Redcat
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We had a frost last week, so I waited until this weekend to get the garden done. My daughter came and helped, thank God. It was officially 87. Even with sunscreen, I am burned today. My poor girl is putting her own garden in today. I feel bad as she is also no spring chicken and already had a hip replacement, but she is younger than me.
I have come to the realization that this may be our last year of gardening. We are getting up in years and today I am so sore. Then again, this was the one hard day. Now it's just watering and weeding.
We also did prune the grapes and cut down a few dead branches on trees. So maybe that figures into my aching. I know I will be very happy if I can actually get some of the produce and not just feed the deer lol. I do try to plant items that the abundant critters don't like (no root crops).
Items in: A dozen tomatoes, small amount of potatoes (maybe 20 plants), 4 slicing cucumbers, 2 peppers, 4 baby sugar watermelon, 4 zucchini (am I mad?), 4 acorn squash, and 4 yellow cantaloupe. I am going to try trellis training on the zucchini, cantaloupe, cucumbers and watermelon. On the deck is yellow beans and red lettuce.
Seems everything was $2.98 in a 4 pack or $5.98 for a single plant (I went to home depot) so ... I didn't start my own this year due to some severe back problems including a lot of pain, epidurals and physical therapy. It's sad, as I have so much seed. But you do what you have to. The red lettuce seeded itself from when I was collecting seed pods last year. I have lettuce up the behind lol.
It's a small garden but hopefully will produce enough. Now where is the advil bottle, lol.
I have come to the realization that this may be our last year of gardening. We are getting up in years and today I am so sore. Then again, this was the one hard day. Now it's just watering and weeding.
We also did prune the grapes and cut down a few dead branches on trees. So maybe that figures into my aching. I know I will be very happy if I can actually get some of the produce and not just feed the deer lol. I do try to plant items that the abundant critters don't like (no root crops).
Items in: A dozen tomatoes, small amount of potatoes (maybe 20 plants), 4 slicing cucumbers, 2 peppers, 4 baby sugar watermelon, 4 zucchini (am I mad?), 4 acorn squash, and 4 yellow cantaloupe. I am going to try trellis training on the zucchini, cantaloupe, cucumbers and watermelon. On the deck is yellow beans and red lettuce.
Seems everything was $2.98 in a 4 pack or $5.98 for a single plant (I went to home depot) so ... I didn't start my own this year due to some severe back problems including a lot of pain, epidurals and physical therapy. It's sad, as I have so much seed. But you do what you have to. The red lettuce seeded itself from when I was collecting seed pods last year. I have lettuce up the behind lol.
It's a small garden but hopefully will produce enough. Now where is the advil bottle, lol.
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