Posted on 02/17/2017 6:03:17 PM PST by greeneyes
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Hubby is handy for any construction - he built our house, after studying artchitecture books.
Home Depot used to have a contractor’s desk, and they could probably tell you who you could hire.
My Garden was 8' x 36' x 12" high. I have made one long 40 x 2 garden strip, another 18 x 4 and third that is 16 x 4. Using all the dirt from the area now a walkway raised my beds to fully 12" high! I can now walk without getting in the garden(s). The Garden will have a Sprinkler Zone dedicated and a variety of sprinkler/drip/mist/spay water plant types.
My wildflower garden is going to have a dedicated sprinkler zone as well, and I am now in the process of removing all Perennials for replanting in groupings - I am considering putting down weed block and then cutting out places for each plant grouping - Cone flowers in a 1/2 dozen groupings, others placed around as desirable - maybe I will put pine needles down so I can walk around in the garden for cuttings and maintenance.
I am also replacing our 16 x 3 herb bed with two 8' x 2' kits from Amazon which will be moved so we can walk around it completely instead it being against a side of the house - also a dedicated sprinkler zone.
I am about 10-days into putting together the planning - whew - but doable. My costs have gone from an expected $800 to nearly double by the time I rent the trencher:) I am totally pumped about getting full automation on my lawn, my shrubs, trees, and the garden boxes/flowers. Everything I will plant this year should be great. One flower I really wanted and bought seeds for is the Passion Flower (Tennessee State Flower). Cannot wait for the 811 Dig folks to get back to me by 22 Feb.
That sounds like a good idea. thanks.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) first detected cesium-134 in seawater samples from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach located in Oregon.
However, should Americans be worried? WHOI notes that the detected radiation traces are very low and would not harm people.
"To put it in context, if you were to swim everyday for six hours a day in those waters for a year, that additional radiation from the addressed cesium from Japan ... is 1000 times smaller than one dental x-ray," said Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the WHOI, via USA Today. "In Japan, at its peak [cesium-134 levels] it was 10 million times higher than what we are seeing today on the West Coast."
Lookout for Godzilla!
Those average swings are very gradual, but even in a cooling cycle the SunSpots will alter a few days to a few weeks with unseasonable weather changes.
An idea for those Army worms would be Salt of the Earth, water and electic, and a cold period.
In 2006, my father told me he had the data and it was pubically availabled to show the temp swings... but he also said he was ashamed that he bought into the SCARE for first 70 years of his life and that he knew the government was using Global Warming/Cooling and now Climate Change to TAX.
I put down another bag of potting soil outside around the A/C unit in prep for spring planting. Will be seeding the spots on my lawn this week since it will rain on Tues and we’ll have at least ten days of 60 degree weather. Give the sprouts time to start growing.
My little lemon marigolds came up after 4 days (planted them right before a good thunderous rain), peas have germinated and are arching their necks up to the surface. I put a bunch of cutting flowers in with the Giant Spinach this time. I’m doin’ a lot of weird stuff what with all the Leftist crap wracking my mind the last few months.
Warily eyeing my Red Latham and Legacy Blueberry plants.. not known to do well in Centex, and I made PH accomodations for them.. My inspiration is my extremely enlarged Nasturtium collection this season. They cheer me up, they follow the sun as heliotropes, and are just so danged cute.
My primacane experimental thornful Blackberry which leaves me bloody at every encounter, I have swirled around itself, interlacing the first (well, second, now) year shoots into a vortex so they don’t craze out and the fruit will be somewhat hidden from the birds, so I might theoretically harvest a berry. My thornless blackberry is gracefully budding just as heartily.
Sun Gold cherry tomato volunteers from last year are popping up everywhere! Still gazing at perennials that our catastrophic freeze may have taken for any sign of life.
That’s interesting. Did he tell you anything about The Plan from Iron Mountain? That was a plan where they were think tanking about peace.
They felt that some sort of threat was needed to replace war, and Global Climate catastrophe was just one of the options, alien enemies was another. This group also felt that open borders and no nation state was needed too.
The news media of course claimed it was conspiracy, and someone wrote a book that they called a hoax. The book was republished in 2008, I think.
The Government lies all the time. If you ever read some of their white papers or studies, it makes you think we might be governed by idiots. However, if you follow the money, then you’ll see the real reason for some of the nonsense.
I recently read a study though, that showed that sometimes in the past, there has been sudden changes and those are tied to break down of the flow related to saltiness - can’t remember the technical terms, but it could result in lots of water in a short time, and require relocation of people on the Coasts and along the Mississippi. They emphasized, though that they were not saying it was the most likely thing, just that it could happen. So they monitor the salt content.
Outdoors, it’s Zone 5.
Indoors, though, it’s generally warmer. :-)
Though this weekend, it may be warmer outdoors; I’ll be opening doors and windows.
*BUMP*
For morning coffee... :)
We just recently had a passion flower, and Hubby got the fruit and planted it several places, so now we have a big batch that grew last year. The fruit had a pleasant citrus flavor - very interesting.
The leaves are also edible and good for tea - supposed to be good for helping go to sleep.
You any good with orchids?
You any good with orchids?
She can probably make a delightful corsage with them.
I bought a bunch of potting mix last year at a little better than half price, so I should have plenty to use this spring. We most likely will have some bad weather in a few days.
LOL. I love those pictures. Please feel free to post as much as possible.
Nice Pic. Thanks
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