The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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wauw, wonderful garden !

haha richie what a funny recipe!
I was already wondering when reading the ingredients, 1 BOTTLE of whiskey? What is he going to do with that!
and the typing mistakes getting worse, it's so funny!

i had to complain about the voles, gophers, birdies, and squirrels. yes, i HAD to complain.

locusts. there are now dozens and dozens of baby locusts in my root crop bed. (sigh).

i just nuked everything with neem oil, but i'm not terribly hopeful. and the carrots were looking so good, too!

update: five hours later. no grasshoppers. looks like they seriously dislike neem oil. no dead hopppers, just no hoppers!

haven't been to comicon in years. it's changed a lot, very corporate now.

saw william shatner,mr.korman of B-movie fame, the mythbusters guys (and gal), the guy who played luke skywalker, the guy who got choked to death by darth vader in the first one.... had a choice between going to the hobbit cast panel or shatner, glad i went with shatner.

place was a zoo, as always, but didn't have the same vibe as it used to have at all.

Here is a link to some pictures of my garden <click
And some more pictures of the garden and life in York, PA.

Other than that I am just lurking and sweating.....

nice garden, richie.

odd about mine. aside from it looking like a concentration camp, i mean.
it grows great onions, carrots, beets. but everything is in miniature! i planted russian giant sunflowers. supposed to go 8 to 10 feet tall. they're topping at about 2 and 4 feet tall and are about to flower. the pepper plants are about a foot tall with small peppers - all perfect, just half the size.

i have to think it's that the soil is so infertile. they've gotten plenty of water, etc., as needed. i took over an old plot in the community garden that looked like it had been abandoned for a couple of years. i found it odd that there was nothing living in the soil when i spaded it over - no bugs, no worms. so i added a ton of peat moss and mulch, and the requisite local soil amendments. there's a section i spaded over about two months ago that i haven't gotten to the point of enriching yet. there is nothing growing in it at all. not even weeds. weird.

i wonder if the previous people just planted and planted and never did anything for it?

ps a moving truck backed into me at a stop light yesterday. said he missed his turn, sorry about my car. thankfully a witness stopped and gave his name or i could have been accused of rear-ending the truck. amazing, he had to come back two car lengths to get me with me blasting on the horn the whole time. sigh.

Oh Nan, sheesh. He was likely playing his music loudly and never noticed you.
Everbody's gardens look so good.

I wish I could say ours did. Here's some photos of it "in progress"

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ok, this is actually a photo of the little junco bird that has made a nest in my daughter's geranium plant out on our balcony. she has three eggs in there as of yesterday, so we are expecting baby birds in about 12 days from today.


plot as we found it. i had already spaded everything under to break up the dirt - it was as hard as a rock, and the kid had built this frame for us. the "established" plot is behind ours, the others were abandoned.

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the first bed is in.

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second bed in progress. note the enormous hole the gopher made in our backfill dirt. cheeky little....thing. the guy who built the structure in the background went to the local stables and came back with 100 plastic hefty bags full of horse poop. in his car. he dug his pit under his garden structure quite deep and dumped all the poo in. his plants don't seem to be doing a lot better than anyone else's, actually. i wonder how he got the smell out of his car?

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stitching the builder's cloth together to cover up any possible intrusion from below....

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starting backfilling. this is about the time i learned that we had predatory squirrels who would come over the fences and eat anything unprotected. (sigh).

More later.

Oh my goodness, what a lot of work.