In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:How did the recipe tast with extra pepper?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Nothing like having a pepper mill break while you are making supper. Least what fell off went into the food and not the floor.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Drat that! Fresh ground black pepper has SUCH a nice flavor. I hope you can find a good replacement for your mill.
I do have another one which is a good thing. I also have a salt mill.
Discovered years ago that I prefer grinding my own.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:How did the recipe tast with extra pepper?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Nothing like having a pepper mill break while you are making supper. Least what fell off went into the food and not the floor.
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Not really any different but I was picking whole pepper corns out of my supper.
Late edit: I do find fresh ground pepper much stronger to my taste. So when I do grind some I use very little.
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Hey Signy - just to let you know, I was curious and looked up avocado leaves as mulch. Aside from them being tough, large, water-repellent, and packing flat, they are reputed to be good mulch. They don't have any allelopathy as far as I can tell.
Mulch away!
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Hey Brenda - just saying hey and howya' doing. 
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Well, I've finally figured out what's going on with my medically-challenging cat! His guts don't work, mechanically-speaking. And he has a prescription for that, but the problem is getting it down him, since he hates it and he's HUGE!, powerful, and half-feral. I found a website that has that medicine in different forms, so think tomorrow I'm going to have a nice long chat with the vet to see what can be done with that.
Since I decided to stock up on beans, I figured I'd order different kinds online to try them out. My current 2 favorite kinds are pinto and great northern, or I'll use either navy of cannelinni instead of great northern. I'm not really keen on garbanzos or kidney beans (or any kind of red bean for that matter), lentils and split peas, and I really dislike Lima beans (also called butter beans).
So now I have cranberry beans which are tan with a few dark brown speckles, petit French beans which are a white bean smaller than a navy bean, European soldier beans are large long white bean with a small dark brown eye, Steuben yellow eye which are a large white bean with a large tan eye, pink pearl beans that are small pink and more rounded, Anasazi beans that are medium sized and long beans brown with white speckles, and Appaloosa beans that look like Anasazi except they're white with brown speckles, and I have on order flageolets, a large long white bean with a greenish tinge. I intend to cook them by type and taste-test them against my standbys to see which I prefer best. In any case, I'll use them all in my favorite bean recipes!
For example, I'll cook a half-pound each of petit French, great northern, navy, and flageolet, as they're in the category of "white bean" that I like.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Signy - just to let you know, I was curious and looked up avocado leaves as mulch. Aside from them being tough, large, water-repellent, and packing flat, they are reputed to be good mulch. They don't have any allelopathy as far as I can tell.
Mulch away!
Thanks for the tip!
I never thought to look for allopathy. But since you did that for me, I'll be happily shredding away, first for the veggie garden and then for everything else!
My plan for the veggie garden is to put the mulch on the pathways between the plants so the soil doesn't get so beaten down.
OH BTW, I'll be interested to see how this works out, but I made "lizard houses" between some of my zucchini. They're just chunks of concrete close together to make little crevices for lizards to hide between when threatened, and spaces to sun when not. Also, acts as a mulch, believe it or not. Right now the plants are too small and the area too barren to act as a lizard habitat, but maybe when the zucchini grow I'll see some use of them.
Already thinking about my winter crop: carrots, beets (again), onions (again), and I definitely want to make an asparagus patch.
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I also found out that avocados, which are water-thirsty and have very shallow root systems, benefit greatly from mulch, as it keeps the soil both moist and cool. Though of course one should NEVER pile up mulch against the trunk of any tree! (or against the stem of any plant, for that matter), but leave an open well there in the mulch bed instead. And mulch should go out to at least to the dripline.
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Well, today we ran about 24' of conduit thru a (new) hole in the garage wall, and pulled new wire to rewire the demand heater to reconfigure the wiring in the garage. Had to rewire the special fitting that came with the heater and the external on-off switch as well, Fortunately, we had hot water for showers at the end of the day. Still yo do: drop a line to the location of the new workbench and install outlets (This particular circuit is for the demand heater which is gas powered but needs electricity for the ignitor, sensors, relays and switches) plus whatever hubby want to put in for his bench. Also, stucco patching.
I started the day by spraying glyphosate on problem areas, especially around the perimeter of my new veggie garden (I REFUSE to have it taken over by Bermuda grass!) and taking the doggie for a walk, and tonight I will be taking an honest-to-god pain pill, just to make the pain go away.
My leaf-shredder came in today, but I might just stick with house chores tomorrow to recuperate. The place looks like a bomb hit it, and needs urgent tidying up!
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OH yeah, this is definitely an indoor-work day. Too many things still hurt/are stiff to make much progress on anything. I think the only outdoor work I'm going to do is hand-water the veggie garden, which is doing quite well. None of the plants suffered transplant shock and they're all putting out new sprouts. I can assess how well the roots are expanding (because sometimes potted plant roots stay in their little root-ball) by how big the plant becomes, but it's still too early to tell!
I'll grab a cup pf tea and slip on my garden clogs, wander the backyard in my bathrobe and see how the garden is faring. Now, that's a CIVILIZED way to start the day!
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