From valued garden commentor Marvel:
Hereabouts, it’s all smiles and rainbows — even the blueberries did their part yesterday and flew their happy rainbow colors.
We’re in the midst of an extended heat wave here in the Willamette Valley. Pretty much all our morning time is spent watering and worrying. We lost all of our peas to a short-but-intense wavelet(?) last month and we’re hoping to prevent further failures now. We’ve got beach umbrellas shading the kale, beets, carrots and tomatoes.
Hearing that high temps can mess with corn’s pollination, we put a big blue tent canopy over the Bodacious crop (which is awash in tassels & silk — so pretty all decked out like that).
Luckily, the experimental corn (seen here in a plot next to the asparagus bed) isn’t that far along, so we’re not scrambling to find shade for it.
We’ll be harvesting the last of the artichokes this week. Kinda cool how we a-l-m-o-s-t get tired of eating some of the not-easy-to-store veggies (e.g., artichokes, asparagus) right about the time they peter out in the garden.
Finally, the alium has cast off its funny hats and exploded into bloom. We don’t know what these guys are — wild onions? Leeks? There were here when we bought the place (7 years ago) and we just let them do their thing. They make lovely cut flowers and the pollinators adore them — makes it a little spooky making one’s way to a spigot back there — the bees seem pretty drowsily engaged, but there’s so many of ’em, I fear accidentally disturbing a bunch as I lumber by.
raven
WOW! Really nice.
OzarkHillbilly
Ehh…. Another well tended, fungus free, pestilent purified, productive, weed free garden. Ho hum… ;-) Absolutely beautiful, Marvel.
Gindy51
High temps usually equal very low winds, which is how corn pollinates. In order to combat that, just go out and shake the stalks gently and pollinate the plants yourself. No need for anything else. Our onions have white flower heads but our neighbors planted leeks and they look like your red headed ones.
here in the usually hotter Midwest (SE IN) we are hoping for some heat to ripen up the tomatoes. I have tons of green ones but they are not coming into ripeness due to the cool temps. A few hotter days and they will explode. My peppers are going gangbusters but, again due to lack of heat, my zucchini and cucumbers are almost a bust. Lots of flowers, very little fruit.
SiubhanDuinne
Great garden, great photos! And those luscious artichokes make my mouth water. Mmmm, melted butter.
Cervantes
Asparagus can be stored frozen for a little while if you first turn it into a creamy and delicious soup.
Lovely garden!
satby
Wow Marvel! I’m in awe because I can imagine how much work that is!
I got the Serenade anti-fungal that Ozark and Anne Laurie recommended and am in a pitched battle with early blight on my tomatoes after all the rainy, humid weather we’ve had in Michigan. The surviving roses all have black spot too. The last few days have been clear and mild but temps went down to the 50s a few nights, so most of my tomato blossoms dropped without setting fruit. The weather has been warming up again, so I’m hoping that I start getting tomatoes soon. It’s the only veggie I planted this year.
JPL
Amazing pictures.
Friday evening, when I got out of the shower, the dogs were going crazy barking and carrying on. I came out and opened the back door and saw a flash heading towards the fence. I think it was a fox. Yesterday, I found a green tomato with a chunk out of it. The squirrels wait until they are ripe. Although foxes can go over fences, I don’t think it’s common. Or at least, I hope not.
FarmerG
Looks like garlic blooms to me.
If they are, they will mature and each tip will eventually turn into a small garlic bulbil (not really a seed but a clone). Or pull one up and taste it :-)
raven
@JPL: coyote
Pogonip
Yum! Blueberries!
Shaper-uppers, I got a respectable amount of exercise this week. How about you?
JPL
@raven: That would make the most sense but it went behind some bushes and I was judging by the size of the bushes. There are coyotes in the neighborhood. The tail was long and fluffy. Whatever, I don’t like it and it needs to stay out of my yard.’
It was really fast..
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: My green beans are getting tough because of the heat wave we had a few weeks ago. I’m thinking of pulling the plants. Do you have any ideas what I can plant in it’s place, or do I wait another six weeks to plant greens?
geg6
Just gorgeous, Marvel! And it looks like garlic that’s blooming there.
Our beans seem to be a lost cause but the yellow squash is almost ready. Peppers and tomatoes are coming along and the peas are almost ready. Weird weather has the garden acting weirdly, too. What has really gone gangbusters is our raspberry and blackberry bushes. And our first try at strawberries. I used a bunch for dinner last night, the blackberries for a blackberry and ginger glaze for salmon filets and the strawberries, pickled, in a spinach salad. Going to make a pie with blackberries and blueberries today. Love having these fresh ingredients! Looks like we’ll be eating peaches in large quantities soon, too. I love summer!
