Are you saying that you actually got rid of the Bishops Weed?? My mother's place is plagued with it. Every year gets worse.

BlackKrim wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:19 pm
Where do you obtain the soil to fill those raised beds?

Different places. My big bed came from a local gardening initiative, delivered and filled for a minor fee. Over the years I'd empty my deck pots into my raised beds. A few years back I bought bulk garden soil from a local landscaper, who gave me unfinished compost that's caused little but problems! This year I bought bagged soil on sale from the local Home Depot.

Yeah, that's pretty nuts to dig & haul 75 bucket loads, but that's OK! We're all nuts here. We won't hold it against one another LOL. Good garden soil matters.

JayneR13 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 1:47 pmOver the years I'd empty my deck pots into my raised beds.

I still do that very same thing. Every May Costco has a sale/instant rebate on their organic soil, and that's how they get refilled.

The Gotch

bower wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:20 amAre you saying that you actually got rid of the Bishops Weed?? My mother's place is plagued with it. Every year gets worse.

The method I mentioned (dig up clumps and hand crumble 'em to remove every last vestige of the roots) is the only (IMO) PROVEN organic way to get rid of it.

Ain't that odd? What you's WANT to grow, at times you's have to beat/cajole/beg/order/demand it out of the ground.

What you's DON''T to grow thrives in abundance.

The Gotch

Delete

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you ok there gotch,

you're repeating yourself.

just checking


keith

Just stuttering again.

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 3:03 pm
What you's DON''T to grow thrives in abundance.

The Gotch

Of course! Thus the age-old method to determine the difference between a flower and a weed. If you try to grow it and it dies, it’s a flower. If you try to kill it and it grows, it’s a weed. Easy peasy!

rxkeith wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 5:00 pm you ok there gotch,

you're repeating yourself.

just checking


keith

Fine as a Frog's Hair, keith, and thanks for asking.

Regrettably, my earnest effort to delete the...um...stuttering fell short of expectations; I'll do better going forward.

The Gotch

JayneR13 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 6:25 pmOf course! Thus the age-old method to determine the difference between a flower and a weed. If you try to grow it and it dies, it’s a flower. If you try to kill it and it grows, it’s a weed. Easy peasy!

So many of our "elective" plants end up thriving...still....

The Gotch

His cheddar slipped off the cracker, fell onto the turntable, and the 33 is now skipping?

Yesterday was one of the last processing days at The Gotch household, Reiss Gastronorm Baking Trays to the lower left of what they'll be filled with: The On Deck Circle: Ready for the oven. The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch used a new approach, removing the skins halfway through the roasting event: Is that there a rich creamy Red, or what? The batch has been set aside for a BIG pot of Chili to feed visiting in-laws ~11 days from now.

The Gotch

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:35 pm

Homegrwoninillinois wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:22 pm Here I am on the 30th page scribbling more names into my must find list. That thing sure is growing! That being said…I grew orange accordion and wasn’t a fan. It ripened in sections and by the time the last bit was ripe the first portion was fermenting :/

-Sam

You do realize that Wisconsin is a state with a lot of fermenting going on?

For certain. I myself have been, and enjoyed a brewery tour or two. Leaned all about those bung-holes

Used to be, if you worked at the brewery, you got free beers all day. Other beverages were frowned upon.

MissS wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 8:32 amUsed to be, if you worked at the brewery, you got free beers all day. Other beverages were frowned upon.

Were The Gotch to own a brewery, he'd send employees home with a litre of the good stuff each day.

Imbibing during their shift...tipsy employees...nope.

The Gotch

Late season Mountain Magic saladettes (Gotchberg Gardens Taste Test Winner 5 of the last 6 years) Mountain Magic futures, and a to_be_named_later Ribbed Reddy photobombing: The Gotch

the stroh company had a brewery in detroit, not too far from the wayne state school of pharmacy
where i graduated from, the school, not the brewery. they did tours of the facility and you got to
sample beer for free. sadly, the tours stopped right about the time i was attending school, so never
got to see the place. greek town was right on the other side of the chrysler free way. some of my fellow
class mates would stroll on the over pass crossing the free way during a break, for a meal, and ahem,
something to wash it down with.stroh, also made some pretty good ice cream too.



keith

Peppers harvested ahead of the (predicted) hard frost; real beauts, am I right: The Gotch