(The resource area is posted at the end of the the July 3-6 Gardening Thread beginning after post 112!)
Glacial silt, being blown across a frozen river. It kind of
looks like the girl is being carried along by the silt, but
she's only sliding on the exposed ice.
The spiral staircase inside the Château de La Rochefoucauld
in France, designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1516
Moved all the potted plants indoors to the green house. Lemons are turning yellow and i think the little limes might be budding again. The green peppers are beginning to turn red but i don’t think they will bud as it got cold on me before i put the bubble wrap around the greenhouse. I hope the tomatoes i started last month produce. One has budded. Purchased most of the seeds for the spring. In a few weeks it will be time to start the tomatoes and beans and peas.
Mr. mm cut up some old culvert pipe into sections for me to use for my bucket potatoes next year.
They are a bigger diameter, so I should get a better crop.
He moved them up to the garden today, for some reason, but it’s not like it’s going to hurt anything being there.
I Love this thread...even tho I don’t comment...we moved to a harsher gardening property and are in the midst of remodel. We now have @2 acres to deal with. Planning a “courtyard garden” to be able to grow some veggies in future (protect from varmints and have decent soil in raised beds). Oh. And I love holly trees...several on the property, altho they seem to be struggling.
We completed all the storm debris cleanup, all the leaf collection, the garden bed cleanup, emptying the pots of soil for the winter (the damp soil can freeze and crack the pot; I'll start with new potting soil next Spring), drained the fountain, put away the fire pit ceramic log set, covered the fire pit, covered the crawlspace air vents, put away the patio heater, put heavy plastic over the various pots and water fountain vase, took down the patio string lights from the pergola, moved the lawn furniture to storage, winterized the pressure washer, and blew out the sprinkler system.
Whew, I'd forgotten how much work it is to get ready for winter.
Not exactly gardening, but we've had chronic problems with gutters overflowing since we bought the house four years ago, so this summer I decided it was time to fix that problem. In even a small rain, the downspouts would fill up with water which then filled the gutters and they overflowed into the garden beds which made a huge mess -- it was as if we had no gutters at all. I found that the downspouts weren't draining because somebody did a TERRIBLE job of building a small drywall filled with river rock. Over the years, soil infiltrated it and the drain pipe, so there was nowhere for the water to go. Here's the solution I built this summer. While not beautiful flowers, it has a certain "prettiness" to engineers. ;>) We got the gravel in, pulled the fabric over the top, capped it with 10 inches of soil and put the sod back. Now I'm just sitting back and waiting for a huge downpour to watch my beautifully free-flowing gutters and downspouts do their thing! Looks like no heavy rainfall this fall and the snow is coming down right now.
One of those very simple, but special sort of moments .... eggs so fresh & so very warm, that when you slip them gently into a jacket pocket until you can unload them in a safe place, they make the most wonderful hand warmers on a chilly morning!
Good Morning1
:-)
It was another unseasonably warm week here in Central Missouri. Cold front rolled in last night and put things back as they should be this time of year.
Nothing going on in the garden aside from picking and eating. It’s really nice to look out there and see absolutely nothing that needs to be done.
Mrs. Augie blasted another deer yesterday morning. With the outside air temperature above 70° I figured letting it hang overnight wasn’t a great idea, so I butchered it straight away. I’ve got four gallons of meat bagged up that I’ll drop off at the locker plant today to be made into slim jims. The rest I cut up for chili meat, packed in quart ziploc bags, and tossed into the freezer.
I’ve got a bit of mess left to put away, but I’m holding off until next week to do it. We’re done hunting, but my buddy Nick is looking for one more.
