Subj : Re: Gasoline and Gardens
To   : Brian Murrey
From : Blue White
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 16:11:09

-=> Brian Murrey wrote to Blue White <=-

 BM> About 15 years ago I did a lot of IT work for the State of Kentucky. I
 BM> always enjoyed my trips to Frankfort, and no visit was complete with
 BM> out a stop at Famous Recipe Fired Chicken. Good stuff. Prefer it to the
 BM> Colonel by a long shot.

If you were to visit today, you would find that it was no longer there.  If
I am right about the building it was in, it is now a local BBQ joint, and a
pretty good one at that.  The only restaurant on that little side street
that has been there the whole 20+ years I have been here is Captain D's.
Lee's Famous Recipe is gone, Gatti's Pizza has changed hands at least three
times (becoming chinese, indian, pizza again, and then something else), and
Burger King closed before the pandemic.  None of those three can be found
anywhere in town anymore.

Lee's has been gone at least 10 years now.

 BM> We grow a small garden, usually 8-10 tomato plants and 2 or 3 different
 BM> peppers.  We use the output to make home canned homemade salsa, tomato
 BM> sauce, and diced tomatoes. We usuallly produce enough to can supplies
 BM> that last about a year for us, just two people here. I grow green bell
 BM> peppers, Hungarian banana peppers, and a special Jalapeno pepper. The
 BM> Jalapeno is a variety that is from Texas that a fiend sends to me in
 BM> the form of seeds. We also can green beans, but I just go buy a bushel
 BM> from a local organic farm instead of growing them.

I have tried bell and banana peppers.  The bells did not produce, while the
banana peppers tasted much more like bells (the one or two that got ripe).  I
have also tried larger tomatoes but they either never set fruit or never
ripen.

 BM> We have a rabbit problem here, all the neighborhood cats have been
 BM> declawed, so unless a coyote or a red fox sneaks in to the
 BM> neighborhood, the rabbits have nothing to fear but me.  Last year I
 BM> trapped and relocated close to 30 rabbits. Funny thing, by late fall,
 BM> when they are safe to eat, they seem to disappear. I use home made box
 BM> traps, and then drive them out to a new field to live in.

I grow the cherry tomoatoes in an area that most rabbits (beyond babies)
cannot get into.  They, and the deer, eat my tulips and lillies.  One year,
one of my neighbors told me that, after I left for work each morning, there
was a coyote or wild dog that would show up and hide in behind my shrubs.
That year was nice!  I did not see hide nor hare of a rabbit or deer that
year.  The squirrels didn't come around as often, either.

I don't think I have ever had that many rabbits around, but they are
around.  There is a neighbor cat that comes around hunting stuff.  I think
it has claws, but seems to mostly be interested in the birds and chipmunks.
 As you pointed out, the rabbits are usually gone by late fall... most of
the veggie and flower gardens are probably pretty bare by then!



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