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Post by september on Apr 5, 2023 14:56:20 GMT -5
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Apr 5, 2023 18:50:33 GMT -5
Offline until Tuesday.
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Post by paulf on Apr 6, 2023 21:01:40 GMT -5
The rest of the tomato seedlings were re-potted today...about two weeks later than normal. Something is not right.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 18, 2023 11:29:22 GMT -5
We went to son #3's spring band concert last night. We had a good time, and all of the bands sounded really great. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/1O7SOWgs0dheN6ogmHMC.png) The last two songs the high school concert band played were a departure from the music they usually play, so that was fun. And it's always fun to see the younger bands play. The beginning (6th grade) band is always impressive to me, knowing that most of those kids have never played any instrument before the beginning of the school year, yet they can play real music together now. And they are already noticeably better than they were at the Christmas concert (their first ever performance). And then over the course of the concert you get to hear their progression as musicians through the middle school advanced band and into the high school band. The music gets progressively more difficult and complex, and is played with more precision even to my untrained ear. Son #3 is in both the jazz band (tenor saxophone) and concert band (contrabass clarinet). Last night during his jazz band performance was the ONLY time through all of his middle school and high school band concerts that we were sitting close enough to get good video of my son playing. Which is ironic, because he's graduating next month - last night was his last high school band concert. He's my only kid in band, so I will miss the band concerts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 18, 2023 11:29:50 GMT -5
The rest of the tomato seedlings were re-potted today...about two weeks later than normal. Something is not right. Did your seedlings perk up after repotting, paulf?
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Post by paulf on Apr 18, 2023 12:17:42 GMT -5
Most everthing is catching up to what would be normal with ten days to planting outside. I always worry a little too much. At least this year none of the tomatoes will be three feet tall on May 1. About a third of the original seeds did not germinate and the replacements are looking OK. Peppers look better than ever.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 18, 2023 20:20:38 GMT -5
![](https://i.postimg.cc/HxGB3JKr/IMG-0996.jpg) I managed to hoe around 2 of my Roselle plants today.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 26, 2023 12:10:51 GMT -5
We have been out of town for a week and just got back on Sunday. The first thing I did after saying Hi to the cats was check on my tomato and pepper seedlings and they all looked good. They didn't even notice that I was gone!
Bok choy seedlings that I transplanted to the garden just before I left look happy and the spinach is getting it's first leaves so all is good. I hope to be making salads soon from my spinach and leaf lettuce.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 26, 2023 12:35:32 GMT -5
Glad to hear your seedlings didn't miss you, inside or out!
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Post by paulf on Apr 26, 2023 22:04:24 GMT -5
Built two more raised beds for DW and filled for the plants we will be out and about tomorrow we will be purchasing. Several nurseries in the area will be visited. Also need to get 8 or 10 bags of soilless mix.
Home after four hours of plant purchasing about $200 lighter in the wallet. Most of the new stuff is in the ground. Another trip tomorrow (Friday) to finish up at a couple greenhouses the other direction, plus a trip to get the bags of potting mix. After getting home and planted went into the basement and separated my own peppers and tomatoes from the extras I will be giving away. May 10 is the target date for transplanting. Another week to get into the garden and put down the newsprint and straw mulch.
It is now Friday afternoon with another couple hundred lighter in bank account and a whole lot more work accruing. Resting up for a lot of planting on Saturday.
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Post by spike on Apr 28, 2023 12:10:41 GMT -5
Technically this was yesterday . . . but it is raining today so today I clean . . . But Hubs bought a shed. 12 X 20 WOO HOO! The phews are gonna come and tear down the garage and the shed will be the replacement.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 29, 2023 16:37:19 GMT -5
Excellent. New sheds are great - just don't let your hubs hog ALL of the space in there. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AlTVKjAhCypksR0Ugttf.png)
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Post by spike on May 3, 2023 9:34:12 GMT -5
Yee haw let the excitement begin. Saturday we kept getting calls from a 1-8888 number telling us that Spectrum needed to come check our service. Well we were having no issues, caller ID didn't say Spectrum and so we ignored the calls. Then the e-mails started, so I call Spectrum and yes they needed to come out and check our service. Sent a guy out on Sunday the very next day WOW. Well the cable under our house needed replaced. Very bad not good. When my Uncles built this house for my grandparents, they didn't want gramps to have a basement as they were afraid he would fall down the stairs. Instead they made a 4 1/2 foot pit of doom, with a dirt floor, filled with spider webs and a rickety ladder going down UNDER the trap door. So yea much safer, insert eye roll here. Nothing was working so the poor kid had to go down in the pits, now I even tried to save him by canceling cable but he was sure he could handle it and yes he was wrong but down he went. That was how we found out the hot water tank was leaking. We didn't know cause the water heater sits on top of the old chimney that was removed to floor level. So the water ran down the chimney down into the pits of doom. Yes I am sure our house is up to code . . . ha ha ha ha ha snort giggle . . . scowl . . . So yesterday the plumber came out. First the pipes were all the wrong size, then the last plumber, when bringing the water heater up out of the pits, cut the wires to short so now the wires couldn't reach the new taller water heater. Naturally the wire the plumber had on hand wouldn't work with the fuse box (don't understand) so he had to go buy a hunk of wire. Whee ha we finally have hot water and no waterfall. Tomorrow the dumpster arrives and my 2 Phews are coming over to remove the garage. I won't even tell you about the horrors that are our garage but it coming down will not be an issue lol We are either boring as rocks or total chaos. BUT I have baby pepper seedlings <3
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on May 3, 2023 11:10:11 GMT -5
spike, Anything and everything can happen on a Tuesday. Don't let the Phews just connect a chain to the garage and the other end to their pick up then gas it. Saw that on Hometown on HGTV. At best you would have ruts in your yard.
