Been there, done that, can't remember.

2004-04-05T11:42:00.000-07:00

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2004-02-24T18:30:00.000-08:00

Spring is coming. My patio tomatoes are 3" high and I am waiting for the first week in april when I can put them outside in their walls of water. I only have about 35 patio plants started and in another week I'll start another 35 to have on hand in case of crop failure. Total I hope to have 50 potted patio tomatoes in the garden. As soon as I pull them from the lights, I start the peppers. I'm slow on getting the ginger started. I just bought the root last night. It should have been started several weeks ago.

My sweet potato is about 2 weeks along and growing rather slow. Of course, once it gets started, it will be growing too fast and I'll have to mow it with my lawn mower once a week to keep it to decent size (tongue and cheek).

My plant list this year is:

Patio tomatoes
Sweet 100 tomatoes
Peppers bell
Tomatillo
She-ho Green onions
Walla-onions
Chives
Peppermint
Okra
Sweet Basil
4 July tomatoes
Cold set tomatoes
Sub arctic tomatoes
Peas
Spinach
Cilantro
Mesclun
Gypsy peppers
Jalapeno
Sub Artic tomatoes
Rosemary
Oregano
Shallots
Chard-red (member of the beet family, slightly disappointed because it bolted to seed too fast.)
Carrots
Italian parsley
Curled parsley
Parsnip
Sweet potato
Yukon gold potato
Ginger
Horseradish (Horseradish and Rhubarb got too much water last year and didn't do as good as expected.)
Rhubarb
Romaine lettuce

All plants are in pots and watered through a drip system.

2003-08-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

Badger

Having been raised on a farm in Oregon, I just happen to have a badger story too. My younger brother announced that he wanted to take an animal to school for show and tell. We had lots of animals but none of them seemed impressive enough. Lets face it, the cows, dogs, cats and chickens around our place just weren't very exciting. He decided he wanted to capture a badger and take it for a show and tell everyone would remember for a long time. Since we didn't have one and didn't know where we could find one, we opened our really old copy our encyclopedia and read a little about about them. It mentioned that that have musk glands but we didn't think much about that. We eventually located a badger hole out on our north 40 and set a trap. Sure enough, we caught it and it had lodged itself in it hole and refused to come out, despite our eager efforts to pull it out. We began to dig it out, hoping we wouldn't injure it too much. The more we dug, the more the area around the hole began to stink. We figured the smell must be those musk glands we had read about. Our noses were accustomed to the smells of the country and nothing bothered us in the 'smell' department. Having been the oldest, I was the one to dig and when I thought that it was close enough to see what it was I looked in and adjusted my eyes only to see two little beady eyes looking back to me. Much to my surprise, it was not a badger. At least that's what I thought. Well it was chore time and we had work to do so we returned back to the house to do our chores, with the plan to return another day with armor. The next day after school, we hurried to the back forty and found that our beast was out of its hole. It was definitely not a badger. It was a skunk and it was not a happy camper. Now we had a problem. We had to retrieve the trap or we would be in trouble with our parents. We decided to end its misery so we shot it with our .22. But something wasn't going right. A big squirt of greenish-yellowish stuff sprayed into the air and settled on the ground all around. But after all that hard work, we couldn't just leave it. We decided to take the skunk back home where we could at least skin it and use the pelt for a hat or something. We put it in a gunny sack and pulled it behind the us back to the house. Unfortunately, the stink of skunk got onto our shoes. And the aroma hung onto our clothes also. But we figured it wasn't all that bad. When we got home, we went into the house to change out of the schools cloths to do the chores. Well, that didn't go very well we had to change --- out --- side, and it was cold. We had to hurry and do our chores because we had to be at the Christmas social at the Grange Hall that night. Well, to make a long story short, we had to stand outside all night at the Christmas program, with no jackets because they were hanging on the clothes line back home.
I had one pair of work shoes and one pair of school shoes. At school, I worked in the school cafeteria at lunch time and every time I accidentally steeped into a little water on the floor, the cafeteria stunk of skunk. Of course, I paid no attention to it and wondered, like everyone else, where the smell was coming from!

