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FishinBC's posts about: Fall Veggies
Aug 26, 2007 | 4:26 AM PST
Tags: Fall Veggies , Tomatoes , Cukes , Mums , Horse apples , Compost
Friday night brought us 4 good thunderstorms and lot's of steady rain in between! Yesterday was glorious. I did a lot of cleaning up in the flower beds, then headed out to the veggie patch to plant spinach, lettuce, beans & radish seed. Put in the broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts starts too. Also discovered that something had eaten all the tops off my new little beet sprouts. :( I was not pleased. I reseeded them and will hope for the best.
The major heat we had looks to have shut down the tomotes. Still have alot of fruit but no new flowers. The cukes got a second wind and I have about a dozen more pickle size cukes growing. The third planting of beans are about 3 feet high now and starting to flower.
Wally World got in a shipment of mums and I loaded up a cart. Potted some up for the deck and will put the rest in the front bed this morning.
Daughter #2 arrives Thursday evening for the long weekend. Looking forward to being able to show her around. She was here two years ago at Christmas but there was not alot we could do at that time, that and she thought it was too cold! Should have perfect weather while she is here. Suppose to be in the low to mid 80's.
One of my co workers has two horses and I think she thought I was off my rocker when I asked her if I could have some of their horse apples. When I told her I wanted it for my compost pile the light went on. I also kept her in tomatoes, peppers and cukes all season, so I think the idea of more fresh veggies won her over. I told her I would come out to her place and even shovel, but she said she would have her hubby load me up some large garbage bags.
My compost pile is finally large enough and has begun to cook and I am so thrilled. Doesn't take much to make me happy!
The light through the trees at sunrise this morning
Aug 1, 2007 | 6:22 AM PST
Tags: Daylilies , Heat , Watering , Veggie , Fall Veggies , cucumbers , Tomatoes
Can you believe it is August already? Where has this year gone? Seems like just yesterday was early April and I was out trying to save everything from the freeze we had. Still mourning the loss of my Japanese maple, the dappled willow that has replaced it is doing grand though! Before we know it fall will be here, can you believe it? Kinda of looking forward to the change in seasons again. Seems like we went from freeze to 90+ degrees over night.
The folks are coming home for September; they have been vagabonding in their RV since February. Don’t think they will hang out long though; they have plans to be in Arizona in October. They are having a blast and enjoying the road while they still can.
Daughter number 2 is coming out from So Cal for Labor Day weekend. This will be her second trip out. Last time she came for Christmas and really didn’t like the cold. Looking forward to her visit and being able to show her around.
I order some more daylilies (stops to slap mouse hand to keep from ordering more on line). Also put in an order for some bulbs to put in this fall.
We went by the nursery last night to see if they had their fall veggie starts. They said they should be in next week. Wow, I hope that will give them enough time. The fall raised veggie patch is ready and waiting for the starts to put in.
I am eating cucumbers for breakfast lunch and dinner. Even got the boy to try them and he liked them. What a surprise that was. Ryan is autistic and getting him to try new things is really hard sometimes. I have to catch him in the right mood. Haven’t had any ripe tomatoes the last few days. But there are lots of large greenies. My plants are loaded and leaning.
Just been watering constantly with our 90+ degree heat (gosh, I am going to hate to see our water bill) and even with twice a day water my containers are beginning to look sad. I moved everything into the shade on the porch last night maybe that will help.
Mom and the baby coonies are coming every night. I have started feeding them cheap dry cat food. My animal cracker & peanut expense account was dwindling. They seem to like the cat food and so far have been no trouble. They have their snack and move on. The squirrel trough now doubles at night as a raccoon trough. Sunflower seeds during the day and cat food at night. Cheri’s menagerie is growing…
Jul 27, 2007 | 8:07 AM PST
Tags: Patio , Dogs , Daylily , Fall Veggies
Not really a lot to report. Just the dog days of summer and the regular chores. Hubby cut the grass last night and we added all the clippings to the compost pile. I added more browns to even out the mixture. Picked eight ripe yellow and red tomatoes, some peppers, two cukes and one zucchini last night. We will have them with dinner this evening.
The new raised bed will finally be complete this weekend and will start prepping for a fall crop. I am looking at broccoli, cauliflower, beets, and peas and want to get some garlic in to winter over.
I have another daylily that has bloomed this one is called “Fall Embers”. It’s very pretty and I will try to post a photo if the bloom hasn’t faded by the time I get home.
We got a new patio table and six chairs last night at Wally World. They are marking stuff down now. Nothing fancy just stained pine, but we needed a bigger table and more chairs. Never have an enough room for everyone on the small one we have had since we got married. I gave the table a coat of Australian timber oil to protect it and will do the chairs tonight when we get home. The table looked nice this morning when I checked it to see if it had dried. We will christen it tomorrow with a BBQ on the deck with friends.
Missy Blue Eye, Briar Rose has me a little worried. We think she had a seizure last night. She has been on Phenobarbital four years after having cluster seizures a month after we adopted her. We have been seizure free until last night. Called the vet and she said one breakthrough seizure is not a big deal but if she has another we need to go in and have her phenol levels checked. This was a small one no thrashing, just clacked her teeth together and it only lasted seconds. But you could tell that electricity was firing off in her brain and she was hot an acting drunk for a bit afterwards. Always keep vanilla ice cream in the house just in case, it speeds recovery and helps cool them down. She enjoyed her treat though.
