FishinBC's Blog

No house work for me.
Jul 23, 2007 | 10:39 AM PST
Tags: Veggie , Compost , mulch , tomato , zucchini , flowers , gerbera , petunias , hardy hibiscus

I could not bring myself to do anything inside this weekend, so the dust bunnies are still hopping around my house this morning.  Oh, well.  I spent both days out in the flower beds and veggie patch.  Watered early Saturday and got the holes dug for the butterfly bush and hardy hibiscus that I got.  As I was weeding and deadheading, there were a lot of thin spots in the mulch.  I went down and got about 10 bags and brought that home to spread around.  I love new mulch.  Covered all the beds and had enough to put back behind the pond.

Some of the other daylilies have put up scapes and have buds.  Can’t wait to see them.  The gereberas have finally decided to bloom again and for some reason the wave petunias have also gotten a second wind from the something and are flowing all down the side of the old stump, thick with purple flowers.

Hubby helped me finish the three sided slat fence to put around my compost pile.  My pile isn’t very big yet but I am working on it.  Chopped up the kitchen scrapes in the food processor and put them out there too.  Bill got me a pitch fork this weekend.  I was trying to turn the pile with a shovel.  Wow what a difference that made.  (Duh!) 

Cleaned and weeded in the veggie patch and tied up some more tomato limbs to the trellis.  I have two zucchini left that haven’t been hit by the vine borers YET.  My cukes have climbed nicely all over the fence and there are dozens of fruit hanging down.  They are so good and crisp. 

We did not get the new raised bed up.  Hubby brought home work for a project that he was under a crunch on, so it will have to be next weekend.  Will go by the dump and pick up some compost (have to make do until my own is ready) and some topsoil down at the landscape yard.

           Had enough tomatoes to make another batch of sketty sauce.  Added a few of the yellow tomatoes to it.  They did lighten the color of the sauce but it still tasted great.  Used loads of fresh basil from the herb pots of the deck.  Made some Penne, a tomato, cuke and pepper salad and had a yummy dinner.  Only things not from the garden were the pasta and the bread.  You just can’t beat that!

Flower Photos
Jun 10, 2007 | 11:54 AM PST
Tags: Pictures , Flowers , Wildflowers

We spent yesterday out floating Big Sugar Creek in the kayaks.  The day was perfect and there were tons of wild flowers in bloom.  I took a cheap throw away camera and hope the pictures turned out well.  I was not about to risk the Canon out in the water. 

I did take some pix around the house with the REAL camera.  I posted them in my photo album under June Flowers.  Hope you all enjoy.

 June Flowers