The 2014 Get Dirt Under Your Fingernails Thread

[mom45]

Got a recipe for this mom45? My step mother is requesting some. TIA!

This is the one I use. It is as close to the "lost" family recipe as I have found.

Green Tomato Relish Recipe - Allrecipes.com

 

[bwframe]

This is the one I use. It is as close to the "lost" family recipe as I have found.

Green Tomato Relish Recipe - Allrecipes.com

Thanks again! My step mom will be happy.

 

[mom45]

Thanks again! My step mom will be happy.

Glad to help!

 

[gunworks321]

Picked the last two cukes and last Roma's before last nights frost. Made a quick salad with last of the basil I could find. Cut up Roma's, cuke and basil. Toss in some Italian salad dressing and serve with garlic bread and plate of spaghetti and meat balls and glass of Merlot. Hmm-mm!
Okra...done
peppers...done
tomatoes...done
beets... deer got them before me.
cukes...done
soybeans... deer got them too. (Edamame)

Still have plenty of bak choy for stir fry.
Stevia... flowering and waiting for the seeds.

 

[88GT]

Cleaned out the beds this past weekend. Hoping it stays dry enough to plant the garlic and bed them down with the shredded sweet gum balls. (I've finally found a use for those damn things.) Mr88GT also finished the retaining wall on one end. Now we just have to finish the other.

It looks so pretty without the fencing up, but if I can't keep my stupid dog out of the beds, I have to have that ugly fence up.

 

[gunworks321]

You are lucky it is only the dog. Not much keeps the deer out.

 

[bwframe]

You are lucky it is only the dog. Not much keeps the deer out.

Fence charger works fairly well for me.

 

[mom45]

Fence charger works fairly well for me.

I used to get deer in my garden eating everything. Even electric wire around the top of the fence did nothing as they just jumped over it. I started tying the plastic shopping bags on the fence as in this picture three years ago. I cut them in half vertically and loop the bag through the handle...cutting them prevents them from holding water. When the wind blows, they flap in the breeze and make noise and spook the deer. I have not had a deer within 20 feet of the fence in the past three years. I take them down at the end of the season as they get brittle from the weather and I don't like them blowing around in my yard. When I plant the garden, I put new ones up. I spray them with cheap air freshener from the dollar store when I first put them up as that also helps keep the deer away. This is virtually a free deer solution that has worked very well for us.

 

[gunworks321]

I used to get deer in my garden eating everything. Even electric wire around the top of the fence did nothing as they just jumped over it. I started tying the plastic shopping bags on the fence as in this picture three years ago. I cut them in half vertically and loop the bag through the handle...cutting them prevents them from holding water. When the wind blows, they flap in the breeze and make noise and spook the deer. I have not had a deer within 20 feet of the fence in the past three years. I take them down at the end of the season as they get brittle from the weather and I don't like them blowing around in my yard. When I plant the garden, I put new ones up. I spray them with cheap air freshener from the dollar store when I first put them up as that also helps keep the deer away. This is virtually a free deer solution that has worked very well for us.

It is true what they say, "Mom always knows best". Thanks for the tip Mom!

 

[mom45]

It is true what they say, "Mom always knows best". Thanks for the tip Mom!

Glad to share. I love simple solutions that work!

 

[K_W]

Which way does the wind normally blow?

From my yard to there's. :-)