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The Real Bev
Mar 11, 2018, 1:41:57 AM3/11/18
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Hello?
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Cheers, Bev
"If God had wanted us to use the metric system,
Jesus would have had 10 apostles."
- Jesse Helms
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Cheers, Bev
"If God had wanted us to use the metric system,
Jesus would have had 10 apostles."
- Jesse Helms
The Real Bev
Mar 11, 2018, 11:39:47 AM3/11/18
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On 03/11/2018 07:15 AM, Derald wrote:
> Yep. One more cup of coffee and I'm out to the garden. Got
> strawberries to pick this morning and peas to plant RSN while the
> weather's still kind of cool.
Tried strawberries once, unsuccessfully. I grow cherry tomatoes if the
Night Critter (probably a possum) doesn't get them.
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Cheers, Bev
"Mr Panetta also revealed that the US Navy Seals made the final
decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president."
--S. Swinford, The Telegraph
[Aside from that minor error, those Seals did a fantastic job!] --Bev
> Yep. One more cup of coffee and I'm out to the garden. Got
> strawberries to pick this morning and peas to plant RSN while the
> weather's still kind of cool.
Tried strawberries once, unsuccessfully. I grow cherry tomatoes if the
Night Critter (probably a possum) doesn't get them.
--
Cheers, Bev
"Mr Panetta also revealed that the US Navy Seals made the final
decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president."
--S. Swinford, The Telegraph
[Aside from that minor error, those Seals did a fantastic job!] --Bev
The Real Bev
Mar 12, 2018, 11:39:04 PM3/12/18
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On 03/11/2018 08:09 PM, Derald wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Tried strawberries once, unsuccessfully.
> This is the second season for my patch. Set'em out in Dec '16 so
> this really is their first full season, although, they did produce a bit
> last year. Now, their in their second flush of the season, the first
> having been damaged by cold weather in early January, I they're showing
> a pretty good amount of fruit but none of it is really "ready". As I
> see it, a great benefit of growing ones own fruit is the ability to wait
> until it's really ripe before picking. Ironically, I don't really like
> fruit: Not enough sugar, I suppose ;-)
My grandma grew plants with tiny round berries. She picked them a
little early and set them on the windowsill over the sink to ripen.
REALLY sweet. Shastas (they're the commercial conical ones, right?)
used to be good, but they seem to have bred in some sturdiness and bred
out some sweetness. The big flattish ones were always awful.
>>I grow cherry tomatoes if the
>>Night Critter (probably a possum) doesn't get them.
> I grow tomatoes only occasionally. Most often a so-called
> "heirloom" variety such as beefsteak, Homestead or Mortgage-lifter.
I have to grow them in pots, and full-size tomatoes were never worth the
trouble, much less the water. Maybe one pitiful one per plant, if that.
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Cheers, Bev
" While in high school, we were encouraged to keep a daily journal.
I never liked it, especially when early on I realized that anybody
could find it and read it. Fortunately, the jury never saw it."
-- Anonymous, for obvious reasons
> The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Tried strawberries once, unsuccessfully.
> This is the second season for my patch. Set'em out in Dec '16 so
> this really is their first full season, although, they did produce a bit
> last year. Now, their in their second flush of the season, the first
> having been damaged by cold weather in early January, I they're showing
> a pretty good amount of fruit but none of it is really "ready". As I
> see it, a great benefit of growing ones own fruit is the ability to wait
> until it's really ripe before picking. Ironically, I don't really like
> fruit: Not enough sugar, I suppose ;-)
My grandma grew plants with tiny round berries. She picked them a
little early and set them on the windowsill over the sink to ripen.
REALLY sweet. Shastas (they're the commercial conical ones, right?)
used to be good, but they seem to have bred in some sturdiness and bred
out some sweetness. The big flattish ones were always awful.
>>I grow cherry tomatoes if the
>>Night Critter (probably a possum) doesn't get them.
> "heirloom" variety such as beefsteak, Homestead or Mortgage-lifter.
I have to grow them in pots, and full-size tomatoes were never worth the
trouble, much less the water. Maybe one pitiful one per plant, if that.
--
Cheers, Bev
" While in high school, we were encouraged to keep a daily journal.
I never liked it, especially when early on I realized that anybody
could find it and read it. Fortunately, the jury never saw it."
-- Anonymous, for obvious reasons
hchi...@hotmail.com
Mar 13, 2018, 1:16:51 PM3/13/18
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:15:13 -0500, Derald <der...@invalid.net> wrote:
>Yep. One more cup of coffee and I'm out to the garden. Got
>strawberries to pick this morning and peas to plant RSN while the
>weather's still kind of cool.
Hmmm. My various starts are either still on the grow shelves or had to be taken
>Yep. One more cup of coffee and I'm out to the garden. Got
>strawberries to pick this morning and peas to plant RSN while the
>weather's still kind of cool.
in because of frost. Tradition is that one can't plant safely here until the
week of Easter, and it has been true every year I have paid attention.
