Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Still planting here at this place! Getting the last of the sunflowers out
into the vineyard right at the moment. Have any of you folks ever made grape
preserves without adding any kind of sweeteners? Cyndi is contending with me
about it. She says it will never thicken, I say if you reduce it down enough
over low heat it has to thicken. What do you all think?

Thamks,
Dave

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Ah Bina a kindred soul .......from what part of the planet do you hale
> from......
> jeff
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> From: binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com>
> To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, June 24, 2011 3:27:29 PM
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> Subject: [Organic_Gardening] it's in finally it's all in....
>
> Well between frosts and snow the first week of June...then a downpour
> pretty
> much every day except two and those I worked...but it is done. I had to
> take
> holidays to do it and I had to time it between thunderstorms but I did it.
> It is
> in. I am not doing another blessed thing...I ache everywhere. It is
> planted,
> weeded, and mulched, every pot is filled, the wonderful two inch corsican
> mints
> and wooly thyme that I got for 79 cents each are planted among the stepping
>
> stones by the rain barrels, the old gate is now in my garden to act as a
> potting
> bench, the potatoes in barrels are pretty much topped up, the tomatoes are
> staked.....it's finally in.
>
> Hmmmmm.....now what, what to do next now that the vegie gardens are all
> planted
> and ready to go, I still have three days of holidays left...hmmmmm
>
> Oh yeah on tomorrow's list...
> weed out the berry hedge, transplant the escapees back into the hedge,
> clean out
> the pond, check the pump and get that going. Then I can weed under the deck
> to
> the front yard and start weeding all of those beds. I think I will weed
> them out
> once and then I will mulch the dickens out of those. Then I have the bake
> oven
> to finish, the garage to clean out, an arbor to build...maybe with that
> last six
> pack of moonflowers...I have a spot for a tree I think a pear, and I am
> watching
> for blueberry bushes to go on sale, I have some lovely composted leaf mold
> and
> composted spruce needles to work into that bed, ......
> and if I get that all done....there are still hostas that need to be moved,
> and
> about five more beds that I would eventually like to build, and a hoop
> house,
> and a better potting shed, and I would love to talk to the county about
> collecting some wild edibles and medicinals to put into the beds, then
> there is
> the expansion of the patio, the pruning, and more weeding, and more
> weeding....
>
> a gardener's work is never done....we just dream bigger.
> Cheers
> from a very stiff and satisfied
> Bina
>
> The summer is here, and like all true northern gardener I smell of soil,
> Off and
> liniment...and look slightly crazed.
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