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Post by woodyz on Aug 28, 2020 16:16:20 GMT -7
like I said in an earlier post I did not plant a garden this year, we did plant a raised bed area with a few things and we did plant potatoes in several reclaimed washing machine tubs. We got 25# of potatoes from them in early Aug., which wasn't very good but I think they stayed too dry. The reason I bring that up now is because the greenhouse guy we get our Tilapia from just brought by more than a bushel basket, 3 bushel sized boxes actually of fresh produce he had grown. Now he has a business and he sells produce and trees to the public and commercially. But what he brought by was fresh stuff that he had picked this week but not sold this week and he wanted just picked for tomorrow at his store. None of this was old, it was fresh and he had some of every vegetable since he has his own greenhouses and grows everything year round. We buy most of our vegetables from the same place we buy our meat, a butcher shop, they have or are kept supplied by greenhouses too, they always seem to have a good supply of about anything. I think their meat prices are still good too. Paying 1.49# for chicken, $1.59# to 2.29 for assorted pork chops, 1.69# for country style ribs, beef is more in the 4.89 to 5.99 range but all of it is cut fresh and a lot better quality than you can find anyplace else. oleedgefieldbutchershop.com/weekly-specials
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Post by woodyz on Aug 28, 2020 16:46:27 GMT -7
We have already picked a crop of blackberries and are about to pick again, they grow on the backyard back fence line and have for years.
I remember once thinning them out and making the vine area bigger, but I don't remember when or how long ago that was.
We just keep picking them when they grow, I know we canned like 25 jars of actual berries and like 40 jars of jam already this year and we will get about half as much again. In fact my wife wants to let the birds have them now because she thinks we won't eat what we have. But it sure is good on fresh bis kits or cornbread and I can fix a lot of them in the winter months so I think we should make some more, we add white and brown sugar and even some cinnamon sometimes and I think we should make it while they are there and while we still can.
There will come a time we just won't/can't
I think she doesn't like what it does to my blood sugar when I eat it or when we make it and she may be right, but it's not like I suspect I will be able to keep doing it much longer.
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