Posted on 10/01/2024 6:10:14 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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http://whizbanggardening.blogspot.com/
"Herrick Kimball lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. He has been an avid gardener for nearly forty years. He owns and operates Planet Whizbang, a homestead-based mail order company that provides down-to-earth books, tools and inspiration to people who want to live a more self-reliant lifestyle."
https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Whizbang-Idea-Book-Gardeners/dp/0972656405
Johnnies seeds has a lot of growing information From their website: "Johnny's Selected Seeds is a privately held, employee-owned seed producer and merchant headquartered in Winslow, Maine, USA." Pollard has previously posted their planting calenders, so its probably out their on their site.
Just spoke to a friend and her area is supposed to hit up to 110 today! The forecast is for more of same the rest of this week and next...Glad I’ll be out of town next week, someplace far cooler (Washington State).
The most beautiful silk floss tree I’ve ever seen is in Disneyland, all places.
*GASP* So, you’re officially on strike, too? ;) Wow. This is a surprise.
The transfer turned out to be easy. One can flip the “target” trap upside down and sort of slide the traps together with the “door” of each eventually protruding into the other trap. Raise to 90 degrees, opossum eventually tires and slips to now bottom end of target trap. Pull traps apart & the doors slap shut.
Remounted pump float to outside of bucket. Drilled a few extra holes. This will make it easy to adjust, and also adjust where the cable to the float “bends”. Fatigue of those wires is often why these old style ball floats fail (and have short warranty). Spread out that flexing and the thing may last longer than I do (in a best case!)
“have A short warranty”. Hahaha.
It was a little hard to find (finer and coarser stainless steel meshes are much more common), but, this looks good:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CRYKQC8L/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A31KYTXVTFZVC9
It’s way more than I need, but it should have other uses too. :-)
110? Whew! Low humidity though, right?
Well I can only take the (incorrect) misbehaved redheaded stepchild treatment for so long. Call me ornery.
Was it a mistake? Probably given the time we’re in.
Has a weight been lifted. Definitely. Other people saw that this guy(my manager) had an unusual fixation on me and dislike of me.
Am I in panic mode. Yes, but I’ll find something.
Strike? Unions had their purpose back in the day but have become something else.
I bought a big pack of TP today. We were down to a few rolls anyway but I still felt a little silly because my buy was kind of based on the strike. Not so silly after all because the young girl at a store in a town further away, said she’s had friends tell her the stores up there are out of TP.
Food ad for the local grocery store says whole chickens, $1.79/lb. Guess what I’m buying tomorrow? They’re not big name frankenchickens either.
Came home and paid bills first thing. Dang phone/internet bill went up $50 this month. Was $94 and is $144 now. No long distance or other usage. They took a fedgov grant to run fiber optic. Bought lots of new equipment. Near Zero new people are on said fiber optic. Rates increased by nearly 50%. Cool
If anyone can land on their feet it will be you. Keep us up to date, Please!
Yes, our saving grace is low humidity.
Still unpleasant to have searing heat that burns up everything.
We are supposed to hit a balmy 90 F here today. Still in a drought situation.
The fig trees, okra, and tomatoes should be fine; The brussel sprouts will be very unhappy! The beets and turnips are small without tubers yet and should be fine if they get past the next couple of days. For some reason I am cursed (or blessed) with being unable to grow zucchini! The cucumber beetles have destroyed any small zucchini before they are large enough to pick! Probably time to pull them up and move along.
Again, enjoy your escape from sunny California to WA state!
There are a lot of chicken producers in NC which were probably affected by the storm so reasonable to do! We are fortunate in the middle of the country, I suppose, to not be far from all those chicken farms in Arkansas. (Although I would prefer to buy local free range chickens!)
Love it! Looks a lot like my kitty Winnie who slinks around the garden at all hours.
I just wish she’d stop brining mice and rats into the house, some of them still alive! She does keep the rats out of my fruit trees, so it’s all good...
Thanks! I don’t know much about Washington state - we are also going on to Oregon and will end up in Portland.
We are going to be near the Snake River and I’d love to see where Evel Knievel jumped on his motorcycle!!
My son is planning a trip to Buchart (sp?) Gardens in Vancouver, we won’t be going on this trip - in February so I hope I can tag along.
My niece’s husband is stationed in Hawaii and she is begging us to come so I’m hoping to go there - to the botanical gardens, of course
(Thank you NO Mr. Slinky....what is all that cat food on the floor I asks!)
Are you leaving for another job?
First two things I noticed? Lots of BUGS in your sticky traps so they must be effective.
And AWESOME re-use of cat litter tubs to hold up your plastic sheeting! I give ours to Beau who fills them with spent vehicle oil and then when he orders recycled blacktop for the driveway (one full mile of it!) he moves it around with the skid steer them sprays oil on top to seal it. It lasts a good while longer that way.
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WELL...
While looking for stainless steel mesh / screen, it occurred to me to also look for something in either a 20 mesh with considerably larger diameter wire than the usual 0.27” to 0.30” diameter, or find 30 or 40 mesh with a little bigger wire than usual. Not only do we have a window screen and a screen door panel that go hit by flying debris in a couple of our storms this year (I patched the minor tears, but they don’t look so great), we get some of the tiny gnats or flies(?) that can get through std. 20 mesh screens. So, my idea was to find something with an aperture around 0.5 mm / 0.02” instead of the usual 1 mm / 0.40 aperture, but still stronger than the usual fiberglass or aluminum screen material. Stainless steel mesh (30 or 40) in wire at least 0.025 mm would seem to be the answer, but, this turns out to be hard to find in a width big enough to “cover” the “small dimension” of the old screen panels, about 22”. Drat!
Well we already had couple of hard frosts..first one was on the 30th...not a great garden year but it is what it is.
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