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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 17, 2009 16:09:14 GMT 12.75
Got lots of green beans on the stove already. The whole bunch of us ate two days off the first picking and got two big tubs cooked up and put in the freezer with plenty of beans on the vines coming on. Black eyes and conchs are ready to pick and we'll start bringing them in tomorrow morning before it gets too hot. I bet we get two bushels off the first picking! Squash, zuchini, and eggplants all burned up and ain't doing much of nothing. Okra isn't making anything to speak of and the greens are all yeller from the heat. But, the onions are bulbing and the radishes and sugar beats are coming along nicely and Dad's pepper plants are loaded with all sorts of peppers. Wish I had pictures to put up, so I'll try to get some soon.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 18, 2009 16:57:51 GMT 12.75
Oh man, that pea picking gets easier and easier each year! I got up early, before it got to hot and called over to dad's and had him get up Chicken and Fred. By the time I got out to the garden they was waiting on me. I settled into my big green lawn chair and poked my feet out in front of me while I called encouragement to them every now and then. All in all, Fred picked a light bushel of conch peas and Chicken picked a bushel and a half of black eyes. Thank goodness they finished early before it got o heated up out there. Only cost me five bucks a piece, lolol! That's the easiest pea pickin' I ever did! ;D After that, I hadda take 'em out to breakfast, but that's okay cause they done worked up a hunger in me too and the little place in town we like to go to has a two biscuits with sausage gravy, two pieces of smoked sausage, and a bowl of grits for only three bucks...plus a buck for coffee. Not bad. So, afterwards, they left off for their regular routine and I spent the afternoon with granny shelling peas. At 87, I still can't keep up with her. She'll fill her bucket with peas fast as ever. We didn't get none on the stove tonight, but tomorrow we will and I get to make the cornbread. I'm going to make it in a big old cast iron skillet she gave me and put in some cracklins I got in the freezer. Wish ya'll could join us!
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Post by Snake Eyes on Jun 19, 2009 23:57:10 GMT 12.75
So, afterwards, they left off for their regular routine and I spent the afternoon with granny shelling peas. At 87, I still can't keep up with her. She'll fill her bucket with peas fast as ever. We didn't get none on the stove tonight, but tomorrow we will and I get to make the cornbread. I'm going to make it in a big old cast iron skillet she gave me and put in some cracklins I got in the freezer. Wish ya'll could join us! Toby, I wish we could join you also! Granny has to be one special lady. snake-eyes
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 21, 2009 11:08:01 GMT 12.75
You bet she is! She can't see too good, so we never let alone in the kitchen, which works out fine because the kids have all gotten an awesome education in real world cooking!
They still like their microwavable this and thats for the convenience of it, but they can walk into a kitchen and build a complete meal from scratch, including just about any kinda cake or pie providing the ingredience is on hand.
Got another picking on the string beans yesterday evening after it rained and cooled off a little. These'll get cooked and frozen for later on down the road. Mom wanted to can some, but there wasn't enough to bother canning. She's prolly gonna get a mess of the peas in jars.
Got a ton of wild hogs on the oak ridges rihgt now too, so daddy and I'll prolly go get a couple soon. Sausage is running low in the freezer and they're good and lean this time of year.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 25, 2009 10:38:24 GMT 12.75
Beans are about played out, but the peas are still bearing. Dad's gonna get the kids to start pulling up the bean plants tomoroow and feed them to the goats and hogs. We got a good mess of them in the freezer and got a bunch of peas put up too. The onions are just about ready to start pulling. We got yellow onions and vidalias out there. The vidalias look to be about baseball sized, so they'll go a bit longer, but the yellows are just about right. Also, Dad's pepper plants put out enough to can eleven jelly jars full of jalepeno, reds, mexican spurs, peter peppers, and jabaneros. He used some to dice up altogether and make a mixture that'll just about kill you if you try to eat it. A little bit will go a LONG way in a pot of gumbo. All this rain's done the whole mess a lotta good. Turned out to be a nice summer garden.
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Post by Mars on Jun 26, 2009 15:52:26 GMT 12.75
So what are you planning to replant?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 27, 2009 10:30:27 GMT 12.75
Squash and zuchini are coming on. They brought in a couple dozen yeller squash and about that many zuchinis this morning. If the heat hadn't burned up most of the plants they'd really have a haul. Not enough to take to the farmers market, so they'll all likely get spread around with family and friends. That's why they planted so many rows of them, hoping to have enough to sell. Prolly gonna plant a mess of cabbage next where all the bean plants were. Gotta have that cole slaw!
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