Afternoon all,
It was a busy morning, got the yard edged, trimmed. mowed and clippings blown off the hard surfaces. I then started weeding the garden and started to thin the carrots, I'll have to hire an almost teenager as her hands are are smaller than mine. Waiting another week on the beets as I want to cook the tops of the culls like spinach, yummy. Parsnips not doing real well as it appears only 5 came up between the 2 rows. Okra still being slow, but they are several inches tall. The tomatoes are now over a foot tall and are blooming already. I put the cages up last week, and based on a comment from Willie, decided to shore up the cages while the plants were still small. The 2 pepper plants are starting to bloom as well. I'm going to TRY to contain the cucumbers to the row space the parsnips aren't using. I still need to plant the green beans. I like fresh ones. Well see how much I can do later in the summer. I should be just about back after knee replacement to start harvesting the peaches. They ripen mid-August.
Speaking of the peach trees, After the rabbits got the first couple of suckers, I have a 6" sucker on the stump of the other peach tree. I should be able to get a "New" tree based on what I've read. The rabbits can eat the suckers I keep mowing from the remains of the apple tree, although they may not like the taste 2,4-D. Too windy today to mix another batch as I have some bindweed I need to take care of now that the dandelions are feeling poorly. Take advantage of a one armed man, will they? (Couldn't spray last year due to the 2 shoulder surgeries).
You guys mentioned Aldi's, they used to have a 3Lb package of polish sausage that we would buy. As a polish sausage, they were crap, but as a sausage to put on the grill and then a bun, they were pretty good and less than many hot dogs. Reminds me, I'll have to see if I can get a shipment of Polish sausage the butcher in the town my grandparents lived. 4th generation family butcher from Poland. I'd go in in late after noon, place my order, they'd then pack and freeze overnight and I'd pick up with coolers and dry ice and bring back to Kansas where they think Polish Sausage is a greasy spicy sausage.
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