Recent content by Vanalpaca

Not much in the garden with rain off an on. Beans and corn are up. Planted a lot more beans and waiting to get another path of corn planted. Have zucchini, butternut, cukes all sown as well. In a week temps are going to slam up to the 90's in NW Ohio. That'll suck big time. Last gasp this next...

My babies are high bush. They were 'husky rooted from cuttings' last year. Nice little plants. They just aren't really thriving as to growth since they are supposed to be 6 feet tall high bush plants. But they are only in 2 gal containers and were nibbled down by the bunnies over the winter....

Too bad they are expensive and availability is scarce...

OK Butterflies/Moths photos are pretty cool!!

So that's like 60 buckets worth. That's a lot of weight! We keep our feed in metal as well after rats ate half a pallet....

I keep getting waylaid by lack of energy... day of work, day off. We did a feed run this morning and are sitting down since. Still need to drag myself up and go heat up some soup...

When I am in the garden, I have a quart jar of cold well water. I add the lemon balm a few fresh sprigs. Give it a light lemon taste and keep it fresh and the bugs out of it....

Cannot believe I was already out to the garden at 6:15 am this morning. There is a cow tied outside the fence at one corner. I closed up the entrance to the bee hive nuc in the greenhouse with 4 sprigs of mint wrapped in a comfrey leaf so they cannot get out and I can move them later when I'm...

I live IN a rock n roll music studio... original rock created in whole. He tried to rope me into back up singer, but I've only done a line or two in a couple of the songs. Besides all the other bands he helps produce, whose music sounds the same after a while, I still prefer to listen to our...

I hear it's good to set boundaries...

No wonder I've been out of it for a while... only us military survivors understand the true meaning of SPAM.... as in a thanksgiving turkey made of spam....

I made tomato sauce and some was thick enough to almost be paste. I grew a bunch of different heirloom pastes, hearts and a few beefsteaks and pureed them in the blender after coring, then just put them through the strainer, heated it up real good and hot water bath canned them. My daughter...

If the tomatoes are inground and too wet, give them an umbrella or overhead shelter from the rains. If they are small enough and caged, a clear garbage bag oveer the cage should help keep some of the rain off.

Wow. We have rains starting Wed and for Thurs Fri...Great way to start out June... My garden is always planted by now. Instead with the barometric pressure we've been staying inside way too much. Still hitting the garden hard on stuff we should have done weeks ago but it was rain then....It's...

I thought maybe the cat snuck in and got locked in....