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July 2008

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Jul 17, 2008 | 5:44 PM PST
Tag: July 17th

Early blog this week. We are heading down to the Jersey Shore tomorrow to visit with my Wife’s Aunt. I hope to get some surf fishing in tomorrow and Saturday. I will be looking to catch striped bass, weakfish, and flounder. I will be more than happy to catch some time just standing in the surf. Saturday night we will probably head to Atlantic City to the Casinos. I haven’t been there since spring 2007. We don’t take much money so we don’t give a lot to the Casinos. My oldest daughter will be minding the cats, watering the gardens, and feeding the critters while we are away.

I finally picked my first tomato today. It’s already gone. I had it with dinner. I also picked a zucchini. I was going to leave it but my wife figured it was ready. I was going to let it get huge, but she likes them smaller with less seeds. I have another half dozen growing and three more close to ripe tomatoes. I have three tomato plants and a dozen zucchini. I also have a spaghetti squash growing on one of the vines trying to escape the garden. It is at the top of the fence. I’ll get pictures when it gets bigger.

The bunny started eating my Gazania flowers. I had flowers with all of the petals nibbled down to the center. He or she was being careful not to rip the plants out of the ground. I weeded the side garden on Sunday before we went out to a family function. While I was weeding my Wife planted a few plants in spaces created where the Tulips and Daffodils had been. Their foliage is now all gone and all that was left was empty space. I planted the Lavender in the side garden, but it isn’t recovering from the overwatering or whatever affliction I gave it. I will look up growing suggestions before planting it again. I have a few Nasturtium plants coming up from last year as well as Portulaca.(I never planted it in my garden but this is the second year I’ve gotten it.) The Portulaca springs up almost overnight. In the front garden my Wife planted orange this year. After our last good rain in June we had a whole spectrum of colors appear.

Got to go pack my saltwater flies and fly rod. Hope everyone has a great weekend and a prosperous week.

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garden98011	Jul 17, 2008 \| 8:29 PM PST What a treat to eat produce you've grown, tastes so much better. Lavender is fussy in my book, others love it, but the interior always dries up for me. I don't plant it anymore. Do you use the nasturtium blooms in salad? Enjoy your vacation, sounds fantastic~Andrea
pyoung	Jul 18, 2008 \| 3:27 AM PST Good luck with the fishing. My dad taught me how to fly fish and gave me my first fly rod and reel. It was his older one. I still have it. I have taught my boys how to fly fish too. We normally fly fish for bass, or fresh water trout when on vacation. Some around here fish for salt water fish with fly rods. I have not done that yet. Hope you guys have a great trip. Last edited by pyoung on July 18th at 3:28 AM.
Aurora	Jul 18, 2008 \| 7:14 AM PST Enjoy your fishing :) I have never had success with lavender either. I have 3 portulaca growing in various beds this year too, and I have never planted any in this house LOL! Pretty, so I am leaving them. I have my grandfather's fly fishing rods. I really should learn how to do it and make use of them. Last edited by Aurora on July 18th at 7:15 AM.
bsmitch	Jul 18, 2008 \| 9:08 AM PST Lots of luck with the fishing. I've never had an luck growing Lavender, but I'm not giving up on it. Let me talk about zucchini. You know how fast it grows and if you have ten or fifteen plants, they can hid until they are huge. I've taken some that were twenty + inches long. I would cut these in half length wise and scoop out the seeds and put a sausage mixture inside and bake it. After a couple hours or so, slice it and serve with an Italian tomato sauce poured over it and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. You have a great day and happy gardening. Bill Mitchell Last edited by bsmitch on July 18th at 9:34 AM.

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