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DEAR GARDENERS!

Now many of you are ready to harvest your crops! Your gardens have yielded it treasures and you have to go and gather up the field. If you've done that, save some for others in your neighborhood to gleam. A good healthy produce is what you should have if you taken in hard-working hours and a lot of help from The Lord to bring your crop from the "field to the table" Vegetable gardeners should have almost everything ready or even already been tasting their harvest. But what more important is that its aiding your household as well as others around you with your delicious bounty. I do mean give some away! However, you'll want to keep a good bit for yourself...If you're in to fruit trees, canning fruits, jellies and jams you'll be working on things like that too. Don't forget wines. Homemade wines are delicious, but don't drink it without having it to age a little while.

Now for floral gardeners, you'll need to be making plans for your upcoming fall beds and even planning for next years beds too. You can harvest seeds from your zinnas and there are other seed producing flowers you can harvest. Use seeds packages and remember to mark what's inside each one so you can keep up with what's inside the package. Plastic sandwich bags also make good seed keepers. If you're wanting to plant your summer garden seeds and roots, be thinking about doing that very soon. My friend Irma, says she'll have her husband take care of the hard tasks.. but if you're without a husband ladies, you can do a man for hire. Gentleman gardeners look like the WIVES have it when it comes to the tough stuff!
Oh What Fun it is to play in the gardens..

"Mmmm..taste that delicious harvest."

Please update gardeners--and tell what's happening in your yards and gardens?

Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Sunday, August 9th 2009 at 11:01AM
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I'd love to have a garden again. When I had one I had lots of corn, all different kinds of beans, peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, lettuce, cabbage...

What's in your garden Miisrael?
Sunday, August 9th 2009 at 11:11AM
Steve Williams

Dear James: You should get back to the rewards of having a garden once again. I have a floral and plant garden. It's quite small, but I am hoping to expand it one day to larger beds. My sister's garden is far more beautiful, and much larger. She went and bought a old iron bed for the thrift store and planted lovely blooming flowers inside where the mattress goes. She calls it her her flower bed. It's a great idea. Thanks for your comments and question James.

Dear Irma: What a wonderful thing to learn from your friend. Canning is an old art form of preserving foods. There's nothing esle quite like it. Home grown greens are simply the best. When you cook them, tell me; do you the "fatback"? Smiles. thanks for your comments and update......Love
Sunday, August 9th 2009 at 9:11PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Also, Irma I think you can freeze your greens and cook them later in the winter months. Is this true? If so, do you freeze them cooked or uncooked?
Sunday, August 9th 2009 at 9:20PM
MIISRAEL Bride

No Irma! I don't think so! (Smiles) Enjoy your harvests!
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 12:35PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Miisrael, I just have to ask, how did you know my middle name is James? Is there some psychic connection here? Also, my father's, firstborn son's and firstborn grandson's are named James.

But on gardens, I just came back here to PA on July 4 to help my mom after her bypass surgery. She has garden beds all over the property but no vegetable garden. I have room to plant one but think I'll have to wait until next spring at this point. But it's harder too because I'm back and forth between here and California, where most of my sons and grandkids are (not too far from Irma).
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 1:05PM
Steve Williams

"Did I do that!?" I don't know, but your face just appears to me to look like a James. So since, it's actually your middle name I don't feel bad calling you James, but with your permission of course. That's extraordinary!

Wonderful! You are helping your mother-- and keeping her looking a lovely beds of flowers. When time permits you'll get back to veggies. Thanks you JAMES... :)
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 1:19PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Clark when you mentioned rabbits, I was reminded to tell you about Mister Mole. I haven't seen anymore mole hills. AND>..Irma I tried the putting up the windmills and well..., he may have took another tunnel into the neighbor's yard. Thanks so much for the tips. Hope those little rabbits find a new place to dwell soon.

