What did you do in the garden today?

[CedarLane]

I am sure they told you in the hospital that hubby has to steer clear of innards like liver, heart, kidneys ?! Also no canned meats , sausage or certain fatty fish like salmon, trout or chicken skin …to stop smoking, reduce weight and get exercising should be a no brainer , and alcohol isn’t doing him any favors either it sucks, but if he leads a healthy regiment, he is allowed some meals with forbidden stuff, as long as it isn’t too often

Surprisingly enough he already doesn’t eat most of that stuff! He doesn’t like “organ meat”, rarely ever eats fish ( other than fish sticks ), doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke ( anything ), and the only canned meats he eats is whatever comes in canned chili. Oh, and I don’t like chicken skin and I’m the one that does the butchering, so no chicken skin for him either.
He definitely needs to exercise more and lose weight and he loves sausages.
But thank you for all the suggestions

Just curious... What would be the problem with canned meats? Would this include our own home-canned meats or is the concern with the store-bought processed canned meats? I use my canned chicken and canned beef often.

 

[Smokerbill]

We have rain. I picked 4 summer squash before the rain started. They are steady producers. I now have 10 to use.

Ever since the weather changed here my summer squash quit producing. I guess they don't like 50 degree nights. And that's ok. I got enough in the freezer, and I'm kind of burned out on eating them.

 

[gtaus]

I use small potatoes whole and mash em with the skins, big taters get a general peeling but if there’s skin on it then so be it; I don’t peel carrots.

My grandparents always told me that the potato skin was the best part of the potato. It held all the nutrients whereas the inside white part was mostly just starch. I really don't know how much of that is accurate, but the skin is still my favorite part of potatoes even today.

 

[Smokerbill]

My grandparents always told me that the potato skin was the best part of the potato. It held all the nutrients whereas the inside white part was mostly just starch. I really don't know how much of that is accurate, but the skin is still my favorite part of potatoes even today.

I like the skins from baked potatoes when they're filled with cheese and bacon!

 

[Sally PB]

My grandparents always told me that the potato skin was the best part of the potato. It held all the nutrients whereas the inside white part was mostly just starch.

They were right. The skin and the bit just under is where most of the nutrition is.

 

[Sally PB]

Pouring rain right now. This will make it easier to dig up the crabgrass in the heavy soil garden.

I'm making green tomato salsa now. I had some tomatoes that have just started turning, so I added those. It might not be as green and pretty, but it's tasty. I make it just barely warm on the pepper heat scale. I put in 3 jalapenos, and removed the seeds/membrane, where most of the heat is. Yeah, I'm a wimp. DH likes his salsa on the blowtorch level, so this stuff is for me.

 

[akroberts1085]

My grandparents always told me that the potato skin was the best part of the potato. It held all the nutrients whereas the inside white part was mostly just starch. I really don't know how much of that is accurate, but the skin is still my favorite part of potatoes even today.

It's spot on accurate. The skin contains all the good stuff.

 

[gtaus]

Pouring rain right now.

Yeah, raining here, too. Time to catch up on the BYC forums and add a post or two...

This will make it easier to dig up the crabgrass in the heavy soil garden.

One of the things I really like about having moved almost all my gardening to raised beds is that I don't have to fight all the crabgrass in the in-ground garden anymore. The few weeds I get in my raised beds are easily pulled out by hand. I suspect I might get more weeds in the raised beds after a few years, but right now, I think I could count on my fingers on one hand how many weeds I had this year in my raised beds.

 

[Sally PB]

Last night when I couldn't sleep, I was thinking that if I had a pile of pallets like @gtaus has... I would make a bunch of contained raised beds to take the place of the mounded beds I have now.

Hardware cloth over the bottom would keep out the voles. They ran riot in some of my beds this year.

 

[Smokerbill]

Two of my raised beds are about 16" tall, and that's become too low for me and my back. I'm thinking about adding another 8" or more height to each bed, and turning them into Hugelkultur beds so I don't have to add any more dirt.

It would take a lot of shoveling to bury all the wood, but in the long run I think it would be worth the effort. Guess I need to start looking for some free wood to bury. LOL

And I need to start checking out Home Depot more often to find a bunch of 2x8", 2x10" or 2x12" cull lumber. I'll need about 90 feet of the dimensional lumber to increase the height of my pair of 15'x5'6" raised beds.

I have two other beds that are only around 8" high. I'll leave them as is for the time being.