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Date Posted: 05:50:52 07/17/09 Fri
Author: Jeffman
Subject: compost pile
In reply to: Shirley 's message, "Re: Credit Unions" on 19:13:12 07/16/09 Thu

I had actually considered starting one but when our dog is quite the scavenger and would get into it and make himself sick eating all the rotten food parts. He is about 12 years old and when he eats stuff he shouldnt... well lets say it makes for a nasty cleanup in his hair every time he goes potty. LOL

We made soup from our tomatoes and basil but the amount of effort to make it didnt seem worth it. Of course we did learn some things from doing it that will save us some time if we do that again.

>First things first. Get yourself started on a compost
>pile! That's all Ralph uses although he has used
>Miracle Grow a few times. If you have a place nearby
>that can test soil, take in a sample. It might be
>lacking something. Crushed egg shells (roll the m
>with a rolling pin), coffee grounds, vegetable and
>fruit peelings but NO meat unless you want to attract
>critters. Cauliflower will be yellow unless you cover
>each head with a cloth of some sort.
>
>You'll love a breadmaker! A few Christmases ago, I
>bought each of our kids (and grandkids) who didn't
>have one. It has the three hour cycle but also a one
>hou. And believe it or not, it even makes jam! How
>neat is that? It will knead the dough if you want to
>make coffee cake, pizza dough and all kinds of
>specialty bread. Omstead pf buying individual packets
>of yeast, you can buy it in a little jar specially for
>breadmakers. I've found that you don't really have to
>use breadmaker flour.
>
>We had dwarf fruit trees in our first house but the
>buyers ripped them out along with about 150 hybrid
>irises and several button mums. Grrrrrrr. Even had
>black irises which are fairly rare.
>
>Brussel spouts have to be picked from the bottom up.
>BTW, tomatoes I just quarter and seed them and toss
>into the blender and then pour into freezer bags and
>leave some quartered for chili, spaghetti, pepper
>steak and Brunswick stew. I've leanred the hard way
>that some of the time consuming steps can be
>eliminated. Sometimes if I'm feeling ambitious, I'll
>simmmer them for sauce.

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