Hey everyone. This is JackieMarie Beyer. Your hosts here to help inspire you on your journey to create, grow, and enjoy a green, organic oasis. So let’s get growing.

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JackieMarie

Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden. It is Saturday, September 18th, 2021. And I am back on the line with my cohost Aileen Catrone our golden listener of 2020, who inspires all of us and just is so amazing. And welcome to the show Aileen!

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Aileen

Jackie, thank you.

4m 24s

JackieMarie

You’re going to come up with like a special intro for just for our Soil Sistas Saturday. How’s it going in New Jersey today? We’re going to get rain. What are you guys getting?

4m 34s

Aileen

Oh, listen, this rain has to go away. It’s been nothing but rain here. Very Misty, very humid. It’s it’s been terrible. It’s terrible for the garden because I’m totally, my challenge, this couple of weeks has been powdery, mildew and blight all over the place. So I’ve been trying to keep up with it, take the leaves off, destroyed them. But Yes, it’s on the squash. It’s on the cucumber that I have this mosaic. I mean, things that I’ve read about and seen, I think I have every kind of fungus and I’m just hoping it’s not bacteria.

5m 21s

Aileen

A lot of things. I mean, I think blight might be a bedtime, not a hundred percent, but it’s really taken a toll on this garden because it has been so wet, so humid and so windy at times. So it just spreads like wildfire through the garden. So I’m going to have to turn over some things cause they can put the fall vegetables and all the things I’ve been growing in this mess, you know? So I’m going to have to do some overhauling, so we’ll have to get, that’s definitely going to be my challenge in the next couple of weeks.

5m 57s

JackieMarie

And how about you over there? We have had just the most beautiful weather and then it’s going to rain today. But rain for us usually means it’s cleaning everything. Plus we had our first frost yesterday, almost 32 the other day. And then it got down to 30. So what does it say Saturday? So Friday, Thursday night, Friday morning, it got down to 30, but we had gone and put row cover down. So that saved pretty much everything. And we are just in harvest central. I mean, Mike has canned 30 something quarts of pickles.

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JackieMarie

Plus we still have two comers coming at our kazoo. We gave him money to my Mike stepson and his wife to can like a whole five gallon bucket full I just like five gallon bucket full of our own. Now I think he did say pretty much the cucumbers are done. Like he’s gotten everything that’s down there, but I don’t know. Every time I go down, like I think there’s no more because I planted a couple of cucumbers for that lady that I was doing that landscaping kind of garden job for in they’re planted in my house. Cause she’s still not into her property. And I thought I had gotten all the slicing cucumbers off. The one point I go down there the other day and they’re six inches long, beautiful, perfect slicing cucumbers that I never saw grow.

7m 26s

JackieMarie

Never saw them start. And all of a sudden I’m harvesting them such as her. Those yesterday took her a bunch of celery, which has been fun to grow like fresh homegirl and celery is a completely different thing from the store. Now my stocks aren’t getting as big as they could be, but that’s probably more me not tending and not picking them enough. I think if I was harvesting more along the lines, they would be doing good, but I brought her a bunch of celery, my kale, you know, how he covered the kale with the row cover finally. So I wouldn’t get the bugs in there growing. And somehow some bugs got in there. Like I think I lifted it off one night and then I covered it and the bugs were in there.

8m 9s

JackieMarie

And so Mike Hill is like the worst it’s ever been. Like I could barely pick her 12 pieces of kale yesterday that did not have bug bites in it. And especially she wants the curly kale, which I don’t need at all. And I could only find like two leaves that weren’t just covered. And I didn’t want to bring her that. Cause even though I’ll eat them with the bow, I don’t care. But I think she, I didn’t want to bring her those, but I brought her like, we have so many pepper I’m going to make salsa today. I started cutting up the tomatoes. I made three, I mean two giant batches of tomato sauce this week, which came out to two court size, canning jars and two smaller ones that made a court because I was at a court charge.

