Posted on 11/01/2025 5:46:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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That sounds delish, but what is conf? I might just skip crust, and treat it like a pudding.
I just checked. Mine has tiny little buds forming on many of the stems! Hurray!
Ran across a Japanese system that's kind of a combo of drip and micro sprinklers, Sumi Soak.
It's a flat drip line with holes that shoot the water droplets upwards at a high angle and doesn't go very wide. Supposed to be good even coverage in the shape of a rectangle unlike the micro sprinklers that make circles and the drip that in my case with heavy soil, make tiny circles at each emitter(hole). Supposed to be good for germination and short plants. Narrow enough that I could do two lines in my 22' wide tunnel or a single for morning sun side. Doesn't work well for tall plants like maters so drip would still do those.
Podcast I watched of a market gardener that makes his living from it, says the sumi soaker is awesome for germinating carrots. Light on details otherwise.
Searched Youtube and found a good presentation from Tilmor, the funky tractor people. The original funky tractor was the Allis Chalmers model G, row crop tractor. Tilmor and a couple other companies created their own version of it.
Anyway, here's Tilmor's explainer video of the Sumi Soaker - Sumisansui Mark II Irrigation System Overview. Since it's flat, you can roll it up on a hand crank spool. Portable. Can just hook it to a hose or tie it into an existing drip system.
Extremely high fire danger today with low humidity & high winds. A friend just emailed that there is currently a fire with road & trail closures in the mountains. I am too far north of that location to see any smoke.
We got home from church yesterday & our flag was down in the yard. I had it screwed to a piece of board & that was screwed to the tree with substantial deck screws. From the flag/pole whipping back & forth, the board broke. There is a piece on the tree still, but the larger piece with the flag & pole was all the way across the driveway & out into the yard. Our very large Eco can garbage can was gone when I looked for it this morning - it had been blown past the garage & around the corner of the house. We have tree debris all over the yard.
This wind is nuts - I will be glad when it calms down.
The dogs were not pleased by all of the ruckus caused by the roof replacement. Booger spent the better part of Thursday and Friday looking at me from under my desk.
Howard isn't exactly house safe yet so he spends most of his daytime hours in his dog yard. He was equally unimpressed by all of the noise and commotion. He's also VERY unimpressed with deer season going on and not being allowed much freedom over the weekend. His energy level has made teevee time a bit of a wrassling match the last couple evenings. lol
Turns out Pops fractured a bone in his left shoulder when he fell two Fridays ago. ER Radiologist missed it, but his ortho guy didn't. It doesn't require surgery, but he'll have to keep that arm in a sling for a few weeks, and they're pushing the replacement of his other shoulder joint back a month to allow time for this injury to heal.
His Holter monitor came off last Thursday and was turned in to the cardiologist. It can take up to six weeks to get the results back, but his doc is hopeful that it will have some good data so they can get a treatment plan in place to combat the dizzy/pass out spells that he's been having. Speculation is that a pacemaker implant will do the trick but the Holter data is needed before a final determination can be made on that.
Deer season opened on Saturday. Mrs. Augie saw a few in spite of the unfavorable weather conditions. None of them were up to her standards so they all got to walk. Same result for my buddy Nick. Same result for the neighbors hunting across the fence. The weather guessers are saying it's going to cool off with a decent chance for rainfall over the next couple days so hopefully that will get the vermin moving around again.
I got a good bit of cleanup work done in the kitchen garden over the weekend. Tomato and pepper cages have been stripped of dead plant material and moved aside. Still need to store them for the winter. Most of the weeds have been knocked down and burned off. All of the t-posts that held up the tomato cages and cucumber fence need to be pulled up and stored. The ground is way too hard to pull them by hand so I'll have to get a tractor out for that job. Soon as those posts are out of the way I'll run over it with the tiller then add six-ish inches of composted stall waste on top and that spot will be ready for spring.
Spinach crop is doing well in the greenhouse. The turnip/rutabaga planting in the raised beds are doing very well, and I noticed the garlic is starting to peek out of it's compost blanket. I still haven't gotten my lettuce planted out there. Probably too late to start it now but I'm going to do it anyway. Maybe. If I have time.
Eating from The Land, Your Hand, Your Garden:
Tonight EVERYTHING for supper is from Nature or from the garden!
Crock Pot Mule Deer Tenderloin - with onions and cream of mushroom soup and mushrooms. I will make a gravy to go over...
...FREE Pontiac potatoes from the neighbor. Baked.
Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash.
Applesauce - homemade from our apple trees.
Life Is Good!
Wind is the worst. If it’s coming from the West, fine. If it comes from the East, which it sometimes does, it always wrecks something on my greenhouse!
Our house is well insulated but you wouldn’t know it on a windy day.
Sweet Booger! *HEART*
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