Beau earning his dinner. This is the first of NINE raised beds he built for me while we were courting. He knew the way to my heart. ;)
Posted on 10/28/2016 5:06:09 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Beau earning his dinner. This is the first of NINE raised beds he built for me while we were courting. He knew the way to my heart. ;)
The only thing happening is that a neighbor’s black lab puppy is coming over to help him/herself to my newly planted pansies! Not quite sure who owns the dog but when I speak loudly and tell it to go home, it slowly wanders off with the tail between the legs. My Chihuahua also loves to eat the pansies and has been doing so for nearly 10 years. The plant seems to be ok for canines to eat but I am furious because of the money involved! I’ll be doing some research on how to deter the dog and check with the new neighbors.
I had a big Troy Bilt but she refused to use it. I still have a Mini-Troy that i use now and then
Little did you know I’ve been watching y’all.
I’ve known Mr.Bender from the NASCAR threads back 10-12 years ago. I think we hijacked it to talk gardening a couple of timea, not sure if he would remember that so many years ago.
For the last few years I haven’t had a computer. Husband loaned me his work laptop foe NASCAR until last year or two when we stopped getting the channels for most races on our satellite. I would lurk yall’s garden thread weekly while watching races but couldn’t say much as I couldn’t garden due to being in therapy/recovery from a wreck.
You and I seem to have been 2 of the lucky women to actually find awesome husbands in years past youth. I envy your farm tho. I married a guy with a beautiful place out in the country but its a on a lot. We’ve got a primo lake view from the top of a hill and the house had a small garden space with good soil hauled in. I only got to use that space one year, 2010. Then got in that wreck and its all gone back to grass. I am still fighting injuries and age so hubby wants to make that into raised beds for me but it hasn’t got done yet. LOL It’s on his “list.” I just decided to take the bull by the horns and plant pots this year. I was surprised at how well I did.
I used to have my own place about 50 miles from where we are now. Had 1/4 acre garden and an orchard with peaches, plums, pears, apricots and pecans. I miss that but am trying to work it all out here.
Love seed savers. I’ve browsed Jung online many times but not ordered from there. Have to be cautious in Texas about ordering from northern climes. Too many of us have ordered things that say they take the heat, but just don’t manage our nights that don’t cool or the dry air. When we travel to see our kids in Alabama and Maine I watch all those beautiful lush gardens in more humid climes. We always have to plant for dryness and soak soak soak. Even with drip irrigation and misters the climate takes its toll. Not unlike your encroaching winter, we just learn to accomodate mother nature.
How’s that for Sunday morning blathering?
I find a pellet gun works well for the stray and feral dogs. However, got attacked by a large stray a few months ago at my clothesline. Since we have these problems, and snakes, I keep a handgun on my person. The birdshot in the .410 from my Judge took better care of that dog.
Pellets for the things that dig my plants tho.
“How’s that for Sunday morning blathering?”
Nicely done! Nice to learn a little bit about you and where you (try to!) garden and live. I’d LOVE a lake view!
I, too, left a 25 year old established homestead with gardens and fruit and nut trees, raspberries, currants, etc. Beau has been out here for 23 years, but due to working 14 hour days (and more!) all that time, he never did establish any gardens, and the landscaping is a mess!
Anyhow, that’s MY job, now. Who could ask for more? :)
That won’t work for me because I live well within city limits. Thinking I need to get a commercial product which can be found at a pet store. It is one of the options I’m exploring.
Can you not even use one of those little pellet handguns?
I got a critter repellant mix that I used one year living in town from the dirt doctor website. I cant remember what I used it for, cats most likely. I will try to find that recipe.
I remember the ingredients but not the proportions. It was dry garlic powder mixed with cayenne pepper. Put it in a shaker and shake all over the plants they’re eating.
Yes, we did get the same type men. Lovely spot, all just left to do its own thing due to his long work hours. I’ve had a phenomenal vision for this place since I moved in but its been on hold due to the physical things.
