Posted on 07/15/2016 3:20:00 PM PDT by greeneyes
Posted on 7/8/2016 3:32:57 PM by greeneyes
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So sorry to hear of your losses, but this is a really sweet idea! Very nice!
Thank You. Both of them enjoyed this one area where they could look over the property from up high so that’s where I made the garden.
We had the same storms after you, and luckily didn’t lose power for long, about 30 minutes, so that barely counts.
I love when it rains because it means I don’t have to water that day. I have enough flower beds going that I usually water something every day.
My only vegetables are two tomato plants, one Better Boy, and then a cherry tomato plant. The BB plant has a couple of small tomatoes growing. The largest is about 2-1/2 “ now. This year it doesn’t look like I will get the yield that I did last year. :(
In the perennial garden, the false sunflowers have blossomed, along with the moonbeam coreopsis, orange and pink double coneflowers, and a few phlox. In an adjacent bed, the Stokes asters are taking a break (that means I need to deadhead them), and the day lilies and obedient plants (white blossom) are still hanging in there. The stachys and monarda are blooming nicely.
Has anyone here ventured in to miniature fairy or gnome gardens? I’ve made a few, usually in small containers so that I can bring them indoors once it gets cooler. This year I added a small wheelbarrow and a square galvanized tub to my assortment of minis. I don’t know what I’ll do with them once it’s colder. They are too large to bring inside.
All in all, I’m grateful for the summer warmth and rains when they come. The flowers are beautiful! I can’t believe I get to live in the beautiful place that we call home now!
Sounds like a perfect spot!
OMG! I LOVE YOUR TAGLINE! PERFECTION!
A lot of people are having trouble with wilt this season.
It is awful.
My tomatoes are inflicted with our every-year early blight. It’s a soil-borne disease and all you can do is preventative things: keep the plants evenly moist. Mulch well. Take off the dead leaves on the bottom as soon as you see them, and spray with a copper spray (organic) or any other fungicide of your choice.
With leaf curl, that’s a BUG issue - Whiteflies carry the disease. You have to be vigilant for that and spray insecticide earlier in the season if it’s a problem in your area.
Sorry for your loss. :(
But you’ll know what t do NEXT season. Hope Springs Eternal! :)
I had a white fig yesterday that was better than anything i can remember ever eating. The skin was blotched brown over yellow like an overripe banana, and the eye was an open pool of honey. Inside was amber flesh immersed in syrup. When a fig is dead ripe even the skin is sweet. And if you get to it before a pig on the wing then you consider yourself blessed. The interesting part is that this has been my favorite fig tree all year, owing to its graceful and willowy growth habit. So you see i knew it was special before the first taste...
My compost enclosure is teeming with maggots and, further down, earthworms. My method is simple: block enclosure, first course is set into the earth. Layer of foid scraps, layet of dirt. Hat, layer of dirt, food scraps, and so on. Courses are added as needed.
The worm bins are all quite happy and my wicking method of watering them is working. Mosquitoes are a ceaseless torment when working with my worms.
My experiment of laying cardboard over my oyster shell driveway has worked out well; the weeds are dying or dead and earthworms, drawn by the cardboard, are replacing the weeds with a thick layer of castings.
Hahaha! :)
Well, it’s good that you like where you are now. Where were you before?
We have no figs, but they sound good. The sweetest we have is native American persimmons, and when ripe they are like a little bubble of jelly.
We may need to put down some cardboard in our driveway. The gravel is becoming very green with the way the weeds are growing in it.
Did someone say FIGS?
http://www.hotpaella.com/Rabitos-Royale-Fig-Bonbons.aspx
As you can see Asthma has prevented me to weed this week. I am quite surprised to have two blooms my first year.
I’ll bet that has a million carbs!!!!
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We lived in the Midwest still, only a few hours away, but it is more the type of home that we lived in. Our past homes hardly had any land at all because we were mostly in the suburbs. Now, as empty nesters, we finally have a bit more, 1-1/2 acres, and we back up to woods and a little creek. Wildlife is often around. Mostly that’s good, I love seeing the variety outside our window, and the change of seasons is particularly pretty with this view.
LOL Why isn’t it? It’s on post 52. I see it on my Garden thread on post #52. Why would it be up on my thread and not your-alls? Strange!
Sounds lovely. The sound of creek water running is very comforting. I’d have a chair and book out by the creek in the afternoons for sure.
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