Workin in the garden

[Weekend_Sawyer]

The Lovely Miss Celest, Dearest Cousin Angie, Brother Chris and I picked and processed sweet corn all  day Sunday. The yield was 100 pints of corn in the freezer no cob. For lunch we picked a some nice fat jucy  tomatos and made tomatoe sandwiches. Celest and I finished the evening by picking and shelling black eyed peas. I just love blackeyed peas and rice. The squash are just about gone, the corn is picked, there will be mabe one more picking of the peas, the tomatoes are just coming in and the limas are on their way. When I was a kid it was torture to have to work in the garden. Funny how your values change as you mature.

WS

[Tom]

Ah-h-h yes!   Hoppin' John.  It makes comin' home in the even'in special.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 Yes Hoppin-John! I had some for dinner last night. Mom used to say it don't taste right unless you start off by frying some bacon in the pan. she was a true sothern belle.

I noticed my last post was my tree hunnert and turdy turd.

WS

[Tom]

Hoppin' John is real good with a fresh slice of sweet onion to go with it.  ....or a couple of those little green onions.   Some people call them scallions, but I call them little green onions.

[Patty]

Summertime is all about working & playing in the garden. We finished our sweet corn last week, and now are processing tomatoes, digging potatoes, and just enjoying the fruits (& vegetables) of our labor. Our apple trees are so loaded this year, we have branches breaking from the weight. Yesterday we baked our first apple pie of the season, it was great.
The grasshoppers devastated our onions, rhubarb, peppers, potato plants and now they are working on the tomato plants. Since we don't spray in the garden, I guess we expect some insect damage, we just plant lots of extras.  I wish my chickens would like the taste of grasshoppers as much as they like my strawberries when they are pecking  in the garden.  :

Norm & I love processing all our own food. For example last nite we had chicken noodles & fresh apple pie for supper. We had raised the chicken, made the noodles from our own eggs, and the apples were from our orchard....way cool.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Aaah the sweet taste of Strawberry fed Chicken...

[Bro. Noble]

I eat six or eight tomatoes a day right out of the garden.  Our onions were the sweetest this year that I can ever remember.  We're getting apples, peaches and plums out of the orchard now.  Watermelons were excellent.  Working in the garden is about as relaxing as anything a fellow can do.

Patty you need to get some guinees.

[Norm]

We try to use everything that we grow for our own use or give away the surplus to friends and family. You can't believe the number of farm families that will not plant a garden or raise a few chickens. They claim it's just too much hassle. Last weekend Patty and I spent 8 hours each day butchering a steer that the local butcher dressed and quartered for us. Our freezer is now pretty full with chicken, pork and now beef. We will add a couple of deer this fall. I don't particularly enjoy doing this but it isn't really that hard of work either. Keeps my butt off the couch and saves us some money.

Only way I'd let Patty have guinees is for taget practice. :D

[EZ]

Last weekend we buchered are last hog, she was 730 lbs, she was my youngest daughter's pet. But now she's marryed, so the pig is in the freezer. My wife told her yesterday, and now I'm a meany,  ??? O-well she will get over it.
Last night my wife made pork steak and mash potatoes and salad and green beans, all from the garden and the barn.
It was better than a hundred dollar meal.  ;D
EZ

[Tom]

That's a heck of a way to train'em EZ.   If you have another daughter with a pet pig, she might live with you forever. :D

[Bro. Noble]

Patty,

You gonna let Norm tell you what you can and can't do like that?

Buy some guinees and show him who's the boss :D

[Jeff]

When I was 12 I made an incubator from instructions in a scout book. The neighbor Lady, Zella Reese (neighbor being a reletive term when in the country, she was about 3 miles away) said come on over and I will give you some guinee hen eggs.  

Well, I put an x on one side with a marker, and an o on the other so I could keep track and record the turns and rotations I made of the eggs, all per the instructions. I think it was around day 19 of my playing mother hen. It was Sunday Morning and I saw Zella at church. I said "I'm getting excited, its getting close to time. How big is your Rooster? Is he a good looking bird?"

Zella says, "I don't have a rooster"

  :-/>:( :D

[Jason_WI]

Hmmm.... Green eggs and ham...... ;D ;D ;D

[Haytrader]

Don't eat Easter eggs a month after Easter, no matter how hungry you are.
I am not telling how I know this.
 :-/

[Patty]

Yea Noble, I'm gonna have to take him down & sit on him until he remembers again who is really the boss. Sometimes it pays to be the "heavy" in the marraige. ;D

I don't know much about guinees, only have heard they make lots of commotion when you come home...kinda like a guard dog with feathers.

So Easter eggs don't settle too well after they've sat around for a month, huh Haytrader!     Some lessons you just gotta learn the hard way.

[Haytrader]

Patty,

So I've heard.

 ;)

[woodchip]

It sounds like all the ingrediants for southern soul food!!!!!!!!!!! 8)

[Frickman]

My "garden" is a nine acre patch of sweet corn. We grow it to sell as well as eat and trade for other produce. This year has been a good year. With all the rain the corn has been juicier than it's been in a while.