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven:
Weren’t those the folk that The Donald was talking about?
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: Try picking them earlier. My wife likes them picked much earlier than I, just when the beans have begun forming and the pods are still pencil thin. Not as ‘meaty’ but still plenty tender.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks!
JPL
ABC This Week has Rick Perry
CBS Face the Nation has Rick Santorum
NBC Meet the Press has Ted Cruz.
The day of the crazies. Are the networks even relevant anymore?
BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
No.
ETA OT: I’ll just continue my kitchen painting and playing with new Win10 builds(they seem to be releasing them every few days now).
MomSense
@Pogonip:
I biked every day last week except the one rainy day. Yesterday I did a lot of swimming followed by dancing. Not sure I’ll be able to move today.
Another Holocene Human
Hurrah for boo-berries!
Real ones, not that commercial shite from FL or MI my wife keeps buying and shoving in my face with a “Here, you like these.”
No. No, I do not.
I only like blueberries that go “plink, plank, plunk” in my pail.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL:
If you want to know what is going on with the GOP, and let’s face it-that’s where the excitement is right now, yes. Hillary is boring, all she ever does is talk about the finer points of policy. Bernie is boring, all he ever talks about is how every one but the 1% is getting screwed. Martin O’Malley is… Wait a minute, Martin who? Jim Webb is, well who knows what Jim Webb is. An in depth exploration of him and his life could be fascinating, but who does in depth….
Excuse me, Donald Trump is talking again.
satby
@Pogonip: I’m going to join you starting this week. Recharging my Fitbit and resolving to do at least 30 minutes a day on my elliptical climber.
Botsplainer
Netflix marathon bingeing Agents of Shield.
Decent!
debbie
@Another Holocene Human:
The ones from Jersey are pretty good this year.
Another Holocene Human
@OzarkHillbilly: Jim Webb is the Confederate flag guy. I guess he missed B. Barry Bamz memo the other day. I guess Jim Webb doesn’t open singing telegrams.
Like that mountain wanker, flip off Obama, ride into irrelevance. Nice knowin’ ya.
Another Holocene Human
@debbie: Sounds awesome. Can’t get them here because they have perfectly
goodtasteless Florida blueberries.Another Holocene Human
@Botsplainer: Wait, is the whole thing up?
Some people warned me off. Does it get … stupider?
Baud
@JPL:
Lordy, Rick Perry is the statesman of that bunch.
the Conster
Wow, Marvel, so amazing. What a lot of work though!!! This is the first cycle of the seasons in my little duplex. I moved in late September last year, so as the fall turned into winter into spring I found out that lilac bushes border the driveway, some kind of wisteria tree grows near the deck where I can smell it, and as summer comes full, now I have raspberries in the tangle along the rock wall. I planted a little patch with some cutting flowers – cosmos, zinnias, daisies and bee balm, and they’re coming along enough to start filling some vases. I gave up a big house with lots of garden beds, but I love tending just a few plants. It really is almost a full time job to grow, maintain and harvest a full home garden, and I have nothing but respect for farmers and landscapers.
the Conster
@OzarkHillbilly:
Here’s a perfect summation of the state of the GOP. The ground shifted under them, and all they have left are the onions on their belt. The more the press focuses on that, the better.
Valdivia
Not a possessor of a garden but even I can tell this is amazing!
WereBear
I sure hope not.
Comrade Jake
Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to be on Meet the Press this morning. Might actually be worth watching. I think he’s nominally going to be on to talk about his new book, but I bet he’ll speak to the past couple of weeks as well.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Opps…
debit
@Another Holocene Human: I watched as it aired, thought it dragged a bit in the first part of season one, but then did a big reveal that changed everything and made it awesome. Season two is also very well done. I really like it, and it’s only one of two shows I bother to watch (the other being Hannibal).
OzarkHillbilly
My own garden looks like a disaster area. The wilt is attacking the tomatoes with relentless abandon as the rains return day after day after day (yesterday and today, no rain, tomorrow thru Wed? Rain) and temps refuse to rise above 85 (they say come Sat we will see 90) so that the many maters I have refuse to ripen. The potatoes are ready to be dug up but only because it is time to give up. Onions soon thereafter. Sweet peppers… I just hate the idea of surrendering to the TMV, especially after last years bumper crop. My squash… My job today is to go thru the patch of 30 plants and inspect every leaf and stem for squash bugs and their eggs. Probably futile, but I have to try.