Clark I agree, it is a joy to gather your home-grown produce and enjoy it's taste too! That's real beauty.
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 4:41PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Miisrael, I have a mystical belief about names and am not surprised that you saw/thought James. I forgot to say, my grandfather was also James, so there I am in the middle of five generations of James. So of course, you may call me that. Very interesting though, huh?
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 4:55PM
Steve Williams

That's very interesting! Somehow I believe we are connected in many ways, and telepathy is not totally ruled out. When we are spirits living in bodies of the flesh. I marvel at miracle of such connections. Thanks you once more James...:)
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 5:01PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Irma, the two of my sons closest to you are in Sac, one (and my grandson and granddaughter) in Modesto and one in Oakland. The other has moved to Michigan (where I was born). Are your grandkids in southeast PA? I hope you get to see them fairly often. I am torn as mom, dad and siblings are here, but I raised my family there.
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 5:02PM
Steve Williams

This is great conversation, together we're having a harvesting of general interests. Each one of us have added some interesting fruits from our tree. By the way James,...that smiling face looks familar to me. I like it! It looks good on you.
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 5:40PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Irma, how about that... Your family is just about 30 miles from here.
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 7:29PM
Steve Williams

Miisrael, this conversation brings to mind the Peter Sellers movie "Being There", for some reason. It is such a simple and pleasant topic and has greater truths behind it.
Monday, August 10th 2009 at 7:34PM
Steve Williams

Irma, what great tips for the exercise and movement before and after gardening. They really work! I have to agree working in a garden is a workout and can reduce stress.

As far as drying foods, I don't know much on the subject, but making that hot peppers and vinegar I do know about that. I'm sure there are books and material that are available.

Irma you've been doing your homework! You're such a smart lady!

Tuesday, August 11th 2009 at 6:01PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Oh yeah..for freezing green I have a tip! It's best to cook greens before freezing. Using freezer bags is acceptable, but the plastic freezer containers tend to prevent sticking in case the bags leak. Always be sure to use a freezing label or mark the date when freezing. Limit freezing date to about 6 months. Whenever you're ready warm them up and eat'em!
Tuesday, August 11th 2009 at 6:16PM
MIISRAEL Bride

Hi Steve and here is more about how small the world is...my grandchildren are in Pa.(smile)some vegetables do not need regular care and since your mom have flowers already, some flowers , like merigolds, are a natural insect repelants.(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

Girl, you know I'm from the south(smile) Actually it was not until I was an adult that I began to like green vegs. I liked beans but the greens I found were just too bitter and the only way to make them taste better was to load them down with salt. Extra salt was a no, no with my mom.Now I am so glad I can grow my own. Things like the outer leaves on cabbage you can not find or root vegetables with their greens on them any more.

Plus them being hit by frost and just plain old cold weather is a must have in my book.I do not believe any thing can kill off Kale, do you?LOL
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

I am so glad that I learned to can as a teen. One of my close friends I will be teaching how to can...She is a vigen(or how ever it is spelled of those who only eat vegetables.

There is nothing like those greens I am planting now getting hit by frost which will make them sweet and tender...also grapes taste much better after the frost hits them(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

Actually my grand children and most of my family now live in Germantown. I lived a great part of my youth in Douth and West Pa.My father-in-law lives in a place Called Connersville about 80 miles from Pittsburge...Modesto is beautifue and i will be going to Oakland next sunday...they are having a great big culture festival there , but no I will be going to a nother place other than this festival but I would love to go to it.Just far too many people in one spot for me although it will be covering 10 city blocks(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

To all of us gardners, here is something that I had never given a thought to until reading this in my local news paper over the weekend. And, it also fits right in with brother Clark's comment about our getting such satisfaction out of gardening...

THE GARDEN WARM UP
Like any other workout activity, gardening requires a warm-up to prepare the heart, muscles and joints. begin with five to ten minutes of streaching the legs, ankles, arms, shoulders and wrists as well as light aerobic activity to help reduce the risk of injury and decrease soreness.

GARDENING COOL DOWN
Following a garden workout, be sure to cool down. Stretching the hips, hamstrings, back, neck and shoulders will help balance muscle groups that may have been overused and decrease post-gardening soreness.
In addition to physical benefits of working in a garden, multiple studies have shown the mental and emotional benefits of creating and working in green spaces. Gardens have a calming effect and can hheol felieve stress improve attention skills and reduce feelings of anger, rear and aggression.

for information on garden work outs, visit OutdoorLivingWithStacy.com...thought this as interesting at this stage of gas prices going up yet once again(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

Oh, yes MIISRAEL,freezing your greens has the same way of making the greens sweet just as Mother Nature does.Right now I only know how to dry tomatoes and beans and peppers.but, I will never again try to dry celery. They turn ugly and taste funny...can someone help in my learning to dry other things?

Oh, I am sure that in the south they still put hot peppers in vinegar to pour and chop up over those greens all winter. I grew up with the family eating greens with the fingers, some times wrapping the greens in fried cornbread cakes. What memories of being able to eat without those endless offical polite manners rule one learns in school.(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA