Sorry for the long silence here, but a “strained ligament” in my right knee around Mother’s Day has turned into 6 weeks of anti-inflammatories, constant ice packs, painful stretching and finally a cortisone shot directly behind the kneecap… — giving you a moment to envision that — …which in turn translates into near-total neglect of [...]
And not just because it’s hot, sticky, weed-choked and otherwise nasty. That’s an enormous argiope making a meal of an equally enormous green dragonfly. I know argiopes gotta eat too, but I draw the line at butterflies/dragonflies. Time to get out the Lousiville Slugger. Did I mention it’s hot, sticky, weed-choked and nasty out there? [...]
Yeesh, almost a month since the last post…good thing you’re not paying for this, eh? Well, it’s hot, as I may have mentioned, and with the kids not here for the summer our routine is shot all to hell. We did take off for a week in Sanibel right after the 4th holiday, and while [...]
As those of you who read a lot of Florida bloggers know…it’s frickin’ hot out there. This tends to make us not go out there nearly as often as we did in the spring/early summer, so everything in the garden is officially on it’s own. This is fine with the volunteer tomato, who inexplicably is [...]
(Benjamin Franklin) Thusfar, this has been a good year for melons here in the Backyard. We’re still having some fungus issues, and those will no doubt continue once the rainy season gets it’s arse properly in gear, but production-wise, things are looking pretty good. Sunday, in the midst of humping a metric buttload of dirt [...]
The hollyhocks did wonderfully this year, though somewhat inconveniently placed in the front bed, where an 8 foot tall spike of fuschia flowers is somewhat…obnoxious. The tall spikes did their thing, went to seed, and now there’s so very many new hollyhocks coming up there, including (inexplicably) this white one: This is where I’d like [...]
Today’s bloom is a showy little strumpet: This is Crocosmia ‘Walbreyes’.
Would you care to guess how many seeds you get from a 53 1/2 lb pumpkin? Go on…guess. 1 cup would be the correct answer. Seems paltry for a fruit this size, but this is one of those super-mega pumpkins, the kind that people grow for massive size instead of flavor, shape and/or seed production. [...]
Holy merde it was hot out there today. Yeah, we could have gotten out of bed somewhat earlier but then there wouldn’t have been all that sleeping… On the agenda today was filling the new boxes (which Husband did, and for which I worship him), feeding everything, adding support poles where needed in the beans/tomatoes, [...]
We did a quick harvest on Thursday before heading out for the weekend, and came up with 39 lbs of goodness from the garden: Of course the pumpkin accounts for 37 lbs of that. We harvested again yesterday and came up with 9 lbs: 5 lbs of which is every fruit from the poor Black [...]
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