plug it in and you can have a fireplace anywhere you want !!
Or possibly places you don't want it!
JK, but with all the wildfires in CA this year, and the one we had here in 2020, makes me nervous about anybody doing guesswork with outdoor electrical projects.
Any other ideas to keep weeds away that I can put the rocks on? I have access to scrap particle board, id that'd work.
Cardboard has worked well for me. I hate weed cloth too, the weeds seem to be able to grow up through it, then you end up with plastic shreds in the garden. The cardboard does eventually break down, but several layers of cardboard covered with wood chips, keeps the weeds away enough so that weeding is easy for the next couple years - the few that poke through are easy to pull out. Scrap particle board covered with wood chips might be even better, depending on whether the particle board is just made of glue or has chemicals you might not want leaching into your plants.
Haven't really posted much lately due to, Not much happenin. Was dry for so long
Same here. It's been I don't know how long, at least a couple months, since we've had any rain at all.
I've been watering twice a week for 2 hours or so, and finally getting some growth - beans are going good, picked a good amount yesterday. Cukes are finally starting to produce well, after a slow start. Butternuts are finally growing, it'll be awhile before they produce though. Only one cabbage plant survived from all the seedlings I planted (sad) but I filled in my eggplant seedlings in that bed and they're all growing well.
What was supposed to be zucchini, turned out to be an interesting yellow squash with orange highlights - that's what I get for not keeping track of my seeds, but it's producing well and delicious.
Tomatoes are going crazy - I was doing so well at keeping them pruned and growing up on their trellises - all of a sudden they're growing out of control. Harvested the first ripe ones, and there's so many unripe fruits developing, I need to just prune them back as if they're weeds or blackberries, just expose the unripe fruits to the sun so they don't get blight.
Luffa was, yet again, a complete fail. I'll try again next year, but in a different area. The fancy trellis I built just for them, can be for something easier, like pole beans.
Potatoes - I'm not sure what to think about them? Some of the ones I planted in grow-boxes looked really unhealthy, but when I dug them up the boxes were chock-full of small, but nice-looking little roasting-size potatoes. Other potato plants in the grow-boxes look healthy so I'm waiting to dig them. The potato plants in the larger bed vary between large, healthy and green, or pitiful, small, and dried-up plants. It seems too early for the potato plants to be ready to dig up - and there's no evidence of pests getting to them - but this has been a weird year, so I probably should dig them up soon and be thankful for what I get.
Yesterday I put in the crockpot: a bunch of dried beans grown during the past few years, some of this year's beans and tomatoes, a couple of those unusual yellow squashes, some meat left over from the FFA lamb we bought when covid first hit in 2020, a couple cans of corn, and some peppery hot spices. Mixed in a quart of cooked plain rice, now we have burrito filling to last us through winter.
