Baymule's 2018 Garden

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"got Marigold?" i'm assuming that is a horse helper, but perhaps by cart or carry bags? it's ok, early yet in the day, no caffiene or chocolate yet. :) smiling in the garden. leaning on a rake. :)

i was walking yesterday back in and noticed how one of my very first projects here was doing. it's almost all falling over now. i built a small cement wall and used large tiles in one side as decorations. with one side being dirt and the other having a few covered drain tubes put under the area to help get the standing water out of there. the wall was meant to help block some water flows we had from flash flooding. it had no footing and wasn't down very deep or very thick so the frost heaves over the past 15-20yrs has pushed it all over.

i have or had pictures somewhere of me digging that trench and putting all that in, leaning on a shovel or rake. i also including a sort of box of cement sides where various underground drainage hoses to go into. the box was also too thin and unreinforced and has long since fallen apart, cracked and caved in. one of my hoped for projects over the next several years is to remove all that broken up cement and fill that whole drainage system in after putting down a few more tubes (they take up space besides helping move the water. which means i'd have to move less fill to cover it up. :) still daydreaming about that project...

frozen nights still. this is being a long spring. ok here. i'm stacking up daydreams in between snow squalls. perhaps in a week or two it will finally be warm enough to do some work on the garden shed or a few of the gardens.

p.s. i think in that picture he looks like @Collector 's twin brother... :)
 

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@flowerbug Marigold is my Kubota tractor. :love:love

@Nyboy if you remember, before we moved, my garden consisted of beds in the front yard. I had Saturday/Sunday off, he had Sunday/Monday off. So most of the heavy stuff I did on Saturdays, although he did pitch in several times to shovel horse manure with me. His contributions were mainly in keeping it watered. He got home from work before I did, and he watered the garden while I prepared supper. He liked helping out.

Now, we have LOTS of space, we're retired and he loves to get outside and work around here doing whatever needs to be done.
 

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@flowerbug Marigold is my Kubota tractor. :love:love

@Nyboy if you remember, before we moved, my garden consisted of beds in the front yard. I had Saturday/Sunday off, he had Sunday/Monday off. So most of the heavy stuff I did on Saturdays, although he did pitch in several times to shovel horse manure with me. His contributions were mainly in keeping it watered. He got home from work before I did, and he watered the garden while I prepared supper. He liked helping out.

Now, we have LOTS of space, we're retired and he loves to get outside and work around here doing whatever needs to be done.

lol, lovely! if we had one of those this whole yard would be scraped bare every fall and spring. and we'd probably have some holes in the side of the house too... :)

i love being retired too, which is why i started at about age 34ish. never run out of things to do outside and also have no trouble inside reading or tinkering with computer stuff. this year marked my over 21st year of the continued adventures. wish i could clone myself...

hope you all have a nice day. :)
 

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I have finally got started planting. I have planted Cherokee Purple and Mortgage Lifter tomatoes. I laid down cardboard, cut holes in it and planted the plants. Then I uses Marigold and my wagon to mulch over The cardboard.

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I found a teensy-tiny baby rabbit. I stomped it, picked it up and called Parker. I commanded him, Alligator! And tossed it in the air. Snap! His big teeth snapped shut, gulp and it was gone. The Rabbit War has commenced.

I pulled a lot of weeds, cleaning up more areas to plant.

This morning I pulled turnips and rutabagas to roast for our supper tonight. I am simmering the mixed greens now. I also picked the last of the mustard greens and put a bag in the freezer.

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It’s raining now.
 

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I have finally got started planting. I have planted Cherokee Purple and Mortgage Lifter tomatoes. I laid down cardboard, cut holes in it and planted the plants. Then I uses Marigold and my wagon to mulch over The cardboard.

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I found a teensy-tiny baby rabbit. I stomped it, picked it up and called Parker. I commanded him, Alligator! And tossed it in the air. Snap! His big teeth snapped shut, gulp and it was gone. The Rabbit War has commenced.

I pulled a lot of weeds, cleaning up more areas to plant.

This morning I pulled turnips and rutabagas to roast for our supper tonight. I am simmering the mixed greens now. I also picked the last of the mustard greens and put a bag in the freezer.

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It’s raining now.

yum! :) love roasted anything like that.

lol @ alligator
 

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yum! :) love roasted anything like that.

lol @ alligator
Parker is a black Lab/Great Dane mix. He weighs 105 pounds and has jaws like an alligator, hence the command. It works great for pretty much anything we want him to consume. The vet broke out laughing when I showed him how Parker takes pills. Just say ALLIGATOR and toss pill in the air. SNAP! GULP! pill gone.

After spending a weekend here, our 18 month old grand daughter went home, pushed her food off her high chair tray, to the waiting Silky Terrier waiting below and said Alligator! :lol:
 
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