Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - Daffy Time

Thanks for the hint. His suitemate is a cook(not a chef)
And we realized the grandson was beyond Pizza when he wanted my daughters recipe for Chicken French. Go figure.

going to visit my sister and do nurserys in the Cayuga Lake area, she says there is an Amish Mkt. that sells plants at really reasonable prices. I'v spent so much on perennials I will buy my annuals there and keep them in the house.
We still get very cold nights 45* last two nits and schekinlady had temps in the 30's
I'll let New York Staters know how I made out .

Cool - let us know. GE

Monday and Tuesday nights we are suposed to be low 30's again.

Yep!!!! Any new annuals will be keeping time with the forced Caladiums and CANNAS in the livingroom window.

In grade school there was a guy whose nickname was "cornfed".

I guess we all are cornfed now.

We truly are. I can't recall the percentage the radio article quoted about McDonald's food but from the milk shake to the bun to the burger it's corn.

Wonder if thats the cause of so much diabetes. Not just people with weight problems are candidates.
I have two aquaintances with it and they are thin.

My neice cant eat a lot of stuff because of the corn. She has gout and it affects her. So no burgers, milk shakes, cheese, sausage etc. She can eat wild game though, deer, moose etc.

A vastly higher percentage of children are now both overweight and pre-diabetic and it's being blamed on so much fast food and junk food. Those things used to be a twice a year treat for our kids but now it's accepted as dinner.

The less food that we buy in boxes and cans the better it is for good health.

AMEN have been a crunchy granola type eater since the 70's.
Never eat at Mc anybody too many calories.

For those of you that are new and those of you that have been here since last year. You have not seen the whole GH set up that I endure. I will give you a tour with 6 pictures.

This is the backside.

Walk around the frontside

The inside.

The right side all veggies and some seed starter trays.

Left my potting station

Left all flowers.

Now before I go for the day. Here is the blue fescue ornamental grass that I planted March 10th. 109 plants? I cant get these up and beyond 3" tall at this point! What am I doing wrong? Too much water?

Gorgeous, Sherrie, just beautiful. You must be one happy camper - if you like to camp in the GH!

Is your blue fescue winter sown? I have never actually compared, but it is said that although not much growth is happening up top, vigorous, healthy roots are growing below the surface.

Carrie

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Thanks for the tour Schickenlady! So good to see a greenhouse in working condition. Mine has the roof blown off. I can see that the construction of yours would be far less likely to be picked up by the wind.

Pirl. I think you are absolutely right about the incidence of disease.
Nutrients and all of those other elements that keep you healthy are almost 100 percent in basic food that grows in the ground. The further away it gets from the ground the more distorted the food becomes. By the time it sits around and gets ground up and put in a box there is not much left that is healthy and there is a lot that is not. Especially when there is a bunch of fructose corn syrup dumped on to make it palitable.
Yes. People are getting sick and dying so much earlier than they need to. I wonder when they will figure it out.

It all has to do with convenience,NOT ours,THEIRS.
Nitrites added to food to preserve it and give it a longer shelf life is what it's all about.
Manufacturers and retailers don't like waste, thus you can keep pasta for years and meat these days keeps longer with modern packaging.
Don't get me started.
The most rediculous thing I ever saw was apples with wax coating. To keep em shinney for eye appeal, also butternut squash. You bet I put in my two cents. The squash was born without a wax coating so it could be storred in a root cellar over winter. Waxed squash will rot in a month.

Interesting reading while eating my lunch of brown rice and steamed chards.

Carrie - I don't camp in there. I had to come out and get shorts on, drink and potty break.

Gloria as fast as it went up last year, its lucky anything is left, even supplies as my car was about to run them over. I murdered thousands and thousand of seedling. It is not really big. 15' x 20' - that is why I bought another GH 30' x 130'. This smaller one will become the seeder.

As of speaking: There is 476 tomatoe plants. I am going to guess around 1000 total of everything. I am going to be running out of room. The vast majority is in 3" pots.

That blue fescue has me scratching my head. In a GH (small as this one is) you have to have a shade cover or you will murder many many, belive me I know I did last year. The fescue that is closer to the plastic outerside is taller! Like 4-5 inches! I will get a pic.

