Gardening Thread 2021

[Grizzlyhackle]

Stuffs getting ahead of me. There's the one row of green arrow peas and two rows of red taters. All that tall stuff needs to get cut but I let some of the red clover flower for the honeybees. I won't even talk about the pitiful snap peas.
Working 12 to 8 not enough time in the morning. Dark when I get home. Little row of Lima beans has sprouted. I love them with slick dumplings.

 

[Alaskan]

Little row of Lima beans has sprouted. I love them with slick dumplings.

What are slick dumplings?

 

[Alaskan]

Up here snow is finally gone from the garden beds... I have to put clear plastic over the rows to warm the soil.... and kick the chickens out of the greenhouse and water the excess nitrogen away.

 

[Baymule]

@Grizzlyhackle with the hours you are working, just plant and do what you can. If you part the weeds and bring forth food, then I call that success. A garden doesn’t have to be pretty to be productive.

 

[Mini Horses]

Slick dumplings...never heard that but, I suspect they're the flat noodle type as opposed to ones you drop like a hush puppy....??? He'll tell us.

Woohoo....Alaskan has dirt! That snow went fast once it started to melt.

I missed all early cool crops this year. Will just do them in Fall...I hope I'm working on tomatoes and peppers!

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

What are slick dumplings?

Drop dumplings just rolled real flat. They taste better , don't get doughy. Good with spring peas and black pepper. Slide em into a pot of limas. Really best way is in the pot after you take out the chicken or beef. Boil them couple minutes. Love em. Thin looong strips. Eastern shore style is just flour, water and crisco.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Slick dumplings...never heard that but, I suspect they're the flat noodle type as opposed to ones you drop like a hush puppy....??? He'll tell us.

Yes ma'am. Eastern Shore cooking at it's finest.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Baymule yes Ma'am, I'm trying to play the fiddle at both ends. I went to a neurosurgeon this afternoon who said about the same. My bend over don't have a lot of straighten up no more and she said cut it out before I have to. All them years Mom and Granny said boy get off your knees. Bent over, back hurting pulling weeds and picking. Steady fussing gonna ruin your pants. Scoliosis who knew.

 

[Baymule]

@Grizzlyhackle perhaps you should consider raised beds. 3’ wide so you could reach the middle without stretching. Make them out of capped cinderblocks and you’d have a seat to sit on.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Grizzlyhackle perhaps you should consider raised beds. 3’ wide so you could reach the middle without stretching. Make them out of capped cinderblocks and you’d have a seat to sit on.

That's a good idea. I have one but of lumber it's low but I can sit on a bucket. I keep my digging fork close so I can get up. I thought about one of the wheel seats in the garden catalog until I thought about falling off. Been using raised split barrels for salad greens, scallions. Built those stands waist high. Do you think radishes and carrots would grow ok in a barrel split lengthwise?