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That would be great AP! Or we can stop in again at Denny's. Where are you, Nicaragua? Geez, I don't think I spelled that right
I'm assuming every Denny's in Cali has that sign up. I want a picture so I can post it on my website....
Funny, when we were driving down here, we were looking at Tehachapi on the map and wondering how that name was pronounced.
You should have heard how we massacred Poway, until some kind business owner there told us how to pronounce it properly lol!
I think it's fantastic, although it will be a difficulty for restaurant owners.
They can get around it though, just by serving all fresh food!
On our way down here, we stopped at a Denny's in Bakersfield CA to grab something to eat.
They had a sign posted, saying the food served here is known to cause cancer.
I should have had my camera with me, but left it in the truck. I didn't remember that my husband could have used his cell phone to snap a photo.
The hostess said it was now required by law! I know in the past I have written about Proposition 65 (I think) that got voted in.
I'm going to get a photo of that sign. The hostess (obviously) didn't want to talk about it with me.
Thanks for posting those links Eddie. I'll check them out
This morning, we went into town to go to the Farmer's Market. I took lots of pictures and will put them up on our website.
What a treat it was for us! Lots of vendors selling fruits and vegetables. We filled four bags I think and just enjoyed a wonderful late breakfast of sticky buns and fresh strawberries.
The biggest crowds were around the stalls where the vendors advertised Chemical Free foods.
Bagwa john, right now we are in Southern California out in the desert.The night skies here are so incredible, we are really enjoying watching the sky here at night.
I love this! A great arrangement where everyone is happy and helping each other!!
That's not much snow - we too have had just a little snow. Maybe one foot total or a little more than that.
Graham was in Edmonton a few weeks ago and there was hardly any snow there. then I talked to someone in Toronto and they hardly had any snow.
I just hope that we do get some more at home, or the summer will be a hard one, both for cattle and for humans.
Wow, that's impressive. What a great job they did....I love how the one guy got a ride to work!
This will open up your yard to more sunshine on the garden, always a good thing.
Awesome pictures, awesome food Eddie...makes me long for Summer!!
If you have a sawmill close enough to you, ask them if you can fill some bags with sawdust.
When we raise our meat birds, I do this as I clean out their bedding every couple of days, so I go thru a LOT of sawdust. Sawdust mixed with lots of chicken poop is a fantastic addition to our manure piles. Black gold for the garden.
Sawmills will often let you have it for free, because they just want to get rid of it. I fill old used feed bags and fold the top over and staple them down, lol. I can get about 15 full bags in my little SUV.
b4, if you read the reply I just made to excel, you will get some extra info on how we store the potatoes here over Winter.
Keeping them in plastic bags will not allow enough air to them, even if the bags have those small holes.
When you bring your taters home from the store, try removing them right away from the plastic bag and put them into a paper bag instead.
Don't fold the top of the bag down, leave it open and put the potatoes in a dark cooler place. I hope that will work better for you.
And you are right, onions should not be stored with potatoes. I keep my onions (along with garlic) hanging in the room next to the cold room. Onions like it a tad warmer anyway and we don't want the smell from the onions in all the other produce in the cold room.
Same with Squash if you keep them over Winter. It's too cold in the cold room for them, we just keep them on a ledge in our stairwell.
Hope this helps you, I don't know what you pay for potatoes where you live. Up here they are expensive enough in the Winter that I don't like having to throw a bunch of them out.
We store our potatoes in paper bags and keep them in our cold room. The temperature down there needs to be between 32 and 40F. If it gets too cold, we leave the door open a bit and the warmer basement air gets the temperature up a bit.
We also have a vent down there that we fiddle with. Around the mid-November mark, but depending totally on outdoor temperature, we start closing the vent off a bit. I just use a piece of cardboard fit to size. As the temperature gets colder outside, I just fit the cardboard more tightly.
It is all extremely high-tech :)
We don't store them right on the concrete floor - we put them on shelves and we have a few pallets down there to put the really large paper bags (from animal feed) on the pallets.
Is it store bought red potatoes you are having trouble with keeping?
Every year we grow two kinds of red potatoes - Chieftains and Cariboo. We store them in our cold room and have no problem keeping them over the Winter.
Maybe store bought potatoes are sprayed? I don't know. I do know that when I have to buy potatoes, I always end up with some in the bag that have terrible dark spots throughout the whole potato.
Great list, Eddie. That was one of the problems I had when we moved here to a very different gardening zone.
