On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 8:16:11 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 3:06:27 AM UTC-6, bruce bowser wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 8:20:08 PM UTC-5, US Janet wrote:
> > > On Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:38:40 -0500, Boron Elgar
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 10:36:44 -0700, Graham > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>On 2021-03-06 9:16 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > > >>> On 3/6/2021 10:57 AM, US Janet wrote:
> > > >>>> On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 09:41:34 -0500, jmcquown >
> > > >>>> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> On 3/6/2021 6:41 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > >>>>>> On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 5:37:22 AM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
> > > >>>>>>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:48:05 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>> I waited too late last year trying to catch the sales on Corned Beef
> > > >>>>>>>> Brisket. The local stores ran out. I shopped at Publix today after
> > > >>>>>>>> work (nary a soul there around 4:15 PM) and picked up two of them.
> > > >>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>> Popped them both in the stand-alone freezer. I'll wait until
> > > >>>>>>>> closer to
> > > >>>>>>>> the 17th to buy the cabbage to go with one of them. The other I will
> > > >>>>>>>> save until Fall, when Corned Beef Brisket is impossible to find.
> > > >>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> They;'ve given upon corned beef and St Patricks day here. Nobody in
> > > >>>>>>> Texas buys 35% solution added corned beef for $4-5/lb when it's
> > > >>>>>>> $1.80 pound with no added water all day long. It's our gift to
> > > >>>>>>> you.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Texas is a whole 'nother country. Flat cut brisket is $5.99/pound
> > > >>>>>> at my grocery. Corned beef (flat cut brisket) is $6.99/pound.
> > > >>>>>> Packer cut appears to be nonexistent.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>> The flat cut corned beef briskets were $3.99/lb. That's about the
> > > >>>>> best price I'll find. I've never seen anything other than the flat cut
> > > >>>>> in stores in this area.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Jill
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I got my corned beef sometime around Thanksgiving because it was a
> > > >>>> beautiful piece of meat at $3.69/lb. OTOH, fresh cabbage is about a
> > > >>>> dollar a pound now. That price probably won't get better for several
> > > >>>> months as the flooding and freezing took out the brassicas in Texas.
> > > >>>> Janet US
> > > >>>>
> > > >>> I have never seen corned beef at the stores down here in November!
> > > >>> That's why I buy two of them when I can find them. Yes, the freeze in
> > > >>> Texas might very well have a widespread affect on brassicas. I think
> > > >>> most of the produce in supermarkets around here is grown in SC, GA or FL.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Jill
> > > >>Brassicas survive wintry temperatures quite well. Indeed, in the UK it
> > > >>was traditional not to eat Brussel Sprouts until they'd gone through a
> > > >>severe frost.
> > > >
> > > >That is always recommended for sprouts around here. Cuts bitterness.
> > > >
> > > >I do not know if there is a variety that is naturally less bitter and
> > > >does not required.
> > > >
> > > >I have not grown them in years. Losing full and ready-to-harvest stems
> > > >to a groundhog, just ticked me off too much to bother.
> >
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD8...tart_radio =1
> >
> > > the stems of mine got furry with aphids and I could see I wasn't going
> > > to win that battle.
> >
> > Incredible! Some people don't like being near gardening, though. If anyone gets bitten
> > or electrocuted by an eel or something, it kinda has a repel effect from then on.
> >
> Fortunately, my garden doesn't have any eels.

I'm jaded about back yards, though. Now because of shovels, etc.., I don't care about black bears, wolves, bobcats, cougars or grizzlies. But I have been run down by bees from a beehive. Not cool. Also, America has 4 main poisonous snakes: rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths/water moccasins and coral snakes. Feeling pain from something you can't see or swing away at? No.