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Yes, she hasn't quite figured out where to face for the camera. And she was "why are you taking pictures?".

Well I'm super tired. Got a 1/2 cubic yard of veggie mix soil from local place and loaded into the garden by myself. That was hauling approx 1,000lbs around to the backyard. I love having a pickup. :) I planted the orange and apple tree. I still need to plant the blueberry. Some pictures...

My local Walmart had seedling heat mats for sale. Not sure if price was good or not.

So I have my trees but no soil cause it poured again last night. Hopefully they will do okay in pots for another week. Anna apple Valencia Rhode Red orange Sunshine Blue S.Highbush blueberry And a plumeria stick :)

Bed is made and tested. :) Now I need to buy a 1/2 cubic yard of dirt and haul to the back.

I just counted the fence boards left over from the repairs. I think I have enough for a 5'x2'x1' garden bed once I trim the rotted ends. :) I all need to do is get a couple packs of the 2' long landscape stakes and I will have a big raised bed for this year.

The pepper are doing okay. I started some watermelon yesterday cause daughter wanted to garden.

The Sante Fe pepper seeds started 1/28 are doing great. The Oda pepper, not so much. I still have 5 seeds of each variety to pot out tomorrow.

Hope you are all okay. Let us know if there is anything we can do long distance to help.

This is a really neat article I stumbled across about Mediterranean fruit production in Europe before greenhouses. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html

I really like the cinder block raised beds. They look nice and neat.

Henless, thanks for reply. First picture on page 1 is a shot of all the utilities marked out from 1call. I've been cautious cause telcommunication companies tend not to bury to depth required by code. My containers are half 55gal food grade barrels. They are uv stabilized for outdoor storage...

Update: flower bed has all sod removed and cardboard down for past week or so. The three wicking barrels for trees and blue berries are setup with the autofloat bucket. It has been raining non-stop so progress is slow. To Do: Bury 1/2 irrigation line across yard from tap on the house. Level the...

What do people use as for germination and transplant death rate estimate if the package doesn't say? This is the first time I've tried to start seeds indoors. I'm aiming for two plants in of each pepper variety. Do you think germinating 10 seeds is enough? I started them on 1/28 with paper towel...

Do the jiffy peat pellets work well for pepper starting indoors? I have a package of the pellets without trays in my garage sale finds.

Have most of the sod up and first layer of cardboard down.

Weather is crazy. The last hour has been sleeting here in Baytown, tx on the gulf coast. Glad I had my plants covered.

As an example, if I buy Frozen on Amazon prime, I get English, English for the hearing impaired subtitles and that's it. The DVD has those plus French with French subtitles in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. so the DVD version is useful for language practice but the Amazon prime version is not.

Insomnia presents... the garden! I modeled it and geo-located it in SketchUp so shadows are mostly correct. The trees are 6' tall above the pots and the shorter pot is 2' tall dwarf blueberries. I think I will have enough sun for the garden beds (blue barrel halves) considering I'm on the gulf...

Low was 34F here but windy so felt like 24F.