What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

@Wee Farmer Sarah - could it be the swallowtails eating your carrot tops? I have tons of them, I actually moved them off my carrots & put them on my dill this year when the carrots were young. I saw them on the carrots again over the weekend but they were big & fat & ready to move on to chrysalising (lol, I made that word up) so I left them.

 

[IamRainey]

Old people have so much info from what they've learned and the mistakes they've made in a lifetime. Ask me! I'm 72. I've made some whoppers. ...and I've learned from a few of them. Sometimes technology is a better solution but sometimes an old traditional way works just as well.

I've only made one wedding cake. They take so much planning and effort. Trickier than I expected! Here's mine. Thank goodness for the actual flowers that are a hell of a lot easier than the sugar icing ones! I was only brave enough to do 2 tiers.

 

[Sueby]

Old people have so much info from what they've learned and the mistakes they've made in a lifetime. Ask me! I'm 72. I've made some whoppers. ...and I've learned from a few of them. Sometimes technology is a better solution but sometimes an old traditional way works just as well.

I've only made one wedding cake. They take so much planning and effort. Trickier than I expected! Here's mine. Thank goodness for the actual flowers that are a hell of a lot easier than the sugar icing ones! I was only brave enough to do 2 tiers.

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That's funny, one of my stipulations was that I was decorating with real flowers - I didn't want to have to make them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay I could add real flowers that is cheating making omelets here tonight
but next night maybe but can have zucchini as a veggie

 

[IamRainey]

On another thread we've been discussing composting and that's really revived my interest in my own. So I was out this morning while it was still cool, sifting out some of my finished humus. I took a chunk out of the pile and got 20 gallons of lovely stuff.



I like to leave it set up for the next sifting so if I'm out there and get tempted I'll sit down and get started before I whine my way out of it.

I am delighted to see how much growth I've had in just a week from the seeds I planted last Sunday. Typically I start my garden in early April and then just wait and wait and wait for anything to happen. This is a nice surprise to see how much easier it is to wait until the appropriate time. Maybe next year I'll be able to sit on my hands and be smart. ...but probably not.



The taller plants against the chainlink are pole beans that will use the fence as their trellis. Usually I have a riot of nasturtiums growing up that fence and screening out the grotty compost area. A few nasties are starting to come up. I don't know whether to pull them out or let them grow along with the beans. What would you do?

 

[pennyJo1960]

I would pull the nastiness keep it at arms length at least

 

[Sueby]

I ate my first Brandywine this year, OMG, so good. We had steak sandwiches with fried onions (from the garden).

My first dahlia is opening too. I cant wait to see the color, it looks pretty cool already.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My dahlia's have not come back I am so disappointed will replant but next year now

 

[Sueby]

Where are you Penny? Just curious how dahlias would work if you didn't get frost or freeze - do you still have to dig them up?

 

[IamRainey]

Today is truly my lucky day!

I found a quilter who will do the long-arm quilting on a top and back I just recently finished and need by the end of September. And then while I was on my way to her house with my pieces and wasting a bit of time so as not to show up too early I stopped into an import store just to look around. I came home with this $120 outdoor dining chair for $30.



Tomorrow I have someone coming to help me clean off the concrete pad in the utility area where my veggie beds are. I had envisioned, once it's clear again, getting a bench or a small table and a chair so I could sit down, cool off and admire my work. This will be perfect.

The store is a chain (local? national? I dunno) so I'm going to check another location or 2 and see if I can come up with second one. If I don't I won't sweat it. I'm not sure who wants to sit there with me anyway. It just seems like chairs should come in pairs.