Guest guest Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 Howdy Ien, > Butch, you make me want to move to Tennessee! Come on down .. we have great fishing and hunting and lots of recreation and wildlife (to include endangered) management areas .. and no state income tax .. and one of the lowest property taxes in the nation. Also have one of the highest sales taxes in the nation (9.5%) but many folks here in Paris, TN drive 25 miles to Murray, KY to buy groceries cause Kentucky does not tax food. ;-) > Congratulations, Your garden sounds terrific. Thankee ma'am .. its nice for sure. Two things I will add to the long post I sent in reply to Kathleen today. One is that I picked all the sweet corn that was ready today .. got three more batches that will be ready by the middle of August. There were four rows .. each around 20 feet long .. best it is for pollination to plant four rows together. The point is .. I got over 400 ears of corn from that .. but around 150 of them are small and of that 150 around half are so small that we are gonna boil them and eat them cob and all. How did this happen? I am still trying to figure that out. I have seen corn that yielded 3 ears per stalk .. but some of this corn had 4 and 5 ears per stalk .. in some cases I found a new ear growing inside the shuck of another ear. Most of the 4th ears were immature and about as long as my hand .. ALL of the 5th ears were around the length of one's little finger .. or smaller .. like the little miniature cobs we get in cans for use in cooking Chinese food or for salads. Still trying to find the empty seed packet so I can buy the same variety again. While I was picking and shucking corn, Tanya picked dang near a bushel of Brussels Sprouts. :-) The other thing is .. tonight we bought a dehydrator .. now we have 5 means of preserving .. air drying, dehydrating, canning, pickling and freezing. A couple of folks on list wrote me and said I oughta try that so we finally got one and will try it out tomorrow. :-) > You may think clay is bad, wait till you try the glorified gravel I > have to work with. Actually, clay is not bad .. especially Red Clay .. its pretty dang fertile .. and the White Clay we have here in Western Tennessee is fertile but its mighty hard till you get some organic matter in it. > It is fine with lots of composted manure, but within 2 years of not > getting fresh nourishment it reverts right back to a sandy waste. Commercial Composted Manure is not always what its made out to be .. read the ingredients on the package and you'll probably see that there is a lotta other stuff in there .. more like mulch than compost .. and likely it is to have a lotta filler sand in it. You gotta get compost into the soil and in order to do that you gotta have a good amount of organic matter to compost. That's why I have long said and written that though " ideally " folks who are starving in some 3rd World countries would be better off in the long run if they could someday have Organic crops .. but its not practical right now. What they need is more commercial fertilizer. When one is eating every insect they can find and making grass soup .. whether or not its Organic is not a matter of great concern to them. > And then there was the weather. Not as bad as Northern Alberta, and > things are catching up fast. But we are a good three weeks behind > normal. Gotta be some reason why folks live Up North .. though I have never been able to figure out what that reason is. ;-) > Not whining, just reporting, and gratefully freezing a bumpercrop of > raspberries. That sounds like a good reason. ;-) Kathleen says avoiding humidity, snakes, chiggers and such are other reasons, but having lived in the North and the South .. I'll take the humidity over the cold and our creepy and slithering critters are easy enough to avoid. Not so in places like New Mexico though .. I go out there often and stay with an old buddy. He has scorpions all over his yard and they sometimes get into his home .. he just brushes them off like we would a skeeter. When I stay with him I put on combat boots when I get up at night to go to the bathroom. ;-) > Coming soon: thoughts on the coyote spirit of herbs. Looking forward to it. I sense that you are gonna tell us they are shrewd and bear watching. ;-) > Ien in the Kootenays > http://freegreenliving.com (blog) Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch .. http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 " Kathleen says avoiding humidity, snakes, chiggers and such are other reasons, " Tornados, you forgot the dad burn Tornados. If it were JUST snakes, those one can mostly avoid, but the humidity and tornados... can't avoid those. ;-) K > > > -- Kathleen Petrides Bead Hussy http://www.BeadHussy.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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