So, my husband needed to go get some silicone and other misc things. Can’t get it in the 5 mile away town had to go 20 miles and he offered a lunch trip if i rode along. Ended up at Walmart for part of his stuff and they had 3 large carts of clearance plants. He asked me if anything looked good and they had cannas, succulents and chrysanthemums. I chose a canna envisioning how many plants and years I could get from it. Well, not sure what was going on, my usual budget minded hubby kept asking if I saw anything else. Ended up with 5 - 1 gallon cannas, 3 bowls of various succulents (he picked those, he likes succulents but can’t care for a weed) and 2 - 1 gallon mums. The mums were in a halloween motif bucket and look great they were $1.66 each just because of the bucket being halloween.
As we drove off I thanked him and said I hope I have physically good days to get them all fixed up. He informed me that I have more physically good days when I have needy plants. ROFL. Guilty as charged.
I think that is great. When I first started gardening and was doing some research, I saw a guy that had such a small yard, he was using most of his driveway and it was full of 5 gallon buckets. He got lots of produce from the area.
Thanks for the pic.
I have very limited space for indoor also. Have brought in tomatoes and peppers too before, but never tried extending them into the 2cnd season outdoors.
I usually keep them going so that I can have some fresh from the vine fruit during the off season.
I have been saving for a green house. One of those that is basically a sunroom that fits over the patio door - thinking we have room for at least an 8x10 foot.
Thought we would get it in September or October, but Hubby got laid up and missed some jobs, so I don’t know. By the time we have the money it will be too cold for this year.
I plan on getting another lemon tree or two, and using lots of 5 gallon buckets.
That’s very interesting. Thanks a bunch for posting this.
Thanks for the pics. Nice looking squash.
Just the summer stuff is dead. Plenty going on in the soil below the top. LOL
One reason I plant winter wheat and winter rye. It continues growing to a very low temp. Sorta hibernates when it freezes, and starts to go again when the snow melts, till the next freeze.
Yeh, it gets tough when the neighbors don’t control their animals. Our subdivision has a leash rule and pen rule. No pets are supposed to be wandering around free.
Either pen them up, or put them on a leash - or at least have them well trained so they don’t go galloping off and cause problems. Trouble is, almost all the original owners have moved, and apparently didn’t bother to advise the buyers of the rules.
People here get hostile if you try to talk to them about this kind of stuff, and some people in this county are not so civilized. (A sheriff who lived a few houses up got his garage firebombed).
However, our grand daughter is terrified of some of them. One in particular, was not that large, but nipped at Hubby’s feet. He went down and knocked on the door and told the neighbor that if that dog so much as touched our grand daughter’s feet he would shoot it. Told them to keep it in when the bus was coming around, or tie it up.
Another neighbor at least put up an electrified fence, to keep his great Dane in, but he put it about 10 feet onto our property. I was out side sweeping the patio, and he came over to talk to me.
He asked where the property line was, and I told him, so he told me that he had put it up too far over, but would move it if he had to. I thanked him for controlling his dog, but also I told him that he would have to move it, that Hubby just would never allow that, and anyway might be making another garden plot there.
An hour later, he and his wife were outside looking at the markers, then they went inside, and did nothing. Hubby said they have till the weekend. Sunday evening just before sundown, he went out and pulled up all the stuff on our property and put it on their front porch.
Sometimes you have to be a little less courteous than you want, or people take advantage. I’m just glad they were the type of people who don’t take revenge and escalate things - plenty of those in the county, but most don’t live in our neighborhood.
I’ll check on that. But definitely a pistol or rifle would not be ok.
We have the same leash laws and laws about picking up after your dog. Like you said, some people are not civilized. This is a small neighborhood and I’m on a dead end street. Almost every household has at least one dog and they mostly are off leash and not contained on their property. It is one reason I’ve stopped walking my dog. Sammy is a Chihuahua and when those mostly bigger than he dogs come running up to us, Sammy can be quite a handful and I don’t want to be in the middle of a dog fight again! Sammy has his own bathroom (this apartment has two) papered with training pads which he uses all the time. He also gets plenty of exercise by running around like a greyhound. lol
I’ll give it a try.
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