2011 Garden & Zaino PICS!!

[SVTCOBRA]

The wife allowed me to expand the garden this year!!!
And, she wanted some raised beds, so I added two.
In the raised beds:
Closest: red & white taters, onions, red/yellow/green/chocolate bell peppers
Other: Carrots, Sweet taters, romaine lettuce, spinach

regular garden: lft to rt - maters (about 5 different kinds), jalepeno & banana peppers, blue lake green beans, corn.







Corn!


Beans!


Rhododendron!!


When you guys get old you'll get excited about crap like this too!

Finally washed her and put a coat of Zaino on her.

[zozoka1212]

Nice.

Here we just started to see some green. LOL 2 weeks ago it was still snowing some. At least the grass is nice and green now. Maybe 2-3 weeks and everything will be colorful.

[370Z/28]

What the hell is a chocolate bell pepper?

I would do the same but I have too many deer/rabbits/squirrles and to much shade.

How did you grow that G? I want some of those seeds.

[timmy0257]

i cant keep the d@mn deer out of my gardens.

[biggie]

i cant keep the d@mn deer out of my gardens.

12ga, 30-06, etc.

[370Z/28]

[SVTCOBRA]

What the hell is a chocolate bell pepper?

I would do the same but I have too many deer/rabbits/squirrles and to much shade.

How did you grow that G? I want some of those seeds.

Don't know what a Chocolate bell pepper is, but hoping to find out soon!!!

And, I was thinking the same as Biggie, but 12ga and 7mm mag here!
But, we live in a neighborhood so we don't have any deer that I've seen.
I did pop a squirrel just the other day that was digging in one of the boxes!

I did here that a wolf was spotted just outside of the neighborhood the other day!

[Mudgen]

When you guys get old you'll get excited about crap like this too!

Some of my worst memories from childhood have to do with toiling in my Dad's garden. He put in about an acre every year. There was a joke in Altavista that no one ever locked their cars except in July, when Arthur would fill up your back seat with squash if you left it unlocked. Picking butterbeans was an utter humiliation. I'd do the best I could, and he could come behind me and get more beans off the same row than I'd already picked off it.

I love the little family vegetable stands out here in western Hanover County, though.

[SVTCOBRA]

Some of my best memories were of helping my dad put in the garden and watching it grow. I've been wanting to put in a garden for about 20 years and finally we removed the sod and put one in 2 years ago. I love sitting in my swing, sipping a beer, throwing the frisbee for my dogs and watching the garden grow (multi-tasking) !!!!

[Mudgen]

Enjoy the garden, and the beer, and the memories. I probably should have kept mine to myself.

[SVTCOBRA]

No, this forum is all about sharing...one man's pleasure may be another man's torture. Gaining an understanding and appreciation for each other's opinions and situations helps us all to grow.

Reminds me of a northern friend that came by the house and commented on all of our Bob Timberlake snowy scene prints that we have framed and hanging.
He didn't understand why we had such depressing pictures up!
Well, in NC we love getting a few days of snow!!!
Love the peaceful looking landscape covered in white.
Love to take rides in the snow.
Up north they get much more than a few days and dread it.

[Mudgen]

^Same here, with the snow. I'm Virginia bred and born, although a UNC alum. Doesn't it drive you crazy, though, that our fellow southerners for the most part don't know how to drive in snow? I'm always behind the guy who thinks he needs to go 15mph and in front of the guy who thinks he can do 60.

[SVTCOBRA]

haha, very true!! I grew up in G'boro and we got lots of snow back in the day!!
Loved driving in it.
I remember leaving UNC-C and heading to see my GF in G'boro with 10 inches on the ground in CLT and more in G'boro while it was still coming down.
AND, I was driving my RWD 69 Mach 1 !

[timmy0257]

i cant keep the d@mn deer out of my gardens.

12ga, 30-06, etc.

i live in a golf course community and that wouldnt work. in the fall i keep a blind set up onthe deck. i have sat out there with my mathews bow but have not had any luck.

[biggie]

A strong pellet/bb gun would hurt them enough to where they wouldn't be back.

[Mudgen]

i live in a golf course community and that wouldnt work. in the fall i keep a blind set up onthe deck. i have sat out there with my mathews bow but have not had any luck.

My back yard adjoins the 2nd fairway at my club. So far I've gotten away with a .177 pellet gun with no complaints. Even a deer doesn't want to get hit with one twice.

[SVTCOBRA]

Picked some romaine and spinach for our salad last night!!!

Pics from last week - garden doing well!!
Lots of little maters, squash, zucs.
Beans are flowering

[biggie]

Give me maters.

[370Z/28]

Yum! Give me a mater with tuna and mayonaise any day of the week.

[Mudgen]

^Me too. Double maters, hold the tuna.

[biggie]

I do keep my maters and tuna separate. Just maters, dukes mayo, and salt/pepper.

[SVTCOBRA]

Just maters, dukes mayo, and salt/pepper.

Definition of a mater sammich!!!!
All about the dukes!!!

[biggie]

I will throw ham/turkey on there if I need a dose of dead animals.

And technically a buttermilk biscuit is much better than the sandwich.

[Mudgen]

Well, it was a bread agnostic thread, technically, til you threw that in.

But it called up a lovely memory of breakfast with my dad. Buttermilk biscuits, fresh juicy tomatoes, and country ham. My dad's country ham had never seen a store. Usually bartered from one of his farm buddies who had raised and cured the hog. He'd hang them in the basement for months, and when you cut into one, it was all purple with a sort of greenish iridescence to the slices, and you could smell it from across the room. Heavenly.

Here's his foolproof cooking method. Put the ham in a pot big enough to cover it with water (his was about five gallons). Bring to a simmering boil for 30 minutes, move the pot to a stack of newspapers, and wrap with an army blanket overnight. The next day it would still be too hot to put your hands in the water, and the ham was perfectly cooked, juicy, with just enough of the salt soaked out of it to keep from hurting your tongue.

[SVTCOBRA]

Dad normally had a country ham hanging out in the tool room.....
Red eye gravy was one of his favorites to make! Would put it over his grits.
Sausage gravy biscuits was my favorite!!!! Brains & eggs was pretty good too.

[Mudgen]

Being a Virginia boy, I'm not sure I ever encountered grits before I was a freshman in Chapel Hill. When I saw them pouring the scrambled eggs out of cartons and the hashbrowns out of bags onto the grill in Chase Cafeteria, I learned to eat eggs over easy and grits pretty quick.

[biggie]

Grits are great, just with butter/salt/pepper for me. But dad lives off of red eye gravy.

Though I usually don't like maters with country ham, prefer them separately.

[SVTCOBRA]

Way to eat grits...
8 to 9 pieces of bacon draped across the plate.
pour grits on top to where you can not see bacon.
add butter - (lite cause I'm on a diet)
add 8 to 9 pieces of crumbled bacon on top.
salt & pepper to taste!!!
(can substitute Tony Chachere)

[370Z/28]

Ok....I'm officially hungry.

First time hubby and I went to Vegas, we were at this huge breakfast buffet. Hubby was pissed because there weren't any grits. I had to laugh. Like they would know what grits are in Vegas.

[SVTCOBRA]

Finally!!! Some veggies...We've been getting some squash, cucs, zucs, banana peppers, and two green bean pickings, but took a few pics from today's harvest...
Have been eating lots of salads from our romaine and spinach!! I like to add squash, zucs, cucs, and peppers to it.