Tips on how to care for your garden, flowers, fruit trees, roses, gardenias, how to make and use compost, etc.Winter Chat is allowed until Spring.
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Foxy Lady:That is so true. I like beefsteak, as the name suggest big and large. Foxy question for you when you fry up your green tomatoes do you slice them or just quarter them?
my cousin bought me a pretty plant last spring it has small green leaves round with a point and they look as if some one splashed pink paint on them they are now sprouting tiny purple flowers i cant find the name stake that was in it its a folige plant I dont have a picture but was wondering if anyone had an idea and how to transplant it
They sound a little like a polka dot plant but I have never seen them flower, ever Perhaps it is a variety of Rex Begonia No, now that I re-read your last message it cannot be a rex because their leaves are large
ajtgirl: its not a bulb or a tuber its got the hairy looking roots id like to transplant some in a pot to bring inside so i can plant it again next spring
The sad thing is that the only way to buy fresh spinach is in bags most of the time It's pretty hard to find around here any other way, except frozen which is yucky, imo
Bagged salads are so convenient but I guess they're risky now too
Mousetrap: It's a risk know matter what whether bagged,frozen or fresh.We also have some cases in NY the news said today.I always ran and picked up bags of lettuce not anymore.Last i checked on the news there was 94 cases of E-Coli.
would it be the vegie that has the e-coli...or has it been handled by someone with the filthiest hands etc...I mean the garden isnt the cleanest of places either if you thinks of birds pooping, cats digging and dogs spraying, but if you wash it, there isnt a problem....I never buy bagged vegies...i used to but found that in the centre of the bag it was all starting to break down, so now I dont buy that way....If I cant put it in a paperbag myself, i sure as hell dont want anything in a plastic bag.
BerniceC: I think they have to wear gloves like any food handler.We checked some bags at the store and found some that looked like it was rotting.Where we shop all the bagged veggies and salads are being pulled from the shelves. Here we have strict state health rules and they do check and publish which failed the inspection,stores and restaurants.
A report I heard on the radio stated that the e-coli comes from the manure that the spinach was grown in. E-coli is apparently an animal by-product, meaning it comes from the intestines of the animal which the manure is used to grow the crops. Gross! Where I work we use horse manure all the time but it is steilized at extreme temperatures for many weeks to kill all bacteria. Perhaps these food companies weren't taking that extra step
It's interesting to me thjat we haven't heard the name of the producer of these bagged spinach products yet.
I am guess it's a big manufacturer and they are being protected so far by the media
Zmenené užívateľom Mousetrap (17. septembra 2006, 05:35:09)
BerniceC: I find that lettuce actually keeps fresher in a plastic bag in the fridge if I add a little water to the bag and keep it wet it last longer too. If I don,t use water and just put it in the fridge it will go rotten. As Foxy said, you are damned if you buy in bags and damned if you don,t.
Zmenené užívateľom Eriisa (18. septembra 2006, 02:10:51)
The FDA said late Friday that the outbreak had been linked to bagged spinach products distributed by Natural Selection Foods, based in San Juan Bautista, California. The company has agreed to recall its bagged spinach products and has stopped shipping them.
*edited to fix the link. Whenever there are commas in a link, it cannot be posted unless one uses the rich editor (unless someone else knows a trick I don't know) ;)
Groucho: Thank you for posting them for me.I got those in Florida out of my sisters yard,they were little than.Of course i'll never see any fruit but i wanted to show how well they do in pots.The bigger one is ready to be re-poted.
ajtgirl: I'll tell ya i'm really leary on buying any veggies right now.One store pulled all the bagged spinach and lettuce.It's really scary with everything going on today.
Zmenené užívateľom Mousetrap (28. septembra 2006, 12:47:33)
ajtgirl: These were in the camera, I forgot they were there. Only 3 pics added to same album but it looks different in winter. Well crikey! Would you beleive that? It worked the first time I tryed it but it does,nt now okey dokey. I just refreshed the link and so far it is working.
I give up, I found out what is causing it, the source keeps changing and adding extra letters, every time I delete what should not be there it works for a while then the extra letters appear in the source and I get a server error. Never mind.
Time to plant BULBS everyone! I bought some Tahiti Daffodils, Forbessi Blue Chionodoxa, Gladiator and Ivory Queen Allium, Muscari and Anemone
It helps me get through the New England winter knowing I have something to look forward to in the early spring. It's like a little gift when they come up.
Zmenené užívateľom Mousetrap (28. septembra 2006, 12:52:50)
ajtgirl: If it does,nt work the first time give it a few attempts, it is doing the same thing to me, sometimes it works sometimes I get errors. I don,t think its the link I think its something to do with that site.
it is a bit cold at the moment for the spa...we have solar heating mats to be installed for the spa when we have time to do it...but in the meantime we are just dangling legs LOL
hahahaha.....no it isnt cold here but the water in the spa is LOLOL....it is under shade all day so dont get a chance to heat thru....hence the solar mats, which we will only use occaisionally.
Where are you? in the sth island? I used to live in CH.CH...that was either too hot with the westerly winds or too darn cold due to the snow on the hills :) I was born in Takapuna on the Nth Shore of auckland.