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September 17, 2018 | #136 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
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Thanks for sharing! LOVE the baby turtle, and of course, the garden!
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September 17, 2018 | #137 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3
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So glad you found the little guy! Might you keep him inside for his first winter to be sure he makes it? Was that the only egg in the nest?
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September 18, 2018 | #138 |
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Thanks guys.
Only saw one egg in the nest but to be honest I just left the nest alone. My daughter will be taken care of it until its big enough where it can hibernate properly, 3 years or so. It also needs to be a decent size or it will become a nice potato chip snack for a hungry critter. |
September 24, 2018 | #139 |
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September 19th I like to start my cover crops covered with cardboard for a few days, the key is to wet the soil down real good and cover with cardboard and saturate the cardboard. Overcast days are great during this phase as the sun really dries out the cardboard quickly and you need to water more often ensuring the cardboard stay wet. Pizza boxes work great for this. I decided to add some peas and alfalfa to the beds and watered then in.
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September 24, 2018 | #140 |
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September 24, 2018 | #141 |
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Double post sorry.
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October 1, 2018 | #142 |
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September 26th
This thing was simply amazing, my mouth is watering posting this.
Still Raining
September 28th Still raining. Had a funeral yesterday and was home fairly early so I tried to keep my mind occupied by doing some gardening. Just did a bit of weeding, sprayed some neem on the milkweed and my one grapevine. Installed some lights on the Koi Pond Hugelkultur bed and installed another upright. I received a nice compliment from the neighbors after the funeral, they were saying how serene and peaceful the front gardens are with the plants and Koi pond. Mostly everyone in my neighborhood has a green lawn and a few flowers and shrubs. Some of the neighbors stopped by and I gave them a tour of the herbs out front and told them they were for anyone to use. In disbelief they said, "we can just come up here and grab some herbs", I said, "yep, I tell all the neighbors to help themselves to the fresh herbs". They smiled and starting calling it the "Greendale Community Garden" Greendale is the name of our street. One of the neighbors replied, "I was wondering what you were always doing out front dumping stuff all over". Then I told them to enjoy the pond when they come up, we have a bench by the Koi pond and I keep fish pellets on the bench so folks can come by, have a seat and feed the fish as well, a few neighbors come by with their nieces and nephews and grandchildren. Although we put to rest a Great neighbor and Friend, it was still a good day.
Messed with the landscape lighting, some bulbs are blown and some connections are bad. Replaced some Incandescent bulbs with LED's. Got tired of fiddling with connections and ended up splicing directly into the wire and using wire nuts. October 1st Today the yard seems a little bit dryer, at least dry enough to get some yard work done. The neem oil has helped the common milkweed plant tremendously, it was flopped over a few days ago, after a good spray of neem oil and dish soap and it has perked up. The aphids have damaged my Concord Grapes, the ends are dead and not growing.
I still have a pepper plant in one of my Hugelkultur beds and a tomato plant and eggplant plant in my Hugelkultur pots, plus there's a rogue eggplant plant up on the hill that has some fruit on it, I'm going to leave them go as long as possible.
Pulled some crab grass and weeds that had gone to seed and placed them in a bucket of rain water, they will sit in here for a week or so then will be dumped in a bed or the compost bin.
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October 1, 2018 | #143 |
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October 1, 2018 | #144 |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Squibb, you do so much in so little space! Beautiful!
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October 2, 2018 | #145 |
Tomatovillian™
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Thank you Having a small yard is tough when you got big ideas, there's a fine line between looking nice and looking crappy. The cafe lights are on the border of that philosophy so I am going to put them on a switch and only use them when were out and about on the deck or yard. Another thing to consider is that the yards need to look decent when everything has died back or the Mrs's would give me an earful. Our front looks great when in full swing but after the die back I need to stay on top of it with cleanup and mulching,, the lighting also helps out a bit. The back beds I pretty much can put them to sleep for the winter anyway I want. Not to offend anyone but I draw the line at Garden gnomes, duck decoys, flamingos and especially those bent over wooden figurines lol. |
October 2, 2018 | #146 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: SE PA
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duck decoys lol, I remember a house up the road, country house, they bought a couple of bigfoot goose decoys and left them out a few years by their front door. Bigfoots are not really lifelike to begin with, they are made to fool geese, not people. They were still out after a couple years and were all faded from the constant UV.
Another thing I see up here that is not just ugly but almost dangerous is people putting out groups of ceramic deer out near the road in their yards. I honestly think they should be fined for that. It is no laughing matter to hit the brakes suddenly on a windy road because you think you see deer about to cross, and end up getting rear ended or skidding in bad weather. |
October 2, 2018 | #147 |
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Here some folks put out fake geese and then dress them up.
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October 3, 2018 | #148 |
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October 3, 2018 | #149 |
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LOL, That's adorable!
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October 8, 2018 | #150 |
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October 6th
Getting some plants in for my 2019 season
Green Columnar Apple Tree Malus 'North Pole' Red Columnar Apple Malus 'Scarlet Sentinel'
October 8th
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