Good morning guys, and welcome back to Miz Judi’s Kitchen once again! We sure hope everyone is doin fine, and I’m not sure about elsewhere, but our weather down here has been exceptional. Highs in the mid-seventies to near 80, and absolutely gorgeous. Deb and I both are proud to be able to say, “We’re native Floridians!” Ain’t a whole lot of us left.
Well, we’ve been busy prepping our garden spot. We’ve taken everything out, fed it to the cows, and during this time of the year they’re very glad for the “green” vegetables. The reasoning is there is, literally, no to very little nutrition in the pasture. During this time we supplement nutrition through minerals and protein blocks, and of course hay.
But, we enjoy watching the cows eat these fresh vegetables, and they really do “dig in” when we start putting them out. In return, we’re provided with manure that we then apply into the garden, and if we see one “slackin off” in regards to keepin us in a steady flow of this essential waste product, I’ll ride by and shake a bag of charcoal in front of 'em.
You ever been so excited or scared to the point you could just s…? This is exactly the same response I get from the cows…how much ya want, and how high ya want it?? LOL!
We do this in our compost pile, adding manure, soil, hay or straw, green grass clippings, ground up leaves, vegetable scraps, cardboard, etc…We’ll be doing this to an extent in our garden this time. We’re putting down the manure, then a thin layer of hay, followed by a layer of ground up oak leaves.
We’ll turn all this in with the tiller, and plant. We’ll plant one, or maybe even a couple rows of potatoes, a row of broccoli, and a split row of cabbage and lettuce. The rest of the garden area we’ll hold for now, then plant other vegetables a little later.
We’re kinda at a standstill with our greenhouse at the moment, and we still like hangin the slide doors on each end, but we did get our curtain for our last side yesterday. Or at least Billy picked it up, but it’ll be next week before he can get down with it. No sweat though…
We can go ahead and start building our beds, and then start growin off some seeds to reset, and setting out a few plants we’ll pick up from the feed store to get a jump on a few things. Hopefully by next year, we’ll be growin most everything from seed. We’ll see how it works out.
We’re both lookin forward to getting started in earnest with it. I have no doubt this will be an endeavor Deb and I both will enjoy for years to come!
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
