Monday, June 09, 2008
Planted tomatoes, cukes and onions
no new pictures today, but some new plantings happened. we cleared the grass from in front of the fence and worked the soil a bit. i planted the remaining 3 early girls (i really hate to toss any live plants) and some onion sets gifted by gary + another hill of cucumber seeds. this area gets some sun.....not a ton of sun, but hopefully enough.
Labels: cukes and onions, tomatoes
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Heckuva storm
we had a heckuva storm last night. really big sky show of lightning and amazing booming thunder to follow. the talking heads were going crazy with excitement and dire predictions. we were incredibly lucky......no downed trees or limbs, no power outage, no flooded basement. AND my baby maple was a star and made it thru with flying colors. we did mention that jewlee would have loved the storm.....she was wishing for thunder boomers and lightning when she was here, and we are sorry to have disappointed her. she missed a doozey.
when i drove to the y for body flow (i am so dedicated to this) i saw a utility truck about 2 blocks from us and about half a tree lying into the street. there were other downed trees and branches on the way....again we lucked out. the current forecast is doubtful for rain this evening, but a good chance of more storms breaking out wednesday night.
i heard that the southdale parking lot flooded last evening, and east i-494 was closed at hwy 100 due to deep water at portland ave. tv showed a car with water above the tires, and then a major jam behind.....hundreds of cars, unable to go forward, and then it was all the cars behind them. eek we really need the rain, but egads.
i picked 5 cukes today.....4 of them bigger than i planned-to-let-them-grow size. i guess the rain is sending them into overdrive.
yesterday i trimmed dead stuff off the trees around the shed and removed all the volunteers that shouldn't have been there. there is still more to do, but it looks considerably better. there are a few trees that need to meet up with a saw.....the loppers, at least under my control just wouldn't do the trick! i filled a large garbage bag with all the trimmings, so i am feeling virtuous!
when i drove to the y for body flow (i am so dedicated to this) i saw a utility truck about 2 blocks from us and about half a tree lying into the street. there were other downed trees and branches on the way....again we lucked out. the current forecast is doubtful for rain this evening, but a good chance of more storms breaking out wednesday night.
i heard that the southdale parking lot flooded last evening, and east i-494 was closed at hwy 100 due to deep water at portland ave. tv showed a car with water above the tires, and then a major jam behind.....hundreds of cars, unable to go forward, and then it was all the cars behind them. eek we really need the rain, but egads.
i picked 5 cukes today.....4 of them bigger than i planned-to-let-them-grow size. i guess the rain is sending them into overdrive.
yesterday i trimmed dead stuff off the trees around the shed and removed all the volunteers that shouldn't have been there. there is still more to do, but it looks considerably better. there are a few trees that need to meet up with a saw.....the loppers, at least under my control just wouldn't do the trick! i filled a large garbage bag with all the trimmings, so i am feeling virtuous!
Labels: cukes and onions, rain, storm
Monday, July 23, 2007
i finally remembered to take a shot of the veggie "garden" and i use that term loosely!
the plant to the left is the runaway cucumber that gary purchased for me to grow, the middle mostly obscured extremely dainty vine is a cuke that is supposed to be round and was rescued by gary from the chuck and plopped into this space. the next plant is my cherry tomato that looks like it might actually present me with more that 2 toms for the season. the runaway is looking pretty prolific and i hope to have enough for a big bowl of cucumbers and onions this weekend. yum
Labels: cukes and onions, garden
