Good morning, and welcome back. We appreciate you guys stopping in.
Well, our gardening has come to a stop for the time being, with the exception of Deb’s Banana and Bell peppers. The Banana peppers are just exploding, and have been for a while now. They’re nearly an every-other-day pick.
We are, though prepping the garden area for our next planting.
This is being done by adding cow manure, we’ve put in grass clippings, hay, and we’ll finish up using the compost we’ve been making for the last 3-4 months. We’ve plenty of manure, hay, and grass clippings to more than do the garden area, but as far as our compost goes, I don’t look to be able do much more than a third of the area at the very most.
This should all be finished by the end of this week, and at that point we’ll till it in very lightly. Also, we’ll for sure be starting another compost pile! The only difference this time will be the size of our pile. This time it will be at least twice the size of our first one.
As far as the garden, even in a perfect weather pattern, there’s no way we could have re-planted after the spring garden came and went. With Deb’s ordeal, we just really didn’t have the time to have cared for it properly, and each appointment, test, or treatment, I was there. So, with this the way it was for a while, time was very limited, AND our first priority simply being Deb.
Plus, just shortly after Deb’s diagnosis, the garden was coming in. So in between everything else going on in our lives, we had to pick, shell, and can. Poor old Deb got her a real workout during this, and honestly, once we got these things done…we were kinda’ glad the spring garden had done gone and “sprung!”
But now, once again, our time is opening up for us, or, we’re getting at least back to some sort of schedule. This is much, much better. Even though we still are going to encounter little “pop-up” situations, using last Thursday night’s emergency room visit as an example, we’ve figured out this is to be expected from time to time we’re beginning to see. No sweat.
Our rainy season has arrived, and we’ve been getting our share…finally! All the trees, the pasture, and the yard look so good again. Everything just almost explodes in new growth once the rains begin in earnest. This is a very pretty time of the year, especially during the early morning, and late evening.
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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!
