FishinBC's Blog

Rain!
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