I gave up the big garden here because it just wasn't financially practical. I
now grow in containers on the back deck, where the deer and groundhog can't
reach.
Trying shallots this year, as the prices in the store are always outrageous for
them.
The Real Bev
Mar 14, 2018, 2:14:09 AM3/14/18
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from last year seems to be sprouting new growth (still trying to flower,
but maybe it will give that up soon), A few flowers on the potted
apricot tree and lots of buds on the potted orange tree. Life is good.
Leeks might be nice. Somebody gave me some maybe 40 years ago, and I
keep thinking I should plant some...
--
Cheers, Bev
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other
dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
hchi...@hotmail.com
Mar 16, 2018, 1:48:37 PM3/16/18
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:10:24 -0500, Derald <der...@invalid.net> wrote:
>hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hmmm. My various starts are either still on the grow shelves or had to be taken
>>in because of frost. Tradition is that one can't plant safely here until the
>>week of Easter, and it has been true every year I have paid attention.
> We had a high-average warm winter this year but nothing
>record-setting. Cold finally took out the eggplants and most of the
>peppers. In a bit of a "march surprise" chilly spell now that has the
>remaining peppers a bit unhappy.
>maintain the native sand is a bit like rolling a boulder up a hill....
> Our garden is small enough to manage, equipped with drip irrigation
>(which, btw, has required far less maintenance than I feared at the
>outset). Except for alfalfa and seeds, I don't have to bring in much
>from the outside.
> I try to grow the most of what we eat the most of because that's
>where most of the money would be spent. I live in a climate suitable
>for year 'round gardening but not suitable for food crops that need a
>long cool season such as broccoli (although, some years rapini does
>well), cauliflower, crisphead lettuce and, most years, carrots.
>cooking onions, a pot of perennial chives and frequent successive
>plantings of some generic off-the-rack onions for tender "green" onion
>tops. Managed to provide "almost" a year's supply of onions for the
>kitchen in 2017 but not likely to do as well this year and many of what
>I do have will be late.
Lived down there for about 20 years. Malabar spinach is quite good and handles
heat well. With the nematodes, we found the way to garden veggies was in
containers (homemade eearthboxes). Wander a Home Depot plant area and you'll
see some square one marketed as garden boxes or some such..
The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon,
lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs),
and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas.
>hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hmmm. My various starts are either still on the grow shelves or had to be taken
>>in because of frost. Tradition is that one can't plant safely here until the
>>week of Easter, and it has been true every year I have paid attention.
>record-setting. Cold finally took out the eggplants and most of the
>peppers. In a bit of a "march surprise" chilly spell now that has the
>remaining peppers a bit unhappy.
>>
>>I gave up the big garden here because it just wasn't financially practical. I
>>now grow in containers on the back deck, where the deer and groundhog can't
>>reach.
> I still garden in raised beds and containers. Trying to amend and
>>I gave up the big garden here because it just wasn't financially practical. I
>>now grow in containers on the back deck, where the deer and groundhog can't
>>reach.
>maintain the native sand is a bit like rolling a boulder up a hill....
> Our garden is small enough to manage, equipped with drip irrigation
>(which, btw, has required far less maintenance than I feared at the
>outset). Except for alfalfa and seeds, I don't have to bring in much
>from the outside.
> I try to grow the most of what we eat the most of because that's
>where most of the money would be spent. I live in a climate suitable
>for year 'round gardening but not suitable for food crops that need a
>long cool season such as broccoli (although, some years rapini does
>well), cauliflower, crisphead lettuce and, most years, carrots.
>>
>>Trying shallots this year, as the prices in the store are always outrageous for
>>them.
> Never have grown those. I grow fairly strongly flavored piquant
>>Trying shallots this year, as the prices in the store are always outrageous for
>>them.
>cooking onions, a pot of perennial chives and frequent successive
>plantings of some generic off-the-rack onions for tender "green" onion
>tops. Managed to provide "almost" a year's supply of onions for the
>kitchen in 2017 but not likely to do as well this year and many of what
>I do have will be late.
Lived down there for about 20 years. Malabar spinach is quite good and handles
heat well. With the nematodes, we found the way to garden veggies was in
containers (homemade eearthboxes). Wander a Home Depot plant area and you'll
see some square one marketed as garden boxes or some such..
The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon,
lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs),
and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas.
The Real Bev
Mar 16, 2018, 2:06:15 PM3/16/18
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On 03/16/2018 10:48 AM, hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Lived down there for about 20 years. Malabar spinach is quite good and handles
> heat well. With the nematodes, we found the way to garden veggies was in
> containers (homemade eearthboxes). Wander a Home Depot plant area and you'll
> see some square one marketed as garden boxes or some such..
>
> The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon,
> lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs),
> and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas.
