Baymule’s 2021 Garden

[baymule]

This picture is hilarious!

I stopped coloring my hair. How long before it looks likes your beautiful mane?

The grow out process was agonizing. I colored my hair auburn red for 20 some odd years. I just got tired of the process and decided to let it grow out. I don’t remember how long it took, I just remember wanting to shave my head but the beautician wouldn’t do that. LOL I got it cut real short, it was cute, still had red tips, washed out red. Finally it was all gone. Then I looked around and saw that every old lady in Walmart had short white hair, so I grew it out. It was well worth the grow out process. Whatever you do, don’t give up.

 

[flowerbug]

...I do tend to pile things on myself. But at least I’m never bored.

we were raised to never use the b-word. if you did you could be put to work. and yes, we still do call it the b-word. it's one letter worse than a four-letter word, so you know it's bad...

 

[flowerbug]

The grow out process was agonizing. I colored my hair auburn red for 20 some odd years. I just got tired of the process and decided to let it grow out. I don’t remember how long it took, I just remember wanting to shave my head but the beautician wouldn’t do that. LOL I got it cut real short, it was cute, still had red tips, washed out red. Finally it was all gone. Then I looked around and saw that every old lady in Walmart had short white hair, so I grew it out. It was well worth the grow out process. Whatever you do, don’t give up.

Mom is growing her hair out now and has been for the past year or two. she hates having long hair. she's kept it very short for many years, her friends and some of the family have been complaining to her about it being so short and she kept having people at the stores think that she had cancer. but she hates having hair in her face or on her neck or touching her ears. so she's complaining about it and how thin it is and how fine it is. she's gotten a few perms. i think that makes it even more likely to be in her face or on her neck or on her ears. a pony tail is so easy in comparison. when i had my hair long i just did that and it was a one and done for the day sort of thing. she says it's just too thin and it looks bad. i wouldn't notice. it does get the hair out of the face and off the ears, but not off the neck.

she tried a french braid but that didn't last very long and is too much trouble for her to do. she wanted me to do it for her. um, nope, i'm more likely to cut it off if it bothers me.

the other day she was threatening to buzz it all off again but she got through that. i think the next few weeks of hot weather may be a challenge to her keeping it again. i won't say anything but i know how much she hates it. it sure is cooler without it.

i'd post my picture from back when i had long hair and was cutting it off but i don't want to scare everyone's garden plants into wilting.

 

[baymule]

It’s August 11, 2021. In a normal year, the tomatoes would have produced a bounty, an overload, of tomatoes. The vines would be spent by now, burned and crisp by the heat.

But this ain’t a normal weather year.

Today I picked my first tomatoes. By now, I should have gleaming jars of canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, pizza sauce, salsa, plain tomato sauce and dehydrated tomatoes. Nope. Nada.

My first tomatoes and a few long green beans, second picking.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

It’s August 11, 2021. In a normal year, the tomatoes would have produced a bounty, an overload, of tomatoes. The vines would be spent by now, burned and crisp by the heat.

But this ain’t a normal weather year.

Today I picked my first tomatoes. By now, I should have gleaming jars of canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, pizza sauce, salsa, plain tomato sauce and dehydrated tomatoes. Nope. Nada.

My first tomatoes and a few long green beans, second picking.

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It has been a weird year for peppers for me. By now I am drowning I peppers and this year barely have enough to make salsa.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

The grow out process was agonizing. I colored my hair auburn red for 20 some odd years. I just got tired of the process and decided to let it grow out. I don’t remember how long it took, I just remember wanting to shave my head but the beautician wouldn’t do that. LOL I got it cut real short, it was cute, still had red tips, washed out red. Finally it was all gone. Then I looked around and saw that every old lady in Walmart had short white hair, so I grew it out. It was well worth the grow out process. Whatever you do, don’t give up.

I wont give up because I hate coloring it. Mine is naturally jet black so the white shows up really good lol. It has been almost 6 months since I last colored it.

 

[baymule]

I wont give up because I hate coloring it. Mine is naturally jet black so the white shows up really good lol. It has been almost 6 months since I last colored it.

That’s why I changed my hair dye color from brunette to red when I was 34. By 34, I was white headed and a couple weeks after L’Oréal-you’re worth it, I had a skunk stripe and looked like fresh road kill. So I changed to red and it wasn’t so obvious. 20 years later, that got old and I quit.

 

[digitS']

I have my first Bloody Butcher ripening in the kitchen. Tomatofest says Bloody Butcher's a 54 day-to-maturity variety. Burpee says it is 8 weeks. Maybe the tomato plants will hurry up, bloom and make a crop but ... I've had frost in my garden in August. No way is that happening this year! Mid-month August 14, the WS says it will be over 100°.

Peppers. As best as I understand, the soil here, at least some of it, is very similar to soil in central Mexico. So, I'm guessing that the peppers should like our soil. What I'm certain of is that they don't like morning and afternoon temperatures varying 30-40 degrees so often, during the growing season. They have "expressed" that dislike often enuf.

The pepper plants and eggplant are producing fairly well in 2021. The plants aren't very big but production is certainly earlier than the tomatoes.

Steve

 

[baymule]

I understand the weird weather Steve. We had a wet and cool/cold nights spring. When it quit raining and warmed up, it got HOT. No wonder the garden plants rebelled.

 

[heirloomgal]

It’s August 11, 2021. In a normal year, the tomatoes would have produced a bounty, an overload, of tomatoes. The vines would be spent by now, burned and crisp by the heat.

But this ain’t a normal weather year.

Today I picked my first tomatoes. By now, I should have gleaming jars of canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, pizza sauce, salsa, plain tomato sauce and dehydrated tomatoes. Nope. Nada.

My first tomatoes and a few long green beans, second picking.

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What tomato variety is in the bottom left? Very lovely.