Re: Off Topic Guns vs. Butter - Page 4

 



That's OK, we all get provoked now and again and your post did provoke me so
I guess we're even.

But you might now be able to see why I was peeved and why I complained in
the first place.  All those subsequent .02c comments that only got that high
because of hyperflation.


It was the usual up and down thing.  Some things did well, some didn't and
some should have been planted and weren't.   I ask myself how it is possible
to 'forget' to plant zucchini?  But I guess that not having any zucchini
makes a bit of a change from having to think of a thousand and one way to
use them up.  Some insect pests were highly evident and others weren't.  I
quite enjoy seeing the insects although I know that is still something that
many people can't abide.  I don't nuke them because I find that they can be
very interesting to watch too.  ATM we have butterflies everywhere and of
many different sorts but especially the Wanderer which is called the Monarch
in the US.  The grasses especially seem to be of interest to the butterflies
and the Wanderer is loving the heads on the paspalum.

Next year, I plan to get on top of the weeds from day one (but then that is
an old resolution and there is always some part of the garden where the
weeds evade me).  I plan to finish my fruit cage before the start of next
season.  I plant to add another chook house to the chook pen and I really
must do more permanent arrangements for netting of fruit trees as I'm
getting to old and tired for the broom method applying netting to be
attractive.

 



Got my first zuch into the ground today. I had just finished planting
the pepper bed when I found my errant Corno di Toros (6). Now I either
plant fewer japlapeños or wait for the inevitable demise of some of my
other peppers (mostly Quadrato di Asti, which were trendy about 4 years
ago). I've started to lose some plants in small 6 packs that are out
side. They dry out so quickly. Rain coming in Tue. and part of Wed.,
after that we are into the high 80s and, for all intents and purposes,
summer. Still lots of gardening work to do, and I drag my digging board
with me everywhere.

Good evening.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

 



Give my regards to your zuchs and tell them that I do promise to plant some
of their relatives next year.

Love the names of those peppers but I can't tell you any names of the ones I
planted other than Thai (small and hot) and 2 bigger and longer ones.  I've
recently found a good Italian Seed producer though and intend to buy a lot
of seeds from them next year.  But first I need to find an old Italian
gardener who can translate for me.

What's a 'digging board'?  Anything like an Aborigianl digging stick? :-))

 



Thanks for the review. Fortunately, it was just released a week ago, so
it will be awhile before my library gets it, if ever, with all the
budget cuts (I can say that, right?).

We need books like this to bind us together in such a big world. Normal
people enjoying the normal pleasures of food.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

 


Sadly I can't make any use of that source at all because of quarantine
restrictions.  :-((  They have some interested stuff though.