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Comments (30)Jennifer, my sweet potato crop will suffer greatly this year. I kick my self every day for letting my gardening flop. If I am able to garden next year, I have to do things differently, I have to work more on my garden, and stop spending so much time helping my neighbor with his market garden. I have already told him that I just had to cut back, but he says his doctor has told him to cut back also. Neighbor is having heart issues also. I will show you one thing not to do with sweet potatoes. I got some free hay, it was a clean up job that my renter did for a guy while he was at the guy's place bailing hay, so neighbor just bailed this field of Johnson grass and blackberries. I had told my renter that I would take any scrap hay he had, and would be happy to pay for the hauling. I normally compost the really bad hay, but I didn't this hay, I just used it as mulch last year, and you can see what a mistake that was. I mowed a 5' strip along this side of the tall Johnson grass, thinking that I might be able to pull, or dig the stubble out, but I was not man enough to do that. I sprayed the tops of the dead Johnson grass that you see, hoping I could kill it without killing the sweet potatoes. I guess I was a pretty good shot, I don't think I lost any sweet potatoes, and killed a good bit of the Johnson grass. The Johnson grass on the left side of the picture at the time I sprayed was too thin and short for me to risk trying to kill it with spray and not damage my sweet potatoes. I waited until a few days ago and took that stool, and the garden hose you see, along with a "stream" attachment screwed onto the end of the garden hose, and squirted the roots of the Johnson grass loose and pulling the stump out. I have most of that green Johnson grass tossed out to the end of the garden now, and my pickup, containing a 275 gal tote of water draining on the uphill side of the sweet potatoes. While I am boring you, I need to ask advice on how to use the onions. These are Egyptian walking onions and Lisbon bunching onions, they were overgrown worse than the sweet potatoes. I got them cleaned up and squirted a little water on them. I think they look pretty good for something that will, more or less, grow wild. It is a shame to make the best use of something that will last for ever. I am sorry if I have shown these pictures, and ask these questions before, but at my age you wake up in a new world every day....See MoreHealthy Lifestyle Progress - Week of 8/20/2023
Comments (21)Things are going well here as far as the exercise goes. I of course can't really lose weight but I'm enjoying going dancing two or three times a week thrown in the mix right now. Going to free summer concerts helps with that. Also we go dancing once a week to alive music pub Friday nights or Saturday nights. The music is pretty good. DH is enjoying tries out different beers one beer each time. Are you ready for fall activities, clothes and food? I'm not ready for Fall. But I am more than ready for Fall. I don't want to stop wearing my summer clothes and going to all the summer dancing that we have been doing. I want the fires to be gone and people to not be too hot who are uncomfortable in the heat. It is weird to feel such Joy in being able to do these summertime activities and feel such sadness for people who are caught in fires and storms and etc. I guess both can exist at the same time but they are uncomfortable together. How are you doing with your healthy lifestyle goals? In as much as I can do my healthy lifestyle style goals are being met. As I said above I can't lose weight. But hopefully I can shift things enough through weight lifting etc to help with my problem areas. I'm looking at you muffin top.. What's going well As I've said before the shortened time span that I eat my meals with IF seems to work very well for me. My weight stays fairly consistent and has ever since I started this program. I don't look at it to help me lose weight as that seems to be a non-starter for me. It does definitely contribute to maintenance. I seem to need to cut out all extra evening snacks to maintain my weight no matter what level of activity I do. What needs more work and focus? I need to weight lift more even if it is body weight lifting and de-stress somehow so that I can lose the excess cortisol in my system and maybe not have a muffin top ;-). Wishing everybody else health and safety. I've been distracted by all these summer activities so haven't said much to individuals. But I think of you all almost every day....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - September 2023