My filet beans are producing well (app 5 lbs every 2-3 days) and the Mother Stollard and MO Wonder look good. The hot peppers are healthy and producing, and my sweet potatoes look good so far.
I dug up the Susanville garlic and they are a winner for me with nice sized bulbs, so next yr I will definitely plant them again. The hardnecks (Northern White, Vietnamese Red, and Duganski) all look to be doing better this year than last. We’ll see. The Chinese Pink and the Spanish Roja were failures for the 2nd year in a row so I won’t bother with them again.
Went out and picked 19+ lbs of blackberries on Tuesday, made 20 half pints of jam and froze the other 10+ lbs for cobblers. That with the 38+ lbs of blueberries I picked in June (20 half pints of jam, the rest frozen) and the 20 half pints of strawberry jam I made in May (our local crop was wiped out by the rains so I had to buy them at the store) has my wife very happy. She mixes the jam with her home made yogurt for breakfast most every day.
debbie
@Comrade Jake:
Yeah, but you’ll have to sit through Ted Cruz…
OzarkHillbilly
@the Conster:I liked this jibe: “For a while now we’ve known and they’ve known that time’s running out on the politics of racism and sexism or as they call it, traditional values.”
Eric S.
@satby: also fighting blight on my little 3rd floor deck garden. My Home Depot didn’t have Serenade but did have another brand.
newdealfarmgrrrlll
Beautiful!
satby
@Eric S.: I ordered mine off of Amazon. I live far enough out and I’m brooke enough that I can’t waste gas going 20 miles into town just to find out the local stores don’t have it. Amazon Prime has probably saved me double what it cost just on gas in the car alone.
the Conster
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m watching This Week for the train wreck entertainment factor, and Tom Cole (R) (OK) just said that Trump’s remarks are good for the Republican party. It’s traditional values turtles all the way down in the GOP.
ETA: Now they’ve got that traitorous moron Tom Cotton opining about Iran. Click.
Baud
@the Conster:
The GOP and the Village will use this to portray the ultimate candidate as reasonable because he will not be Trump. Trump will be the Republicans’ Sister Souljah.
the Conster
@Baud:
I’m not entirely convinced he won’t be the ultimate candidate. He’s pure Republican id, and once id is off the leash, good luck putting it back on. Remember what happened when Palin went rogue and started riling up the froth like McCain simply couldn’t. The nutjobs love them some red meat and the other candidates will have to be more like Trump, not less.
MomSense
Here is the hard hitting question Corker was asked on Face the Nation. Paraphrasing. Do you think Secretary Kerry is too eager to strike a deal with Iran?
I hate these shows. Cruz kept referring to the Obama Administration as the cartel in Washington in his Interview with Todd.
the Conster
@MomSense:
There’s a press waaaaaaaahmbulance on twitter today because Hillary roped them off while she was parading, so they had to walk in a moving corral. Hahaha. They reported on her patent leather Ferragamos. If there’s a more wasted resource than money spent on pool reporters I’d like to know what it is.
Amir Khalid
@the Conster:
Trump as the nominee? That sounds like the Republicans’ worst-case scenario. Being pure Republican id won’t get him past the 47% floor next November. The party establishment is already trying to make him shut up. So is its preferred candidate, even if he did take two weeks to notice the insult to his own Mexican wife and children.
sacrablue
@Pogonip: Had jury duty again this week, the temperature was 95+ everyday, so I didn’t get my daily 12,000 steps at all. Whoever watches the cameras in the courthouse halls must think I’m a crazy person because I have walked at least 30 minutes at lunch and at breaks.
On topic, does anyone have experience with tomatillos? Our two plants are at least four feet tall with tons of blooms and zero fruit. Any suggestions?
MomSense
@the Conster:
Our media are pathetic, especially TV journalism, to the point where we all love it when candidates put them in their place. It kills me because I want to defend the press and want them to be front and center but what passes for journalism now is so reprehensible that i just can’t do it. This sorry state of journalism is not good for our democracy.
MomSense
@Baud:
JEB! Must be thrilled by Trump. He is giving him a YOOOOOOGE assist.
the Conster
@Amir Khalid:
You have to appreciate how difficult it is for them with Trump out there, goading everyone into taking a position. If they don’t disavow Trump they look like they agree or look cowardly to everyone not their base, and if they do disavow Trump, they look weak and cowardly to their base. Win win for us. We have to root for Trump to keep his yap running, and so far so good.
