The first frost came on Monday morning. It did not kill anything, so we won’t call it the 1st killing frost. It did make me nervous. So I picked the green tomatoes last week. Usually the kiss of 1st frost improves the flavor of crucifers. We haven’t picked any yet so who knows. They were pretty good before.
Getting the leaves up is a real pain. The leaf blower is really hard to start and even when it is started it takes forever to warm up enough to blow leaves. I used the mulching lawn mower to reduce the bulk of leaves. The side delivery lawn mower will be used to go around the edge of the beds and blow at least one pass into them. By then maybe the blower will be warm enough to finish the job.
My wife gets really irritated at me for blowing our leaves into the flower beds and natural areas instead of picking them up. We need leaves to mulch in the garden, but it is much easier to pick them up in nice neat bags from the side of the road.
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/
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Broken Toys
Broken Toys
Yesterday I went home early to blow leaves. The choke on the leaf blower would not stay up. I could not start the leaf blower. Any readers who know me know that I had a mechanical bypass at a very early age and I am totally unable to fix anything. My leaves are unblown and the leaf blower is in the trunk of my car.
I did lay off and sulfur the 4th row of the garden. That is the row where some stuff is already growing. Greens, radishes, arugula and lettuce are coming along nicely. The temperature went to 80 degrees yesterday. It is supposed to do so again today. That should make things grow. Our salad last night had arugula and radishes from the garden. Most of the 1st planting of the fall garden did not come up because of the drought. That is why everything is so late this year.
I also ordered grapevines and asparagus crowns from Stark Bros. http://www.starkbros.com/ yesterday. Their web page said they were sold out; but they took my order over the phone for February delivery. Ordering stuff is almost as much fun as planting. Nothing is more fun than eating the produce from the garden though.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Yesterday I went home early to blow leaves. The choke on the leaf blower would not stay up. I could not start the leaf blower. Any readers who know me know that I had a mechanical bypass at a very early age and I am totally unable to fix anything. My leaves are unblown and the leaf blower is in the trunk of my car.
I did lay off and sulfur the 4th row of the garden. That is the row where some stuff is already growing. Greens, radishes, arugula and lettuce are coming along nicely. The temperature went to 80 degrees yesterday. It is supposed to do so again today. That should make things grow. Our salad last night had arugula and radishes from the garden. Most of the 1st planting of the fall garden did not come up because of the drought. That is why everything is so late this year.
I also ordered grapevines and asparagus crowns from Stark Bros. http://www.starkbros.com/ yesterday. Their web page said they were sold out; but they took my order over the phone for February delivery. Ordering stuff is almost as much fun as planting. Nothing is more fun than eating the produce from the garden though.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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