Posted on 11/04/2016 12:14:20 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Nice pictures as always. Those mushrooms look fantastic.
I love the look of vetch. Thanks for sharing.
Nice looking. Good thing you posted this. I forgot I bought some shitake mushrooms too dehydrate - need to write a note to get that started first thing tomorrow.
Thanks for the prayers. I have tomato flowers. I’ll probably cut off those branches and stick them in a bucket to root and bring indoors the night before the first frost.
Mrs SLB and I took our grandson on a tour of The Hermitage last week. The gardens still looked decent, with lots of herbs still going gangbusters. Also went to the Nashville zoo and enjoyed the gardens adjacent to the farmhouse. Got some ideas for a potting bench that she has been after me to build for her.
Hauled about 75 bushels of leaves to our garden and used the mower on them this past Saturday. Will go ahead and run the tiller over them some night this week after I get home if it is light enough. Started splitting next years supply of firewood yesterday. Like to have it done 8 to 12 months out so it cures nicely.
We have gotten lazy about using the fireplace. Still have a big stock of wood from 2 years ago.
Nice. Thanks for the pics. I just got a handful of cherry tomatoes on Sunday. This weather won’t last much longer, so those will soon be history too. Had a few more persimmons. Almost all are gone except the ones very high up.
I love persimmons but have to buy them here while they grow well just a few miles inland although I see a neighbor up the street has a tree loaded with them. Our town set a knew high temp for this day at 71 degrees.(that’s earthquake weather)
Prayers for your sister now.
Prayers for all as you all care for her and support one another also.
It’s been a big week for us. No gardening to speak of. I’ve possibly been posting about it too often but going to share again. Our 2nd oldest granddaughter graduated from her USAF boot camp last week. Ceremonies last Thurs and Fri and she had daytime leave on Sat and Sun. So we went down to San Antonio Wed nite and stayed till Sun evening. I cried at both ceremonies, so proud of her. Made sure I took down some of her fave foods :) it’s what Grannies do.
We’ve had trouble being able to leave home since adopting a dumped-in-the-country kitten nearly 2 years ago. Our 2 dogs have always liked “spa time” as our local vet is a cousin of mine and the mutts like being around him. The cat, not so much. But we found a pet sitter this time to come to our house to make sure they were fed, watered and cared for :) That was a blessing and we will definitely use her services again. And she was willing to water plants if need be. But, we had rain!!!
Sunday’s drive home was in hard driving rain and we’ve had a bit over 4” in our rain gauge cumulatively since last Friday. Yay! Only garden related thing I’ve done since coming home is dump water from saucers and smush snails.
God bless and I hope you are all doing well with the election as history now.
Oh, and I forgot to mention another blessing. Our daughter from Alabama surprised us all by coming over for the graduation. She stayed Sun thru Tues with me and hubby as added special time. Had ripe tomatoes and lots of peppers to share with her too. I’m a happy woman this week.
I’m also in central Texas, still getting tomatoes, lots of peppers and the occasional cuke. Loving this weather, lots of green tomatoes still on the vine and no freeze in my 15 day forecast :)
I love that Christmas decor!!! Hope we get pics :)
My tomatoes that I over-winter usually produce 6-8 new tomatoes after coming in but I think the short day length shuts them down. Ours stay on a balcony with windows on the north, west and south.
Looks like you have tree rats in the punkin.
I’ll do my best! I found my lighted Buck & Doe...but since the puppies (7 of them; 16 weeks old, a few are leaving for new homes next week, but we’re keeping the two males) are still running loose and LOVE to chew on everything, they’re going to be set up in the Family Room this year, instead of outside! :)
I hear you. We just have 2 mutts (rescues) but they are big dogs and love to chew everything. They’ve got a large fenced area beside the house. They were both older when we adopted them and totally set in their ways. We gave up on stopping the chewing, made their yard safe for them and just give them lots of chewy things. They’re sweet, loving, great with the grandbabies (female loves to shepherd them, she appears to be a pit mix) and they’re great companions to us as empty nesters. So, we indulge them. They aren’t working dogs. Just our buds. But, no decor goes in their space. Got 3 peach trees and a pomegranate out there and they dont bother them. Anything else would be subject to their rowdyness and play when we aren’t out there. They mind us well when we are there tho.
good stuff all around.
Yup. Around these parts we refer to squirrels as tree rats. Nothing but a decorated rat running in trees. Just as destructive if not more so.
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