Veggie Tales - June 2020
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Comments (682)Not sure, John. It is out in the garden right now and last I checked, the bok choy were still green. If we end up not having any more winter, they just might survive out there. I think that the onion seed will surely survive....See MoreVeggie Tales - March 2020
Comments (792)I hope I didn't offend anyone with my talk about the drug. It wasn't my intention. My pharmacy suggested we find another pharmacy that had it. They said they didn't know when they'd get it. They said to tell the pharmacy that had it to ship it to them. We started out calling pharmacies in areas up to 75 miles away assuming an area without coronavirus cases might still have it. It wound up the pharmacy closest to mine had it! My pharmacy transferred the script to them and we picked it up today. I started out talking about this drug here because I thought it was very positive knowing there was a possible treatment. My mother had malaria in the 1920's in Louisiana or East Texas. My grandparents bought 40 acres in East Texas. They were there for 3 years and sharecropped cotton to learn how to grow it. My aunt also got it. My mothers story was that she spent the entire summer shivering.They came back to Pittsburgh because of it. It's also said that we won WWII because of this drug. As I see it the problem is that we don't make prescriptions in America anymore. There was a big drug operation here in Pittsburgh, Moon Twp., near the airport. It closed a few years ago, I don't know why it closed or if it could make this drug. Assuming it could, I could drive 1200 doses, 4 pills a day, in about 7 or 8 hours to NY. They are beginning to discuss who gets to live and who gets to die. Some get a respirator; some don't. And now we learn some need this drug more than others. They haven't lowered the price of prescriptions because they decided they'd rather pay 10¢ an hour than pay Americans. We haven't benefited, we'll likely die because of it. edited...See MoreVeggie Tales - August 2020
Comments (292)Saturday in my haste to clean up the melon beds a bit of vines that had died, I separated the vine that contained a few nearing-ripe cantaloupe from the base plant. Grrr...so my cantaloupe season is over! Before I started, I did find one 'loupe that was pretty much ripe. I have 3 in the fridge now. When they're gone, that's it! I really had intended to pull the watermelon plants out. I had picked the last big watermelon late last week. While I was messing with the cantaloupe vines, I did uncover a watermelon that's about a week or so old. So, I guess I may have one more watermelon. The zucchini plants are in the trash this morning too. SVB finally did them in. The pattypans won't be far behind. Some of the pattypan vines are still looking fairly healthy, but this morning there were a few vines that were wilted. Since it's trash day, I went ahead and pulled those. The big excitement in my world now (other than a MUCH more important event of my son's wedding next weekend) is that we discovered an armadillo in our basement "day-light" window well. Grrrr To REALLY complicate our attempts to deal with this guy, as bad luck would have it, there's a deck build over the window well. The bottom of the deck trusses/stringers/whatever is just barely the height that a small man can crawl underneath to get to the edge of the window well. Both Saturday and Sunday we set a live-trap. The trap is not nearly big enough, but it's all we had. He's been there since at least Thursday evening. That's when we first heard it. This morning I finally connected with someone who will come and rid our property of this creature. I was sorry to hear that the guy said that he'll have to access the pit from inside the house, through the window that's there. I really was hoping that he'd be able to do it from the top of the well/pit. He said, 'you can't work an armadillo from above". Yuck. That means that this creature will have to come through my house at some point. Ewww. I just want it gone. I made another batch of marinara sauce yesterday. I have about 20 jars on hand now. That ought to get us through the winter! It's been a disappointing tomato season for me this year. Tried several new varieties this year and they just haven't done well here. I did finally pick the first really big Wes tomato on Saturday. It was pretty gnarly looking, but weighed in at 18 ounces. There are 3 or 4 more on that plant that are coming along, but there have been none on the Wes plant that is in the cage right next to this one. I have 2 Wessel's Purple Pride plants and, although, the plants are huge, I've only gotten about 5 tomatoes off of them combined. Now is seems all the tomatoes on those plants have blossom end rot. A Neve's Azorean Red plant in the garden hasn't had any fruit on it, but I have another that I put elsewhere and it finally has quite a few about golf ball sized tomatoes....See MoreVeggie Tales - November 2020
Comments (211)Richard, that sounds cold for your area. Guess you will get your exercise the next few days. Yesterday I did a final turning of compost in my makeshift bin at my community plot. It is breaking down well. I hope the latest aeration and nutrient additions will get most of it broken down by spring. That is when I plan to work with it next and hopefully have good compost to use. If nothing else, I am glad I could put lots of plant wastes into my makeshift bin instead of the trash cans people were told to use....not for composting but for general trash pick up. I don't like to see nutrients go to the landfill. I'd rather give up a corner's worth of growing space and do some composting....See MoreLen NW 7a
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