SageHill
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My tomatoes are slow to turn red this year. Got the first two today. The rest are green as green can be.
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Baymule
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Fried green tomatoes;
Slice
Dunk in cold water
Roll in cornmeal
Place on plate until all are done
Fry in hot grease, medium heat.
Salt and eat!
Slice
Dunk in cold water
Roll in cornmeal
Place on plate until all are done
Fry in hot grease, medium heat.
Salt and eat!
Baymule
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I wish I had green tomatoes. Annabel could come pick them for me!
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Ridgetop
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Alternatively, leave in bowl on counter while deciding to try a recipe for them and let them turn red. LOL Sadly my tomatoes are not very nice but they will improve next year when I put a lot more improvements in the soil.
We arrived back in Texas 6 weeks ago. First I got pneumonia, then DH got pneumonia. Both of us took our antibiotics and slowly got better although the cough hung on for 3 more weeks. DH had to go to Greenville for skin cancer removal. Found another spot and had it biopsied. Back to remove stitches and cut out another one, repeat, repeat, repeat. Hopefully on last one now. One was really big and needed MOHS with massive stitches. All of them are non-malignant when discovered early. Basal cell ad something else. Amazing how much they have to remove to make sure the margins are clear on some of them. One was the size of the head of a 16 d finishing nail but the stitched incis is almost 4" long! And he is still not using sunscreen!
DH has decided to pull out all the goat weed on our ranch. He thinks it will be better than spraying or mowing. Because he is a MAN he does not believe me when I say to mow and spray with GrazeOn. He started on the 1/3 acre former garden, currently used for the rams. He has been weeding every day for the past 4 weeks. DD2 has come and helped him 3 times. Every week we take a dozen bags of goat weed to the dump. Spray? Mow? Burn? Noooo. UNTIL he talked to @Baymule and she told him to Spray - Mow - Burn. Now DH says he will spray - mow - burn. BUT he said he will spray this winter when eveything is dormant. ??? I suggested he wait until the goat weeds actually appear before wasting money and time in winter spraying. Nope. He wants to spray to PREVENT them coming up.
Testosterone poisoning in action.
He has decided though to mow all the rest of the goat weed on the rest of the 15 acres when DS1 returns around August 1.
Hopefully with constant breaks and large amounts of ice water he will last until then. He comes in and changes his sweat drenches clothes twice a day. We bought a pop up canopy to use to give him shade but he doesn't want to use it yet. ??? Too much trouble to put up. I should return it and get my $$$ back but it came from Costco in Rockwall so too far to go. Besides we planned to use it over the chute to sort sheep.
More later.
We arrived back in Texas 6 weeks ago. First I got pneumonia, then DH got pneumonia. Both of us took our antibiotics and slowly got better although the cough hung on for 3 more weeks. DH had to go to Greenville for skin cancer removal. Found another spot and had it biopsied. Back to remove stitches and cut out another one, repeat, repeat, repeat. Hopefully on last one now. One was really big and needed MOHS with massive stitches. All of them are non-malignant when discovered early. Basal cell ad something else. Amazing how much they have to remove to make sure the margins are clear on some of them. One was the size of the head of a 16 d finishing nail but the stitched incis is almost 4" long! And he is still not using sunscreen!
DH has decided to pull out all the goat weed on our ranch. He thinks it will be better than spraying or mowing. Because he is a MAN he does not believe me when I say to mow and spray with GrazeOn. He started on the 1/3 acre former garden, currently used for the rams. He has been weeding every day for the past 4 weeks. DD2 has come and helped him 3 times. Every week we take a dozen bags of goat weed to the dump. Spray? Mow? Burn? Noooo. UNTIL he talked to @Baymule and she told him to Spray - Mow - Burn. Now DH says he will spray - mow - burn. BUT he said he will spray this winter when eveything is dormant. ??? I suggested he wait until the goat weeds actually appear before wasting money and time in winter spraying. Nope. He wants to spray to PREVENT them coming up.
Testosterone poisoning in action. He has decided though to mow all the rest of the goat weed on the rest of the 15 acres when DS1 returns around August 1.
Hopefully with constant breaks and large amounts of ice water he will last until then. He comes in and changes his sweat drenches clothes twice a day. We bought a pop up canopy to use to give him shade but he doesn't want to use it yet. ??? Too much trouble to put up. I should return it and get my $$$ back but it came from Costco in Rockwall so too far to go. Besides we planned to use it over the chute to sort sheep. More later.
