Good morning, and how are you all today?
You know we planted the fall garden last Friday, which was a week today. We planted peas and okra. Everything is up and growing good. We’re really looking forward to a mess of those peas, and Deb and I both love the okra as well.
We try to continually amend the soil through applying cow manure, grass clippings, leaves, hay, and the addition of compost we get from our compost heap. All are lightly tilled into the soil, and from the looks of things this is working out to our advantage from a vegetable growing standpoint. We even in between gardens burn a few brushpiles in it.
Once we plant and harvest our spring garden here in Central Florida, we just quit with it until right before the full moon in August. The reasoning for this is simple…it just gets too hot.
The plants just can’t stand that kind of heat, along with the direct sunlight. You can plant okra, but not much else. With this being the case, we save it for our fall garden along with our peas. Plus, since Deb was diagnosed with cancer, we were a couple months of doing nothing but trying to keep Doctor’s appointments.
It is a life changer…and honestly we didn’t feel like trying to keep up with a garden, so we waited on the fall garden. On top of this, we found out about Deb’s problem at the end of April, and shortly after that the spring garden came in. Between the care for it, the picking of the vegetables, the shelling of the beans, the canning of the beans, the creaming of the corn and putting it up, this we froze, and then the squash we put up, it worked on us.
I get up early every morning, and shoot, sometimes we wouldn’t quit shelling beans, or canning until 12 or 1 o’clock in the morning. Once the vegetables start coming it, you have to get them put up…or you lose them.
We even pickled about ten quarts of squash pickles, they taste just like bread and butter pickles and are very good, then we had to make pickles of the cucumbers we raised as well. With all the trips to the Doctor’s offices, and our business we run, keeping up with the daily chores around our place, and getting all these veggies put up…it wore us out, but, we didn’t want anything going to waste.
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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!
