What did YOU do in your garden today :P

[kathiesgarden]

It rained all day with a couple of minutes long sun breaks yesterday afternoon. After 4 hours of quite a few up and down trips of climbing and crawling in the attic and sweating and more than a few @#%^&* s due to some very questionable / interesting third world construction practices ??? This is the next in a long line of construction issues ( I have remodeled 2 and built 4 of my own homes from the ground up ) ( last year I found out from a prominent local lifelong resident of this town that the developer used ILLEGALS to build the 354 home subdivision in 3 years and that the building inspector was an alcoholic who did drive by inspections [ $$$ too ?] ). I finally had to rip off the dining room sheetrock at the entrance and drill 9 new holes through 2 wall studs and top plate just to run one 11' wire from the light switch to the new ceiling light fixture. It just started to rain again for the rest of the day with a line of new storms to last through this coming Tuesday. A HOT toddy is in order instead of a spot of tea !

I can relate to your post @bobm. DH and I are big time do-it-ourselfers too. We've run up against some really zany construction practices. We ran a construction company for 20 years so am very familiar with some of the shenanigans that goes on. I love being able to do our repairs with DH. I have learned a whole new vocabulary of swear words from DH after listening to him working on some of the projects we've taken on.

Good for you! 'Git 'er Done'
Kathie

 

[baymule]

@kathiesgarden I had to laugh when I read about your grand daughter and the slugs/salt. When my daughter was 4, I showed her how slugs melt when salted. For awhile, every saltshaker I had had a slimy top, never could get her to understand that she didn't have to rub the salt on the slugs.

Today, I planted 3 Tommy Toe tomato plants and 4 Yellow Pear. My eggplants didn't look so good, so I bought some more and planted them. I pulled weeds, lopped off some huge cauliflower plants and tossed to the chickens. Daily I pick dandelion leaves for the ducks and chickens. When they get too big, I snap them off at the ground. I enjoy their cheerful yellow flowers and I don't mind them sharing the garden space.

 

[nachoqtpie]

Lets see... today.. we got more dirt for the garden.

LAST year, hubs thought it would be a GREAT idea to remove all the dirt between the raised beds so we wouldn't have to worry about grass/weeds popping up... and then they all shifted. LOL So no he gets to FILL the paths between the beds, THEN he has to fix the beds and then FILL the beds back up. *sigh*

And... I'm still trying to figure out if I can save my pear tree that was snapped in half

 

[baymule]

@nachoqtpie ummmmm.......maybe consider your pear tree a dwarf?
Where 'ya been? Been missing you!

 

[nachoqtpie]

Ohhh.. here and there! LOL

Sometimes I take breaks from sites. I get busy, watch too much TV, spend too much time with the fam... you know how it is.

I WISH I could consider it a dwarf.. but I don't even know if it's going to make it! Any idea on how I would fix it???

 

[baymule]

If the snap is shredded, I would make it a clean cut and seal it with some sort of pruning stuff. (somebody help me here-not a fruit tree pruner) Then see if it sends out new growth and select the strongest 2 or 3 branches and cut off the rest. Then let it grow for awhile.

 

[nachoqtpie]

This tree already has developing fruit on it... It probably won't "develop" any more. It was snapped about 5" from the ground!

 

[897tgigvib]

Welcome back Nacho!

 

[ninnymary]

Good to see you again nacho. I personally prefer to pull it out and plant a new one. Sometimes it's just too much bother and time trying to save something. It looks like your tree is a gonner.

Mary

 

[baymule]

This tree already has developing fruit on it... It probably won't "develop" any more. It was snapped about 5" from the ground!

That just stinks.