8m 50s

JackieMarie

And then they ended up making that into the zucchini, lasagna and used it all, any frozen, but I still have tons of tomatoes and a majority of my harvest has not turned red yet. And I’m so worried. Cause I have these, I have like these monster Roma tomatoes, like you’ve never the, the Roman tomatoes I grew last year, but like the size of my, like a fat pinky, these ones are like the size of my fist. They are just huge. And there’s so many of them and they’re just starting to turn red and I’m like, oh, please don’t let it frost and kill them. But

9m 25s

Aileen

Yeah. Did you cut the tops off that Susan Susan’s in the garden if you’ve ever heard of her, Susan’s in the garden. She’s out in Washington state. I think she said like, if you wanted your tomatoes to ripe in quicker, like cut off all of the growth above the tomatoes so that the plant will put all the energy into the tomato to ripen it.

9m 55s

JackieMarie

Oh, I’m going to go through that today.

9m 57s

Aileen

Yeah. Susan, Susan, a garden or something that she’s she’s has a book out too on pest control, like natural. Yeah. So maybe that could help you. Cause if they’re nice and green and big, oh they just need to write then on that bond.

10m 13s

JackieMarie

I mean, some of them are, I go down and pick like five every day, but there’s probably 150 tomatoes down there. I mean, they are just not like these plants produce. They’re like, you know, knocking the cages over, they’re falling over. And then Mike also planted those Oregon spring, slicing tomatoes and we’ve been picking them like crazy and they are huge. I mean, they’re just huge. They’re tasty. They’re like, they’re almost like overripe or you can’t slice them because there’s so much you, but I’m putting those in the shots. I mean, we eat a tomato sandwich every day, both of us and just, we are just like tomato production, the pepper production. So I’m going to make my salon. I finally went into town and bought cilantro last.

10m 54s

JackieMarie

And when I went and got my car, I went and got cilantro. I cannot, I don’t know, probably Should have put more. I should have tried more seeds, you know, like I probably planted seeds at one point. And then like, I think it grew when I harvested it and then I didn’t grow more and I’m not like, yeah, I’m not on top of like the other groups. Like, was I telling you this? Or was I telling me mom? So that woman that I’m doing the landscaping project for, I finally brought her, oh, I was telling you I brought her to the food, but I also finally brought her, her herbs in her pots to put on her porch at her rental. And just like in the car yesterday, it smelled so good the time.

11m 36s

JackieMarie

And the men, those herbs are like incredible. They are threat my, or all my other herbs except for the Santo or thriving, whether I put them for her or for me, my Rosemary and my Sage. I mean, we see just, just growing incredibly from these little itty-bitty plants that I bought there. See, I love shooting Mint. You know, when some pods for, you know, Bazell I did find it. It was funny when I dug the plants out, there was a mirror gold or some fennel or something in a pot. And when I pushed it back, there was this little beasel point in there and I’m surprised it didn’t freeze.

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JackieMarie

The only thing I think that kept it from freezing. It did look like it might add some spots, but I keep my bees on the house. I was going to bring her one of my B-cells on my window sill. And I was like carrying it around the house and they put it on shelf and then I walked out of the house without it. But yeah, so, so that’s where I’m at. I am just in the middle of like Sosa and to meet us, us, like getting these tomatoes process. And then I also like have picked all the plums. I got to do something with my poems. I have a huge basket of plums.

12m 48s

Aileen

Oh, how nice plunge, what is it? Plum jam or maybe plum ice cream.

12m 52s

JackieMarie

It’s incredible plum salsa recipe last year on dealer.com. And I’m going to make that

12m 60s

Aileen

You can grill plums too and put them on a salad. Like you do watermelon.

13m 5s

JackieMarie

Really? That sounds good. What was I going to? There’s this restaurant in town, a coal-fired slice pizza that puts they, they, what do they, what is it when you put, they put fish in balsamic vinegar, what’s it called? Marinading or the summary, but anyway, and they are so good. And I was wondering, could I do that with the plunge?

13m 27s

Aileen

Yes. Why not?

13m 29s

JackieMarie

In balsamic vinegar, but let me tell you, they are so good. And on pizza beside you would think is weird, but there they meet this.

13m 38s

Aileen

Well, what have you been cooking? So you’ve been canning and you haven’t been making anything.