I sttarted my squash and tomato seeds too early and quite a few of them broke at the stem when trying to get them to the garden for transplanting.
Disappointing for sure. Now I have a list of seed start times for my area and it makes a big difference.
I don't start anything until the end of March (cabbages) and I don't even seed Tomatoes until mid-April!
the cover should help to provide some shade, a lathe house may help as well, but is more work.
We use row covers a lot here, but that is mostly to help warm up the soil for our heat loving plants.
Oh that IS disappointing Chris, I'm sorry to hear that. Any chance other family members have some of the pics?
alpinefrost, I had to google Tehachapi. You're not far from the Mojave desert. When we go to Palm Springs, we go thru Barstow and down thru Victorville.
How is the gardening there when you are at such a high altitude?
We weren't going to go this year, considering we have already driven back and forth to Prince Rupert a couple times. But, then my husband bought us an RV
It's down in Fresno, so yup, a road trip is now in the works!
Since I can't start seeds until the end of March and can't even get in the garden until mid-April or later, there's no point in sitting here. Plus we both can't stand mud season up here, so it's good timing.
The weather has been pretty goofy the last few years - we also had a cool wet spring last year. I hope you have a good growing season this year.
No, we're not doing the Coast route at this time of the year. We have done it before and you are right....Oregon coast is a beautiful ride.
Love the area around Cannon Beach, do you know the taffy shop there? That's a must "stop at".
And the Big Sur part of CA, heck the whole trip down the 101 is awesome.
Usually if we go down to Cali at this time of year, we just hit the I5 and get as far as possible as fast as possible, lol. Looking for heat and sunshine.
We're going to spend time in far southern CA, not far from San Diego. Then head over to the area around Parker AZ for a couple weeks.
The drive down takes us 2 full days - well worth it tho, when we're in the hot tubs down there and wearing shorts all day lol.
I hope you can get your pictures back Chris, that sux when that happens.
Still, you have posted some beautiful pics here, gorgeous place you live in!
You folks in the PNW have had a harsh winter again! Lots of snow is one thing, but those ice storms make everything much worse.
We got another 6 inches or so of snow yesterday.
We're supposed to be heading down to California in a few weeks, I hope the roads are going to be ok.
Is it still snowing there today? I heard it was supposed to snow a lot there...
Beautiful pictures excel! I love the chicken with the blonde hair. Very cool
Duck eggs are really good, and they are harder than eggs from a chicken.
Ducks are pretty messy, much worse than chickens imo. Nothing like slipping on a wet slimy duck poop.
I think, even though the number of "smart gardeners" is rising, there are still a lot of people out there who have not figured that out about the seed companies.
And then there is the other group, who know about Monsanto et al and just don't care.
This point has already probably been made...but in case not - we planted some Jerusalem Artichokes a couple years ago and have done nothing at all to them. They came up just fine last year and should be even more of them this year.
We are home again, got here right before Christmas. How long we are here for is a guess right now.
I may be tagging along with hubby for part of the year, as he goes to work in different locations.
A great list with some good additions this year Eddie. Thanks for including our website. Would you mind to drop the blogspot part, as I am not really using the Blogger blog anymore.
http://www.countrylivinginacariboovalley.com is the new one :)
I fear that by the time the majority of the people in cities realize what is happening, it will be too late.
I'm not really a tin foil hat type of person, but thinking logically there will be a huge rush for the exit when the SHTF.
And then we have the generations who have been raised to look towards the government for help in times of crisis....that worries me.
A good read -
"Doug: Well, the first thing to keep in mind is that it's better to be a year too early than a minute too late."
Amen to that one!
That sounds good excel. Why not plant a few lettuce seeds too?
We want to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas. May 2012 be a year of prosperity, and by that I mean, good health and a full pantry, with a side of emergency lanterns. All garnished with many rolls of duct tape (wow, is that stuff useful) and waterproof matches.
Annie and the Gman
What a great read for us to again confirm that it is truly better to give than to receive.
Thank you excel
We try and do a lot of fishing every year. After he cleans the fish the Gman buries the heads in our Berry Bed. Fantastic fertilizer!
Oh, Eddie, I don't consider myself a professional! I have never had any formal education about gardening or farming. I just love it and it doesn't hurt that I like to talk...and talk...and talk.
what a Great story b4!!!
Thank you alpinefrost!
I can usually get the show on the West Coast at 5pm from Eastern Channels, but I can't get it now. Have to wait till 8, I guess.