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Skriven 2012-05-22 23:48:02 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Sacerdote
Ärende: Re: Garden 2012
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 -=> On 05-22-12  17:38,  Dave Sacerdote <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Garden 2012 <=-

 DSac> Your house is exceptionally cool, Dale - the neighborhood is really
 DSac> nice, the layout is great, and your yard might be small and shady,
 DSac> but it's also beautiful and park-like. So there are trade-offs we make
 DSac> when we choose our dwellings.

Correct -- we have been very happy living here for fourty years, and it
was a great place to raise our children.  The inability to have a decent
garden is the only drawback that I can think of.

 DSac> I would, however, miss having a garden terribly. I don't really save
 DSac> all that much money in the long run I suppose - I'd need to have
 DSac> a much bigger plot to be able to grow enough to put by for an entire
 DSac> year - but there's a certain satisfaction Maryanne and I get from
 DSac> teasing food from the soil.

Besides, where else can you get a decent tomato?  Other than the campari
tomatoes that we buy at BJs, we've never had any luck buying a tomato
that tastes like a tomato should, even at the few farmer's stands
around.

 DSac> soil that it was rich an fertile. We're starting from scratch here,
 DSac> and even now, four years in (we didn't have a garden right away) the
 DSac> ground here is still clay and sand and requires a lot of effort. We
 DSac> keep bringing in compost and manure, but it will take years before
 DSac> we see 10-foot tomato vines and 8-foot sunflowers again.

We've had a similar problem with our back yard.  Our lot was originally
Maryland clay fill dirt.  Eventually we go a decent dirt established in
the rear.  BUT, when we had the remodel job done, they dug a foundation
for the addition and piled all that red clay in a pile in the back.
When they were done, they spread it back in around the foundation and
leveled it out -- but it was still just red clay.  I think that it is
finally beginning to show some signs of getting a decent lawn
established.  I was very tempted at one point to go to a farm store and
get either clover seed or alfalpha in an attempt to condition the soil.

 DSh> I used to have blueberry bushes on the sunny side of the 
 DSh> garage, but what little fruit they produced went to the birds.

 DSac> Blueberries, as JW recently noted, love an acidic soil. And if you
 DSac> have berries on the bushes, you need bird netting to keep the birds
 DSac> away. It's a lot of work.

There is a pick-it-yourself farm about 10-15 miles from us.  In a month
or so they will have blueberries.  Their solution to that problem is
to string the rows of plants with tinsel, and little whirlygigs.  Seems
to work because their plants are very prolific.  You can hold the bucket
underneath a branch and just rake in a few cups of blueberries with a
swipe of the hand.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Beef Casserole Italiano
 Categories: Beef, Ground, Main dish, Cheese
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1 lb Ground beef
    1/4 c  Chopped yellow omion
     16 oz Tomato sauce
      1 ts Parsley flakes
    1/2 ts Leaf oregano
      1 ts Leaf basil
    1/2 ts Salt, divided
    1/4 ts Pepper
     20 oz Frozen chopped spinach,
           -thawed and drained well
      2 c  Ricotta cheese
      8 oz Mozarella cheese slices
 
  Brown the ground beef and onion; drain off the fat.  Stir in the
  tomato sauce, parsley, oregano, basil, 1/4 teaspoon of the salt and
  the pepper.  Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  
  Meanwhile, combine the spinach, ricotta cheese and the remaining
  1/4 teaspoon of salt.  Spoon the spinach mixture around the edges of a
  13- x 9- x 2-inch baking dish.  Pour the beef mixture into the center.
  Cut each mozarella slice into three strips and arrange in a lattice
  pattern over the meat.  Bake at 375F for 20 minutes.
  
  Makes 8 servings.
  
  [Country Woman; Collector's Edition; Recipe by Susan Longyear,
  Washington, Virginia]
  
  Posted by Fred Peters.
  From: Fred Peters                     Date: 09-04-98
  Cooking
 
MMMMM


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