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Tell your thick headed DH that spraying in winter will NOT prevent it from coming up. Grazon HAS to be absorbed by growing foliage so it will be carried back to the main part of the plant. The only way to spray and kill things to prevent them from coming up is to basically POISON the ground and kill everything...
Spraying must be timed so that the plant will carry the chemical back to the roots... when they are carrying the sugars for the plant back to the roots. Some should be sprayed when first emerging... to kill the delicate seedlings...
FL university has a publication.... SS AGR 299... on goatweed and what to use... because it is an invasive in citrus groves...
1) Understand that Grazon, Milestone, Chapparral, Surmont, Dura-Cor, and Stinger all contain one or more of these chemicals... Picloram, Aminopyralid, Clopyralid.....these are pyridines.....Residuals.....
These are RESIDUAL chemicals... You CAN NOT use the manure from the animals for gardens etc.... after they are grazing these fields or fed hay from fields that are treated with these chemicals... These chemicals kill BROAD LEAF "weeds".... and will kill or badly stunt food crops... You cannot mulch with hay from fields treated with these chemicals. And these chemicals will kill earthworms and dung beetles and such.
2) NON-Residual are Glyphosate.... known as roundup....; 2-4-D ester , Triclopyr which is in Crossbow, PastureGard, and Remedy...... also Cimmarron which has metsylfuron methel and chlorsulfuron ; several of these have a dual combo... but if they are paired with the 3 listed above... they will be RESIDUAL chemicals.
We do not have goatweed up here so I do not have any experience with it... we have enough other things to fight....
Spraying must be timed so that the plant will carry the chemical back to the roots... when they are carrying the sugars for the plant back to the roots. Some should be sprayed when first emerging... to kill the delicate seedlings...
FL university has a publication.... SS AGR 299... on goatweed and what to use... because it is an invasive in citrus groves...
1) Understand that Grazon, Milestone, Chapparral, Surmont, Dura-Cor, and Stinger all contain one or more of these chemicals... Picloram, Aminopyralid, Clopyralid.....these are pyridines.....Residuals.....
These are RESIDUAL chemicals... You CAN NOT use the manure from the animals for gardens etc.... after they are grazing these fields or fed hay from fields that are treated with these chemicals... These chemicals kill BROAD LEAF "weeds".... and will kill or badly stunt food crops... You cannot mulch with hay from fields treated with these chemicals. And these chemicals will kill earthworms and dung beetles and such.
2) NON-Residual are Glyphosate.... known as roundup....; 2-4-D ester , Triclopyr which is in Crossbow, PastureGard, and Remedy...... also Cimmarron which has metsylfuron methel and chlorsulfuron ; several of these have a dual combo... but if they are paired with the 3 listed above... they will be RESIDUAL chemicals.
We do not have goatweed up here so I do not have any experience with it... we have enough other things to fight....
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Mini Horses
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REALLY???? I have to remind you of this? 
All you need are a few goats to rotate thru your pastures. Shocked you haven't thought of this -- after raising them for years. Yep, run a few lowly goats thru rotation. The only residual from them is manure. Your uppity sheep will be fine.
All you need are a few goats to rotate thru your pastures. Shocked you haven't thought of this -- after raising them for years. Yep, run a few lowly goats thru rotation. The only residual from them is manure. Your uppity sheep will be fine.
Is that why they call it goat weed?REALLY???? I have to remind you of this?
All you need are a few goats to rotate thru your pastures. Shocked you haven't thought of this -- after raising them for years. Yep, run a few lowly goats thru rotation. The only residual from them is manure. Your uppity sheep will be fine.
Mini Horses
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Could be 
but most of them will eat it.
but most of them will eat it.
I'd rent goats if I could.
I'd like to try them out, let them eat the brush.
I'd like to try them out, let them eat the brush.
Mini Horses
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Here's a couple tidbits.....some weeds & vines, tree/bush leaves, taste different at various times of growth. This will be known by the animals and they consume accordingly, at fresh growth or maturity. Each animal may have a different taste preference. Renting goats is difficult for very small enclosures due to 1) containment, 2) forage type & 3) shelter from rain, heat, etc.
Goats do graze but, nothing like sheep or cows. They prefer multiple browse items, especially shoulder high or better. Going after those is a reason they tend to climb fence & shrubs. A few bites and move on is favored routine. Having fun yet?
Goats do graze but, nothing like sheep or cows. They prefer multiple browse items, especially shoulder high or better. Going after those is a reason they tend to climb fence & shrubs. A few bites and move on is favored routine. Having fun yet?
