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Well if you are coming by I have space for you to drop off.
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Originally Posted by Boiler
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Well if you are coming by I have space for you to drop off.
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
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I am not short of trees, and lose an average of approximately one pine per acre per year, and hardwoods at about half that rate. |
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I didn't do what originally was planned, but did have a small patio garden for bell peppers and tomatoes and pumpkins at the mother in law's.
Haven't had much success, 2 bell peppers, and very small, and 2 or 3 tomatoes, lots of flowers but not much fruit, I think the extremely warm (for this region anyhow) and dry summer has affected the bee's and other insects who pollinate. It's unlikely the 6 pumpkins will ever ripen, the vines are dying fast. I can't keep them watered sufficiently, too warm in the day and night for healthy pumpkins. Commercial farmers of several crops are having issues as well due to the hot dry summer. |
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Ours has been the wettest in 20 years.
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112 degrees in the summer and just below freezing in winter and the mint grows fine.
lamb chops and home made mint sauce ... |
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Originally Posted by ellio
(Post 11722655)
So where are your tree house photos then?
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I spent Sunday afternoon on the 45° pitch roof over the bonus room/ garage, painting the diagonal strip of the end wall of the house above the garage, which runs all the way to the peak of the ridge of the house roof, 31ft up! :eek: Two coats of primer on siding and trim/fascia, two coats of white topcoat on the trim/fascia, and two coats of light beige on the siding. Looks very nice, if I say so myself. :thumbsup: ..... I just need to finish the high gable ends now. :(
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Originally Posted by WEBlue
(Post 11702532)
My lettuce (especially the stripped romaines) is trying hard to bolt, but I keep pinching off the little flower-heads & have kept them more-or-less leafing. It's weird, even the poor stripped Romaine stumps are producing small leaves.... I think our cooler weather than yours is to their liking.
I'm so glad someone is producing good basil!! :lol: I think your weather there to the west of us is warm enough for it. Come to think of it, I grew some decent basil when we bunked with relatives in Fairfield County on our arrival. Only one neighbor of ours has decent basil. He amends his herb garden soil to a great depth, plus the garden backs up to his house foundation so is very protected from the cool winds. Next summer I'm going to try both ideas. I miss pesto!! As for other autumn projects, the local yard sales are fantastic lately!!! :eek: People are selling some good stuff for very low prices. I've picked up 3 pieces of furniture just in the last two weekends--both need work (repairs, glue, paint, etc) so I'll have my spare winter time filled up with those projects. Also need to clean the gutters, schedule septic clear-out, and find someone to paint a few spots on the house exterior. Winter's coming! |
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I harvested the 4 pumpkins that made it. They all grew funny shaped though and can't stand upright... Bad year to try pumpkins, hopefully next year will be better.
The last couple of tomatoes are just about done, and that is it for the year, time to pack up the pots and put into storage. |
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Originally Posted by WEBlue
(Post 11743218)
Now that the summer's nearly gone, my vegetable garden, along with the flowers, has recovered a bit. Either the plants have just settled in & decided to grow well, or some bug that was eating many of them has died off, but at last I'm getting a great crop of basil, sage, tarragon. The lettuce is gone & I've not been able to sprout a second crop of it, but some of the tomatoes are producing decently--not bountifully, but decently. Now I'm busy planting a few autumn crops, and spring bulbs of course.
As for other autumn projects, the local yard sales are fantastic lately!!! :eek: People are selling some good stuff for very low prices. I've picked up 3 pieces of furniture just in the last two weekends--both need work (repairs, glue, paint, etc) so I'll have my spare winter time filled up with those projects. Also need to clean the gutters, schedule septic clear-out, and find someone to paint a few spots on the house exterior. Winter's coming! We've been hitting the yard sales, too -- lots of good finds this summer! I found a lovely framed Thai textile for $2 this weekend -- so pretty and in impeccable condition -- plus a pristine desk lamp available on the Internet for $150 for the same price. I always get withdrawal in the fall when the sales dwindle away! And in the "winter's coming" department, we are having a second oil tank installed, so we can be snowed in for two months without worrying about a delivery! |
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Oddly enough I just finished building a new vegetable garden. Started planted it yesterday.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COVlGU6UcAA9SHi.jpg Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, tarragon so far. Some seeds for carrots, beets, onions, beans and peas to go in shortly. The odd growing seasons here in Phoenix still weird me out. |
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I moved the 10'x36' sheet of black plastic again over the weekend. The first three two-week cycles have mostly done their job of cooking the weeds over 3/4 of the vegetable patch, with only a few cheeky weeds daring to reappear, and a couple of patches of wire grass. I will try to make time next weekend to dig out the handful of weeds, and the passion fruit vines, that are apparently deep-rooted enough to have avoided being cooked by the heat under the plastic.
All I need now is a few strategically placed garden fires between now and the year end to finish off the wire grass, :fingerscrossed: and I should be in good shape to plant vegetables next year for the first time in four years. ...... After I have dug-in dump truck of manure. :) |
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11743459)
I moved the 10'x36' sheet of black plastic again over the weekend. The first three two-week cycles have mostly done their job of cooking the weeds over 3/4 of the vegetable patch, with only a few cheeky weeds daring to reappear, and a couple of patches of wire grass. I will try to make time next weekend to dig out the handful of weeds, and the passion fruit vines, that are apparently deep-rooted enough to have avoided being cooked by the heat under the plastic.
All I need now is a few strategically placed garden fires between now and the year end to finish off the wire grass, :fingerscrossed: and I should be in good shape to plant vegetables next year for the first time in four years. ...... After I have dug-in dump truck of manure. :) I should have gone ahead with a couple of rubbish bags 2 weeks ago when we were cursing the heat. Bother! |
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So instead of putting my feet up after dinner, I have spent the evening in the attic, and outside up an extension ladder threading new coax cable to the data modem/wifi router. :(
At the moment there is still a coax connection in the attic, but another day I might trying to pull the coax down through the wall to where the modem is connected. :unsure: Anyhow, the new cable seems to have improved the data speed and enabled the TV to load Netflix again, which it has struggled to do for several weeks. :thumbsup: |
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