Recent content by JimWWhite

Nice. Now, I share almost everything in my garden from my lettuce, squash, tomatoes, beans and sweet potatoes, but not my potatoes. Is that some sort of personality fault or do I have a wee bit too much of the auld sod in me blood?

You lost me with the PNB and toast. I may try it though. We make Elvis' favorite fried banana sandwiches from time to time. Pretty good. Just never thought that PNB and 'maters would go together. But I eat apples with PNB all the time. Crunchy PNB. The crunchier the better.

I believe Teresa's going to do that this coming weekend. I know she'll take the Romas and she'll dehydrate them in her Excalibur dehydrator and then seal them up and probably freeze them. The Early Girls and what else we're getting now will probably just go into quart jars and into the...

Yeah, tomato plants have a very unique fragrance too that I like.

Honeysuckle. No doubt. There's a patch of it near the garden and every once in a while a catch it on the breeze. And a close second, Thistlebloom I agree with you on pine trees and being in a pine forest after the rain.

I need a gardening intervention too. The next time I plant 20 tomato plants I want a bunch of people who really care for me to stop me beforehand. I've got so many tomatoes I'm taking them into work. Some people took them at first but then they just sat there in the break room. Then I...

I suspect that old Saturday Night Live character Ray Johnson applies here... 'You can call me Ray. You can call me Ray J. You can call me J. But you doesn't has to call me Johnson...'

I've got a cousin Dooner. He was a couple of years older than me and he got that name because I couldn't say 'Junior'. His real name is Rafael Ray, Jr. He's still referred to as Dooner by everyone in my family's hometown. He was a football player in high school and I remember the announcer...

Squash croquettes and cucumber and tomato salad. One thing I love in the summer time is a big old slice of tomato or two on my dinner plate. A little salt and pepper and I'm a happy, happy person.

My Dad taught me this trick and I've always had good luck with okra. But not this year. I think my okra 'box' is just too wet and that's why it failed. It's my understanding that the freezing of the okra seeds makes them open up faster once they're in the ground. The other thing he always...

Now this I've got to try. I've never heard of Dilly beans but they are intriguing. We put up about ten quarts of green beans and froze about 20 lbs of them. Next year we'll try these.

Mine was a total waste of time too. I've got this long 48'x4' bed blocked in with landscaping timbers that I've been trying to make into an area I can plant okra, corn and melons in but it's just not worked out for me. I think what I'm going to do is to bring in either some more landscaping...

Last night we had some of the fingerling potatoes we dug up last weekend. Teresa brined them overnight and let them dry out all day and then roasted them with a little garlic, rosemary and olive oil. She also made some of the squash croquet patties. That and a big 'ol slice of tomato and...

Raw. A big cucumber salad with tomatoes and onions. All from the garden. Doused liberally with olive oil, vinegar, pepper and those little crunchy things you sprinkle on top of a salad. I got to use one of my gourmet English cucumbers that I have trellised in the garden. Most excellent.

I really like using an old school bus as a root cellar. Totally awesome!!!