RollingAcres
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Wow those ribs look super delicious! 
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Mike CHS
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We harvested our first bunch of grapes tonight from 2 year old vines. I need to do some reading since the grapes are small and bitter. The bed they are in is fairly heavy clay that we amended but still not the best in the world.
Our tomato crop is a disappointment. They taste great but they aren't what we thought we had planted which leads me to think there is an Amish conspiracy to make sure you buy plenty of their tomatoes at the auction.
That was said jokingly but what happened is we bought a flat of Beefsteak Tomatoes from the auction and intended for that to be our main canning bed. I started a dozen heirloom tomatoes that I put in another bed that are doing well. The "Beefsteak" is putting on a lot of fruit but they are small, and more like a large cherry tomato. I have started another dozen plants using suckers from the heirlooms but that will put us canning at the end of summer instead of the middle. They sell tomatoes by the bushel cheap enough that I might give in to the heat and say no large beds of tomatoes till next year.
Our tomato crop is a disappointment. They taste great but they aren't what we thought we had planted which leads me to think there is an Amish conspiracy to make sure you buy plenty of their tomatoes at the auction.
That was said jokingly but what happened is we bought a flat of Beefsteak Tomatoes from the auction and intended for that to be our main canning bed. I started a dozen heirloom tomatoes that I put in another bed that are doing well. The "Beefsteak" is putting on a lot of fruit but they are small, and more like a large cherry tomato. I have started another dozen plants using suckers from the heirlooms but that will put us canning at the end of summer instead of the middle. They sell tomatoes by the bushel cheap enough that I might give in to the heat and say no large beds of tomatoes till next year.
Bruce
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COULD be an honest labeling mistake. I bought 2 six packs of broccoli, one that would be ready several weeks before the other so we wouldn't have 12 plants all knocking out heads at the same time. I planted the later ones in the back. Guess which ones are forming heads.
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Mike CHS
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That's why I said it was jokingly said. They are some super good people and work their behinds off. Last year we were buying 1 day old bags of corn for $8 for 60 ears of sweet corn. Their 'picked daily' is only $12 for some of the best corn you ever had.
greybeard
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Mike CHS
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That is a good way to end the night with a laugh GB
Bruce
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$0.20/ear for "picked this morning" is quite the good price!
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Mike CHS
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We forgot to put the chickens up last night and lost two of them to something. Our tame Egg Delivery (ED) hen was not anywhere to be found but I did find a pile of her feathers. One of the Buff Orpingtons was missing her head and that's the second time that has happened.
Hens and Roos
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sorry to hear that 
