Your 2025 Garden

[jxp]

Started the change over from wood to block raised beds this afternoon.
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I need more blocks!

I wound up removing the rotting wood as I couldn't get the blocks snug enough with the slats still in place.

What kind of wood did you use?

It was cedar, garden bed kits.

Sorry to hear that. How many years use did you get out of it?

Also, I like your helper.

 

[fuzzi]

What kind of wood did you use?

Sorry to hear that. How many years use did you get out of it?

Also, I like your helper.

Two years, but I believe that a combination of our wet climate (48" rainfall annually) and ants were partly responsible. I'm disappointed, and planning on contacting the company.

I like Wisp, too. She and Alice showed up 2-3 years ago, after my last feral died.

"Wheresthefood?"

 

[jxp]

Two years, but I believe that a combination of our wet climate (48" rainfall annually) and ants were partly responsible. I'm disappointed, and planning on contacting the company.

I like Wisp, too. She and Alice showed up 2-3 years ago, after my last feral died.
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"Wheresthefood?"

They're so cute. Cats are such sweet little despots.

As for cedarwood, whenever I build something with it, such as my fence for instance, I'll coat it first with a mixture of boiled linseed oil, turpentine (not a turp substitute), and pine tar. For furniture, such as the Adirondack chairs I built several years ago, after sanding smooth, I'll coat with oil based Helmsman spar varnish. If I want color, as in the gazebo I built more than 20 years ago, I'll instead paint it with an oil-based paint. These methods havn't failed me yet.

My brother is very lucky in that he has locust growing on his property and a saw mill.

 

[Sally PB]

Butternut squash for dinner tonight.

 

[NanaK]

The first broccoli was ready. We had it with dinner yesterday.

 

[R2elk]

Northern Exposure

 

[Nomadicus]

First freeze coming Tuesday morning. 28 will be the low at daylight. Saturday before Thanksgiving we will be at a large farmers market for a wholesale haul of collard greens from a friend that trades with us. Gardening was not a good year for us with medical issues that have slowed both of us down. Ma just picked another major haul of paprika and jalapeno pepper that she is dehydrating now. Will plant more of them next year with the jalapenos mostly of the mild type that everyone likes.