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Today I prepped the wide row for the cantaloupes and tomorrow I'll prep the same for the watermelons. That will complete the row prepping other than more prepping for later corn and a few late tomato plants. Will start the melon seeds indoors next week. We got 1/4 inch rain from last evening storms, nearby areas got hit hard with high winds and hail so we lucked out. Our average last frost date is behind us now so I think the fruit trees are ok.
Oh man, now I'm impatient. I got about a dozen Stanley plums last year, my first harvest. I have two Montmorency cherry trees that bear a prodigious amount of cherries, but they have been here for 20 years or so. I planted a Ebony Pearl and an Emperor Francis in 2020 and last year the Emperor bloomed but not the Ebony, so no pollination and no fruit. This year we are just now getting leaves, but I'm hopeful. I have two Delicious apple trees and a Wolf River that are prolific most years and two peach trees of unknown variety that my Dad planted. They took 17 years to bear, but the last two years they've done well. An odd variety, though, they are clingstones and don't ripen until late September. They bloom late, which is good here, because they sometimes excape the late frost that can get in early May. Temperatures here today are a high of 39F and a low of 31F, so I'm happy nothing is in bloom!
Annie
Amelia wins
So sad. Very sorry to hear about your friend's losses.
Heartfelt condolences to you and your friend.
So sad. I get the idea, though, that this family knew how to LIVE, not just let the days pass by. That's some small consolation in this time of sorrow. Your friend is lucky to have you -- and you to have her.
More than once, from more than one person, I have received hand-knit dishcloths. They are wonderful! I use them, think of the giver in love and gratitude. One person included two sewn together to be a hot pad, love it.
My young catsitter gave me a painting she did of our two cats, sitting looking at the moon, with their tailw entwined in a heart. She was 11, and the small canvas hangs happily in my kitchen by the cats’ dining area.
My son-in-law made me a cutting board.
I grow Bloody Dock and Pale Dock. I know the young leaves of Bloody Dock are edible, but I haven't been eating them. I'd rather eat stinging nettles or lambs quarters. I love soups, and I'll use this recipe if I come upon some Rumex acetosella while foraging in future. My Bloody Dock was under seige by the bloody coralberries, but it's better now.😋🥣
I started sorrel(I'm assuming rumex acetosa?) from seeds years ago so I can eat it but never actually got around to harvesting it. I moved them to my new house 2 years after I started from seed but is not as vigorous here.. doesn't seed for me either. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I might take some this year if they grow big enough. Right now they are just starting to show new growth and tiny
Cindy - it isn't, it just happens to be behind a branch on the ground. I am always amazed when I see them - they are the blackest animal I've seen - like a black hole. Honestly they look like cardboard cutouts.
“We keep getting warning to keep our small dogs and cats inside.”
Always where we are! Our cat stayed inside, and the dogs were highly supervised when outside.
Thars bears in them there woods!!!
essential food group
Pizza should be in its own food group too 😁
Library.
it's in Ankara
I don't even have a guess, but I hope it is LIBRARY as others have guessed.
I also joined when you had to pay to belong. Didn't mind paying and the forums were much more active then.
KTT was for the Kitchen Table too. A branch off of our message board
If you click on the Internet Archive link I posted above, you can click through the links and browse old pages from various dates and see all those long ago names...
Here's Sep. 2004...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040921235304/http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/kitchentable/
Seeing the old format is a blast from the past too 😀
P.S. Some of the posts are archived too, buut not all, so when you click on some of them you can read them.
Those designs are so clever, @eld6161. The toddler that’s eating them:
