Posted on 09/15/2017 6:02:31 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I have a fireplace insert with a fan that blows air between the inside and outside stove walls. We usually go through 5-6 cords of wood per winter.
I figured that it was shot elsewhere, with just the beginning to make it seem authentic - standard practice I think. I’d like to have the Arkansas climate - earlier spring and later fall. LOL
We have built in fans for our fireplace, and we used to keep the house really warm with both fireplaces and a wood stove in the basement going. The furnace almost never came on.
Our next door neighbor was a conservation agent, and we live right on the Mark Twain National Forest area. So he and all the guys from the neighborhood used to go out on weekends and cut wood from the designated trees or ones that were fallen.
When each pick up was full, they’d come home and unload, so we went through a lot of wood then too.
WOW! Impressive! :)
He just likes batting it around the kitchen. Everything/Anything is a toy. ;)
Greetings from western PA. My second batch of marigolds have come up and bloomed, as expected. These are seeds I planted from the May marigolds. Replanted in pots around my patio. Pots that housed the Lobelia that faded by July.
I love marigolds. I used to plant a few in the tomato bed, and they looked so pretty there.
Man...worst year ever in the garden. Wayyyy too much rain early on I think. Barely got anything from tomatoes or peppers ...Some eggplant and okra..
West of Atlanta
I am squeezing every last drop of summer out of new England.
Hiking, Riding, and harvesting my tomatoes, wrapping my drain pipes and hoping we have a mild winter.
But still thanking God I didn’t buy that mobile home in Ft. Meyers. ( I was seriously considering it!)
Too much rain can be a problem all right - great for molds though. It’s a wonder anyone ever has a product to harvest, but we nearly always get something. Every year it’s a different item that does well it seems.
I’d hate to have to depend on our gardening skills for all our food, but if we were in that situation, we’d probably be a bit more diligent, and hopefully get a better outcome. LOL
Our worst year was 2012. The spring was cool and too wet, but the summer was a scorcher, and less rain than usual. The rain barrels that usually would get us through the July and August dry period were out of water by end of May.
Some really great looking crops - we had to just let them go and burn up. The thing I hated the most though was the wild black berries. I had been harvesting them daily - nice big plump berries.
Then they dried up with the drought, and they have never come back from that trauma. Every year we just get little scrawny dried up looking produce - gives the birds something to eat I guess.
Well, thank God for small favors. I’m glad you didn’t do it too.
My decision to stay in new England was predicated upon the fact that my baby sister’s husband has been diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimers.
So I figure she might need me sooner rather than later.
That’s for sure. It’s good for family to stick together.
Amen.
Picked about 3-9 tomatoes this week. Small but no problem.
Picked about 16 Jalapeno peppers. Oh yeah, good and hot they’ve been so far. Hope to ship these off to a friend for fun.
Cherry tomatoes doing good - there are about 60+ out there - I picked 14 on Friday.
Tomatoes from Beefsteak plant ripened with apples - got one green cherry tomato sealed in the bucket with them - he fell off early - good size - he just needs to ripen.
I didn’t do my 4th harvest from the Sweet Basil plant - there now may be very few leaves I can harvest. Oh well, it still smells good.
I picked 30 peppers this past week - not huge but all Green - some turning red and maybe a little yellow. Mostly they’re just all Green Peppers.
Sweet Marconi plant has given up about 3-4 the past couple weeks - she has a couple big ones and 3 or 4 going - 3 are coming along nicely - the 4th is still small I think.
I’ve got some tomatoes to chop up and peppers to chop and freeze. Oh well, having a bit of fun with it.
hope my tomatoes survive...
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Beautiful shot, especially with your shadow.
Well, I am gonna give freezing a try and add them to my smoothies... but I will look into a good drying recipe. Tthanks
One of your dogs will probably eat it. Check their breath in a few days. LOL
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