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Post by spike on May 3, 2023 14:14:54 GMT -5
mgulfcoastguy, oh my Phews are much more idiotic than that. They have a bobcat at their disposal and I am leaving home >,<
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Post by september on May 3, 2023 20:32:17 GMT -5
spike , there was a utility crawl space like that under a previous log house that we lived in when we first moved up here. Our friends then bought it as a summer home, they spend 1/2 the year in Arizona. When they went to remodel it, they found that some of the flooring over the crawl space was actually rotten due to the moisture from the sand below. Found that out when they ripped out the carpeting to replace it. So -- did you get your cable back?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 3, 2023 21:12:50 GMT -5
spike, That was a funny read there Goober. Is it goong to be a “Here, hold my beer” moment?
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Post by paulf on May 3, 2023 23:13:23 GMT -5
For the first year since the garden has been mulched with newspaper (I get rolls from the local newspaper and that makes it a lot easier) and straw, my wife volunteered to help. Full day's job was done in a half day. I rolled the paper out in double strips...thirty-six inches wide by 50 feet long, the garden is 50X50. Lots of paper as a base, then weedless straw spread out about 6-8 inches deep. It took ten bales to cover the garden. Instead of me taking three days to recover, we are both hurting tonight, but not like usual. We will see if we can get out of bed in the morning. Ready to plant tomatoes and peppers when it decides to warm up. All the seedlings are now in the hardening off process. One day of very little wind certainly does help. What a team we are! Fifty-two years in July.
But old age is coming at a bad time.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 4, 2023 8:09:47 GMT -5
spike, I sincerely hope that your nephews manage to demolish your garage without causing a RUD event on your house! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/69NYbMmPkXk2bJ9R8OBQ.png) "RUD" is a term hubby picked up from watching SpaceX launches - it stands for "Rapid Unplanned Disassembly." I guess you could add an "E" for "Event" and then the acronym would be RUDE. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AlTVKjAhCypksR0Ugttf.png) I don't blame you one bit for leaving during the demo. It would be hard enough to watch professionals do a job like that, much less a couple of family members with a Bobcat and (possibly) more enthusiasm than sense.
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Post by spike on May 4, 2023 10:38:30 GMT -5
spike , That was a funny read there Goober. Is it goong to be a “Here, hold my beer” moment? Oh I am sure it will be. Those two fools bought a Still off the internet and want to make moonshine. So yeah.
september , LOL Yes we got our cable back along with a really dirty/gross cable guy!
Laura_in_FL , Thank goodness our garage sits far enough away from the house that our only concern is those two fools on a bobcat.
Congrats!! That is just totally awesome! <3
And finally the dumpster just arrived . . . let the games begin . . . BTW we let that vine (Virginia Creeper) grow on the garage to hide it cause ew. Plus those wind storms did the poor thing no favors.
![](https://i.ibb.co/G3zXMXV/thumbnail-Resized-20230504-112255.jpg)
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 5, 2023 12:48:03 GMT -5
spike, I was relieved to read your garage is well away from your house. That increases the odds that no harm comes to anyone or anything except the garage. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AgR8NN4iidU1wy_OcyQm.png) Hopefully your nephews will take the time to learn the right way to use their shiny new internet still, so they don't make the wrong kind of alcohol! Let's just say I wouldn't line up to taste the first batch of moonshine made by newbies.