13m 43s

JackieMarie

Oh, I leave the tomato sauce. So I’m putting that on everything. And I meet another, a couple of zucchini. Lasagna is to freeze, but then I just keep ending up eating them. Like when I make the tomato sauce, there’s always like this extra, like the liquid, the broth. And then even when I make the lasagna, if there’s like extra liquid broth, I like pour that in a jar. And then like, I’ll make like what I’m making sheep or something bottom of the pan. And it’s just so full of flavor and just put the spices in there. So that’s what I’m looking. What have you been cooking?

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Aileen

What Rob has been cooking because we have a fig tree and we’ve been picking figs and he saw you saw some of the pictures I posted on Facebook on

14m 30s

JackieMarie

Tree’s doing great. She said, she’s harvesting like 10 figs a day.

14m 34s

Aileen

Yes. And Robbie makes, he slices them. He puts them with presumed on a flour tortilla with olive oil and you could throw some goat cheese on it. And you know, if you like onions, I like onion. So he throws red onions or whatever onions. And he puts it in the oven. All my goodness. Is it so delicious? It is out of this world, a little bit of salt and pepper and you’re good to go. You don’t even need the salt because the pre-suit has on salt, but it’s delicious. And we eat that as soon as those big start, that’s it. We start slicing, we eat them like we eat potato chips. So it’s really

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JackieMarie

Easier for

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Aileen

You. I’ll definitely, definitely. It’s delicious. Just delicious. And what has he’s made, you know, he’ll make a kale, like, you know, if we have some leftover kale, Swiss chard, which is, you know, there’s a little spots in the garden and obviously the Bazell, he puts it all together and he’ll make a pesto and throw walnuts in there and make a nice pesto. So that’s what we’ve been eating, like, you know, fake pizzas and pesto really good, really helped, you know, yummy, yummy, really healthy. Other than that, that’s it?

15m 53s

Aileen

That powdery mildew. And what

15m 55s

JackieMarie

Do you put in on postdoc

15m 58s

Aileen

By the Knicks? Yeah. With macaroni. Yeah. Yes. That said, he’ll just put it in macaroni. You know, he could stop tomatoes, but you know, you get stuffed peppers or tomato and I speak to Medo if you hollow it out a little bit and stuff, but with some pesto also put it in the oven. You go, you can put a piece of cheese on top and melt it. Delicious, delicious.

16m 22s

JackieMarie

So what do you do? So like your fall step that you planted is in your greenhouse.

16m 27s

Aileen

Yeah. It’s in the sunroom. So I haven’t planted any of them yet.

16m 32s

JackieMarie

Are they grown? Are they

16m 33s

Aileen

Like, oh my God, I’m going to post pictures after this. I’m going to post some pictures on the Facebook page. They are growing really nicely. So I’m very happy. I have a lot of sunflowers. I mean, not an abundance, not like I did, like last year, they know, I mean, in the first season now citizens in the spring and summer season, now it’s going to be the fall and winter season. I did less. So just for the fall season, cabbage cauliflower, bok choy, tatsoi beets, Swiss, chard onions. I did a little bit more Bazell to keep in the house. Kale led this lettuces.

17m 14s

Aileen

There’s something called Celtis, which is a lettuce and a celery. So I’m excited to try that, you know, it’s growing. So I’m hopefully survives, you know, when I put it out in the garden, but like I have to really vamp revamped the garden because of this powdery mildew and this

17m 33s

JackieMarie

Not what’s your plan for revamping the garden? Is it in the bales or it’s in those buckets with the dirt or the things you mean?

17m 43s

Aileen

Yeah, since it’s, it’s blowing on top like that powdery mildew, because it’s been so humid, we’re going to get a couple of cool days coming. I think fall’s going to start probably by the end of the month, just get some cooler days here. I mean, there could always be a chance of that Indian summer that they say, but I’m going to turn over all those straw bales. I still have some, a plant growing, you know, I’ll put some posts, some pictures

18m 9s

JackieMarie

And eggplant the other day. And I haven’t sitting in the kitchen and it’s like, it’s like thriving in the kitchen. It was double the egg points. They were like little mini there’s, three, eight points on it. And they were like anybody mini and they’re like six inches long already.

