Sunday, March 29, 2009
There You Sit, A Lump In Your Chair
Finally! A church Message I Can Agree With!
Friday, March 27, 2009
ASPARAGUS!
Spent much of the morning weeding the asparagus bed, and I was very pleased to see the spring's first spears starting to push through. An excellent sign that the morel season will soon start!Labels: gardening, square foot gardening, The Yard
Boxes Rising
Finally! Some nice weather. I have four of the six boxes nearly finished. Just have to wait for the linseed oil to dry. then I can staple on the weed blocker cloth and place them. Two more to make, but my little household strength cordless screwdriver only has enough oomph to drive about 16 2.5" screws before ir needs a recharge.Labels: gardening, square foot gardening, The Yard
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Spring!
Well, its been gray, dreary and rainy for the past two days, but the daffodils are blooming!
Labels: The Yard
And Spring Means...
Time to get working on the new gardens! Since the hurrican remnants destroyed the swimming pool, I'm going to use that space for an expanded Square Foot Garden. The lumber will become 6 4x4 garden boxes, an the steel tubing is for three 6' high trellises. I got three boxes made this morning, but I'm going to have to wait for it to dry out a bit to place them. This year, we're putting in an extra box for the food bank. I figure between five boxes and our CSA farm, we'll have plenty of fresh veggies this year, and enough for canning to tide us through the winter.Labels: CSA, gardening, square foot gardening
Monday, March 23, 2009
Adventures In Fungiculture!
Wel, I decided to try my hand at growing morels, which is notoriously difficult. I spent much of the past month preparing the bed for the mushrooms, and I've now inoculated it with morel spawn. We now wait a year to see if it works.Labels: gardening, morels, mushrooms, square foot gardening
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Sorry about the lack of posting lately. I've been very, very busy the last few days, and I'm going out of town later this week, so posting will be erratic at best until next week.But I'll leave you with this: Why on earth is it necessary to pay retention bonuses to the people who ran the company to the brink of insolvency? Wouldn't be more prudent to say, I don't know, FIRE those people rather than retain "top" incompetent talent?
