The state of my garden is mostly dead with patchy aliveness. We have had PERHAPS a quarter-inch of rain in the last 7 or 8 weeks. Manually watering the garden is not something I strive to keep up with, so there isn’t much alive. I have a few tomatoes alive, a whole bed of peppers, [...]
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18 Jul
Tall Tall Tomatoes
They just keep going up and up! I am running out of places to tie them to at this point, but I’ll devise something. Out of 28 tomato plants in the ground, these 4 are the only healthy-looking ones left. The rest are all failing due to septoria leaf spot, and some to other diseases [...]
9 Jul
July Garden
My garden is getting along very well right now. We ran through strawberries last month and they were great. Cucumbers are coming along very well right now. It is time to make a small batch of pink sauerkraut (mixing these two varieties) and replant this bed with bush beans. The center of this bed is [...]
3 Mar
February Hoop Update – Not Dead Yet! (Just Mostly Dead)
A few months ago, around Halloween some time, I covered this 4×8 bed with plastic and planted an array of seeds in order to find out what will grow for me over the winter. Since that time we have had several days with below zero temperatures, perhaps as low as -5, but nothing like what [...]
9 Sep
Toad
S. found a toad while we were camping. He named him something predictable like Mr. Hoppy or some such. LOL. He is a lot of fun. He kept him in his pocket for 5 minutes and then put him back. He just knows that it would be wrong to take home the wildlife. I have [...]
12 Jul
Tarp roof for the Tree House
The treehouse had gone a long time uncovered, and the kids were getting a bit bored with the same old thing out there. I added a tarp roof this weekend and now everyone is enjoying this play area again. It does feel a lot more cozy up there now. Now, a review, for those of [...]
22 Apr
Other garden helpers
Playing on my trellis! S. M. H. MORE PAGES ABOUT THIS TREE HOUSE: Tree House in Progress More work on the tree house Tree house downdate Other garden helpers Tarp roof for the treehouse Excellent tree house books:
3 May
I’ve been getting some sun!
The weather was really rainy for the last few weeks, with very little sun showing through. When the sun did come, it was wonderful! Last weekend I was able to move 4 yards of topsoil and fill up my two new garden beds and the ones I raised higher (finally!) I got two beds of [...]
5 Jun
Tree house downdate
Today I thought I should post a picture of where we are with the tree house project. Sorry about the blurry pictures…it was a dark and dreary morning and the camera was setting itself on 1/8th second exposure. No, you haven’t travelled through time. I took the whole thing apart last night. Here (both foreground [...]
25 May
More work on tree house
Despite feeling quite sick both Wednesday and Friday, I was perked up a bit today and got out around noon to do some more work on the tree house. The most important thing I decided on today was the access method. This set of semi-stairs/semi-ladder will work fine. I did not route out slots, I [...]
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