Comments (18)About the Tithonia, I KNOW! I check every day. Not even a bee on it, and there are NO chemicals or anything nearby. I forgot about the root beer smell on some Agastache. Going to crush some leaves and see if I can get a whiff! This is a GREAT blog post from Hayefield about Japanese Burnet and what to plant it with. It’s the one that got me started. Now I notice all the smaller ones and I am ready to go down the burnet rabbithole! Hayefield Japanese Burnet post Some more first-year bloomers: I thought all of these seedlings had died and mistook them for a type of carnation, but I am SO pleased to see I was wrong! These are Heleniums, which have FINALLY survived the slugs and become plants. My wintersowing germination is excellent, but I swear I love over 50% of what germinates before it can get established, mostly from slugs. I’m very happy to finally have Helenium survive. I may have to move it from this location, but I’m very happy to cater to its needs! Sterntaler coreopsis is now blooming. I must admit, the burgundy center is not my favorite since I am not a fan or bronze and burgundy in the garden, either in flower or foliage. (The burnet above leans more towards purple, so it’s OK.). But, I’m glad to have them anyway. It seems one of my Heliopsis is neither Summer Nights or Burning Hearts, but is the standard. Another very welcome surprise! Here’s a good shot of my secondary growth from the seed pods with their own buds. It’s just so weird and Intersting! And this lungwort and brunerra area has LOVED the moisture. I lost many brunerra when it was first being established, but for the past three years it has finally settled in and even reseeding all over with both brunerras and lungwort. It’s so nice to see the variegated/frosty brunneras reseed. I think it helped when I put a HUGE rock up at the driveway edge so the plowman would stop destorying it. Every plowman should be required to tend gardens by hand in the summer, in my dream world. And three spring/early summer bloomers are reblooming, both viola, nepeta, and dianthus. And, lastly, I love River Oats seedheads. They are still green now, and are beautiful in the morning moisture....See MoreFALL 2023 Sale: Variety of Organic Japanese/Asian/Purple Sweet Potato
Comments (0)Available Varieties: Asian Purple Murasaki Molokai Purple Stokes Okinawan Order Type: Unrooted Cutting Rooting Cutting Fully Rooted Cutting in Soil Plug Please PM me with your order so that I can quote a price and shipping The Murasaki Sweet Potato variety is a purple-skinned Japanese sweet potato with unique white-flesh and a distinctive nutty flavor. The purple beauty's soft white flesh is loaded with vitamin C and dietary fiber and will be a summer standout in your garden and kitchen. Robust, Murasaki is resistant to both southern root-knot nematode and Fusarium root rot. Molokai sweet potato is a purple-fleshed variety that was developed in Hawaiian. A signature type on the islands, but seldom offered elsewhere. They are much higher is antioxidants than the traditional orange fleshed variety that most people are used to. Stokes Purple sweet potato is a unique variety with purple skin and rich purple flesh that intensifies when cooked. Aside from its unique bold color, Stokes Purple® contains a high level of antioxidants, making it unusually healthy and nutritious. These sweet potatoes offer a well-balanced sweetness, and are also an excellent source of vitamin C and fiber. Okinawan Sweet Potatoes: Believed to have come from the Aztecs of South America with the Spaniards to the Philippines and China in the 1490s, the plant of these sweet potatoes did not reach Japan until the 1600s. The initial planting was in Okinawa—the southern island of Japan—before they were cultivated throughout Japan, hence the name. Eventually these purple tubers ended up in Hawaii and became a part of the native menu—they are also known as Hawaiian sweet potatoes. With a creamy, beige skin on the outside and bluish-purple flesh on the inside, these sweet potatoes are grown in Hawaii for the U.S. market. Okinawan sweet potatoes have a mildly sweet flavor with notes of honey and a dry, very starchy texture. According to The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner, consumption of these potatoes is correlated to living a longer life. Each purchase will include FREE GOODIES of seeds and heirloom tomato cuttings (SPRING ONLY): Your choices of Asian cucumber, Winter Melon, Echinacea Purpurea Cone Flower, Heirloom Tomatoes, and Asian eggplant and MORE. NOTE: I ship extra cuttings/slips with every order just in case some don’t survive the mail SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: If there are at all any issues or questions, please contact me so that I can resolve any problems! PLEASE FAVORITE ME AS A SELLER AND CHECK BACK AS I PLAN TO OFFER OTHER AMAZING SWEET POTATO VARIETIES ALL YEAR LONG THANKS FOR LOOKING! ALSO FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME FOR ANY SPECIAL AND CUSTOM REQUESTS!...See More
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A couple of these long ago might have posted on another thread, so apologies if you have seen them before.
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Not only can you get the rice molds, they even sell special nori (seaweed) cutters to make the eyes, mouths, noses, etc. 
3 years agoJust saw this and thought of this thread. :) I will post it despite it being autumn already. And where is Kate?! I haven't seen her post in a long while.....
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That's very good news! Kate, I wouldn't know how to send a 'get well' card, so I'll send a pic from the little par-3 golf course near here, taken on Friday. :)
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