That is a glorious beet! I do love pickled beets as well.
If you could point me to the resources you use to research the candidates, that would be very helpful - I've never had to do in-depth research in a US election before for obvious reasons.
Your state might have its own official website like mine has azcleanelections.org and local news agencies should have surveys and questionaires filled out by the candidates too (that's what I usually look at for the "smaller" positions). Good luck in your first election, it looks like yours is in less than two weeks!
Thanks for this! I can't vote in the August elections, as I wasn't a citizen before the cut-off date for the registration - that was a bit of a bummer to discover, but nothing can be done about it. Is the election in November *only* for the president, then? I thought there would be other names/positions on the ballot?
The August vote is the primary, so you're voting based on the party you register as. November will be the President plus the choice between whoever made the primary cut in the other parties (senator, congress, state government positions and whatever else your state is voting on) so there is still plenty of potential research to do once the primaries have been decided! Propositions and such will also show up on the November ballot.
That's a huge beet! I need to work on my garden. I don't know why we even planted anything this year...I dont have time! Plus our crop is rather skimpy this year. Thomas has flat out refused to add anything to the dirt for 3 years and it's getting nutrient dry. I think he believes me now that we aren't getting near the crop, but he also blames it on not watering as much. You'd think after 11 years he'd just listen to me!!
The first garden we had several years ago we used the horse manure, which did GREAT for the crops. This year we did a thin layer of top soil, which I haven't been as impressed with. Chris was worried about grass seen from the manure taking over, but after this year it's obvious the seed is in our dirt not the manure!
Some people just need to figure it out themselves I guess!
Secret to larger veggies ; loose, friable soil :) That is one great sized beet! I know a great natural plant food recipe if you want it, it's a little gross but it works :)
First get a good strong bucket. Then a good size sacking. Pop roughly a shovel full of the freshest horse or cow poop in the sacking and tie it well. Put in bucket. Fill with water. Leave for a couple weeks in fairly sunny spot, top up with fresh water as it evaporates. It won't smell the best! When ready to use, remove the sack and allow as much water to drain from it into the bucket as you can, squeezing gives good results but is pretty gross. Mix into watering can,1/4 part poo-soup, 3/4 part fresh water. Apply :)
Raised beds are definitely easier. I do containers right now because of where I lived but I had raised beds at my old house. You do get weeds though - squirrels deposit stuff in them (and the containers), leaves fall, yada yada. Definitely not to the same extent as regular beds though.
My in-laws have raised beds in their garden as well as some containers. It would probably keep the rabbits from eating all of my spinach and the tops off of the beets like they did this year. It's just building them and then getting all the dirt/compost in there. Work up front for easier gardening or less work up front and fighting weeds... we'll see how industrious I am next spring.
We don't have tree squirrels, but I don't know how tenacious the ground squirrels would be in getting in there.
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If you could point me to the resources you use to research the candidates, that would be very helpful - I've never had to do in-depth research in a US election before for obvious reasons.
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Your state might have its own official website like mine has azcleanelections.org and local news agencies should have surveys and questionaires filled out by the candidates too (that's what I usually look at for the "smaller" positions). Good luck in your first election, it looks like yours is in less than two weeks!
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Some people just need to figure it out themselves I guess!
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I'm willing to try most anything once if you want to send me the recipe!
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We don't have tree squirrels, but I don't know how tenacious the ground squirrels would be in getting in there.
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