Mrs. Augie and I survived our trip to sunny Florida. Spent five nights on Pensacola Beach, then bopped over to St. Augustine for two nights. Visited #2 Son Clint, his BFF, and the two grandkids. Would have liked to stay longer, but they had to work and the Atlantic was raging, so we headed back to PB for two more nights before going home.
It’s amazing how fast, even in a drought, the weeds grow when you turn your back on them for a few weeks. Punting on any new fall plantings was a good move on my part. I spent some quality time with the weed whacker to knock down the undesirables that took over while we were away, and picked up most of the garden hoses and soaker lines.
Now that I’m home and getting back into a normal routine I’ll get some lettuces going in the greenhouse and resume the cleanup work. Garlic planting time is just around the corner, the hoop house needs to be re-skinned, the greenhouse needs a new roof, tomato cages need to come down, and the whole thing needs to be dug up and converted to raised beds.
I’m tired from just thinking about all that.
You will LOVE having raised beds; I have 16 of them and they are VERY easy to maintain and weed and with some compost in the spring and a thick layer of mulch, they are VERY productive.
And as I age, they’ll be getting TALLER. :)