Chili Pequin or what is called the Bird Pepper in South Texas...........

[Micheal_R]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

Finding seven in one day is good, especially for being surface finds. In regards to buying your food from the grocery store, when I grew up we grew our own for the most part, selling or trading the excess for what we did not grow. I can still close my eyes and hear the lids to the mason jars pop when mother was canning vegetables, or the smell of the paraffin wax melting to be poured to seal the freshly made jam. We use to wrap the potatoes in old newspapers to be stored in baskets in the root cellar, along with the corn. I remember the times I sat at the road in front of the house with a large sign saying "Peaches For Sale." I also remember all the times that I was in big trouble for sneaking off to ride horses and not doing my chores. There are lots of good memories from my youth, we grew up in the best of times. Kelley (Texas)

 

[General Ray]

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[Micheal_R]

The potatoes, beets, carrots, etc, are all stored in the basement... they will last until next year. Get a 20 gallon cattle mineral feed bucket, wash it, put damp sawdust in it and cover the veggies with more damp sawdust....... viola.. fresh vegetables all winter.

I will get a photo Fred... just have to get a new camera.. mine kinda had an accident... Seems as though a bit of water disagrees with it. :

fair winds

Micheal

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

that you folks called a basement. We wrapped the potatoes and everything in old newspapers and placed them in bushel baskets. Something else we did, we cut the eyes out of the potatoes and planted them to grow more potatoes. Something else we did, when planting corn, we would put three Kernels of corn in each hole. When the corn got about nine inches tall, we would pull out two of them. We planted corn this way as a gurantee that at least one plant would survive. Those were some good times! Kelley (Texas)

 

[Bayrat76]

The Turkey would eat them all the time. I still see them wild around here some.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

As you know, they grow wild down here. What is funny is that the younger generation don't know what they are. Kelley (Texas)