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Hanta Yo
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
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Location: South Central Montana
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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: Update on gardens |
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Here's an update on our garden, peas are done and frozen, making pickles and relishes, eating corn, zucchini, potatoes, celery, carrots, beets (pickled, the BEST) broccoli and cauliflower are done and in the freezer, cabbage is also done, made lots of coleslaw and will be making kraut burgers and freezing them, cherry tomatoes are almost ready, cantelope, honeydews and Crenshaws are almost ready to eat, too. YUM! Snap beans are just coming on, only have about a quart frozen but we have a million of them maturing! Some of the Anaheim, Big Jim and Marconi chilis are ready to be harvested and roasted. Garlic, onions, and zucchini I've been using making dill pickles, sweet relish (with the zucchini, tastes the same as using cucumbers,) Busy, busy, busy...
Been a very busy summer, haven't had much time to post, maybe when calving starts. Hope you all had a great summer!!!
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ranchwife
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Location: ennis, montana
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nr
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Location: DE
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Hanta Yo
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Location: South Central Montana
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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YAYYYYY!!!! HANTA'S BACK!!!!! Cancel the search and rescue unit!! Call back the helicopters!!!  Love the pix, Hanta!! Gonna have to get some tips from ya cuz my garden is pretty darned sad looking!! The radishes have come up and the corn is "getting there", but the weeds (despite my best efforts) have taken over and I have absolutely NO EXPERIENCE canning and such!! Sorry excuse for a farmer, huh???  |
Rancher's Wife, thanks so much for the welcome!!! YOU are busy with a ranch, being a mom, being a nurse and everything else with day-to-day living. Your kids help you keep the weeds out? (Sometimes kids are good for a reason   ) You want to learn how to can/freeze, I would LOVE to teach you!! You would just have to come over here for a week, you can learn all the basics. BTW, how are all your other garden items doing? Gardening is a LOT of work and if it wasn't for my wonderful, loving, gardening loving spouse I wouldn't have a garden either. 'Cept he loves getting into the good old canned goods during the winter and not have to buy them at the store and they taste sooo good.
Hope to spend more time on here, but things are quite busy esp since I am also involved with several organizations (one being 4-H - will have to clue all you in on how our daughter did last month). Our first calf should hit the ground any time now, just need to get the 1st calf heifers closer to home, and SOON!
Hanta Yo
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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you know how to make choclate zuchinni cake Hanta -it's mighty tasty. I had to use that chain halter at the Sheridan County fair a couple weeks back. A girl was having troubles with her steer.
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Faster horses
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hanta Yo you and your husband are to be congratulated! That is one mighty fine garden!! Lotsa work, I know, but worth it, both to watch grow in the summer and to eat in the winter.
ranchwife, if you can't go over to Hanta's for canning lessons, get a Kerr canning book. They don't cost much and give lots of instructions. It is time consuming, but not hard to can and the results are so tasty!
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Hanta Yo
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
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Location: South Central Montana
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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I BET you're busy with processing food. Such a huge garden!!
What's with the truck tires. Are they to keep the heat in around plants?
And tell me about kraut burgers.
Do you have trouble with squirrels on the sunflowers. Ours should be attracting them right about now.  |
NR,
We don't have a prob with squirrels, had a problem once with chipmunks. They must've caught a disease because I rarely see them anymore. Our big problem is with Richardson's Ground squirrels and pocket gophers 
The tires are to protect the newly transplanted plants from wind (which we seem to have constantly), and they seem to just help out, period. Early spring we place wall 'o waters inside the tires, that also helps prevent the wind from knocking down the wall 'o waters!
We plant the sunflowers not only for shade for other plants, but for their beauty and the cassins' finches and american goldfinches LOVE them! We love to watch the birds eat their seeds and sing their sweet songs. After a day of haying, chasing "nearlings" (read in April, I had so much trouble with the "PH's" and the trouble has NOT gone away), sitting in the garden is relaxation to us, then we get to sit in the hot tub after dark when everyone is quiet and look at the stars.
Kraut burgers I think you will find the recipe in Coffee Shop back in March sometime, when I started a "fightless Friday, how 'bout some good recipes" or something like that. I brown 2 # hamburger, chop 1 large onion, slice thinly 1/2 med cabbage, add to browned hamburger and cook till done. I add salt and pepper to taste. I place several tablespoons of the mixture on a 4X4 (or so) piece of bread dough, fold the dough in half and seal the edges. Raise till double, then bake till brown. These are great to freeze as they are equal or better than some of Schwan's "pocket' breads. You can put anything in the bread dough you want, I've tried Bar-B-Q beef and it is really good. These pocket breads are great when you know you have to be gone from the house for the day and know you will be too far away to come back for lunch.
Spouse and son are watching "Band of Brothers" by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg (sp?)- I would advise everyone to watch it.
Anyway, nice to be back.
Hanta Yo
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nr
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Faster horses
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WHAT, NO WIND, YA SAY?
Just can't imagine it!!!
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alabama
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Location: Alabama
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My gardens are over for this year except for Butter beans, Okra, Cantalopes and watermelons. I should have planted some late tomatos but I could find no late plants this year. Oh yeah the penuts look ready so I should start pulling some when it dries oiut a little.
We had 7.5 inches of rain yesterday. So no I have plenty of "clean" hay to roll.
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Mike
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Location: Montgomery, Al
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:21 am Post subject: |
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My gardens are over for this year except for Butter beans, Okra, Cantalopes and watermelons. I should have planted some late tomatos but I could find no late plants this year. Oh yeah the penuts look ready so I should start pulling some when it dries oiut a little.
We had 7.5 inches of rain yesterday. So no I have plenty of "clean" hay to roll. |
Do you mean 7.5 inches as in 7.5 inches?
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alabama
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Yes Mike as in almost a foot yesterday.
It filled some 5 galon buckets about 2/3. All the ponds ran over.
If anyone needs some rain I will be glad to cut your hay and make it rain for you.
You want to buy some clean hay? lol
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I don't get "the big lawn thing." To me