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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
*grin*
My gator would never eat anybody.
Mostly cuz I'd have his teeth pulled before he reached 4 feet. ;-)
Ahh...I figured I was missing a lot.
It's so nice to be back...just sitting here drinking coffee, not one single obligation...except I need to look over this resume...
I'll do it later.
Perhaps it means that Rutheee needs some new luggage, and maybe a pair of boots. :-)
Mornin'... [sip]
Nice. [sip]
:-)
Beautiful bunch of gals there! And one boy who wishes he was somewhere else :~D
This is the pea trellis...it used to have collards planted down the middle but I harvested them and now there are two patio tomatoes planted here. I imagine with the heat and the gophers, the peas won't last much longer and since these tomatoes are red, the birds will be attracted to them, so the plan is to drape bird netting over the pea trellis to ward off the birds. You can't really see them, but each tomato is planted in a hardware cloth basket sunk in the ground.
This is where the spinach and radishes that were under the cold frame used to be. See, the lettuce and the carrots are still doing fine. I cleared out all the spinach remains and planted peppers. The hay will be used as mulch.
The four summer squashes
The four yellow tomato plants, which require no netting because birds don't seem attracted to the yellow color. These are in the hardware cloth bed. Also, a butternut squash in that right-hand corner of the bed and a row of cukes
Eggplant on the lower right, lavender on the lower left, onions fill the rest of the bed.
Onions
Carrots
Daniel always looks either bored stiff or slightly insane in all of his pictures.
He didn't want to be involved in this one, as you can tell. *smile*
Well, this year was a different story! He didn't have any class, was home more frequently during the semester and was actually done with school completely by the time this came up. So we went with him and participated in the clean up. I got a box of leftover bagels out of the deal.
Steve talking to the jedis about the clean up. (He's required to wear that hat.)
Here I am with the jedis in Cherry Red Fork Creek...cleaning.
~chuckling~
It's all the wimmen that does it :~D
Your garden looks very productive :~D
I have corn in a pot. and flowers... and that's all I need :~D
Looks great! I envy you your nice neat beds...maybe someday!
You'll hafta post pictures of the tomatoes once they start producing!
Birds, huh? I hadn't thought about that threat. Hopefully threat number one (Cisco) will chase away threat number two.
If the beans I'm hopin' to plant produce a bunch, you can have some of those, too. And punkins. ;-)
I don't think Hair ever had any problems with birds getting her maters...it just gets so terribly dry here. They seem to go for the maters more for the moisture than anything.
I'm not one for veggies anyhow, I just like to grow corn :~D
And I've never had birds go after tomatos. Maybe we just have different kind of birds... and squirrels :~D
So put out a bird bath :~D
The shirt, on the other hand, was his own choice.
;-)
They divided us up into groups and Steve was a group leader. All the group leaders had to wear those hats to identify themselves.
I will! I intend to, really! Steve has wanted one for ages and I'll likely get him one for Father's Day.
Well, the hat dies without the shirt :~D
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