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The west side of my "serious" garden has rows that are 32 feet long. The reason is that feedlot panels are 16 feet long. Two panels are 32 feet long. Feedlot panels make fine supports for semi-determinate tomato vines. I am using a default distance between rows of 42 inches this year but for the tomatoes I went with 60" between rows.
32 feet of Provider green bean seeds went into the ground today.
32 plants of Rustica Limonka tobacco on 24" centers went into the ground. I will let the two leafiest plants set seed.
17 plants of Stupice tomato and 17 plants of Ace 55 tomato.
I ran short of sweet peppers and Mrs ERJ made a commando shopping trip to make up the shortfall. Consequently, I was able to plant 17 sweet pepper plants today. The ones she bought were interesting because they had extremely short internodes. I think they were grown under LEDs with lots of blue light content.
All told, I planted about 750 square feet of garden today after Mass. That is about 75 square-Manitobas for those of you who can visualize Montreal units.
I have room to plant some pickling cucumbers and then the west side of the "serious" garden is planted with the first rotation of vegetables. I am seriously considering planting them on feed-lot panels as well.
A lady at church
One of the widows where I attend church is opinionated and enjoys sharing those opinions. Me, being mostly polite, is often the benefit of those opinions.
Today she shared that she cans tomato "soup stock" for five families. She supplies each of the four elderly families and one overwhelmed young mother with 48 quarts of tomatoes canned with the Cajun Trinity (green peppers, onions and celery).
Two of those families asked Mrs Opinionated if it would be possible to add 12 more quarts. She wasn't very happy with that until they said that they relied on soup to stretch the grocery dollar. And that dollar wasn't going as far as it used to. It is now very possible to pay over $8 for a three pound bag of grapes, for instance.
One of Mrs Opinionated's frustrations is that she cannot hire help. She ended up tilling her garden with her hand tiller when in previous years she was able to find somebody to do it for cash.
I guess I will cut her a little bit of slack. She is doing her bit to honor Matt 25:37 and 25:40-42.
Sounds as ID she has about the same mission you do. Could you help her with the tilling?
ReplyDeleteThat is some 'souper' lady right there! That 48 quarts is 12 gallons! I don't think I have a 2 gallon pot in my house. Hand salute to the old girl!
ReplyDeleteI think the families she gave the canned tomatoes to were making a pot of soup a week and using the tomato to "glue" the leftovers together.
DeleteToday is Friday--
Today is Friday--
Friday is Pay Day!
Monday is Wash Day!
Tuesday is Ironing!
Wednesday is Cleaning!
Thursday is Zoup!
Everybody happy?
Well I should say!
(One version of an old folk song)
I think she was asking for a little help.
ReplyDeleteGod bless opinionated people.
She was asking for appreciation, not help. Oldest of eight kids (all girls, I think). Stubborn girl!
DeleteI gave her a pat on the back and she was happy with that.
God bless that stubborn old woman! We have a group of stubborn old women at church who prepare and serve the meal after each funeral. They take care of the bereaved family. That pat on the back probably went further than one might think. -Milton
DeleteSome canning is relatively easy to do, tomato sauce or soup base, fruits, and keep for years. I freeze all the green beans, beets, corn, snow peas, etc. Good for that woman, she’s helping out others in need. Matthew 25 indeed.
ReplyDeleteSouthern NH
"One of Mrs Opinionated's frustrations is that she cannot hire help. She ended up tilling her garden with her hand tiller when in previous years she was able to find somebody to do it for cash."
ReplyDeletePerhaps she should ask the families to whom she is catering to assist....might be a great way to offer a hand up....
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