The Garden Thread - November, 2025

November 1, 2025 | Diana in WI/Greeneyes in Memoriam

[Qiviut]

The trailer is unloaded. After dealing with getting the Army table out of the trailer & into the shop, I don’t know how I managed to get it out of the generator shed & into the trailer in the first place.

[MomwithHope]

I've been struggling with a heavy table for more than a week. Still needs a new spring for underneath. It was my grandmothers then fathers work table. These enamel tables that you see are a treasure. They were baking tables. Grandma used for rolling strudel dough, making noodles, Dad too with the noodles and making sausage. This one was made by Tepco 1950, Hearts and Flowers, design on top from a great silhouette artist who made a deal with Tepco. His name was Ugo Mochi and his tiny signature is on the top in the design. It's been in the barn for almost two decades after I refinished the legs. Really wanted it up in the house. It has one leaf on the right, I just need a new spring. 24" long and 1/4 inch diameter extension spring to match the old spring. Having a hard time finding one.

[Qiviut]

That’s a beautiful table! I hope you can find a spring. There are a couple of people on the garden thread who seem to be very good at finding odd parts/things - maybe they could help.

Mom is very fond of the Army table. It is solid wood, 6’x 30” & very heavy. Dad got it at an Army surplus store early in their marriage and it was used for their dining room table until they could afford a dining room set. It’s been in various places/sheds & I wanted it for the shop. Now (somehow, because I wrangled it by myself) it’s here :-)

[MomwithHope]

Lots of memories in those old tables. Comforting for me along with more than a few older things I still have. Like my mom’s original hope chest from the 40’s and her cabinet sewing machine that I learned to sew on. I refinished both and took the lock off the hope chest and found a lock business nearby that made a new key.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So, traction tomorrow, then? LOL!

Pitching hay and all the water-carrying I’m doing for the critters this week have me using muscles I don’t normally use. But it feels good to feel a little ‘burn’ - as long as my back holds up! :)

[Dr. Franklin]

I keep some tomatoes in pots so I can bring them in for the winter. If I can keep them alive all winter, I can have tomatoes in March. The problem is killing the aphids. I have sprayed and even dipped the plants, but the aphids keep returning. It’s a constant fight to kill the spawn before they can mature enough to reproduce.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The problem with over-wintering plants that are out of sync and out of their desired environment IS dealing with the insects. Usually aphids and white flies. Fungal gnats, too. All tiny but persistent little buggers!

I read somewhere that when a plant is stressed, it gives off some sort of hormone or vibration and the bugs just come in droves to help it over ‘The Rainbow Bridge.’ ;)

And if you’re a houseplant lover, an aphid, white fly or fungal gnat infestation will effect every plant in your house.

Be careful out there, People! ;)

(’Hill Street Blues’ TV show)