Perhaps a bit of rain each day instead of SIX INCHES in one day, eh? Jeez. Ventured out between downpours this morning to see how everything was faring. So far, so good…except the red stuff is here now… More pics later, if we’re not busy building a frickin’ ark by then. UPDATE: Everything came through [...]
You guys know I’m all about the macro shots. Nothing pleases me more than to get up into the flowers, pistils and stamens everywhere… Ok, that sounded sexual, sorry. Innnyway… Today let’s have some wide angle shots, see what the big picture looks like. The tomatoes are killing me, really. They were started indoors in [...]
This site’s domain used to be floridabackyard.org, because that’s what it featured, of course. Then we thought we might be moving to Kansas, and I changed the domain to sekimori.org. Kansas turned out to be full of FAIL (and the cause of diabeetus), and now every post seems to be about my backyard, so here [...]
It’s an interesting thing, this level of “farming” I’m doing this year. My days have more routine now than they have had since the kids were tiny (read: more dependent), and I’m finding that, coupled with the time spent outside…weeding, watering, planting, transplating, taking pictures of it all…it is making a difference in my relative [...]
Planted ‘em too close together to start with. Thinned too late, all went to seed. Here endeth the lesson. Seeing as how they were plain old red grocery-store radishes, we thought we’d do something a bit more exotic, and in their place today I planted daikon radish and helios radish seed instead. Daikon is a [...]
Typically I could care less about silver hairs…thanks to heredity I’ve been getting them since I was in my early twenties. But a silver eyebrow hair? Give me a freaking break. I am fairly confident the wildflower mix we threw down out front consisted of more than just zinnias, but zinnias are surely all you [...]
Yes, those are my two punks up there. They look dangerous, don’t they. Aside from their mutually-nihilistic tendencies, they’re good kids. And I wouldn’t trade them for a bag of gold. THREE bags of gold, maybe. I kid, of course. Hey, how about some garden talk?!?! Stop it, I know you’re excited. If you live [...]
I know it is partly the climate in which we live, but it’s also the KICK-ASS dirt we put in these planter boxes… The corn, as you know, has sprouted. All the sprouts put on a half inch to an inch of growth TODAY: I stepped outside to look things over this morning…as I do [...]
I don’t have time to read the folks on my links page as much as I’d like…the day really needs more hours, no? Found this fun little thing at My Grandpa’s Garden yesterday, and even though I was not specifically tagged, I’m playin’ along anyway: Flash Your Seed Stash – Show us where you keep [...]
I used to do this thing on the old Blogatelle blog, Conversations With… It was one of my audience’s favorite schticks, apparently, and it was just fun, since the kids/Husband are such cards…as evidenced fifteen minutes ago when I walked out of the shower. Me: This is the best farmer tan I’ve ever had! Him: [...]
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