Re: [gardeners] Slim pickings
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:12:23 -0600
At 10:08 AM 7/13/98 +0000, you wrote:
>This morning I hauled on my coveralls and sauntered out into the sauna of
>HellAtlanta to pick me some vittles for dinner. I dug and I picked and I
>battled the bugs for my supper. I glowed, I perspired, I sweat buckets.
>But my perseverence, perspicacity and my perspiration was rewarded
>with the following 'bounty':
>
> 1 gallon of sad looking blue and pink potatoes. Too big to use as
>min-tuber seed potato size (sometimes we can plant in August and have
>'taters for Thanksgiving); two small to bake. Guess they is gonna get
>thrown in the steamer.
Little butter (do you get that butter-flavored yogurt "butter" from Brummel
& Brown or is it just being test marketed in Boise? We like it), lots of
chopped fresh parsley, those taters will do you proud.
>
> 1 gallon of fine looking Burmese okra. Enough for me and my neighbors
>tonight.
I'm looking forward to growing those next year. My okra got swamped by
crabgrass, but we've cleaned out most of the row. Plants are only 6" tall,
though.
> 1 gallon of pitiful cherry tomatoes. They taste good, but they is hardly
>bigger than a raisin or a sluggish Thompson seedless grape.
What kind did you grow? I don't have anything tomato-like ripe yet.
> half a cup of tired looking pole beans. The bunnies missed a single
>plant.
Well, that'll learn ya, dern ya. Next year put razor wire around your pole
bean plantings. And a sign advertising "Lapin coats, 25 cents"
>
>The ants have helped themselves to the miniature strawberry popcorn that I
>was just about ready to harvest. Guess I'll be watching the farm report
>without nothing to nibble this fall.
have you ever tried popping ants?
>
>Times is hard, humid, hot and dry in Atlanta. Pitiful excuse for a
>garden this year.
>
>Catharine
>
Hot here, too. Best, Margaret