18m 23s

Aileen

Oh my God, I love da clan too. Cleanse growing. I mean, I keep, I have like bleed Beatles, anything that you, that they earn those books about, or people talk about parody about blight, plead builders, mosaic just it’s in my garden because we grow organically. Like we don’t use any, like, I mean, I’m using like baking soda and peroxide and wa you know what I mean? Really a little dish. So peppermint oil, I mean, we’re not using anything harsh that will harm, you know, harm our bodies. So it’s really hard to manage, but you know, I’m managing it. How’s that I’m managing it.

19m 4s

Aileen

All

19m 4s

JackieMarie

Right. Flip the straw bales

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Aileen

Over. Yes. I’m going to, I’m going to, that’s what, that’s the plan. So hopefully they don’t pull apart. And if they do that, I’m just going to probably make some new beds and throw some new composted dirt and like mix it in there, you know, and then put the fall vegetables in there and make sure I have a nice sturdy like cage on top or a roll covers to hold up nicely because when it does get frosty, so I’m hoping, so let’s see what, how it works out. I’ll I’ll definitely post pictures of it. I Def I have pumpkins. I have two pumpkin’s growing, which is really nice. I have one or two. Yeah, this is really cool.

19m 46s

Aileen

And I have one, one baby sugar, sugar, baby watermelon, one, all the watermelon seeds that I planted. But at least it’s one, you know,

19m 60s

JackieMarie

But it’s getting big.

20m 1s

Aileen

Well, no, it’s, it’s very tiny. It’s like the size of my hand or something. So yeah. So we’ll each get one little bite of it. What else was I shoot the one-on-one’s the pumpkin’s that’s you know, just, oh, I have a cantaloupe. No, the one with the, with the, the outside of the fruit is like, looks like straw a little bit. Is that cantaloupe? It’s got like Maney it feels like rough. Okay. I have one cantaloupe

20m 42s

JackieMarie

Appointed a cantaloupe and watermelon and the plants like just didn’t do anything wildly flowered, but then I don’t, I don’t think there’s anything down. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing down there. I guess I haven’t really looked closely lately, man.

20m 56s

Aileen

I got one cat, a little bit of all the cantaloupe seeds. So at least I got one though. And know what it looks like, how it grows, how it finishes growing, because now it just literally fell off the vine. So, which is cool because it’s, you know, got brown and you know what I mean? It looks, and it’s in both my hands. It’s as big as both my hands together. So, which is nice. But at least That is too funny. It is funny. And I got some cucumbers. I’m not crazy about cucumbers, but we have some for salad, which is nice. That’s fine. I mean, I, at least I got some I, whatever.

21m 37s

Aileen

I grew, at least I got something. The only thing is the artichoke is the challenge. I think we talked about that in the beginning of soil, sisters, that the artichokes are coming back. Now, the plants, I thought they died, but I think they like cooler weather anyway, for the actual plant to grow, not the fruit yet the flower, but just the plant to grow. And I started those from seeds and everything that I’ve done in the garden. All those pictures online are all from seeds, narrow goals,

22m 6s

JackieMarie

Golden thumb for growing from scene.

22m 10s

Aileen

Yes. And I, I think I could mark it on that somehow. Right?

22m 13s

JackieMarie

You totally think you can.

22m 17s

Aileen

I don’t know what ha there’s something about the way that it could be the angle of the house, where the sun comes in, that my setup,

22m 26s

JackieMarie

I think your dedication to caring for them and nurturing them, the nursing, which is where I slack. It’s like what? I watered them yesterday. You want me to water them again? It’s like, you never want.

22m 41s

Aileen

And I talked to them and I have music for them,

22m 46s

JackieMarie

Whereas I’m like, sure. I put the seed in the ground today. Let me come back next week. Things like next year, like my big thing I keep thinking about is what I’m going to do different next year. Like, you know how this year, my goal was like, zinnias mirror gold. Snapdragons so I’m so like, my zinnias are blooming and they’re coming on like crazy, but I could have lost them and I can lose them any day. And so next year I’m not going to do, I’m not going to focus on Z as much as I think I’m going to focus on equities. Yes. Cause one piece will come back more. They bloomed earlier. The bees love them.

