What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Thunderstorm overnight . More rain coming this afternoon . We needed it .

Glad you got some!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Been in chronic pain for years wrecked spine. No narcotics are NOT magical pills that make it go away either if only it WAS that easy. I don't want to say I feel your pain,as that PUNchline is a bit too blatant but know how you feel.

It just sucks the life out of you and some days you don't even want to get out of bed. I would also believe that being in constant pain like that makes one a prime candidate for depression too, which makes the f-it im staying in bed urge all the more, neigh of which is healthy.

Hang in there, there are good days, bad days and think of it this way. When I get days that are that bad, the girls are my driving force. (well the bad boy too), I say, if I don't get out of bed, nobody will feed them properly, THEY look up to me and it gives me that little extra courage to push the pain and get up.

Hopefully your treatment works for you, I sincerely do.

Aaron

I don't take pain pills. Ever... I'm allergic to morphine. They gave it to me once in the hospital and I nearly died. I'd rather suffer through the pain.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We were supposed to get rain tomorrow. I see a big system in New Mexico/West Texas. Assuming this is the storm that hit @igorsMistress ... But according to several weather sources, the amount we are supposed to get appears to be dwindling... I wish Mother Nature wasn't so bipolar.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. @TJAnonymous I hope you get some rain soon!

My yard got 1.5” of rain over the last couple of days, 1” of that in the gulley washer the other night. Our city is doing a free bulk trash pickup next weekend so we’ve gotta get busy. Hubs is working today so I’m cleaning house, we’ll run some errands later and tomorrow we can dedicate to working on getting the tree out of the front yard. I saw standing water late yesterday evening so we may need to do some work out there for drainage. We’ll see what happens after we have the rain gutters up.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I managed to (painfully) get the boot on this morning and move out to the recliner in the living room! I think I'm still going to be on crutches today though so I don't think it's possible for me to mix up the copper sulfate and treat the peach tree. I'm just going to have to hope the aspirin paste on it holds out for a few days...

 

[WthrLady]

We were supposed to get rain tomorrow. I see a big system in New Mexico/West Texas. Assuming this is the storm that hit @igorsMistress ... But according to several weather sources, the amount we are supposed to get appears to be dwindling... I wish Mother Nature wasn't so bipolar.

Me too. Sure would make my job a hell of a lot easier!

 

[Sueby]

They won't give pain pills here no matter what because of the opioid epidemic. One of my very good friends was dying of terminal brain cancer & they wouldn't give her anything. One of the last times I saw her out of the hospital she was guzzling tequila rocking back & forth in excruciating pain. I was so mad for her - some people DO need pain pills. I was relieved for her in a way, when she finally passed. The end of her life was hell & she was one of the kindest people I've ever been blessed to know.

Got to try that jam. Is good with meats?

I'm going to assume it is! I'm not sure how mine would be because it isn't made with sugar though so it doesn't really caramelize. But I would think great on pork.

Irrigation on farms isn't mean to be used 24/7 all season. It's meant to be supplemental source of water when times get rough. Wells go low and dry quickly when they are used to often. Motors burns out faster. Some farms don't have them at all.
Here, even using the pivots and ground irrigation cannot keep up with the rate of evaporation at a rate that does enough for the plants during their critical developmental and maturing stages. So all running the water from the ground does is burn $$ and keep the crop of life support.

Well times are for sure rough here now been a very tough season for farmers. They're saying farmers have already started feeding their hay & that there won't be any come winter. I have no idea how that irrigation stuff all works, it was just sad to see field after field wilted & dying. I'm thinking it was squash or pumpkins. You don't see a lot of the big rolling irrigation here, I think we don't generally need as much supplemental water as the 'real' farms out west so they may not even have irrigation here. I'm farming dumb, lol.

So I got 1 batch of dilly beans done this am. That's all I'm doing this year. Enough for bloody marys for me on my girls hippie fest weekend, a few 1/2 pints for salads & 3 for gifts. They're in there snapping lids now.

 

[Ascholten]

One thing I have done in the past when I have had my numerous surgeries and been on the 'no lifting 5 lbs or more' lists or in a walker or crutches or whatever. They make pint and quart spray bottles, and the spray nozzles on them can go amazingly far too I may add !

Mix up a small batch in something that is hand held, and if it is not just because you can't physically get up, use that to spray. Now you are not dealing with trying to heft a big sprayer all over, and worse having to bounce up and down on it trying to pump it up TO be able to spray etc.

I think most chemicals that are like that, the copper salts, the pyrethins, the neem oil etc, is not going to go bad if it sets a little while so mix yourself up gallon jugs of this and that and label it, then when needed, fill a spray bottle walk out and fissttt it.

Aaron

 

[ChicksnMore]

https://pomonapectin.com/strawberry-jalapeno-jam/
This is the one I used, I used all jalapenos, no sweet peppers. I doubled the recipe & used half the sugar (but I used allulose, not sugar) - I like to taste the jam, not the sweet so much. I find most jam way too sweet which is why I love Pomona pectin.


Interesting, keep an eye out there! I have a raccoon trying to get in my coop. He hasn't been successful yet, but he keeps trying. I'm going to get some secondary latches tomorrow, I don't want to catch & dispatch if I don't have to.

@BullChick - I love cowboy candy. I stopped at the farm stand today & asked when they thought the jalapenos would be coming in. I plan to make some for us. DH loves the leftover juice, I can it & he puts it on everything! It's great as a chicken marinade.

Pomona pectin sounds wonderful! I'm the same way on jams and syrup. Can't wait to try it....except I have no fruit this year! . Saved to my recipe box though because next year has to be better!

 

[Sueby]

Pomona pectin sounds wonderful! I'm the same way on jams and syrup. Can't wait to try it....except I have no fruit this year! . Saved to my recipe box though because next year has to be better!

Glad you're going to try it. I love the stuff & will never go back to the other - even for regular sugar recipes.