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Skriven 2014-10-11 20:03:52 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17951 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Peppers                                                  [2]
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Hi Janis,

>> mato sauce from fresh tomatoes.

 JK> > I'd hoped to do that several years ago but the deer got all the
 JK> > tomatoes.

 JK> They probably loved them <grin>

Undoubtedly!


>> Next year I may do two boxes of tomatoes so I'd have 4 plants then,
>> we'll see. This season I only planted summer squash and bush
>> greenbeans in box1 (one row each). Tomatoes/basil in box2. Oregano,
>> parsley, (more basil) and peppers in box3. Cucumbers in box4. Potatoes

 JK> > Sounds like you had quite a harvest!

 JK> Yes, it worked well.  Next year I'll be able to start "on time" as
 JK> well :)

I'll see how things are settling out around mid March before deciding.


>> of those potatoes are huge! (g) I started the potatoes indoors really
>> early in the spring in a large-ish flower pot, figuring if I did
>> nothing else because I was too tired or "whatever", I could at least
>> transplant my potato plant into an earth box hehe

 JK> > Our neighbor tried the box method for growing potatoes this summer
 JK> but > it didn't work out for her. She wants to try it again next
 JK> summer and > hopefully do better; I'm not sure what went wrong this
 JK> time.

 JK> Did the plant get full sun all day?  Maybe she didn't let the cut up
 JK> potatoes with sprouts dry out before she planted them.. there are a
 JK> couple things that can go wrong with potatoes, like if the potatoes
 JK> themselves are exposed to sunlight, they can turn green - the green
 JK> parts are poisonous and have to be cut off before eating.  The plants
 JK> do need consistent watering.  If it warms up too much, you can work in
 JK> some straw or whatever to cool it down - potato plants like cooler
 JK> temps.

Not sure what she did or didn't do.

 JK> Earlier years I bought seed potatoes, but this year I just used a
 JK> potato that had healthy looking sprouts on it.  I cut that guy up
 JK> (maybe in quarters) with a sprout on each, and let the pieces dry out
 JK> for a day or two on the counter. Then into the dirt they went, sprout
 JK> side up.

One way to use sprouting potatoes. I think my dad did that a few times
after I left home.

>> to the chain-link fence for the dogs, so the vines grew up all over
>> it.. One day about a month ago, I was outside checking the earthboxes
>> and caught my idiot dogs helping themselves to cukes that were growing
>> on "their side" of the fence!  The stinkers!  I pushed any that were
>> on their side over to the exterior needless to say :)

 JK> > Silly dogs! I didn't know they like cucumbers. (G)

 JK> Me neither!  But I think they are willing to try anything that they
 JK> can tell I've planted Lol  Btw, they LOVED the greenbeans on their
 JK> side of the fence as well (grin)  You can bet I spent some time
 JK> pushing those to "my" side :)

They are labs, aren't they? IIRC, our cocker spaniel, Sam, ate a number
of veggies too.


 JK> ===Chicken Breast Parmesean===
 JK> We had this for dinner the other night.. todays' lunch was chicken
 JK> parmensean subs.. :)

Sounds yummy.

 JK> 3 chicken breast halves
 JK> 2 cups bread crumbs (I used home-made bread ends ground up with
 JK> spices) 1 cup flour

I make my own crumbs from bread I've made. Need to make up a batch to
add Italian seasonings to; I've got a good quantitiy of plain crumbs for
now.


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Ruth
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