On 2/22/2012 11:05 AM, George Shirley wrote:
> On 2/22/2012 10:12 AM, Shawn Martin wrote:
>> On 2/21/2012 3:55 PM, George Shirley wrote:
>>> We just finished putting up ten pints of dilled carrots. We grew the
>>> carrots and the dill, used Pickle Crisp in each jar and followed the
>>> recipe in the Ball Big Book. We've used that one since the book came out
>>> and we all like them, in particular our great grands love them. We just
>>> don't tell them we put garlic in them.
>>>
>>> The rest of the carrot crop we've been eating in the form of baked
>>> carrots with onions. Peel and cut in chunks both the carrots and the
>>> onions, put a little olive oil on them. Preheat the oven to 475F, put in
>>> the carrots and onions for twenty minutes, take out and eat. We like
>>> carrots most any way but in particular the baked ones.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the recipe idea.
>>
>>> Swiss chard is finally starting to grow, looks like we may have some to
>>> eat and some to freeze. Beets are starting to split. We've had about 12
>>> inches of rain in the last two weeks but welcomed it. Reckon we will
>>> probably can some beets later this week. We can them in the pressure
>>> canner in chunks and pint jars so we probably won't need to plant beets
>>> next fall.
>>>
>>> Almost time to get the spring garden in, probably in the next week or
>>> so. Our last frost date is usually February 18th and it looks like warm
>>> weather is upon us. We've been having temps in the low seventies most
>>> afternoons it isn't raining. Bright sunshine today.
>>
>> Where are you? Gardening here in N Central TX is tricky, as we freeze
>> sometimes in late April, but if you don't have the plants in the ground
>> by end of Feb, they will burn up before setting fruit.
>> (The exception is okra, and squash)
>
> SW Louisiana, USDA zone 9b. I'm a Native Texan Shawn I worked with a lot
> of folks from your area. We're hoping to move back to Houston area
> sometime this year, same heat zone as here so the gardening will be no
> different. We've had severe drought here for two years and it has
> finally broken, I guess La Nina has moved on and we're back to El Nino.
> We've gotten over twelve inches of rain in the last two weeks. Didn't
> figure on catching up quite that quick. We have to wear rubber boots
> right now to get in the garden.

Thought so. You guys don't have near the late freeze danger that we do