Bless your heart. Is your mom still living?Went to my mom's house and spent 5+ hours trying to clean out her she-shed. Got about 70% done. Apparently my mom had a box fetish. I have never broke down so many empty boxes in my life...I also uncovered yet MORE gardening fertilizer, an entire 55 gallon trash can full of peat moss, some garden solar lights, soaker hose, and a gazillion more pots of various sizes. And then there was the bird seed. My mom had DOZENS of bird feeders all over her property. Well, she had probably 8-9 of these giant tubs with various types of bird seed in it. I threw several away because they were moldy or infested with bugs. Then there were several large unopened boxes from Wild Birds Unlimited which were full of bird seed. Never opened. Some of them had to be thrown away because mice had gotten into them. Then there were several boxes of suet. She had 8 giant tubs of Christmas decorations! That's not counting 2 bags which I suspect are trees and another that's probably a wreath.
Just insane. And I'm still not done going through things in the shed but the dumpster was full.
My braids don't look nearly that pretty....Finally got some of the garlic braided. Saved a few of the best ones to replant & actually lost like 3 as they were mushy. Not sure if it was my drying process, the humidity or the garlic. I pulled it a little early because of all the rain.
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No... She passed away a day after my birthday this past May.
Miss her a lot
I have a dehydrator. I use it to dry all the herbs I pick from my herb gardens. I usually do it after the majority of the canning is done. But before apples and grape jam making time. It keeps up that farm fresh aroma in the house. We got about 1/2 inch of rain today. We may get a little more later this evening. The corn is growing really well. There werea few stalks that grew another foot over night. My new grapevines are looking very good. I’m so hoping these actually root and continue to grow. The Sweet 100’s tomatoes in the nightshade garden are ripening. The tomatoes in the big garden are really slow to ripen. I pruned the dying leaves off of them this morning. I am planning on pulling up the bush green beans on Friday and getting that bed ready for some cool weather salad greens. I’m so sorry for the loss of your hens @igorsMistress. The weather patterns are seriously off kilter with temperature extremes and droughts, then deluges. It makes growing food much more challenging. Every year I say I will be planting indoors over the winter, perhaps I’ll get there this year.
