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Hehehe. I couldn't do that to my neighbors. Even if I were so inclined, the wife/mom is standing on their deck watching the whole thing. She's not happy about it. She looked at me and gave a big thumbs-down. :( No, they didn't take the whole tree (at least I *think* they're done with it now,)...

Zoomed-out shot of them working on both sides of me at the moment. 😂😂😂

So Duke Power has an easement near the back of my property, as well as that of the neighbors on both sides, so they can protect the power lines. They’re doing some major cutting today that could have a fairly significant i impact on my garden. According to my neighbor, they’re trimming the tree...

Posted a bunch of pics (with captions) to a public album on FB, I’d anyone wants to take a gander:

I really don’t get it. There are SOOOOOO many better-protected places for them in our general area besides the narrow strip of wooded land on the other side of our fence. Makes me wonder if they’re just vastly overpopulated in our vicinity due to lack of predators or something like that. Also...

So today I was outside picking some lettuce leaves for a salad to have with lunch. In the last few days, there have been signs that maybe I had a rabbit or perhaps another groundhog. Small amounts eaten from my cabbage, but no other plants damaged, and not much eaten. And there was a very small...

The crazy thing is this: behind my house is the maintenance area to the golf course, and then the golf course itself. Asphalt parking lot, four or five buildings, cars and trucks in and out starting at 6am every day. There's only maybe 20-30 feet of trees and brush between my the fenceline near...

Other updates... I did end up hiring pest control in 2020. All of the references to “the groundhog” in this thread were woefully understated. Over the course of about 8 weeks, SIX groundhogs met their doom in the jaws of the conibears placed under the shed. I found the main entrance and covered...

From two days ago: my 8yo showing one of the next-door neighbors’ kids the tiny strawberries coming in. I thought this was just precious.

I’m ok. Just ran low on time to post, but am still gardening! Thanks for checking up on me. I’ll do an update some time soon!

Another morning, another insane cherry tomato harvest. Just one plant in this pic...

Pretty sure it's well under my storage shed.

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This morning’s harvest:

We got back Friday from a week and a half out of town. We had a neighbor picking stuff so that our plants would continue to produce well. The idea was to pick everything as I got ripe, but I suspect that she only picked as much as she and her family could eat. I’ll write more later, but wanted...

@ninnymary Sweet million. Life has been too busy to post much, partially because of the garden: harvesting like gangbusters lately. Highlights... For the past week-ish, we've been harvesting double digits cucumbers every day. My wife made a dozen jars of pickles, and we've also given away a a...

@ducks4you insecticidal soap. The key has been examining them every morning and evening and spraying the eggs.

More in the “good soil matters” arena: this is the current status of the cherry tomato plant in the 10-year-old’s garden. Looks like an ad for a seed company. Just wow.

I’ve found and disposed of hundreds of squash bug eggs already this year, but I will admit that my cold, cruel heart took extra pleasure in causing the demise of some of their recently-hatched young this morning. #DontJudgeMe #IPromiseIAmNiceToKidsAndPuppies

And a few more... The crazy growth of the cucumbers, cantaloupes, and watermelon (and a 7-foot tomato plant to the far left.) Using garden stakes to hold this was going to result in a crash, so I purchased some t-posts and installed them shortly after taking this pic. The whole thing seems...