Thread: In the Garden 2019

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this. I went to visit my mom on mother’s day. My mother lives in a typical suburban town with the typical amount of suburban property. Meaning, not much. But for this little suburban lot of land (cutting the grass would take no more than thirty minutes with a push mower), she plants a thousand little things every year as if she owned a farm. She was showing me all that she intended to plant as soon as the weather here stopped dropping into the freezing zone. She had some damn thing called fries and ketchup. It’s a potato plant and a tomato plant all in one. Tomatoes upstairs, potatoes below. Not only do I have no idea where she is going to plant this but I have no idea what it might produce. I love her. But I shake my head.

Interesting--Very Interesting--

Here's a link:

https://www.gardeners.com/buy/ketchu...t/8594305.html

Originally Posted by 32t

Says the guy that has a meat curing chamber set up in limited space.....

Don’t get wise.

It's been raining in these parts so I hadn't bothered with my little berry patch but it dried up some yesterday so I did some picking. A few were borderline 'Over Ripe'. Right at 24 oz. I got them rinsed off, patted dry, de-stemmed and on a baking sheet in the freezer.

Another 40 oz or so and I'll have enough for a batch of jam. Yum!

My dear friend, thanks for posting a picture of this beautiful crop. I wouldn't know any better what homegrown strawberries look like, given the fact that we had around 7 inches of snow yesterday.
Luckily the tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and herbs got covered. I'm still hoping that they will recover from this fantastic CO weather!

Old Man Winter just doesn't seem to want to let you poor guys alone!

There's a family here that's been raising strawberries for ages. Many a child has been hired to pick (including two of mine) some have advanced to higher positions and worked summers for them while on break from college.

They don't sell wholesale here in the valley. They don't need to as it's all sold out of their little 'Berry Stand'. However you can drive 100 miles and find them in stores.

You might find this interesting. Scroll down and take a look at those rows.

https://www.klickerstrawberry.com/

Upstate New York has finally thawed and just might be warm enough to garden. Unfortunately, it has been terribly rainy, and most folks have not planted anything yet because its just too darn wet. Gonna be a slow garden year.

I put in about 100 miles on the bike today just out riding the back roads as it's really nice today. I stopped by my friend Carolyn's and she was in the back yard with her two small grandsons working on her raised beds and I mean Raised Beds.

They sit on concrete blocks stacked two high. The base is a small pallet and the side come on the pallet for where her son in law works. She's going to see if he can get me and my friend Annie some.

Prettry Cool--

Looks like I'll be making Strawberry Jam here in a day or two--

2 and a half pounds after sorting and cleaning:



These damn things keep eating at them. I've also found 'Rolly Poly's'



Oh well, I don't use any pesticides so they get to stay.

Look out Roy - my strawberry patch is coming for ya! One flower so far...

Back in '79 when I was working as a cutter for a mom and pop store I went looking for a better paying job as we had a child on the way. I asked one of Safeway's meat managers if they were hiring and he sent me to the District Office. I met the District Manager and he said that there weren't any openings for cutters but they were looking for someone who could work produce. Well when the guy who was the produce manager at the mom and pop store had a day off I would take care of his little department so I knew a little bit.

Long story short, while I did many things for Safeway in my 36 year, 7 month and 6 day career, I was basically a produce clerk.

More times than I care to remember some customer would bring a container of strawberries to me and tell me that they were moldy. 90% of the time what they were seeing was part of the strawberries white flower. I'd politely say; "I'm sorry but that's not mold, that's simply the bloom.

You wouldn't believe how many would take it back and re-check only to find that I was right. Amazing how disappointed some people could get not being able to ding the product.