Baud
@the Conster:
Anything is possible these days.
@MomSense:
Local and alternative media is on the rise, I think and hope.
opiejeanne
@Another Holocene Human: Blueberries for Sal.
the Conster
@MomSense:
There is no real news reported on any of the network or cable broadcasts, so that whole genre of the savvy analysts sitting around telling people what to think – to believe them or your lying eyes – is a relic of the past watched by shut ins and critics. Who under the age of 70 gets their opinions from a roundtable discussion with George Will, Bill Kristol and some token white Democrat? There is plenty of news though – Vox and Vice are doing some great reporting. My daughters’ generation doesn’t even put network TV on.
MomSense
@Baud:
I hope so too. I try to donate to some but sadly I do not have a lot of cash.
satby
@sacrablue: They behave like tomatoes in the garden, so if your weather is too cool (60-70s) the flowers may not set to fruit. you could try a fruit setting spray, or wait, it’s still early in the summer. I think they’re less sensitive to heat than tomatoes, once they start fruiting you’ll get lots.
MomSense
@the Conster:
My kids will watch just for the fun of mocking. I do think they set the narrative, however because so many print writers and political party strategists appear on and watch those shows.
satby
Aaaagh! Now one of my FB friends is passing on another right-wing meme about the traitor’s flag honoring black soldiers that fought for the Confederacy, I guess that’ll be the talking point of the day. My answer to that was “slaves pressed into service? Really?”
Only a matter of time till she unfriends me. Haven’t seen her since I was 9, so it won’t be a tragedy.
satby
@Another Holocene Human: I just picked about 1/2 a pint, most of mine aren’t ripe yet. only one bush is doing much of anything, it’s a late producer so the cool rainy weather didn’t bother it much.
sacrablue
@satby: It is hot, hot, hot here. Our tomatoes are producing lots of fruit, the tomatillos nothing.
Baud
@satby:
Even if there were voluntary black Confederate soldiers, why would we honor them?
MomSense
@Another Holocene Human:
Greatest kids book ever.
the Conster
@MomSense:
Well, they sure used to set the narrative, and to some extent still do, but, I truly believe that the work of media critics cracked the code – pointing out the narrative and how it’s worked into what we call the “news”. I know there’s always a ton of pushback on twitter to Chuck Todd, etc. basically calling out the bullshit framing and laughing at them. Once seen, things can’t be unseen.
tybee
@sacrablue:
mine won’t produce until it cools off a bit in late summer. however, the ground cherries are producing an abundance.
the Conster
@Baud:
Stop trying to make sense of things that make no sense. It’s turtles all the way down.
sparrow
Not garden related, but I’m in Athens today, awaiting the results of the Greek referendum. We took the whole family to vote this morning. Interestingly, they vote on a Sunday (very few businesses open), and public transit is free all day. There were zero people in line — not because no one is voting (they are expecting very high turnout), but because they actually put a damned lot of polling places out there.
The ballots are also interesting — plain paper, sealed by your hand in an envelope, and placed in a clear plexiglass box which cannot be opened until the counting.
Then, for the counting, all parties have observers present who can verify the counts.
You might think “gosh, won’t that take a long time?” the answer is no — because each polling place serves so few people, the volunteers/observers can get them counted pretty quickly. Results will be coming in by 9 PM and pretty much over by 2 AM.
Amir Khalid
@the Conster:
That’s precisely the trap the party wouldn’t want to get caught in. I’m not sure Trump will be the nominee, because he might not be willing or able to do the work to compete seriously in the primaries. But if he makes the Klown Kar compete with him in steering towards the party id, he could leave the eventual nominee stranded there.
MomSense
@the Conster:
For those of us who follow I do think we get the pushback but even people who are relatively well informed don’t pay attention. Yesterday I was talking to a lot of politically active people, liberals even, and was pretty shocked by how closely they were mirroring the mega media narratives. They completely missed the Todd controversy and apology.
opiejeanne
@sacrablue: Just wait. Ours (near Seattle) are doing the same thing right now. We’ve grown then for several years and they always do that, set fruit later in the summer. I’m glad you have two together because if not you’d get no fruit.
the Conster
@Amir Khalid:
Even if he isn’t really a viable candidate, he’ll be out there trying to be a kingmaker. Maybe he’ll try suing his way to the nomination. He’s such a loose loudmouthed cannon and he’s not going anywhere.
opiejeanne
@satby: We end up freezing ours. And if sacrablue is in Sacramento (just guessing from the nym), they are having some incredibly nasty heat. I think temps in the 60s and 70s are a thing of faded memory.
