What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I'm going to preserve some eggs by waterglassing. Has anyone done that? I'm pretty sure there will be an egg drought this fall/winter.

I did about 60 eggs a few weeks ago. My first time waterglassing so we'll see how it goes. I'm going to do more each quarter so I have the batches staggered.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Simple, we no longer have the infrastructure to do that nor the people who want to do it. It was outsourced.

Well it doesn't seem like something that would cost a ton of money to spin up and it's better than letting millions of people starve to death. Just sayin'

 

[TJAnonymous]

There might actually be a little light at the end of the garden tunnel. I've managed to whittle down my "to-do" list to about 4 things now. Oh, and I realized tonight that my peach tree has 6 peaches on it! They are about the size of a walnut right now. And I still haven't sprayed. Do you typically spray with copper, neem, or both when it has fruit on it?

 

[WthrLady]

Well it doesn't seem like something that would cost a ton of money to spin up and it's better than letting millions of people starve to death. Just sayin'

You'd think, but the federal, state, local regulations and permits involved in fertilizer plants are crazy. I don't make the rules. Don't shoot the messenger.
Plus by the time things would get going the cost to build, produce and sell, would have the price of product crazy high and possible by that time, come into production after cheap out of country production and shipment picks back up. Then no one would buy the local expensive stuff. Also crazy, but true.

 

[igorsMistress]

Most of what I spend at Meijer (the local store) is for food, but as I said, I get a lot of other stuff there too. It's just me and DH, and our dog. Her food comes from TSC.

I'm aiming for $100/week average. I blew through that this week. There's something that our local store stopped carrying, so I went to a different one. They had it, and I bought all 11 packages. 10 are in the freezer.

There are a whole bunch of things we could cut, like beer, coffee, tea, snacks, chips... (We don't eat a lot of snacks and chips.) These are the small comforts of life and we can afford them. But they could go away if need be.

Gasp! How dare you mention cutting coffee Sally! Them is fightin’ words

 

[WthrLady]

I'm almost weened off coffee products. Give me another two weeks. Phew.

 

[igorsMistress]

My seeds from Native Seed Search arrived already, wow! I got sweet corn and both tepary and common beans. The tepary beans are very drought tolerant, so I’m hoping they’ll replace navy beans for ham hocks and baked beans next winter. The common beans are called Rattlesnake, kind of cool looking. They can be used as snap beans or dried.

 

[DParker75089]

I'm almost weened off coffee products. Give me another two weeks. Phew.

They can have my coffee when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

 

[igorsMistress]

I'm almost weened off coffee products. Give me another two weeks. Phew.

I’m curious why? I’ve been thinking about cutting back and then quitting. I never even drank it until I was probably 30.

 

[WthrLady]

The one I like is getting harder and harder to find. I can do without the morning boost of caf and carbs, so off it goes. I'm down to 8 ounces every two days, first thing in the morning. I found what I really want is to hold a warm cup in my arthritic hands, I can do the same with a hot mug of water. So....