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Everett McDonald
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  • Duncan, SC
  • United States
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Hi Everett I have a similar Christmas Cactus that used to belong to my mother. I would say yours is about a good month ahead of mine. My flower buds are about half an inch long at present. This is probably due to your warmer climate i imagine. I k...
November 14
http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/2000/archives/2000/in_the_garden/flowering_plants_and_shrubs/zygocactus I am sure it is one of these zygocactus, my family has grown them for years and they are so beautiful and have a range of colours.
November 14
They are so cute Everett.
November 14
Beautiful kids,your grand children?Apple cheeks!!
November 14
Can you give me name of this flowering plant in pot.?? Beautiful flowers.
November 14
WOW! My mom would be sooooo jealous! :-)
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Hey Joel, My wife cooks them just as she would spinach. they're more of a sweet green than a bitter green, like spinach or chard.
November 13
Hello PiscesGirl, Your daughters are beautiful, what did they name the other 3 chickens? My granddaughters named mine Doris, Sparkleworks and Starfish.
November 13
Two years ago in October I took a trip to Cape Bretton Island in Canada. At the Louisbourg Fortress (now a living museum) I found a kitchen garden. In the garden were beets with the deepest burgundy leaves. The variety is Bulls Blood and the seed ...
November 13

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Where do you live and garden?
Duncan, SC
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Favorite foods:
Vegetables of all kinds

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Everett McDonald

It's Garlic Planting Time In the South

Actually I don't personally know anyone here who grows garlic other than my friend Chuck
who planted it for the first time this year, but I'm sure some people do. I planted mine this
week, October 20th. I have planted it as late as thanksgiving, (end of November) and it did okay.
Garlic is one of my favorite things to grow. It's quite easy and nothing seems to bother it.
I usually plant about 120 cloves eight inches apart in three rows. Each clove pushed into
the prepared ground just deep enough… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:44pm — 2 Comments

Everett McDonald

Vegetable Gardeners....

We don't mow the lawn, we harvest the grass.

Posted on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm — 1 Comment

Everett McDonald

Cowpeas, Field Peas, Southern Peas.....

I call them crowders. They originally come from West Africa, and they
have been cultivated by the Egyptians since about 2500 BC.
They came to the United States with the slave trade and before the
Civil War were grown mostly by slaves and poor white people.
After the war they became more popular and are now considered by
many as a traditional southern food. Some of the old timers I've talked
to remember growing them on the farm, eating them fresh in summer,
then pulling the plants, hanging them i… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 8:20pm — 10 Comments

Everett McDonald

"This is Blood to the Soil"

My first real garden after I got married, was in 1975. We had just rented a little house
in Tyngsboro Massachusetts. It was spring and I tilled up a spot 60 X 40 in the back
yard. About that same time my dad, working as foreman of the Lowell Cemetery had
a crew of portuguese immigrants dethatching lawns. After removing all the dead grass
from a lawn they'd pile it on a dump truck and dispose of it in the cemetery dump.
One of the immigrants, Ebon Lorenzo finally took my father aside and told him… Continue

Posted on September 12, 2009 at 3:13pm — 7 Comments

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At 9:16am on November 15, 2009, Salma Kamal said…
Hi! Mcdonald.About Mughlai food.
The Muslims from western Asia brought the Mughlai cuisines to India in the 12th century when Mughal rulers conquered a large portion of India(now India and Pakistan)
During the Mughal dynasty, these dishes were prepared for the Mughal Emperors for elegant dining with dry fruits and nuts.
The Mughals brought their rich, aromatic food culture in Indo-Pakistan, which is now an important part of the Indo-Pakistan culinary culture. The Mughals have also changed the country’s cooking by merging Middle Eastern cuisine with Indo-Pakistan spices and ingredients to give the most beautiful Mughlai cuisine. The Mughal influence on Indian food is immense as these are pretty spicy and have unique fragrance. The cooking method includes lots of milk and cream with exotic spices, nuts and dried fruits to make it rich and spicy. Biryani, Korma, Palau and Pasendi are some of the famous Mughlai cuisine. The Mughlai cuisine is full of rich gravies, pilafs and non-vegetarian foods such as kebabs, along with the fruits like apricots, peaches, plums and melons.
Each of the Muslim rulers offered something or the other to make Indian food the potpourri of spice, taste, and flavor. When Babur invaded India he brought his stylish food habits such as grilled meats along with different varieties of fruits and nuts from Central Asia. His son Humayun continued this tradition and also introduced a new tradition of rice-based pilaus and using of fruits and nuts in the meat stews in India.
Marriages of Mughal rulers to several Indian Rajput princesses added a new dimension to the Mughal cuisines. The reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan marked the evolvement of bountiful dishes in Indian cuisine. In the mean time, the Nizams of Hyderabad developed Biryani as their own style of cooking, which is now considered as one of the main dishes in indo-Pakistan
At 8:07pm on November 4, 2009, Kristi Birchenough said…
Thanks E!!! Loved your pictures!!!
At 4:28pm on October 19, 2009, Maggie said…
Hi Everett, welcome to KGI.
Your garden looks fantastic, we only have a small veggie patch, we cram so much in it looks a bit like an edible patchwork quilt.
We are just starting to plant out the seedlings we grew outside through winter.
we have mild winters compared to lots of you other KGI members.
No snow here in this part of Auss!
Your blog articles are great!
 
 

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