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Post by kenneth on Sept 15, 2024 16:12:52 GMT -6
I just can not leave some things alone. I kept thinking about transplanting okra. I remembered that 2 years ago I seen some okra plants at a nursery and they were in plastic cups just like the tomatoes. I looked around and found 2 plastic cups 3 inch in diameter. One was round and the other was square. I used starting mix and planted 2 seed per cup ( cut one out later ). After they germinated I used a water soluble fertilizer. I planted them about 14 to18 days later. The round one came out like it should.The roots were growing around just like a tomato plant does. The square one did not come out as well. I planted them about 6 inches apart expecting both of them to die. Both of them lived and I cut the one from the square cup out. It was about 6-5 when they were planted. The plant grew like it should and was just starting to show where the blooms would be and the deer eat all the leaves. This was during the second dry spell. They planted cotton behind the house. They rotate with corn,soybeans and peanuts. This is the first year they have done this. The problem is trying to guess when the ground will be warm enough to plant so you can start the seed in time.
I did try some coco coir in a peat moss cup. The okra germinated but never fully straightened up and would not grow. I did this twice and got the same same results. I will stay with the starting mix.
The test is incomplete because of the planting date. I might try again next year and try to plant them when I plant my seed.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 18, 2024 9:53:34 GMT -6
The caption below reads:
The First Supermarket Appeared on the American Landscape in 1946. Until then, where was all the food? It was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
I have a close neighbor whose name is Shirley Farmer, she is 92 years old; her husband, Henry Farmer was born in 1930, and is 94 years old. Henry keeps a sizeable and perfectly weeded garden to this day; mostly just so he can give veggies away to others all summer long. While visiting them this July, Shirley was reminiscing about the old days, back in the late 1940s, early 1950s when all of the local Mothers and young women would band together, bringing whatever tomatoes, cucumbers, snap beans, corn, potatoes, onions, cabbage, etc., and start their annual canning session to stock the Liberty Schoolhouse cellar with food, so their kids could have a good, nutritious, school lunch.
That was their "Local Lunch Program". Back then, Liberty Schoolhouse was also the Liberty Church house.
In reading our Church's history this summer, I found and made a copy of the following 70 year old document, written in 1954, explaining why the two were separated. It had nothing to do with 'separation of Church and State'.
From the document:
Before the turn of the century, (that being the Twentieth Century) white settlers had established homes in the community, later to be known as "Liberty" while it was still part of the Cherokee Nation. Since all of the people living in this area, both Indians and whites, had arrived here from more established regions, most of them were already Christians or had been brought up in Christian traditions. In general, the Cherokees were Baptists who had long held services on their own. White settlers came from varying denominational backgrounds, and at first, a nucleus was formed which then organized a General Baptist congregation which was attended by most, whether members or not.
About 1895, a new family moved into the community, that of Mr. W.S. Ghormley; a young Methodist Minister, whose daughter, Mrs. Leola Ryals, now 78 years old, still lives in the community. Under his influence the white congregation became predominantly Methodists, and a Methodist Church and Sunday School was organized. Although the Methodist organization eventually dissolved, Mr. Ghormley served the congregation faithfully as a teacher, at times as a Pastor, and most of the time as Superintendent for almost 50 years, until his death in 1942.
Only temporary meeting places were found for Sunday School and Church services until after Oklahoma became a State in 1907. About 4 years later the Liberty Schoolhouse which still stands was built, and the congregation was allowed to hold Sunday School and Church services in it.
Each Sunday morning, its cast iron bell called people to this meeting place, until the 1950s, when it became increasingly evident that a publicly-owned building, open to all sorts of activities and shenanigans, was not suitable for worship services -- one dedicated to the Lord only was badly needed.
In February, 1954, one acre of land was acquired for the purpose of building a Church. In the meantime, a constitution for an undenominational Church organization and doctrinal statement were drawn up and adopted. At last, in August of 1958, the doors of the present Church, which was named, "Liberty Grace Chapel" were opened, and dedication services were held the following April.
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