[rightly_dividing]

I haven't seen you on here for a day or so, I thought maybe you won the Mega Millions Tuesday night and was out looking at farms. :)

Gracie, being 6mo tries to eat anything that she can get into her mouth. Maybe not eat, but chew up into a mess anyway. Around the bird feeders, uneaten seeds have grown grass about 6-8in tall and she loves to chew on it. She doesn't upchuck, so I guess she has an iron stomach. One night, after we were asleep, she sneaked onto my wife's bedside table and got her nasal spray and chewed it till it leaked and swallowed the liquid,. She upchucked 4 times the next day, the biggest time was all over me, and it was big, too. What a way to wake from a power nap; my leg feeling warm suddenly! I'm glad I was still wearing long pants then.

We have had such nice, temperate days lately. It really feels good to be outside. It also feels good to wear shorts and sandals again.

My wife is picking up some plant food today, so the babies will get some much needed adult food. My peppers are growing fast, but the maters are not. All plants are outside again getting warm sun and loving it. My ghost peppers did not enjoy the winter, I hope they recover now. I still need to plant the squish seeds and cukes and start some new ghost pepper seeds.

My dry erase board came yesterday for the kid's easel, but the chalk board ordered and shipped at the same time has not arrived. I will be busy building something again when it gets here, which tracking says will be today.

Here is a raised pallet garden. It is nicer than what I had planned to do, but you can see the potential. I did what I did because I failed to acquire pallets in time. Photo from somewhere online acquired from an email.

[Marcella]

The raised pallet garden looks like a fancy container garden.

I wasn’t posting much the past two days since I was working on the upper and lower deck during the day to do as much as I could, before engineer would get home and he could lift what I couldn’t. So, I was basically out there all day and evening.

What we did was make it easier for me to do what needed to be done so that’s where I am - gobs of transplanting to do. I could work out there three solid days and maybe it would all be done, but I can’t hold up to working 5-6 hours a day out there like I did the past couple of days. I have to put potting soil mix in many pots.

My orange tree has blossoms opening on it and it has super many buds. Smelling them gives one a concentrated smell of oranges - it’s really a strong smell. I hope I get at least one orange this season. I don’t know really anything about fruit dwarf trees. I’m hoping IT knows what to do and does it.

I have planted more tomato seed as two varieties didn’t make it through the cold and I have new type seed also planted. These are in the seed starter that works for me.

I see tiny, really tiny, bits of green in the wood planter where I planted the lettuce seed tape. It is well covered with net to keep out killers.

Today, I saw my first squirrel this spring and Prissy charged out and he started up on the fence, then back to his tree. I have a glob of black netting, a huge amount that is mixed up so much, I have to figure out how to cut it up. I made a big mistake by not cutting it in sections when it got here all nicely flattened into a long section of net. It is just a mess but I have to get that on the plants since the first squirrel wants in those plants.

Glad Gracie didn’t kill herself with the nasal spray. When Prissy was a baby, had to get all electric cords off the floor because she wanted to chew them.

[sockmonkey]

Re: Pallet Table Garden..The stacked pallets with strawberries in them..how would you anchor something like that to keep our occasional 30 mph winds with 60 mph gusts from taking it out?

[Sarajevo]

That is a nice setup. Too bad I couldn’t do that. It gets too hot here in the summer. I’ve tried plants in pots, topsy-turvy planters, hanging planters, window planters, you name it. If roots aren’t in the ground, the plants seem to whither away, regardless of how much I water them.