It’s Been a While

I can’t believe 2012 is half gone and this is my 1st post. I apologize. I got so busy with the yard and garden that I spent my time doing rather than talking. This year’s garden is the best ever so far. We picked the 1st tomato on May 18th. It was a bloody butcher. The bloody butcher is a little larger than a cherry tomato, but much smaller than a “real” tomato. The flavor is that of an old fashioned high acid tomato. We are still getting mesclun, so a real garden salad is possible. The yard is looking horrible. We had 25 trees (mostly pines) cut down. To save money, I let the people take the logs and leave the debris. I have been piling debris on the street every weekend for 2 months. This weekend should finish it up. Then begins the task of getting the yard back in shape. There will be more landscaping and less grass. I am so far behind that the cucumbers and dill were just planted Sunday. That does finish the vegetable planting. Neither the figs nor the grapes got pruned this year. The weeds are a constant battle, the ones in the pathways are just being allowed to grow. Most of the pathways are covered with plastic, so the weeds are just growing in the mulch and should come up pretty easily. David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/