I am still learning a LOT......I have ran my mouth enuff......

Miss Shick: I put up a huge commercial greenhouse, thinking I would grow a few tomatoes and vegetables for sale, plus propagate some roses which I love to do.

You would not believe the obstacles! Just translating why you need exhaust and ventilation to a contractor is impossible. Not to mention a 3 year delay at city hall.

But you sure do learn a lot about what plants will tolerate and what they wont. And you better check every 2 hours or so, in 100 degree weather. And just forget it without shade cloth.

That is an awesome GH set-up, Sherrie! You have been one busy girl!!! Good for you!

Candyce - yes - our bodies are 70% water, and that's why we need to replenish them with plain water every day. My doctor is so ticked at the report that we don't really need to drink water. She says, Would you pour iced tea or soda into your car radiator??? LOL I find it pretty easy to drink the 64 ounces of water each day....that's only 4 tall glasses - one at each meal and just one at some other point in the day. I usually drink more when I'm gardening....like this morning. Hot here!! I also prefer the taste of whole grains and high fiber foods and I have finally turned my DH into a healthier eater. He was a white bread kind of guy. Eeeewwww. Even though we have a healthy diet, it still isn't easy to shed pounds at this age. The water helps though.

Gloria - when I first heard about frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I knew it was a sign that this nation has become unbelievably lazy.

Nice setup schickenlady! You like to keep yourself busy,
... really busy!!☺

In the field the boss would only let us eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch as one of the few things that would be healthy to eat in 100 degree weather.

Those were the days before the peanut butter recalls.

You know if you have a blender you can make peanut butter in about 5 seconds with fresh roasted peanuts. Tastes better too.

Oh, I'll have to try making peanut butter!

You add a little peanut oil to get to the right consistence. For chunky throw in some whole peanuts at the end.

Thanks Gloria!

I have not tried the blender. This is sounding fast. I make it in the food processor and it takes several minutes. I add no oil as the peanuts eventually get to where we are happy. I do add in nuts at the end to make crunchy. Your method sounds much faster than mine. Do you have some super blender? I have a KithenAid. Will that work?

DH is a huge PB fan, but I never ate it until I met him so I don't know what's what.

L

I love PB, and my favorite was the kind I bought fresh at the health food store - probably tasted similar to yours, Gloria - and on the label it said "stir and refrigerate", because the peanut oil would solidify at refrigerator temps, but at room temp. it would separate. Then I married !@#$%^_)(*& and had babies and got WIC which paid for PB and OJ and cheese, so we lived on that for a long time. But I still love PB, and other nuts too. (Even though i know peanuts are legumes.) -Carrie

If you store the jar upside down the oil will go to the bottom which is then the top.

Laurel - the blender works well if you have one, although I make mine in the food processor, too. Pecan butter is exceptional, but my very favourite is macadamia Nut butter. When i lived on the Big Island, there was a mac Nut cooperative - they sold roasted macs at extremely reasonable prices. i believe they are still in business, but haven't ordered from them for several years.
Gloria was spot on about storing the container upside down - works like a charm.
Great, now i am hungry...
PS - you mean some company manufactures frozen PB & J sandwiches?
I had no idea. I like mine on toasted 12 grain bread. and now i will go eat.

You can throw in dark chocolate M&Ms for the last second.

Or, drizzle in chocolate syrup.

My point was buying the sandwich from the freezer case. That's so lazy on the part of those who purchase it.

pirl. sounds like a soggy mess to me.

But, if a kid grew up on home made peanut butter and toasted 7 grain bread, he wouldn't buy it.

Somehow we seem to have gotten the idea that healthy food is weird and fast depleted food is supposed to nourish the upcoming future population of the world.

If you feed bad food to a dog, you get a sick unhealthy dog. Why do people think their kids, husbands, and themselves are any different?

Dogs back in the early times did not have dog food did they? Didn't live on scraps?

There are no vegetarian dogs. Dogs are predators. they eat meat.
Humans are omnivores and some are vegetarians. I don't know of any that would be healthy on a diet of frozen peanut butter sandwiches!

If for no other reason than culivating poor taste.