JPL
@satby: Legally they were not allowed to own guns under the Confederacy.
Germy Shoemangler
@MomSense: Wife and I just watched a bit of “Meet The Press” until we couldn’t take it anymore. They spent A LOT of time talking about Trump; taking him seriously, and then briefly mentioned Bernie’s big crowds. One of the panelists said Bernie Sanders says things that make him unelectable. WHAT? Trump, Santorum, etc. haven’t said things to make them unelectable?
One of the panelists said “Sanders wants to TAKE DOWN the CEOs”…
No, he just wants them to pay their fair share in taxes.
MomSense
@sparrow:
I am so hoping OXI prevails. I’ve heard that the wording of the question is confusing.
Germy Shoemangler
Lately I’ve become addicted to these Story Corps animations. They record everyday people talking about their life experiences (a black woman struggling for the right to vote in 1948, an old man remembering his son) and animate them:
https://vimeo.com/search?q=storycorps
I love these cartoons and I wish they were more widely distributed.
JPL
@sparrow: Do you want to venture a guess? The polls close in twenty five minutes, so are you saying that at 2 pm. est, results will start coming in?
MomSense
@Germy Shoemangler:
The panel discussions are boooooooogus as they used to say on Car Talk.
sacrablue
@tybee: Good to know, I’ll tell my son not to give up. Thanks!
opiejeanne
Marvel, your garden is gorgeous, especially the first photograph.
And OzarkHillbilly, if you thought my garden was weed-free, pardon me while I roll on the floor with laughter. I am very careful where I point my camera.
It’s 8:36am and it’s already in the 70s, and we have some sort of overcast. I hope it’s not from fires.
satby
@Baud: @JPL: I just get so frustrated with the silliness of conservatives pulling out “history” like that to defend their worldview. Whether they were free or slaves, they certainly weren’t at liberty to decide for themselves whether they would fight for the traitors. And to make a statement implying equivalency with white soldiers is just deliberate rewriting of history. She’s a nice person and probably very liberal for her area, but sucked into the ignorance of going to school and growing up down there.
Germy Shoemangler
@Gindy51:
Last winter, to combat her seasonal affective disorder, Mrs. Shoemangler set up a tomato, basil and sweet pea indoor grow operation, with soil, a grow light and plenty of soil. Every morning I’d see her shake the tomato plants gently to get them to pollinate. We got a ton of tomatoes, the basil was delicious, but the sweet pea plants were aggressive and didn’t want to share the small space.
In the spring she transplanted the pea plants to our backyard garden, and now they’re happy and productive.
opiejeanne
@tybee: My ground cherries are still small plants. I ran out of room in the garden so they ended up in a pot. I did that with my icebox watermelons, stuck one in a pot and one into a tomato bed. Both are now blooming and seem to be doing well.
Baud
@satby:
A lot of people associate contrarianism with intelligence.
opiejeanne
@satby: I was shocked the first time I heard this nonsense, and then the rest of what kids in the south are taught, or not taught, about the Civil War was astonishing. A shirt-tail relation through distant-cousin marriage was the one who tried to school me and I would have laughed if I hadn’t been so startled. He referred to what was pretty common knowledge (industrialized North vs. agricultural South, guess who will win) as well as slavery being the central issue of secession, as revisionist history.
satby
@opiejeanne: Oh I know! A friend of the friend went on a two paragraph rant in answer to my “slaves, really?” comment to tell me all about the history I was ignorant of and how slavery still goes on so why would an ignorant person like me pick on [my friend] before learning my own history (and a detailed rant about how Old Glory was the slave traders flag of choice that made me suspect she thinks the south rose to RID the world of slavery).
Oh, and instead of picking on people’s beloved heritage, if I was so worried about slaves I should do something today about modern slavery. Since I’m also a member of Free the Slaves, that link was easy, and the link about the truth to blacks serving the Confederacy (mostly slaves brought to be servants and cooks) wasn’t much harder. Then I turned notifications off. Fuck them all.
Origuy
I found this at the History Channel site:
Emphasis mine. Since the bill was passed less than a month before Appomattox, the slave soldiers couldn’t have made much of a difference.
