Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[goatgurl]

things are looking really good mike. when you get finished at your house you and Teresa can always come here and do a few chores, wouldn't want you to get bored. I've tried stevia too and like youall i'm not crazy about the after twang. honey is my go to sweetner but I have been known to use cane sugar too. between you and baymule I think I need to go plant a few more cucumber vines. going to have to try those recipes.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I've been trying to figure out what plants i could put in the garden at the new house(if we get it) that would be ready to harvest before first frost. I know i can do green beans, radish, maybe some fast growing tomatoes if i get kinda largish plants, snap peas, etc.

Lack of a garden is making me so jealous of all your canned goods but honestly even if i had a garden it would only be 20 days old lol.

 

[lcertuche]

Bay I'm thinking the mock apple rings would be a good way of using up those big zucchini everyone has after a while. Cucumbers always play out on me to quick and my garden is not big enough to get any great amount in a picking or two.

 

[Mike CHS]

things are looking really good mike. when you get finished at your house you and Teresa can always come here and do a few chores, wouldn't want you to get bored. I've tried stevia too and like youall i'm not crazy about the after twang. honey is my go to sweetner but I have been known to use cane sugar too. between you and baymule I think I need to go plant a few more cucumber vines. going to have to try those recipes.

I don't see our to-do list getting done in my lifetime.

 

[Mike CHS]

I've been trying to figure out what plants i could put in the garden at the new house(if we get it) that would be ready to harvest before first frost. I know i can do green beans, radish, maybe some fast growing tomatoes if i get kinda largish plants, snap peas, etc.

Lack of a garden is making me so jealous of all your canned goods but honestly even if i had a garden it would only be 20 days old lol.

When I lived in Michigan I always had tomatoes in the ground in June and got a decent amount before first frost. We are cloning some now to plant next month for a fall crop.

 

[misfitmorgan]

When I lived in Michigan I always had tomatoes in the ground in June and got a decent amount before first frost. We are cloning some now to plant next month for a fall crop.

Yes we normally plant in the garden June 1st....but since we will be moving to the new house July 18th we cant plant anything until then.

 

[Bruce]

Not sure I would bother with tomatoes, even cherries will be hard pressed to get going before frost unless maybe you are close enough to the lake to get "later fall due to lake effect".

Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage should be possible. Chives, they will come back year after year so find them a permanent home. Plenty of time to get garlic planted in the fall

 

[misfitmorgan]

@Bruce i'm gonna slide the garden talk over to my journal so we dont take over Mike's.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm like most folks with Journals. It is fair game for any/all topics and I never feel like it is hijacked.

We are getting the 3/4 of our house that did not get new siding sided this week. We are having them pull the plywood off as they take off the old siding to replace insulation that we know mice got to before our renovation started to keep them out.

The Japanese Beetles arrived in force this morning and are really attacking our fruit trees.

We took our #4 lamb in for processing this morning. He is one that had a recessive gene and had some horns that weren't well formed. One of them broke off when he made the mistake of head butting our ram who butted back about 10 times harder. He was going to the butcher next month but to avoid any infection in the broken horn we elected to do the deed early.

 

[CntryBoy777]

No need to pass up "Opportunity"....that's why I'm thinking my next "Adventure" will be duck Housing.....