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Re: [Homestead] [BULK] Re: Farm Update

From: Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] [BULK] Re: Farm Update
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:07:07 -0700 (PDT)

OMG !

I can so picture that happening! Whenever I really needed to make sure
something was exactly what I wanted I found I always needed to do it myself.

Meanwhile, my tomato plants have doubled in size with the cooler temps,
little Roma tomatoes all over again. But the temps this week have dipped and
it was only 43 degrees when I woke up this a/m.

Do tomatoes ripen when the overnights are dipping this low?
Daytime temps by the afternoon still a pleasant 70+

My Japanese eggplant absolutely loves the cooler weather. I have ONE plant,
and it currently has 17 eggplants on it, and I just picked 4 off the other
day.

The same thing happened with the Jalapenos. Never in my life did I think I
would be picking off almost 400 Jalapenos off of just a handful of plants,
and they are still covered in peppers.

I planted some zucchini again out of curiosity. They are at the flowering
stage, but I have a feeling my little bee friends have disappeared. At least
I haven't noticed any lately. So will have to hand polinate.

I'm still getting more baby melons and new flowers. They just don't seem to
want to stop producing. The freezers are packed, and I'll have to make
another run for more canning jars.

I've been fortunate that we've been able to pull up water. I know people
about 1/2 mile west have problems from time to time. We had a somewhat
decent rain only 2 times this year now. Of course both times right when I
was getting ready to pick dried beans, so some sprouted.

And I must have missed some of the potatoes in the ground, as I have been
finding potato plants coming up for the past few weeks, Kennebecs and Red
Pontiacs or maybe Puple Vikings, not sure which of the reds ones as they were
mixed together by accident.

________________________________
From: Sage Austin | Eureka! Design eureka AT hctc.net

LOL! I sent my husband to town for "floral body lotion" and he came back
with unscented mentholated lotion. He thought it meant mint. Now I smell
like a rotten egg smoking a cigarette filter.

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Don't forget to factor in cost for the pool.... cost of chemicals to keep the
water from turning green.

Chlorine Tri-Tabs, or Chlorine+Muriatic and any other conditioners you need
start to add up, as does cost of filtering the water w/pump.

In the south with the hot sun, chlorine or chlorine tab use winds up being
much much higher to keep the algae blooms in check. Also water evaporates
pretty quickly.

When I had a pool in S. FL, there were times when I'd lose over an inch a
week if there wasn't sufficient rainfall that week to replenish the loss.

Heating in winter - there are black solar covers that can be stretched over
the pool, but I don't know if they work in areas that freeze overnight. (not
w/ solar panels, kind of just the black bag type used to heat water when tent
camping)

(We did use the pool to bathe in after H. Andrew - for all of 4 days.... and
then the heat turned the water black and green rapidly, faster than normal
because there was a lot of debris - tree branches, leaves dirt, etc in the
pool, no electricity, no water circulation/filtration etc. That is when we
switched over to the canal......... until the dead animals floated by and
scratched that substitute plan... LOL)

At 10/8/2009 12:16 PM,Sage Austin | Eureka! Design wrote:
I could just swim to get clean! (I have a real swimming deficit,
>having had no river all summer to play in).

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Yes, they continue ripening. We've already had killer frost, so my garden
is done. I did get two grocery bags (paper) full of jalapenos. I have some
really "pretty" ones that I'm going to make a rista with. Looks like I'll
be canning peppers and pepper rings for a week <g> All from 6 plants!

Lynda
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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] [BULK] Re: Farm Update

OMG !

I can so picture that happening! Whenever I really needed to make sure
something was exactly what I wanted I found I always needed to do it myself.

Meanwhile, my tomato plants have doubled in size with the cooler temps,
little Roma tomatoes all over again. But the temps this week have dipped and
it was only 43 degrees when I woke up this a/m.

Do tomatoes ripen when the overnights are dipping this low?
Daytime temps by the afternoon still a pleasant 70+

My Japanese eggplant absolutely loves the cooler weather. I have ONE plant,
and it currently has 17 eggplants on it, and I just picked 4 off the other
day.

The same thing happened with the Jalapenos. Never in my life did I think I
would be picking off almost 400 Jalapenos off of just a handful of plants,
and they are still covered in peppers.

I planted some zucchini again out of curiosity. They are at the flowering
stage, but I have a feeling my little bee friends have disappeared. At least
I haven't noticed any lately. So will have to hand polinate.

I'm still getting more baby melons and new flowers. They just don't seem to
want to stop producing. The freezers are packed, and I'll have to make
another run for more canning jars.

I've been fortunate that we've been able to pull up water. I know people
about 1/2 mile west have problems from time to time. We had a somewhat
decent rain only 2 times this year now. Of course both times right when I
was getting ready to pick dried beans, so some sprouted.

And I must have missed some of the potatoes in the ground, as I have been
finding potato plants coming up for the past few weeks, Kennebecs and Red
Pontiacs or maybe Puple Vikings, not sure which of the reds ones as they
were mixed together by accident.

________________________________
From: Sage Austin | Eureka! Design eureka AT hctc.net

LOL! I sent my husband to town for "floral body lotion" and he came back
with unscented mentholated lotion. He thought it meant mint. Now I smell
like a rotten egg smoking a cigarette filter.

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