ETA. There were slaves in Confederate service before that.
scav
I’m in an information gathering stage, so would vastly appeciate some positive and negative rants/evaluations/paeans to the various forms of garden hoes. The exact desired one would be mostly for weeding largish areas in soils ranging from too much clay to perfect but I’ve also a penchant for all the details. Thanks.
And golly what a garden. Artichokes, blueberries, but also those nifty green glass insulators.
JPL
The Guardian is saying that the opinion polls are saying that NO wins in Greece. All of the major networks, stated that NO won.
We won’t know until the votes are counted though.
Mary G
Love all the pics. The water situation here is bad and getting worse. They finally woke up where I live and said we have to cut 24%. I have already cut 60%. My wingnut neighbors are going bonkers because the water districts in the state of CA are getting thousands of applications for rebates for tearing out your lawns a week and are way behind processing them. Both my wingnuttiest neighbors came by this week to bitch about Jerry Brown and government not working and did not appreciate me telling them that the drought has been going on for five years so if they had read the writing on the wall like I did they would have already taken care of it.
shell
Hope Trump makes it to the first debate. That should be good popcorn material
Germy Shoemangler
@Mary G: Wingnuts are especially nutty about their lawns. It’s a religion to them.
About ten years ago we had water restrictions in my town due to a drought, and my next-door neighbor used to sneak and water his lawn late at night. The thought of it going yellow made him suicidal.
Germy Shoemangler
@shell: When do the debates begin and where can i watch them (I don’t have cable tv)?
JPL
@Germy Shoemangler: I think FOX news is going to handle the debate. Maybe Elizabelle will volunteer to watch and keep us updated. She seems to have the stomach for the b.s.
rikyrah
I want Trump in the first debate. COnsidering that he’s polling second, and they are putting people in debates based upon how they poll…I wonder how they would exclude him.
WaterGirl
I haven’t read the thread yet, but I just have to jump in and say that now we know where Marvel got his nym – his/her garden is a marvel.
I’m heading out to water my garden, and while I’m watering, I will console the garden because it didn’t have the good fortune to be managed by Marvel. :-)
Germy Shoemangler
@rikyrah: Have you seen this?
http://rauchbrothers.com/video/explore/a-more-perfect-union/
A black woman in the south recalls her struggle registering to vote in the late 1940s
dmsilev
@rikyrah: Maybe require that debate participants have released all of their FEC financial disclosure forms? IIRC, Trump still hasn’t done that.
I’m sure there’s something. On the other hand, Trump excluded from the debate via rules-lawyering might be just as damaging to the GOP as Trump included. He’ll erupt, even worse than now, and unlike at a debate, there won’t be any clock or moderator or anything…
Gene108
@Botsplainer:
Agents of Shield gets better as season one winds down. Just finished season one. Interesting story arc. Fills in what the various Avengers movie covered, with respect to other gongs on in the timeline.
I wonder if the Marvel script writers wll ever try to pull of an X-Men / Avengers gross over or even an Agents of Shield cross-over with X-Men or even Alpha Flight / Department H.
opiejeanne
@satby: I stopped speaking to that idiot years ago. He was angry when I directed him to some articles including the one about servants and cooks, as well as the Articles of Secession, that he said some stupid/hateful things.
His resource for black men in the Confederste army was his “friend” at work, a black man who worked as a janitor and liked to dress up as a Confederate soldiers for historical reenactment events. (Massive eye roll).
Germy Shoemangler
@JPL:
I can imagine the questions! “You’re all wonderful. Who do you think is the MOST wonderful?”
opiejeanne
@Germy Shoemangler: my lawn is mostly yellow from lack of rain and it depresses me mightily.
Maybe that’s the one area where I’m a wingnut.
gelfling545
What a marvelous garden. I get garden envy even though I know I could not handle the upkeep. My “produce section” consists of 2 tomato plants, 4 pepper plants, 4 yellow squash and miscellaneous yellow, purple & green beans. This year I have some kale plants stuck in with my containers because I like the look of the leaves especially in contrast with purple-ish plants like coral bells. Who knows, I may get enough leaves to throw into a stir fry.
I’m on my way out to cut down (again) the lemon balm I was foolish enough to plant some years back & dig out as many roots as possible. I like it and use it but it is a rampant spreader intent on covering the earth.
opiejeanne
My neighbor is asking her husband if they’re supposed to water in the morning or evening, and she’s doing so very loudly. Possibly for my benefit because (oh no!) I have the sprinklers going on some shrubs we just transplanted. Or maybe she’s getting in a dig at him because he missed watering last night. He just about killed some big shrubs last month after they’d paid to have them installed.