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shameless dude 
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Posted: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:38pm |
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cucumbers!!!! we raised some and now everyone around us is giving us cucumbers! I like them a lot, but sacks full is to much! been up all night the last 3 nights making cucumber and onion salad. freezer is filling up fast, been taking the salads into friends at coffee at 0430 AM. they all say they love the salads, guess they'll be getting sum more to eat! also picked aronias and in process of making jelly out of them, have froze a lot of them too for aronia crisp later in the year! gotta go to wally world tonight to gits more supplies to make pickled cucumbers!
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JohnCO
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Posted: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:47pm |
Glad you found something to keep you out of the Pool Halls and Casinos, Dale!
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 11 Aug 2019 at 1:15am |
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Just be careful not to overdo it. Darrel
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 11 Aug 2019 at 2:04am |
I'm glad SOMEONE's got good garden results. It was so darned wet here this spring, that we weren't able to get ANYTHING of the 'early' crop planted, and it was so wet when we finally got the later stuff, that lots of it didn't come up at all. We DID get radishes in late, and the first round came up and produced quick, the later rounds didn't. The potatos, beans, cucumbers sprouted, then it got dry and hot. We got small potatos, and tall, fruitless beans so far, and one tiny cucumber.
I'm not sure why SHE says 'not to water' the garden... but that's her order, so I follow it, when I know she's lookin'... 
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Posted: 11 Aug 2019 at 8:12am |
Gotta pee much now, especially with the Lasiks. 
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 11 Aug 2019 at 9:41am |
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Garden is doing great here in the Newton Ia. area. Like Shameless, not sure what to do with all the cucumbers. These dang Burpee's get huge! Still good too. Tomatoes are starting to get ripe, will be overrun with them soon, best eggplant crop I've ever had. First planting of sweetcorn is about done and the second is just about ready. Only had to water once, thought about it a couple other times but got a timely rain.
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JC-WI
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Posted: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:06am |
Maybe you guys need to squish them cukes and add some water and jump in an have a cukie bath... that otta put some vim an vinegar inta your step... After all, you see them wimen put slices of them cucumbers over their I-lids to make em look bute-if-ful an youthful. and use them bigger cu--- ...Ah... I'm outta here
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desertjoe
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 4:53am |
Well,,I'm glad to read bout all youse guys havin some good results with your gardenin, I think it is Man's destiny to grow your own groceries,,,but I gave up on gardenin years ago cause,,,,cause I just cannot grow Chit,,,no green thumbs here for sure,,!! Chit even my danged ole rocks ain't doin for chit this year,,one good thing is I ain't got no Goat Heads ,,,,yet,,but I know they is just layin there, waitin for some rain,,just like them rocks,,,,
JC,,I swear,,,,you is gettin just as bad as ,,,,,,,ole Shameless,,,,,,,,always thinkin on ,,,,thet ,,,,,,"stuff",,,,now I'm outa here,,,,,, 
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200Tom1
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 7:18am |
She's got 4 darn zukinni plants in the garden. Its been so dry and hot here, even with watering most everything else has dried up and died. Not those darn things. I wonder if that young feller "shameless" would be needing a pickup load of them. I'd be glad to share, sorta like we got shared with last winter. Old gal just frys them up like she does mushrooms. There's a 5 gallon bucket full of them sitting by the door now. I wish she'd plant some cukes. I sure like them.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 1:53pm |
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We have 2 zucchini plant that are producing like crazy, wife has been makin 2 loafs of zucchini bread a day and freezin for this winter and 1 cucumber plant is going crazy wild producing, she can't eat them they bother her stomach and I can't eat and keep up took 5 to church yesterday and left them on the table for whomever wanted them
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shameless dude
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 10:04pm |
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Tom...slice and fry them Zuk's and when they gits a little mushy, mix them in with your scrambled eggs, you can't believe the flavor they ad into the eggs!
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shameless dude
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 10:10pm |
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made sum pickled cucumbers tonight, they are in the fridge right now and will be put in the freezer tomarrow, dunno if we did it right yet, but will find out soon enough. also made LOTS more cucumber salads, they too are in the fridge, will be taking more into coffee in the morning, everyone I gave sum to loved it! whew! we have been making aronia jelly the past 2 days/nights. have both the sugared and the non sugared jelly. the non-sugared jelly seems to be a lot more berry flavorful. I think we'll make more of it.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 10:14pm |
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we also froze some of the cucumber salads, put it in some of those bags you suck the air out of and put them in the freezer. gotta go to wally world before coffee in the morning to gits more onions, we've been adding the onions to the cucumber salads when we make it, and i'm out of them now. may hafta gits sum more jars too! sure wish I had my outdoor kitchen now!
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200Tom1
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 11:03pm |
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Old gal said we are gonna have the same thing next week with tomatoes. Shucks 3 days ago she told me all that stuff burnt up. I guess 3 rains of 1/2" each make a big difference. Unfortunately the only people around to pick them is gonna be a grandson. We got shows and stuff to do the next weeks. Now she's gonna be a bellyaching about the darn stuff not being picked, etc. Looks like sweet corn is gonna be ready too.
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200Tom1
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Posted: 12 Aug 2019 at 11:09pm |
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Shameless after being served actual GREEN eggs in the army I ain't been able to eat cooked eggs since 1968.
If they are cooked in a cake, pie crust, bread I can do that. I can't even stand to be in the same house while they are being cooked. Now if she'd grind the dam things up and make them into a mile long zukinni bread I can chow down on that stuff.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 13 Aug 2019 at 1:50pm |
We put zucchini in our scrambled eggs all the time year around.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 14 Aug 2019 at 11:41pm |
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fridge is full of jars of cuk's/onions (pickled), the morning coffee guys will gits a few more jars of them yet.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 17 Aug 2019 at 1:03pm |
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I have been picking smaller picker and wife just made some bread & butter pickles today
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desertjoe
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019 at 1:51pm |
Hey Tom200,,,,if,,,,you still gots thet 5 gallon bucket of zukkinies thats lookin fot a home,,I'll trade you for a 10 gallon bucket of my home grown rocks,and I may even throw in a few pounds of goat heads for the neighbors down the road,,,,
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