Keet? Is that an offshoot of Kent? Those are the only ones that we get
> Lived down there for about 20 years. Malabar spinach is quite good and handles
> heat well. With the nematodes, we found the way to garden veggies was in
> containers (homemade eearthboxes). Wander a Home Depot plant area and you'll
> see some square one marketed as garden boxes or some such..
>
> The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon,
> lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs),
> and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas.
around here that are worth eating. I planted a seed a couple of years
ago, but the plant is less than a foot high now :-(
--
Cheers, Bev
"Nothing in the universe can withstand the relentless application
of brute force and ignorance." -- Frd, via Dennis (evil)
hchi...@hotmail.com
Mar 16, 2018, 7:57:51 PM3/16/18
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Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may
start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start
to feel wierd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may
start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start
to feel wierd.
barbie gee
Mar 16, 2018, 8:20:03 PM3/16/18
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2018, The Real Bev wrote:
> Hello?
Usenet is dead. Long live Usenet!
The Real Bev
Mar 17, 2018, 1:45:26 AM3/17/18
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On 03/16/2018 04:57 PM, hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
"The flesh has fibers..." As many as the Tommies? Those are very
> Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
nearly inedible. We get a lot of those, and only occasionally the Kents
which are much better. Big AND good would be really nice.
We drove to Mexico for the 1991 eclipse below Mazatlan. On the way we
bought a flat of mangos, and every once we would stop for a mango break.
Fortunately we had brought far too much water with us...
> You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may
> start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start
> to feel wierd.
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Cheers, Bev
Of course SoCal has four seasons:
Earthquake, Mudslide, Brushfire, and Riot
hchi...@hotmail.com
Mar 17, 2018, 1:58:23 PM3/17/18
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:45:21 -0700, The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 03/16/2018 04:57 PM, hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
>
>"The flesh has fibers..." As many as the Tommies? Those are very
>nearly inedible. We get a lot of those, and only occasionally the Kents
>which are much better. Big AND good would be really nice.
>
>We drove to Mexico for the 1991 eclipse below Mazatlan. On the way we
>bought a flat of mangos, and every once we would stop for a mango break.
> Fortunately we had brought far too much water with us...
>
>> You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may
>> start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start
>> to feel wierd.
>
>Hubby eats the skins...
No, no excessive fibers. They do get thicker right around the seed.
>On 03/16/2018 04:57 PM, hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29
>
>"The flesh has fibers..." As many as the Tommies? Those are very
>nearly inedible. We get a lot of those, and only occasionally the Kents
>which are much better. Big AND good would be really nice.
>
>We drove to Mexico for the 1991 eclipse below Mazatlan. On the way we
>bought a flat of mangos, and every once we would stop for a mango break.
> Fortunately we had brought far too much water with us...
>
>> You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may
>> start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start
>> to feel wierd.
>
>Hubby eats the skins...
Your hubby is strange.
The Real Bev
Mar 18, 2018, 12:42:03 AM3/18/18
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> Your hubby is strange.
No comment.
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Cheers, Bev
I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou.
-- Paul Tomblin
Beaver...@live.com
Mar 19, 2018, 9:07:16 PM3/19/18
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Beaver...@live.com
Mar 19, 2018, 9:34:06 PM3/19/18
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I liked the internet a lot of better when some intelligence was required for participation.
I miss my favorite groups.
At least at least of the regulars are hanging on, I feel some comfort when I see their names.
Dennis
Mar 22, 2018, 10:27:54 AM3/22/18
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:14:04 -0700, The Real Bev
<bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Leeks might be nice. Somebody gave me some maybe 40 years ago, and I
>keep thinking I should plant some...
One nice thing about leeks is, if you don't get around to harvesting
<bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Leeks might be nice. Somebody gave me some maybe 40 years ago, and I
>keep thinking I should plant some...
some of them for eating, they produce really cool flowers.
Dennis (evil)
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The Real Bev
Mar 22, 2018, 11:40:05 AM3/22/18
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On 03/22/2018 07:29 AM, Dennis wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:14:04 -0700, The Real Bev
> <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Leeks might be nice. Somebody gave me some maybe 40 years ago, and I
>>keep thinking I should plant some...
>
> One nice thing about leeks is, if you don't get around to harvesting
> some of them for eating, they produce really cool flowers.
So do all onion-variants. The guy who gave me the leek said that if you
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:14:04 -0700, The Real Bev
> <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Leeks might be nice. Somebody gave me some maybe 40 years ago, and I
>>keep thinking I should plant some...
>
> One nice thing about leeks is, if you don't get around to harvesting
> some of them for eating, they produce really cool flowers.
just cut it off at ground level it will produce more little leeks from
the roots. If I ever plant any I'll remember that.
Juat got back from a 3-day marathon to Antelope Canyon, Zion and Kolob.
Gas in Las Vegas. Antelope is wonderful, but it's filled with people :-(
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Cheers, Bev
"This software is as user-friendly as a cornered rat!"
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