Luckily I have come out from my lethargic lack of motivation the last couple of days and actually been getting some other stuff done besides cutting Tomatoes every night. Blogger has been driving me crazy lately too. It seems I can make a new post and it takes it forever to begin showing up at linked sites. Sometimes taking a day or more and often not showing up at all if I make another post. I have tried all different settings and even asked on their help forums and nothing seems to work.
I did a post earlier today and after over 6 hours it still hasn't shown up anywhere. I find this happens more on Mondays and Tuesdays than any other times during the week but can be a problem ont he other days as well.
Oh well at least it's free I guess.
The dried Bean harvest is in full swing now. I got the first seed crop for each of the four varieties I grew this year put away so the rest is FOOD!!!
So far I have been working my way in from the back trellis and averaging about a full five gallon bucket of dried pods per trellis this year. Actually I think overall the pole beans produced less than average this year but the breeding experiment continues.
Bush beans and Cowpeas produced like gang busters but I have not begun picking the Cowpeas yet although several of them are ready. All in good time, the Pole beans come first and then once all the dried pods are picked I will begin shelling em and putting them in their storage containers for use all Winter. I can also get a more accurate production average per plant then as well. Some of the Pole beans are actually still producing new pods but this latest heat wave has carried them into the almost finished state for picking.
I used to pick the pods green and then dry the beans out in my solar box or the oven but a couple of years ago I decided to try growing them the same way they are done commercially and just letting them dry in the pods. It works great and I have stored some dried beans for years without any spoilage this way. After I shell em I just put them in canning jars the size I need for cooking and then soak em the day before I need em. It has worked beautifully so far.
The last of the Onions have been pulled, dried out and stored. I thought about putting in another bed full and I still might. I still have the third row of Potatoes blooming now and a bed of Sweet Potatoes do harvest once we get a cold snap I guess. I haven't been down to check on the Pumpkins in a while to see how they are doing so I need to do that soon.
This heat wave we been getting has sure slowed things down though and the grass is starting to turn brown while several of the early trees are now dropping their leaves.
Fall is just around the corner.
Keep Prepping Everyone!!!
Blogger drives me bonkers too. For example that you have not posted in over a day then I see you did, and I may have missed one to three posts. The weather here has been cool for the last two days. mid to upper 70's this am @4am it was 52 here I had to put my sweats on and brew coffee. I have a feeling this wither is going to be just as rough as last year.
ReplyDeleteRob - It's been HOT here. So hot the AC can't keep up. Not that we have the greatest AC as it is but still.
DeleteYa I don't know what's up with Blogger some days my posts won't update for love nor money and some days they hit right off. I have even seen where linked sites have updated posts when I am in a comment screen and then go back to old links in the regular screen. It makes no sense. Maybe it's a setting somewhere I keep missing or something.
Blogger isn't working, I have no access to the list of blogs that I follow. I had to do a google search on your blog name to get your blog to come up. I only had a few comments on my last posting so it must not be visible either, probably after midnight. They probably took that part of the system down to work on it and couldn't be bothered to tell anyone. I need to build a bookmark list of blogs that I follow so that I won't have to depend on these clowns.
ReplyDeleteI wish that I was tired of working tomatoes but we are still waiting for the main crop to come in and it is starting to feel like fall.
Sf - The only thing that really pisses me off with the blogger not working is that a lot of readers won't bother to stop by if they don't see a new post showing somewhere else. I find my traffic and comments suffer terribly when a post doesn't update promptly.
DeleteI have not had problems of the sorts you describe with Blogger, although that is my own experience only. I will say that I have tried to use Weebly and WordPress as well and find their interfaces much less intuitive than Blogger.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the beans and cowpeas. Black-eyed peas (are these cow peas too) are one of the few things that have really grown well here in the heat. And like you, I just leave them on the vine to dry before shelling. Mine is mostly due to the fact I don't like to do it too often, I suppose.
TB - Ya Cowpeas and BE peas are pretty much one and the same. They really like poorer, drier soils so are easy to grow and are a legume and put nitrogen back into the soil. I have some big plans for expanding my Cowpea crop over the next few years and using em in my rotations.
DeleteI've had few problems with Blogger, but attribute that to me paying their $10-a-year charge for domain "ownership". I don't seem to experience the issues that others have.
ReplyDeleteProbably only a matter of time, though.
RP - Maybe I should look into the domain ownership thing myself.
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ReplyDeleteThe posts you create on Blogger do you place them on the automatic timer? I've notice if I create posts, and schedule them using the blogger calendar and timer they won't appear.
I may try letting the bean pots dry out on the vine instead of drying them out on the porch. I'm slowing down the garden and pulling vines.....getting ready to put the garden to sleep until spring. I'm tired, and the heat is getting to be to much.
Also the darn bugs have taken over the squash and pumpkin patch. Lucky for me I was able to pull a couple of pumpkins and only 1 squash :-(
Hey are you going to see Atlas Shrugged Part 3 the beginning of September?
Sandy - I tried the automatic thing for a couple of Tractor time posts while Iw as away and had some issues with it too so ya I wasn;t impressed either.
DeleteAs much as I love my garden the weeds finally beat me this year. I kept em at bay with my mulching and such for a good long time but finally just gave up and let em go this month. By this time the plants are mostly done anyway.
I will watch it certainly. I wasn't as impressed with part 2 as I was with part 1. Mostly I didn't like the actor(ess) switching they did.
I believe director should have kept the same actors to the best of their ability. This would make the transition into parts 2 and 3 of the movie easier to absorb.
DeleteHonestly I really disliked that actress they got for what's her name the lead in the second movie. She just didn't seem to fit at all.
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