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Sounds like a big move and lots to do. Glad you could still get the garden in. I got some in a while back when the ground thawed out. Several rows of potatoes, and later when risk of frost was over I put in several varieties of heirloom tomatoes, some winter squash and jalapeno peppers (which the chipmunks ate immediately). I just added many rows of black eyed peas and Kentucky blue pole beans around the boundaries of the fences. We are getting hit from the remnants of a Pacific hurricane/tropical storm and expect rain for the next week. Got everything in at a good time for here in the Colorado Rockies.

Working on getting fire wood cut and dried for next winter. We have a wood burning stove insert in the fireplace and it keeps much of the house toasty. We go through about 5-6 cords of wood in a winter and I have gotten a pretty good start this year. I use the sawdust to compost in between gadden rows and it gets mixed in in fall when I harvest. The lousy mountain soil is getting pretty good in my garden patches.

I’ve resigned myself to the fact my 75 or so onions will be pretty small - they’re tightly-packed in top soil. I’ve watered them so much the soil is like concrete. It was tough digging even one out and he was very small. I’m going to dig them out and see if I can get a pepper plot going in small buckets again. My other various pepper plants are coming along. Guess I’ll be chopping some very small onions. The first one I pulled isn’t even the size of a golf ball. And it’s been in there over 90 days. That topsoil, cheap at WM and nice and loose has gotten really hard with the watering (and baking by the Sun each day).

Oh well, I still have 25 bulbs though some are really small.

I DO NOT know what is happening in my 3’ x 6’ at the bottom of the deck. There are 2 or 3 watermelon plants that may have survived, something with big leaves but no fruit. Probably a squash plant. Maybe only 1 survived, perhaps a 2nd.

All last fall going into winter and all spring I tossed egg shells, tomato pieces with some seeds, some strawberry pieces and corn husks which were mostly burned from being grilled. Whatever it is, it has taken over the whole thing. There must be 500+ leaves down there and maybe 300 plants in that small space. It’s like shag carpet that’s 8-inches deep. It looks like some corn leaves. There were two small strawberries on one end - rabbit must have eaten those. Maybe a squirrel. Two tall stalks but no fruit / veg.

This stuff is NOT growing outside that 3’ x 6’ area. There may have also been GYRO Pepper pieces thrown in there but very few seeds.

It almost looks like early corn but that seems really doubtful to me.

I do not know WHAT it is. It grows like crazy, stays thick. You can’t even see the soil the plants are so tightly packed.

So, like on most everything in life, I remain confused. LOL

Well , I am getting close to having a pretty nice yard overall after doing the basics with the existing plants and shrubs that were here when I moved in to the new home here in Louisiana . I have some beautiful rose bushes and an assortment of healthy trees . For some reason the grass seems to have an accelerated growth over the sewer line making its way to the street for its tie in ?...”hmmmm” any experienced gardeners have any insight as to why this may occur ? (I hope my humor is not to coarse)

Oh how I empathized with you about the computer problems!

I currently do all my FReeping on a 9-year-old Mac Mini using a Firefox server. Both are SO OLD that both Apple and Firefox have “written me off as a legacy geezer” and no longer send me updates, notices, or ads. HUZZAH! I’M FREE AT LAST! HAHAHAHAHA.

I did, however, recently get a Dell Laptop with Windows 10 and am getting the same “crap” you are, even when I am just playing solitaire.