Search results

  1. Dirtmechanic

    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    The seeds are emerging. Most of the green beans are solidly up and the squash and cucumber are just breaking the surface.
  2. Dirtmechanic

    Coffee

    Good morning! Coffee in hand I am cuddling with cats while DW gets those precious extra moments of sleep. Soon its off to the groomer in my direction and off to the doctor for hers. Rain today so nothing outside much that cannot wait. Inside work has been all the rage anyway as yesterday I...
  3. Dirtmechanic

    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    Finally got the deer fence up. I leave it high so cats can do the rabbit thing.
  4. Dirtmechanic

    Plant Identification Apps

    Why not? Everybody seems to have chipped in a name! Hard to tell without flowers etc!
  5. Dirtmechanic

    Plant Identification Apps

    I hang around garden forums because there are so many naked ladies https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/517/ Agapanthus?
  6. Dirtmechanic

    Home Repairs

    I cannot help with the wash but I have a 55 dollar gizmo that I use with my cast iron sometimes, especially when I am frying a lot of okra. Grill Boss 90057 Dual Fuel Camp Stove | Works with both Butane and Propane | Perfect for Camping & Hiking | Emergency Cooking Stove | Single Burner 12k BTU...
  7. Dirtmechanic

    Home Repairs

    229 at Amazon But a 10 dollar laser thermometer reports the same wavelength in temp, just not pictures.
  8. Dirtmechanic

    One Alaskans greenhouse

    Adapt. There is a word that made me think tomatoes and huskies. So naturally I also thought about geothermal heat. So I asked myself "How deep would a geothermal hole need be to expose heat transfer tube to a useful surface area?".
  9. Dirtmechanic

    Quotes and thoughts for the day

    Humans are hurt when CO2 levels hit 4% and we are at .04% in the air now, so we have to pollute 9,900% more to help the ai destroy humanity and I already feel tired.
  10. Dirtmechanic

    Quotes and thoughts for the day

    The percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere is .04% Plants struggle at .02% Have a nice day;)
  11. Dirtmechanic

    Home Repairs

    Use an infrared camera. They have become common and will show the cool spot of water. They also work the other way and can show heat leaks through the same holes.
  12. Dirtmechanic

    Home Repairs

    You have a roof problem or leaky pipe. Solve the moisture, solve the mold. Too bad so much cellulose is used in home building, wood frames and paper sheets over gypsum wall board, because moisture seems inevitable.
  13. Dirtmechanic

    Garden humor thread..

    grammar naughtzees! Old high school student complaint.
  14. Dirtmechanic

    Somehow, It's Funny that Way

    The symbol for the sound of silence?
  15. Dirtmechanic

    Spring Daffodils

    Baby ferns remind me of mornings. The way you can uncurl from a warm bed into a really good streeetch to start your day.
  16. Dirtmechanic

    Spring Daffodils

    daffs are gone here. Now it's the time of ferns.
  17. Dirtmechanic

    Spring Daffodils

    ...and more to come. A weatherguy was showing some stats where the number of reported 'nados is near the Alabama annual high mark already but then said some might get connected into longer tracks which would lower the number. I wonder where weather watching ranks against all other Alabama sports?
  18. Dirtmechanic

    Word of the day

    Today's word is "Yarden". This is to differentiate between "Garden and "Garden" which are both currently mis-used to denote landscaping and vegetable growing areas of activity. Guess what Yarden means yet? I saw this morning that the New York Times is saying that "Synswer" is TWOTD, to...
  19. Dirtmechanic

    Spring Daffodils

    It was very warm and snapped off to the lower 20s in early spring. That nipped most of the buds. Even the roses are just now coming out.
  20. Dirtmechanic

    Spring Daffodils

    We call those tulip magnolia sometimes. Alas they and the daffy have bloomed and faded already down here.
Top