Hello from Alabama!

[Dirtmechanic]

Bay, as long as you respect your elders we'll get along fine. I do resemble and appreciate your remark.

Dirtmechanic, I use a desktop so cannot tell you how to get your location to show up. Hopefully someone that uses a phone can help you. Which operating system you use can even make a difference in how to do that.

Currently it is a Google Pixel 2 xl. I guess that is a android OS of the latest config as we head toward Chromium OS being the thesis OS across all these devices.

 

[Carol Dee]

Updated my earlier post with more pics of Grandsons
#1 Grandson at 2 yr. helping Papa plant peas

#1 Grandson last Father's Day

#2 Grandson last Father's Day

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Updated my earlier post with more pics of Grandsons
#1 Grandson at 2 yr. helping Papa plant peasView attachment 30165 View attachment 30166
#1 Grandson last Father's DayView attachment 30167
#2 Grandson last Father's DayView attachment 30168

It is such a blessing to see pics like that!

 

[Collector]

Welcome from Washington state, glad you joined us. I like that compost spreader I see them being used on lawn to top dress them.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Welcome from Washington state, glad you joined us. I like that compost spreader I see them being used on lawn to top dress them.

Its tough but I really do try to avoid shovels. Sometimes I cannot avoid it, but I do try! My front yard is just large enough to make me suffer hauling wheelbarrows about. Here is what our winters look like out front.

 

[Carol Dee]

Its tough but I really do try to avoid shovels. Sometimes I cannot avoid it, but I do try! My front yard is just large enough to make me suffer hauling wheelbarrows about. Here is what our winters look like out front.
View attachment 30176

WOW I love your yard! So envious Mine is a postage stamp by comparison and not nearly the View!

 

[baymule]

Nice place! And you mean to tell me that it's not shovel ready?

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Nice place! And you mean to tell me that it's not shovel ready?

Thanks and I think shoveling is age related. The yard was not that big 20 years ago.

WOW I love your yard! So envious Mine is a postage stamp by comparison and not nearly the View!

Thank you. I would not want it larger because of the upkeep, but it introduced me to gardening and I have come to enjoy it so much myself.

 

[canesisters]

What is planted at the base of the crepe myrtles? Those are crepe myrtles along the drive, right?

 

[Dirtmechanic]

What is planted at the base of the crepe myrtles? Those are crepe myrtles along the drive, right?

Yes they are crepes with boxwoods. I gave them a haircut to allow a replacment for one in the middle to catch up in height. They do grow slow so I am using some auxin called superthrive to get it up high and then I will try some cytokenin fruit set spray to get it to fluff out. Still I doubt it will match exactly by next year.