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Post by spike on May 6, 2023 17:36:17 GMT -5
Hopefully your nephews will take the time to learn the right way to use their shiny new internet still HA HA HA HA HA HA HA that would be a HUGE nope. But the only thing left standing on the garage is the frame. Our old neighbor Ralph, (in his 80s) has his tractor over here, he has a pallet on the forks and our other neighbor, Gunner is standing on the pallet taking off the eaves . . . I think. I can't watch. He wants the frame? We are not totally "Billy Bob" around these parts but we are within spittin distance.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 6, 2023 21:16:28 GMT -5
What chew talkin’ bout spike. My middle name is Billy Joe Jim Bob and I can knock a jelly bean off a fence post at darn near a quarter mile with nothing more than a chew of Beech Nut.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 6, 2023 21:50:04 GMT -5
I took my extra tomatoes, zinnias, and one Mexican sunflower over to my friend's place today, then came home, and put that last drip irrigation line down, where I put the asparagus yesterday. Tomatoes are all doing fine, and some I can even see growth on them, for sure. Eggplants go in tomorrow. Peppers maybe the end of the week, though 2 have buds on them already, in just 5 weeks, that I picked off (jalapeños - as always the earliest, with superchili).
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Post by spike on May 7, 2023 10:19:35 GMT -5
pepperhead212, I am so jealous! But soon I will be able to get out there also!
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Post by paulf on May 8, 2023 9:07:28 GMT -5
After .84 inches of rain last night and a cooler day today, it is time to put the tomatoes and peppers in the ground. All the extra plants have been given away (or are waiting to be given to a lady I promised there would be extras). Twenty-four varieties going into the dirt and twenty spares in case of failures. This makes fifty-two years of planting tomatoes and twenty-four of those years growing REAL tomatoes. Twenty years of peppers and we don't really eat that many peppers...they are just fun.
Two more rows of asparagus went in a couple days ago and the rains came just in time. For a person who never really liked asparagus, six rows fifteen feet long is a lot of the green stuff to eat. But then, one row of ten plants is purple asparagus. We shall see in three years what that tastes like. As a side note; in 1970 an old girlfriend's mother made a home cooked meal and was proud of her asparagus but I refused to eat it. All these years later I still regret just not bearing it and taking a few bites. Most likely that is why she wasn't my girlfriend for very much longer. My bride of 52 years took me home one weekend and her mother cooked up a mess of greens (she went out into the yard and picked some weeds and put them into a pot). I didn't eat those either but that girlfriend became my wife, so who knows.
update: 20 pepper plants, four kinds of decorative gourds, a freebie cucumber, an English long cucumber. tri-color zucchini all planted so as of now the garden is planted. Rain on the way...maybe...and now let Mother Nature take its course.
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Post by brownrexx on May 8, 2023 9:28:39 GMT -5
Got my tomato and pepper seedlings potted up yesterday and they are adjusting to outdoor temperatures. Our last average frost date is May 15 so there is no rush to get them into the ground. They should be ready to go after May 15 though. I have not had good luck getting them into the ground early because it always gets cold and the plants hate that. I came up with a great method 2 years ago. I put the trays of plants in the bed of my Johhn Deer Gator and they stay in the garage overnight and then during the day I just back the Gator out into the driveway. So easy and the sides of the bed protect them from wind if needed. Here's a pic from last year. My plants are not this big yet this year. 20200505_113009 (2) by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 9, 2023 15:37:25 GMT -5
I had a load of fill dirt delivered to the property this morning. We're going to use it to fill in the big ruts and holes in the front yard, which were caused by whoever took out the downed trees after Hurricane Michael. With those filled in, it will be safer and easier to use a riding mower. It's a lot of yard to mow with a push mower, even a self-propelled one, and no one in the family has been looking forward to doing that all summer. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/uJ3wHzVudwy0q4vAqilQ.png) Then errands, getting the oil changed in my car...you know, normal stuff.
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Post by spike on May 12, 2023 13:52:04 GMT -5
And mostly done! Taking out the cinder blocks and the new shed will be brought in soon! My phews worked their behinds off for me <3 You can see my 2 garden water totes in the back waiting to be reset up! ![](https://i.ibb.co/yPBKJvJ/20230503-120935.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/drrH1MC/20230511-141616.jpg)
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 12, 2023 19:25:04 GMT -5
Today I took my extra seedlings over to my friend's house, and helped them put them into their garden (though I didn't do a lot there). I also took them some of that extra trellis I have, from setting up the pole beans, and a few other things I know I'll never use all of! I told the son I'll help him set up a seedling room, when he wants to start getting into that. These are the seedlings I took over: Leftovers, to take over to friends tomorrow. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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