23m 26s

JackieMarie

I can spread them out. And they’re I think just as pretty as the zinnias. And so from going to go to all that trouble, I’m that’s my new focus is next year. I think I’m going to focus more on equity is definitely the marigolds. Again, they were, I mean, my miracle plants, some of them are show you. You never saw they’re like a Bush almost as tall as I am, or maybe not almost as tall, but they like they arches monsters. Can I get my gold this year? Yes. Snapdragons also along with the zinnias they are coming on, but I’m just disappointed. I don’t know if I bought the wrong seed types. So the shorter, smaller, they are doing much better.

24m 7s

JackieMarie

I mean, I can’t believe how much stuff has grown in the last week because of our weather. Like things seem to really like this cooler things are growing like two, three inches a day. My plants are just getting really big, but I just, you know, we could lose. I mean, last year we had our killer frost, September 8th and what are we the 18th? So 10 days later, wow. All this stuff I would have lost already. So that was one of my big takeaways is that, and the boy was like, while he was waiting for you to get on the call, he was looking through my journal. I was like, when did I plant these zinnias? Because I had last year, I had put them in the ground, outside September or June 21st. And I, and they just started blooming right before the frost.

24m 49s

JackieMarie

I remember being like this year, I’m going to plant them a month earlier. And so I looked and I planned them. The seeds May 18th indoors. And so they had a whole extra month. And yet here I am still in the same position. They just started blooming the first week in September, I’m going to lose them. So I am happy with the SunPower thing. I’m trying to figure out how now might be. Question is how do I shell all these edible sunflowers that might grew for me? And that I grew like, even if I was just going to take care of the ones that I grew, which I probably have 75, at least. And then he has probably, it’s so funny.

25m 30s

JackieMarie

He’s like, he’ll come up and he’ll be like sunflower, number 32 bloom today, sometimes 275 balloons today. Like he planted a watt. And so now we’ve got to figure out how to, I need to go down and harvest them. Like I think we both decided that as soon as they fall over is a good time to harvest them. So they’re ready to harvest. They’ve almost all gone to see, but now I’m trying to cause like everything I find online is like, do it a half a cup at a time at a time I’m going to do, but it does sound pretty cool and pretty easy. They say like, you take a half a cup of sunflower seeds, put them in a plastic bag, rollover it with a rolling pin gently. So the seeds break, put them in a thing of water.

26m 12s

JackieMarie

And the shells supposedly are going to rise to the top of the water and I’m going to pull up and the seeds are all going to be on the bottom. So that, it sounds pretty easy to do, but I’m going to have like, you know, hundreds of cups and like I’ll have to like do that all. It’ll be all winter long before. So I have to find some kind of like bulk showing process, but I’m pretty excited. Like I grew enough sunflower seeds for me to eat the summer, which, like I said, I put them on all my, you know, this dream to grow some flowers.

26m 49s

Aileen

What about a big like screening bucket? Like it just a bucket with, I don’t know about that water thing, but like a bucket with a screen on top and like, if you brush the other side of the sunflower where the seeds are, if you brush it on there with it fall through like a bigger screen hole and go into the bucket.

27m 11s

JackieMarie

I have like no idea. Hm. I have a lot to do, like get myself down there and go cut these things off their stones.

27m 20s

Aileen

Yeah. Are you supposed to wait until they turn like a beigey color? Like not green, it’s supposed to be beige. I thought I saw something like that. You wait till the back of the sunflower is a beige color

27m 33s

JackieMarie

That way. Like we’re both feeling like a lot of them are like bending over where they’re touching the ground and more afraid they’re going to mold you to get down there and get them. Cause I don’t want them to mold on the ground and we don’t want the birds to eat them. And the ones that we have picked and brought in seemed to be just straight. So my thing, so that’s been my, what about you? Do you have any things that you’re like, oh, this was my goal and I didn’t or lessons?

