Sunday, May 31, 2015

garden photos end of may

cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and broccoli
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tomatoes
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celeriac
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my lone peanut plant isnt doing too good. i didnt cover it during the frost that i covered all the tomatoes.
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onions
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rye
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rye close up
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zucchini
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watermelon
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more watermelon
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cantaloupe
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more cantaloupe
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sunflowers
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beans
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shredded leaves for mulching. last fall this was full up to the top.
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asparagus
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stevia
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basil that i didnt cover up from the frost
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more basil
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the jicama died in the frost. the sugar beets i planted never came up. the maple tree seeds/helicopters were spread ALL over my garden, as you can see.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

cleaning the gutters with dogs around

in the future i should REALLY lock the dogs in the house when i clean out the gutters. they think the gross disgusting half rotted gutter slop is delicious *gag* and stand right under where i'm tossing it out and end up covered in it. then they run away when i try to hose the stink off them. i'm nearly as soggy as the damn dogs are after catching them and hosing them down. that gutter slop is some seriously awful putrid crap. but between the ash tree and the maple tree, TONS of stuff falls off the trees in spring. oh well. i needed a shower anyway.

puppy all wet and soggy from me cleaning all the goop out of the gutter and him rolling in it.
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molly is sniffing and eating the goop
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i made quite the mess
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most of the goop ended over here on the tree roots
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Friday, May 29, 2015

molly and sweetpea

molly got a toy from the vets office because i bought either the flea and tick prevention, or the heartworm prevention. it was a cute toy, but it was knitted, and ripped apart in seconds.
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sweetpea trying to escape. i heard her making quite the racket in her enclosure behind me. the computer is in the same room as sweetpea. this is what i turned around to see. she's keeping an eye on me...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

thinning the baby pear nubs

i thinned the parker tree. all i did was thin each cluster down to only one pear. there were usually 3, but up to 5 pear nubs per cluster.

this is what 236 parker pear buds look like
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parker buds
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luscious pear buds, i thinned off 70 of them
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luscious buds
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summercrisp, thinned 70
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patten cluster of 5
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patten thinned 206
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the patten pear nubs were quite scratched/scabbed. it happens when the nubs rub against anything, like other nub stems, leaf stems, branches, anything. and the patten tree is my littlest tree of all the four. it fruited so prolifically everything was crowded and rubbing.
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patten
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luscious cluster of only 3
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

flowers out front

the first new flower bed i dug out front
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now with flowers in it! marigolds down in front, canterbury bells above them, calendula up against the sedum at top.
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the two surviving sedum from last year. i planted them too close together.
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the sedum i bought to replace the one that died over winter
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it rolled around in the truck and knocked off a bunch of leaves. the internets said i could grow plants from the leaves, so i figured what the hell, and stuck the broken off leaves in potting soil. its been a month since this photo and i dont know if anything is happening or not.
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

my little zoo

crunch n munch with sweetpea
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another day, another shot of puppy and his afghan love
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mollys choice of napping spots means squishing herself between the couch and the dog bed rather than laying on either.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

pear trees and baby pear nubs

luscious pear tree
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parker
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summercrisp
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patten
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baby pear nubs, patten tree
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summercrisp
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parker
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luscious
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