gold
No kidding onewish "black gold". I use cow only cuz it's easier to get. I'm in ranch country and there are just as many horses as cows but cow poop is everywhere, horse poop not. Too funky weird.
Two 0f my sisters were here last week and I served them blueberries, blackberries and raspberries with their breakfast. That was soooo cool!
Oh, I have a lovely picture of mixed berries with some yogurt and a scone perhaps. Drooling here.
Yummy Yank! Did you freeze any? I have about a gallon bag full of blueberries froze, the rest didn't make it to the freezer. ^_^
Yes - fresh manure can be too much.
Rocindog, we had ponies in the back yard growing up, Dad used to age the poop to make sure it didn't burn the plants. You'll have to ask IrisMA how long he did it for.
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Pix - I have some blueberries, goose berries, black currants and blackberries frozen. This is the first year for the raspberries so there might not be enoug to freeze. I made balckberry sorbet for my sisters while they were here. It was good and easy to do!
How nice that sounds, Yankee! Folks, I've used horse manure on my roses---piled it up when the ground froze, so the manure would seep in during spring---but some how only cow manure sounds right to put on the veggies---weird, I know....
well here are the potatoes out of the garbage cans.... some were still kind of small.. guess they could have stayed in longer... but after finding the couple of rotten ones... I had to dig them out... only found a couple more rotten
Great job, Allison!!! Those look great to me, considering all the weather issues we've had this summer, especially! How many plants did you have total?
do you count each branch coming out of the one potato?
Nice potatoes---planting them in the barrels probably kept the blight away.
Great potatoes, Allison.
thanks... the ones we tasted on friday were pretty good
Oh yummy! Mine never even blossomed, neither did my neighbors.
Truly the story of this summer(?) !
Yes - the year that wasn't.
Hi all. I'm back on my home computer after 3 weeks without internet satellite. We have DD and her family from Colorado visiting for a week. Still no red tomatoes, but I just came in from picking several side shoots of broccoli, 8 large green peppers (looks like stuffed peppers tonight!), some more jade green beans and several onions. Also, our sunflowers are finally all opened. One is about 10 feet tall and the others are various heights. They look quite cheerful up at the top of the garden. I harvested my potatoes early and got a lot of smallish ones - not nearly as nice-looking as Allison's. My lavender monarda has just now gotten powdery mildew, so I'm glad I dug some for Celeste before the mildew showed up. Isn't that strange for it not to have gotten it during all the cool rain, but then the sun comes out and it shows up! Such a strange year!
Glad your back with us, Louise. You picked a lot of stuff in that garden! Must be nice to have your daughter visiting---I picked enough cukes to make a pint of pickles--that's all---my green beans have been pulled, peppers aren't too bad, & yes! one eggplant if we have a late frost.
Got 8 cukes today and there are more on the way. The neighbors were very happy to get a whole pile of cucumbers as I can't eat nearly that many.Red tomatoes are few and far between. Loks like I might have some of that late blight. Grrrr