I just drizzle it with balsamic vinegar, Bageleth (and salt, Vincent)
Gungawoman, that's a very clever way to keep the gophers out! We get moles and they somehow manage to get through anything we lay down. Hence the sunroom/garden room. Them critters love that good food as much as we do. Dang it.
(08-27-2011 01:25 AM)Scythe Matters Wrote: [ -> ]I just drizzle it with balsamic vinegar, Bageleth (and salt, Vincent)
Gungawoman, that's a very clever way to keep the gophers out! We get moles and they somehow manage to get through anything we lay down. Hence the sunroom/garden room. Them critters love that good food as much as we do. Dang it.
I love Balsamic vinegar!!
I spent most of the day taming wild hostas. The gardens look so good that a neighbor paused by the back gate to have a look. They were really overgrown, and I finally got the tools to trim them so they look decent.
(09-10-2011 07:35 PM)nettiesaur Wrote: [ -> ]I spent most of the day taming wild hostas. The gardens look so good that a neighbor paused by the back gate to have a look. They were really overgrown, and I finally got the tools to trim them so they look decent.
That's so rewarding to spruce up your own house! Good for you, Nettie!
Picked up a used set of electric hedge trimmers and attacked the shrubs in the yard. Everybody got a much needed buzz cut. Hoping to Fill them out - grow them up big enough to spell RUSH in eight foot high letters.
I would be careful mate! Over here someone would vandalise your work an turn it into BUSH, in other words stating the obvious, or implying you are a fan of two of the US past Presidents. I remember some graffiti over here years ago - said "Queen Rules". The press thought it was relating to HM, and wondered whether ma`am was pleased with it.
On the Gardening front I have managed to make a chilli, using own grown onions, green pepper and chilli. It was nice and very rewarding - although for all the effort, there wasn`t much crop to speak of.
Did you grow your own ground beef? I'm thinking about getting an upright evergreen ground beef shrub myself!
All kidding aside...
The garden still looks great but signs of impending autumn are everywhere. It was nice when I was asked yesterday to pick fresh basil for the Sunday tomato sauce. I love herbs! The other day I grabbed a bunch of fresh lavendar, put it to my nose, and inhaled deeply. Ahhh, the scent of peace!
Quote:Did you grow your own ground beef?
You might kid Vince - but our friends in NZ do just that (well they don`t own a cow yet) but they have what is known as a "life style plot", that is home, pool and enough acres to grow veg, and keep chickens and lambs etc. I am very envious - their lamb curry, with their own reared lamb was fantastic.....It is certainly a life style I could aspire to!!
Also, you can get them slaughtered on site, (no stress for the animal), and butchered an into the freezer - over here there would be way too many laws banning you doing that.
Our crazy Texan/Irish neighbors want to go in together to get some Angus calves. We certainly have the room for them. My husband is afraid I'll make them into pets and no one will get to eat them!
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Our garden is still producing like mad, but something has found the cantaloupes. It dug under the fence in 2 places. 4 melons have been scavenged. From the footprints, I'm thinking skunks or raccoons.