Derald wrote:
songbird wrote:


....all is cool, thanks for the note...


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i always thought it was blackeyed peas and collard
greens for good luck?
Yep; that, too.

ok, good to know we weren't talking about
different things and meaning the same or the
same things and meaning different, if you
get my drift. haha.


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but it also sounds like you're saying i could
eat them at the green pod stage too (not just the
other kind of cowpeas you've mentioned)?

Oh, yes. When they're still immature enough to break easily, they're tender
enough to eat in the pod. Some varieties stay tender for longer than others but
I don't know of any that aren't edible in the pods at some stage. Called, oddly
enough, "snaps", they're most often added to shelled peas (as is okra, too,
BTW). There may be another photo in your future....

ok, i'll give them a shot again next year
and see if i like them enough. or the cowpeas
too. depends if i can find them again.


In The Garden:
This morning: Trellised cucumbers, pruned jalapeño peppers, trimmed
tarragon; yellow squash, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers, tomatoes all blooming.
Month-old Little Marvel peas got their mustard greens planted yesterday; 10-2
Little Marvel peas 90% up this morning; 9-30 collards up yesterday; 9-27
"Provider" beans all sprouted around Oct.1 and off to the races. I'm delinquent
in planting turnips but we're just now having a little of what passes for "fall"
weather down here so it's easy enough to rationalize not having planted them in
September so that's what I'll do: Rationalize, that is. The cowpeas (pinkeye
purple hull) continue to bear heavily.

all sounds wonderfully great, to be out in the
gardens. other than picking dry beans here or
there and a little odd weeding yesterday morning
after burying the raccoon i've not gotten out
in the gardens enough the past few weeks.

i finally finished staining the house so
i'm taking Saturday off. the weather being so
nice i'll be outside doing something, but won't
promise what or when.

picked a few more pounds of pintos and other
mixed beans yesterday in between rounds of
staining. needed to give my neck and back a
break from looking up. very therapeutic.
must get out and get those peas picked now
as there should be some ready. they're
blooming like crazy now. everbearing
strawberries still blooming too, not ready
to quit yet.

leaves are turning, the trees are getting
nekid again. the white pines are shedding to
get ready for the winter.


songbird

Derald wrote:
songbird wrote:

all sounds wonderfully great, to be out in the
gardens. other than picking dry beans here or
there and a little odd weeding yesterday morning
after burying the raccoon i've not gotten out
in the gardens enough the past few weeks.

Hey, if you spend much time "weeding", your stuff just might be too far
apart! (-;

no, just filling in the bare spot out back that
will get overgrown by hollyhocks, sow thistle or
grasses if i don't weed it. the strawberries
are still filling it in and it needs a lot more
mulch to reduce the weed sproutings. it is
about 700sq ft -- i don't have that much mulch
materials available.


Must be the burying season: I've been trying to discourage a duo of
juvenile opossums and discovered one of them dead under the front porch Tuesday
AM.

they do more damage to the bird population than
raccoons do. they are always around here. i don't
even try to discourage them as they are what i catch
when i put out the live trap to get the raccoons.


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leaves are turning, the trees are getting
nekid again. the white pines are shedding to
get ready for the winter.

That doesn't happen here. We have few deciduous trees and those aren't at
all showey. They're still quite clothed and some are likely to remain so until
late November or December, depending on when temps drop. A few of them shade the
garden during the mornings but I'd rather live with that than without the trees.
Noticed some radishes this morning that appear to have germinated a few
days ago. Time to plant more. I don't eat the nasty little things but keep a few
growing during the cool season for DW.

the pine tree only drops some of the needles.
all deciduous trees are to the N or NE along
that edge and that is a good place for them
the winds come out of the S or SW most of the
time.

if i were in the south i'm sure we'd want the
shade trees too. a few hours less of sunlight
here or there would not be a major loss. i'd
probably live in a hobbit hole.

our radishes grew in three stages and looked like
snowmen when we finally pulled them out, about 8-10
inches long. no idea they'd get that big. great
ground cover or cover crop with the big leaves. won't
likely grow them again though. rather use the space
for things we do eat.


songbird