27m 60s

Aileen

Yeah, let’s see. I don’t, I I’m just sleeping

28m 6s

JackieMarie

Well you have time for the next week to think about that. I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Like, as I look at my zinnias, because like, you know, I’ll go down and pick a boquet and like the first couple that were only like one at a time, and now I’m getting like four or five at a time, but there’s still so many blooms on there and I’m like, man, I’m always all these zinnias after I went through all this trouble to grow them and now their just gonna freeze.

28m 28s

Aileen

Yeah, I, the marigolds are my favorite. Jackie, the Miracles, I think I will continue and I will do more colors of them, you know, reds. I just, I love the smell. They look so pretty the greenery. It’s just, I love the marigolds. Sunflowers, I’m definitely going to do more sunflowers. Yeah, definitely 100% going to do more sunflowers. I want them in every bed! Like I want, and I want to make sure of the Marigold sunflowers and I do want to do some more time or herby stuff, like you said, more echinacea, I want to get that like that little thing going of just like more herbs too.

29m 11s

Aileen

That’s definitely my goal for next year. More herbs. Definitely.

29m 14s

JackieMarie

Well, I’m pretty good on the herbs, but I want to fix the flower thing. Like my fear that the one thing the basil’s are starting to come on too. Like I planted that basil for pollinator border and they’re starting to flower and like, they were supposed to be for bouquets. And now we have like, I’m disappointed with the results we had in the basil, but at least they’re finally starting to like bloom. Like part of it was supposed to be, they’re supposed to be really good for the bees and the pollinators and whatnot. And so there just I wanted to pick them the other day to put in the bouquet. Cause I brought up, I went down and like, got all these ideas. I was like, well, I’m picking them all. But in case they freeze tonight and, and also they need pick because then so the other ones will bloom, but I saw there’s some basil there, but I was just disappointed, but it’s like this red basil.

30m 4s

Aileen

Oh, nice.

30m 6s

JackieMarie

Beautiful blooms. But there’s just not as much. So I’m hoping we’re going to do, but I mean, they bought enough basil to last us for 10 years lots of seeds.

30m 14s

Aileen

Oh wow. The nasturtiums that’s the other thing they’re e starting to grow again. They’re coming back to the nasturtiums. They really had a hard time.

30m 27s

JackieMarie

We did not get the nasturtiums we usually do like them, but they weren’t I mean, I have like six nasturtiums. Like they seem to in the places where they’re finally coming on now, they didn’t like that hot July, I think.

30m 49s

Aileen

No, no, it was really hot and humid here. Like crazy, very wet, very wet, which is not good. It’s not good. It brings a lot of diseases. So let’s see what happens next year. I make it a little better, you know, and this is my first season. So now I’m going to go into my second season,

31m 8s

JackieMarie

You rocked this season! You’re so amazing and the seeds that girl!

31m 14s

Aileen

Thank you so much for all your help and all your guests that you’ve had on your show and hope continues. I can say really, we, we really learned from that, you know!

31m 24s

JackieMarie

I had a call this week with this guy who he like does this thing where he gets sponsors for podcasters. And what he does is he puts your podcasts with like some other people’s podcasts so that he can go to the sponsor and be like, look, we can get you, you know, a million downloads by combining these six podcasts together, whatever that are like, she’s like, we’re just starting to breathe. He’s like, he wanted me with some others they’re approaching to do like a health and wellness to reach out, to help him. He’s like an adventure sports. Not on he’s like give me some time, but he sounds like he’s gonna get me the sponsors. So great.

32m 2s

Aileen

Nice.

32m 2s

JackieMarie

And so I’m kind of getting ready. Like I drew that picture of my computer at the beginning of the summer of it like biting me. Like I just I have not been able to like hardly stand, like just the thought of opening my computer, just gave me the chills of summer, but I’m getting ready to get back into full mode. I have a few interviews. I recorded. The people are going to be excited that I haven’t released yet. And, and then I’m ready to go back into, and the job kind of helps me in some ways, because it keeps me, it kinda like makes me like, you know, nail down a schedule. This was the first week I really like put into my calendar. This is what I’m every day more like, it almost makes me be more productive.

32m 47s

JackieMarie

Yeah. It just kind of like gets me more focused and like, well you have to have you, can’t just be like, oh, I’m going to do that on Thursday, and Thursday comes and you freak out because when you find something else, because you know, and I’m only working Saturday, Sunday, Monday. So I like him. Then the other big thing I’ve learned is like, remember I was talking about doing those salad jars, like a food truck with like wraps. Like that’s kind of based on like a lettuce salad mode, stuff like salad and restaurant. Like we throw away these people, we waste so much money on things. They can’t like, it goes bad so easily. Like you got to figure out, like, I keep telling them, I’m like, you should try these jars thing.

33m 27s

JackieMarie

It made my salad last longer. But also she puts different stuff at like, I don’t know, just like I’ve learned a lot there about the whole salad thing, like how much, which they let me take home to put my compost pile, which is great. But it just seems like such a waste. Like how much salad, how bad it looks, how brown it gets, like how I’m like really do you want me to put this out to the customers? Because that’s one of the things I do get to do there is I make the salads for everybody, which is fun, I was all day long.

33m 55s

Aileen

And your lettuce, your lettuces for the salad. You’re not cutting them with a metal knife, right? That there is something that happens. The oxidation of the lettuces, touching the metal nines. Look it up Jackie, because there’s something

34m 13s

JackieMarie

I don’t, we don’t cut the lettuce. It comes pre-chopped. All it does is spinach that we put in is because the spinach goes bad so fast. And then it turns, and then the chef, he told me it’s the carrots cause they make like this blend, it’s like the lettuce, like a romaine lettuce type mix, spinach, red cabbage, green cabbage and carrots. And he said, so then we started putting the carrots, like in a separate thing. And we only had the carrots when we make like a small batch. Like there’s like the big container in the walk in. And then there’s two small containers in the fridge. And I probably make about maybe not a dozen salads a day. What about that?

34m 54s

JackieMarie

Somewhere in there about 10, probably salads day for customers. Some days I’ll make six in an hour. Like you never know. And so that’s where it’s like, you know, we were trying to, you know, when everything’s like slowing down now that’s after Labor Day. So trying to like gauge how much salad should we make. Like when I first started there, we would make like enough for like 25 salads a day, beginning of August. And we were making this huge thing and we weren’t having the problem. But now that things have slowed down. Yeah.

35m 21s

Aileen

And then I need to add more kale and more kale instead of spinach.

35m 26s

JackieMarie

Yeah. That’s a good idea. They don’t use kale

35m 29s

Aileen

Add more kale. Yeah. Lighten up on the spinach. You know what I mean? More kale, things that are more hardy, you know, it’s also also, it could be the variety of the, the romaine or the salad, you know, the lettuce that they’re using, those red leaf lettuces. I’m not crazy. Cause they’re very soft and they wilt, they’re like spinach, they get a little bit too much moisture and then they start to go back sooner, you know?

35m 56s

JackieMarie

Yep. Nope. They don’t buy any of that. I’m pretty sure it’s like romaine. I don’t know. It just comes in a bag and it’s not labeled because they buy from like the big bulk and there’s like a box and there’s like 12 vacuum sealed bags. But as soon as you open that bag it just doesn’t last. Like almost sometimes I feel like 24 hours and it’s, not a salad, I’d want to pay for. You know? I don’t think they want to serve it either, but at the same time they can’t throw away every single thing because you know, so it’s like running that balance anyway. So that’s one of the big lessons I’ve learned there. Anyway, you probably gotta go. I gotta go. Thank you so much for sharing.

36m 36s

JackieMarie

I love you my GFF, garden friend forever. And I’m waving at you and,

36m 42s

Aileen

Me too! And I will post pictures. I’ll post pictures,

36m 45s

JackieMarie

And you’re gonna post on Instagram too. Right? Where the seeedlings are right?

36m 49s

Aileen

I can try. Yeah, I can try.

36m 52s

JackieMarie

Cause I find myself on Instagram. Well, and for me, like if I post it on Instagram, there’s like a little button on the bottom that lets me send it right to my Facebook page. Do you do that so you only have to post it once anyway.

37m 5s

Aileen

All right. Say hi to Mike.

37m 8s

JackieMarie

Okay. Bye.

37m 8s

Aileen

All right, take care. Bye.

37m 12s

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