2003-07-21T09:26:00.000-07:00

Well this year My container gardening took a real big hit. I do mean a real bad big hit. This spring I was late getting started and also I didn't get my tomatoes started indoors. And had to buy some. I could not find the kind that I wanted which is “patio”, which out does all of the other tomatoes because they do very well in containers and they well start to produce in only 50 short days. So I did not get a good crop. Then to make matters worse I did not work peat moss into the soil and didn't put ½ cup 14-14-14 time release fertilizer and mineral in each pot, along with bone meal to prevent blossom end rot.
I do not use artificial soil that the so called “experts” always suggest that you should use in containers. Because I want my tomatoes to have a very sweet flavor and not taste like cardboard I use real garden soil that I have modified to be good for containers. I like garden soil because it has billions of soil critters in it to help make the soil alive and the plants used the enzymes that the critters make along with a good fertilizer and mineral to give the tomatoes a real good flavor.( you have to feed the soil critters with the mineral and peat moss to keep them alive and healthy or they cannot do there job).
So my tomatoes this year taste like cardboard, yecch.

2003-07-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

Have you heard about Disney Worlds new attraction? It is something to behold, and now you too can see it. Go to the link and it well tell you all about it and then it well connect you to the pictures of it. It is not exactly at Disney land but close enough for the locals to know about it. The article talks about what is in it and the history of what is about to happen and then what did happen when Mother Nature stepped in. It is very interesting reading and some what boring until you start to get the jiff of what is really happening and what could have happen.
The best reading starts after item # 13 but the whole article is very impressive and is worth reading Phosphate Fertilizer Industry fifteen story sink hole

2003-06-22T21:32:00.000-07:00

There was a vote done by the people of Salt Lake County as to whether there well be fluoride put into the drinking water and the facts were based on sodium fluoride. Now that it has passed and has become law. This law is “ illegal” for citizens to make. This is a classic “bait and switch” scheme where we vote on one thing and then the law makes give us something else! And why are they doing it? The answer is imply becauseit because it is a lot cheaper to use silicofluorides instead of sodium fluoride. Fluosilicic Acid Silicofluorides are very poisonous and contain lead. Dangerous long-term health consequences Even sodium fluoride in tooth paste is bad but not as bad as silicofluorides Making Toothpaste a Toxic Drug There are a lot of bad things that happen to our bodies when we ingest fluoride Floride and Mind Control

2003-06-15T10:23:00.000-07:00

Saturday was a very good day. Mel and I went fishing at Jordenelle and she caught more fish than I did. How embarasing. The lake was definitely full of weekend warriors...lured out of their dens by the summer sun. I forgot my fishing hat so I put on sunscreen all over me - even on my eyes. Oh, how my eyes talked back to me and ran like a school of fish being pursured by a speedboat. The campgrounds were all full. I can't help but wonder where all these people come from. Is there a town somewhere devoid of people and hound dogs? There were lots of boats on the lake. Some of them are bigger than my house! I wonder what a 4 bedroom 2 bath boat goes for these days.

2003-06-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

I have corrected the link to the Chili Head Database.

A friend of mine caught a 43 lb Carp on the Snake River last week. They bottled it and made about 8 pints of fish, then froze the rest. These people are not fish eaters, their first love is red meat. Because of this, we are always the lucky recipients of their catch. This time they actually kept their fish, and they are enjoying every bite. Most people would say yuck, but when I catch the junk fish Carp, I cut out the loin, cook it, and it's quite tasty.

Some of my favorite fish are Blue Gill and Crappie. Another favorite is Yellow Perch. My dream has always been to catch a Stergeon. 40 years ago a neighbor caught one that was 10 ft long, and had it hanging from his tree where everyone drove by 60 mps on the gravel road. The road was only 15 ft away from the tree where the fish was hanging. Each car that passed would help season the catch with road debris. Yuck.

2003-06-12T13:07:00.000-07:00

Peppers

Peppers are good because they help you burn calories, burn fat and cleanses the body of impurities. I personally love peppers. The hotter, the better. Although habaneros are too hot for me.
Some interesting information I have found at the Clark Howard website is that chili peppers kill termites.