This is a heads up so people will have plenty of time to plan if they want to come. Now that Dana's healthy again, we'll be having another BBQ in Ogden. More info will be posted soon (maybe in Local Parties, although it isn't a play party) but it'll be in the afternoon, probably on Sunday, June 29th. As at the last one: A. The meat will be grilled over real wood charcoal, not propane or those so-called "charcoal" briquettes. You won't believe the difference if you've never had it that way before. The burgers will be freshly gound, not grocery store frozen patties, and the beer will be real beer, not that Utah 3.2 junk. B. we're using a Sunday so that it hopefully won't interfere with anything else. And C: People from the kink community will also be there. Burgers, hot dogs, condiments, beer, & some soft drinks will be provided, and the strawberry patch (organically grown like everything else I grow) ought to be full of berries then. Attendees are asked to bring some kind of BBQ appropriate dish or chips or something. Hard liquor is OK (but getting drunk isn't), but you'll have to BYOB. It will be a BBQ, not a play party unless you're into outdoors fun (the back yard is pretty secluded, but there's unfortunately not enough room in the house), so single males are not excluded. If anyone wants some, we still have some honey left from last Fall (I got almost 6 gallons from the hive), and depending on how stuff grows, may have beans (iffy), peas, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and/or hot peppers. I really doubt that the eggplants, cucumbers, the black & the red raspberries, grapes, apples, plums, or peaches will be ready that soon, but the blackberries may well be. If you think you'll want to come, drop us a msg here on Swingular, and when the date is absolutely firm (it WILL be a Sunday, even if not the 29th of June) I'll be sure to let you know.
Very cool. Sounds like fun
Down here in Syracuse/Clearfield I have blossoms on both my raspberry and blackberry bushes, bees are crawling allll over them so I wouldn't be surprised to see berries in a month. Been a crazy spring for the gardens.
What kind of wood? Mesquite? Hickory? Birch? Cherry? Apple?
By organic do you mean you use night soil?
By organic do you mean you use night soil?
CHEFFETTE wrote:
Down here in Syracuse/Clearfield I have blossoms on both my raspberry and blackberry bushes, bees are crawling allll over them so I wouldn't be surprised to see berries in a month. Been a crazy spring for the gardens.
I'm certain there'll be blackberries by then, but based on last year, the raspberries might or might not be ready by then. And they have plenty of bees pollinating them, my bee hive is maybe 10 feet from the berry bushes.
Crazy Spring? Sure is. More rain than I've seen before this late in the year. My irrigation started 3 weeks ago, it's every 6 1/2 days, and I still haven't bothered using it.
JEFFSMITH1972 wrote:
What kind of wood? Mesquite? Hickory? Birch? Cherry? Apple?
By organic do you mean you use night soil?
Can't usually afford something like mesquite, so I use Royal Oak Hardwood Lump. It's a mix of oak, hickory, maple and walnut. absolutely no chemicals or other additives.
Night Soil? Kind of, sorta. No herbicides. Takes me 2 to 3 weeks every Spring to get the garden weeded before planting, a full 3 weeks this year, temporary health problem & couldn't work as well as I usually do (angiogram/angioplasty tomorrrow should fix that). I dig out whatever has started growing (the water hyacinths are the real serious pain) and rebuild the mounded rows (flood irrigation). Instead of pesticides I plant hot peppers throughoout the garden, it seems to do a good job of keeping bugs away from the plants. And every year I mix in some soil that has bull and/or chicken manure in it. Plus plant matter from last year that I composted. It's worked fine for 3 years now.
TMACA wrote:JEFFSMITH1972 wrote:
What kind of wood? Mesquite? Hickory? Birch? Cherry? Apple?
By organic do you mean you use night soil?
Can't usually afford something like mesquite, so I use Royal Oak Hardwood Lump. It's a mix of oak, hickory, maple and walnut. absolutely no chemicals or other additives.
Night Soil? Kind of, sorta. No herbicides. Takes me 2 to 3 weeks every Spring to get the garden weeded before planting, a full 3 weeks this year, temporary health problem & couldn't work as well as I usually do (angiogram/angioplasty tomorrrow should fix that). I dig out whatever has started growing (the water hyacinths are the real serious pain) and rebuild the mounded rows (flood irrigation). Instead of pesticides I plant hot peppers throughoout the garden, it seems to do a good job of keeping bugs away from the plants. And every year I mix in some soil that has bull and/or chicken manure in it. Plus plant matter from last year that I composted. It's worked fine for 3 years now.
As I understand it night soil is another name for human dung. I think Mr Smith is attempting The Funny-hahas.
CHEFFETTE wrote:
As I understand it night soil is another name for human dung. I think Mr Smith is attempting The Funny-hahas.
Yeah. That's why I said Kind of, sorta. There IS some poop involved, but not human poop. Then because he seemed curious about it, I explained what, to me, is organically grown; essentially, no herbicides or pesticides. Or human-devloped chemical concoctions. But I will use natural "chemicals" if I'm growing somehting that needs them, like nitrogen and phosphorus for corn, which I grew one yesr a while back. But you just need more space than I have to grow enough corn to really be worth the effort. Now the place where I grew corn that year is the strawberry patch.
I have some mesquite chunks I can contribute if people want it extra smokey.
NOTE: I typo'd the date. It's Sunday June 26th, not the 29th.