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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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I got the email, and replied to the Major. He WILL get five, including one for himself.
And "see ya later..."
Time to go to work.
Good morning happy campers!
Good morning happy campers!!! < /sarcasm >
Looking on the bright side- it's a great day! (It's too early for someone to have ruined it.)
My buddy Pete goes by Pchan.
On the other hand it's early enough to think up new deviltries. Hehehe...
Oh I will download it as it comes out and then wait to watch it until there are 15 or 20. once I start on a series I like I prefer to have plenty on hand to really burn the addiction in :P
ug, back to work after a week off... I hope I can remember what I was doing... *crawls off to the shower*
What a great way to start the day!
Good morning!
Good morning! Man...morning came awfully early today.
I'm so behind here I don't know that I'll bother to catch up...it's so much more intimidating going 50 posts at a time instead of a hundred, too! Grrr...
Watched "The Mummy" with my brothers last night. Hadn't seen that before. Entertaining in an Indiana Jones-ish sorta way.
Good morning!
Well, we picked maters yesterday...and put by 13 pints of sauce! We had an (admittedly small) wheel barrow full of them! I'll post pics here after the jedis get up.
Also picked our first habanero pepper. Steve had a small nibble, didn't chew it, just put it in his mouth for a minute. Had to take it out! He coughed and choked for about 15 minutes!
Our bush is loaded with them...three more should come ripe today!
My 'maters are really sad. The one tomato holder thingie I had didn't work well (will NOT stay in the ground, no matter what I do!), and the plant is falling over, though I'm doing my best to prop it. And that's the one plant I had left. The other one died.
I do have one cherry tomato plant, and that's doing well, but it's not like I get enough 'maters off of it to be worth anything. It's mostly just decorative.
Maybe next year! And I'd love to have peppers...don't think I could handle habaneros, but jalapenos or something similar would be nice!
Every year, the birds would get our maters! Peck holes in them that would ruin them before we could pick them!
This year we put that big frame over them with bird netting. The jedis could only fit in there to get the tomatoes, which they loved. Got a bumper crop!
Our biggest blow was the gophers got two of our largest tomato plants...sheered them off at the base of the stem, consuming the root ball, even though we'd wrapped the root ball in steel wool...it musta absorbed into the ground. Next year we're gonna make cones of hardware cloth and try planting our big plants like the maters and our squash and cabbage in those.
I think I'm gonna do the square foot garden thing next year...I'm assuming I'll need to put something behind the back row for the taller plants to climb / be staked to.
How do you normally stake plants? I'm afraid of breaking them!
Get "The Square Foot Garden" by...somebody Bartholomew. He tells you how to get started and all kinds of tricks...
Get it soon and you can read and plan all winter!
Biggest problem we have, even during the winter is cabbage loopers getting on our leafy veggies. Yuck, you just can't get them off and if I see one I get sick thinking I mighta missed one. So Steve is going to make a screened box to plant my lettuce and spinach in this year...
I did pick up a used copy. Haven't really sat down with it, though...it sounds complicated at first glance, but I think I just need to read it. I'm also worrying about how to get the materials and put it together on the cheap. I think probably cinderblocks for the outside of the frame (I can get a good price on those, I think), but not sure how to do the internal dividers.
I'm still having trouble picturing it, though. I mean...my tomato plant is half DEAD, but I'm sure it takes up more than a food. And the zucchini plants are HUGH! Dunno how they'll work in something like that.
You allow for it...he'll tell you (in the book somewhere) how many square feet about each plant will need. And you trim back, too...if you're limited on space. We're not, so we just give the maters all the space they want. We had 4 plants crowded into a 5x10' bed.
And you don't really need dividers...you can just mark them out in the dirt while you're planting. We use a milk crate...one of those plastic box-like jobbers. It's about a square foot. We push it into the dirt to make an indention, then plant inside it.
Hard to describe...again, I wish I lived near ya!
Good morning all! I have to work this morning, ecurbh has today off.... Today when I get home we are going to figure out a way to block off most of the yard from the pets so we can Weed-n-Feed.
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