What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Wow that is scary. I never even realized I had a problem with it until I sprayed it as I was cleaning the inside of a car in my early 20s using the Blue Windex. Suddenly I had a severe asthma attack. I stumbled out of the car and went into the house, did my inhaler and then I started to turn red and swell and had hives that looked like welts all over my neck, face, chest & arms & my back. It was just awful. I took some benadryl and some prednisone that I had on hand but that was really frightening. I probably should have gone to the hospital but I didn't. I looked pretty awful for a few days. Gradually the welts subsided.

Sometimes in a restaurant idiots will be cleaning with customers in the restaurant...I can smell it before I even see it, and I make a quick exit for the door to get the hell out of there. I also have reactions to that stuff they sprinkle down on the floor, I guess it's called carpet fresh, horribly allergic. Many hotels used it back in the day, it was just terrible I wouldn't even be able to go into the room.

I remember when I was little I was looking in the cabinets and saw a bottle with a picture of a lemon on the label. I always loved lemons, So I opened up the lid, held it up to my nose to smell it & promptly had a horrible reaction. Parents took me to the hospital. It was ammonia.

Thank God bleach doesn't bother me so bad because I really need to clean and disinfect flock waters with it. Inside the house, I use Simple Green often.That smell is wonderful, doesn't bother me at all.

I wonder why many people are so reactive to certain chemicals.

I'm allergic to bleach, though I don't have as severe and immediate reaction as you do to ammonia. I just wind up with chemical bronchitis.

I clean mainly with white vinegar and baking soda, not always together.

 

[jerryse]

Rain coming but when? No one agrees. Dw is much better, and I am lagging behind. She is well enough to start telling me what needs to be done. Not today. Several rounds of rain in the next days.

 

[WthrLady]

I pulled 8 buckets of weeds. That sounds like a lot more work than it actually was. These are big, mature weeds!

I had to stay available to help hubby with his project, which was installing one of the two pieces of drywall we can do before the electrician wires the new switch in the bathroom.

The bathroom project is going slowly. I'm a bit nervous about ripping out the old tub and installing the new shower. Not sure what we're going to find when we take it out.

I was terrified at taking out the old soaker tub in our master bath. Luckily all I had to do was cap the lines coming up through the floor and patch the subfloor, and clean up the trash left by the builders 20 years ago.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm allergic to bleach, though I don't have as severe and immediate reaction as you do to ammonia. I just wind up with chemical bronchitis.

I clean mainly with white vinegar and baking soda, not always together.

I have that with a few cleaning chemicals, especially when they are done in micro spray/mists. It's always a surprise.

 

[fuzzi]

I always wanted to taste milky white beef bone broth, but never got around to making it, so while I was in the supermarket I bought a package of fresh beef hoofs bones. It cost $8 for a few bones, so I only bought one package.

It took at least 24 hours to make the bones simmering in water to turn a light milky white. After seasoning it, I was impressed at how it tasted. If I ever do this again, I will buy two packages of beef hoof bones instead of one package.

I've never seen beef hoof bones for sale.

 

[fuzzi]

I thinned out the lettuce, beet, and rutabaga sprouts, offered them to the flock. They weren't sure about the sprouts until I tidbitted a couple, that piqued their interest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Picked up two bottles of antibiotic for DH
was at the garden grabbed a few red roma tomato and one partially ripe early girl under the grow light they ripen faster.

 

[Minanora]

Planted 4 varieties of peas. Picked the sunniest spots available. Very hot and dry today. In for a cool break- iced coffee for the win at the moment.

CARROTS: any suggestions for canning or freezing? I don’t mind cooked carrots, but my family aren’t fans of just cooked carrots. So, I’ve already canned “dilled carrots” per the Ball canning book - since they aren’t soft cooked, but instead pickled, they are accepted. I can shred for carrot cake (my recipe uses 7C shredded) which will work for some. But, not kidding -I have ALOT of carrots in the garden -a good problem to have. My husband eats them all the time at work, so that’s good too. But, any suggestions beyond what I’ve mentioned, or amazing canning or baking recipes? I’m not in a rush to use them all, bc they can stay in the ground, but the earliest planted should probably get picked soon so they don’t all split.


Cowpeas/field peas (black eyed peas are one kind of field peas): we planted 3 varieties. It was a learning curve to learn when to pick to easily shell fresh. One variety was difficult no matter what, the other two were decently easy to figure out. About 32 Cups of shelled and washed field peas are frozen now, plus another 6-8 C we already cooked and ate. I ripped out the plants bc we didn’t need anymore. We did find that the classic southern recipe was what we liked: simmer a smoked ham hock in water for 1.5-2 hours. Sauté onion and garlic in pan -we used bacon grease. Add fresh shelled field peas (can also add chopped up immature pods too), then the cooked ham hock and enough of the ham hock cooking water to cover the peas. Cook for about 45 min-1 hour. Pretty tasty. I’m glad bc I never ever like black eyed peas growing up …always canned. Maybe the canned variety starts with dried peas, maybe the drying changes the texture and flavor. We will see if freezing changes them to be less tasty.

Can carrots in pieces; then when you're making spaghetti sauce, drain the carrots, puree them and add them to the sauce. Addes sweetness, fiber, and thickness. I do this with butternut squash, carrots, and pumpkin. Great way to get more nutrition into the sauce.

 

[Minanora]

Felt up to going out and getting yesterday's mail. Slowly improving. I did not feel this bad with Covid. Makes me wonder what lab created this. I hope I am wrong.

You should make sure it's not bird flu. It's a thing now.

 

[cj2024]

I've never seen beef hoof bones for sale.

They don't always have it at my grocery store. I found an easier and cheaper alternative to milky white beef bone broth. I found it on amazon. The video on the bottom of the page shows how it looks when hot water is added to the mix. I bought both the dry powder and bottled concentrate liquid form to compare the difference, and just in case the bottle breaks on the concentrated liquid form. I did not know bone broth had so many nutrients. I actually feel good after consuming the one I just made and have developed a deep craving for it.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Austr...ef_=ast_bln&store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto

I canceled the bottle bone broth and got this plastic container one instead: