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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:07 pm
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Little does he realize that everything he tilled will multiply tenfold, but at least he got out the tiller! lol We went to school together. Loved hanging around when the canning was going on, until the year that my mom, aunt, and grandmother decided to make catsup! LOL!!! Actually, the fumes cleared that little hot house pretty quickly, but the catsup was good!
Sorry about rain there, hopefully that's all it is. We've got the 100+ heat indices already, and mosquitoes are awful. Rainy May has the daylilies over 5' tall and absolutely gorgeous. No tomatoes yet, they went out late because of all the rain, but they're indeterminate and will be huge. I think I may see catsup in my future.......
It's not paranoid to get ready for emergencies. They're always out there.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:36 pm
I can't imagine working our garden's without a tiller. I know some years ago we had a 30'x30' garden and two 20'x20' gardens...without a rototiller i imagine we wouldn't have bothered lol. Your friend may be better off taking a large knife and scoring off the area he wishes to remove and then using a good flat wide shovel to lift off 2x2 sections of grass and then tilling the soil underneath that instead of fighting with 2-4 inch's of heavily rootbound soil. A few years back we did some homemade catsup that was incredible but yeah the fumes were quite powerful. The tomato's are taking off quite well this year here too despite being put in late. I know we're planning to can some spaghetti sauce, applesauce/pearsauce, tomato paste, Pickling some banana pepper's and little hot pepper's as well. Tomato processing day is always a very long very hot day. Potato plants are really taking off this year. Might put up 50-100 pounds if we're lucky.
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:34 pm
Knowing him, he's probably doing exactly that. He always seems to have the perfect weapon for the job! I can't imagine that he's actually grown a real garden in years, so, yeah, he's definitely off the reservation, so to speak!
Sounds like the garden is doing wonderfully well. The all-time favorite here is dilly beans. Oh, and I guess sweet pickled peppers are a close second. For me, it's all about loading up every nook and cranny with jars of food. It has certainly been a lifesaver over the years!
I don't really store a lot of potatoes, since they're fairly inexpensive, or carrots. But we do grow lots of winter squashes to get us through the winter without a lot of work.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:55 am
I finished sewing my own summer night gown yesterday. A mix of hand and machine sewing. And a embroidered design on the front. It's was so nice to sleep in.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:44 am
Sounds wonderful. I should do that.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:29 pm
Went out to one of my parents' houses in the city to fix the little patch of 'greenery' in front of the house they were renting out.
And planted 7 conifers as a border because the neighbor was complaining about being able to see the garbage can container. *oy*
My back hurts so bad, from weeding that spot, the little plot was so HARD, I think it was mostly clay. you couldn't pull anything up by the roots unless you broke the ground with the metal rake.
It's bare now with only two lively plants that we kept and 7 new plants.
It was so hot and human today, barely able to breath.
D:
On a good point, I found two baby tomato plants growing in my yard that i moved to a better spot.
On another poor note... The trumpet vine in my yard is starting to get under my house siding, that and I found woody night shade growing over my bleeding hearts next to the trumpet vine...also...going under the siding.
Anyone know what is a good way of getting rid of the trumpet and woody night shade without hurting the bleeding hearts?
Back on a good note. I tried again with sunflowers, they're all little 2 in sprouts but I feel so much more confident this time, that they will not be eaten.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:05 am
all i've done today was get spazzed out on and worked sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:48 am
Yesterday I worked on the bricks around the firepit, brushed the collie and great pyrenees and saved their hair to practice spinning with, crocheted on a couple of projects, got the silly goat out of the fence, and watched an absolutely glorious sunset with my husband, 5 dogs, and 4 of the cats. Then went to town at 2:30 a.m. to pick up a daughter after Twilight. The sky was so beautiful, moon and stars......honeysuckle on the breeze, crickets and frogs singing, and the mockingbirds waking up! I really didn't want to go to bed.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:49 pm
Today I picked my first squash of the year heart The first fruit of my labor whee
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:56 am
Artistic Mystic Today I picked my first squash of the year heart The first fruit of my labor whee Congratulations!
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:05 pm
Hugel Too bad AOL doesn't send out those discs anymore. I could use really use them now. :/ All the thrift shops near my house are in basements. I found one while walking around when my brother was taking his clarinet lessons, but the place was so run down I didn't want to enter. I felt like I was going to break something. Hah. AOL was a browser service. Not anymore, to my knowledge, but they've re-branded as a homepage and mail thing. I can't believe anyone was ever tricked into paying subscription fees for something like that, when Internet explorer has been standard all my life. Though you did need to do something to have an always on connection.
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:27 pm
Today I picked the fourth squash from my garden (might go pick some more later this evening, there's a bunch), and went swimming with my daughter whee
While swimming, I realized that those above-ground quick-set pools are possibly one of the most wasteful things I've seen someone buy...
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:17 am
Those pools saved our lives in the heat when the kids were little! There was no way to get to the creek, the neighbor's ponds had turtles and snakes, and a public pool is still 10 miles from here.
Last night was wonderful! There were storms about 50 miles north of us. The lightning was spectacular! We finally had a decent amount of wind, the cicadas, crickets, frogs were singing----I sat out by myself for several hours and just soaked it all in. People out here were still shooting leftover big fireworks, and you could see the colors reflected in the bottoms of the nearest clouds. Stars peeked out between the clouds above me. Better than a trip to the spa!
Then something growled, and I had to go inside. LOL!
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:06 pm
Aww that sounds beautiful heart
I definitely like the little pools, but for now one of those plastic kiddie pools would work just as well for me and Lily. My mom kept one of those in our living room for me a few Summers when I was a little kid, because we were boiling and had no air conditioning.
This is one of the 12-ft.-wide by 3-ft.-tall pools with the inflatable ring around the top.. It's nice for now, but it reminded me of when I was a pre-teen and we got one of them; the thing lasted for one Summer and then the ring got ripped and the whole pool got thrown away... That's a big hunk of PVC and vinyl that's sitting in a landfill somewhere >.< Wish we'd found some way to re-use it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:48 pm
Wish I still had one of those pools today. So stinking hot, and no wind! Looked at the weatherbug once and the heat index was 121. We only keep one room fairly cool, because we run in and out for the animals all day, and it wasn't even cool in there. We had a sudden downpour last night, just pouring rain, so the sprayers for the llamas made ponds because the ground is saturated. Good for the garden, though! It was foggy earlier, but the stars are out now, and all the bugs are singing. Too bad I've already been up 20 hours! It's almost decent out there now. So what I did today was try to keep all the critters halfway cool, make a pot of gumbo, crochet, laundry, dishes, read a little. Pretty much what I do everyday, but no outside projects or driving today.
Oh yeah, and sweatdrop sweatdrop sweatdrop sweatdrop sweatdrop
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