I would love to get some cattle panels. How to get them home from TSC... that's the hard part. I've seen people bend them into an arch and put them in truck beds and trailers. Hubby isn't so sure about that.
I'd like to get some square tomato cages. Like about 70 of them. :lau
I do have lots of garden uses for the round flimsy ones. I put them over my New England Asters as they sprouted. Those grow tall, and last year, a lot of the stems fell over. This year, they're contained in the tomato cages...
Re: canning lids. I bought some from here, and have had good luck with them. A few FTS canning tomatoes, but 3-4 out of 200+ is not out of line, to me. A tomato seed can get under the rim, there could be flaw in my (old) jar, or unevenness in the sealing compound.
I will not buy Anchor brand...
There are grapes on my vines for the first time! It's their 3rd season.
Yes, thank you. The reason to use the honey in the jam is so that I can use my berries and my sweetener. I did know that it'll lose the health benefits.
As for the sugar in jam? The rhubarb jam recipe I started with had an...
We. Got. Rain!
:celebrate :clap:wee
Afterward, I went out and picked some more black raspberries. I think I'll have enough to make jam with now. I'm going to make it with honey. It'll be a small batch, and I can see if I like it, or if I want to tweak the recipe.
I did another batch this summer.
Hubby doesn't like the texture/flavor of the WG eggs. Also, the yolk nearly always breaks, so I use them for scrambled eggs and baking.
I try to do a "bug hunt" every day. At least I go through the potato patch and squish the potato bug larvae. Yes, I wear gloves, because... ewwww....!
The asparagus beetles are winding down. The Japanese beetles are everywhere. The Beatles were a famous foursome.
Heavy rain about 20 miles away. Nary a drop here. A couple more "good" chances in the next 7 days. We'll see if any pan out.
As a hedge, I watered the heavy soil garden today. Man, is that clay getting dry and hard where I didn't water. I put the water right at the base of the plants so that...
Yesterday was THE day of the week to spend in the garden: cooler, much lower humidity, and mostly overcast. But I wasted the day buying a car instead. :rolleyes: It's way, way down on my list of favorite things to do.
At least it doesn't top my list of most hated things to do.
Anyway. I did...
I'm in the same situation... our house is on a hill. I have one garden down the hill (sandy soil garden) and the other one is farther out in the field, which is up another hill.
Hubby and I have been working out on our elliptical for over a year now. I'm 63 and I feel like I'm in better shape...
We got about ...
... 1 tablespoon of rain.
Next chance is Wednesday, but we seem to have some kind of rain proof dome over our area. Dang, it's dry.
And then I see the news about the flooding in Texas, and I got NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. :smack