USDA Zone 10b

Compost

Posted about 3 months ago | Cloudy 15°C / 59°F

Seems like we’re going to need some compost before our bin will be ready to provide. Shar will try to have some delivered tomorrow or after the weekend, maybe a wheelbarrow will be handy too!

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Ideas set in concrete

Posted about 4 months ago | Overcast 8°C / 46°F

Hired “Decorative Concrete – J. Huber/Sunset Books, 2005” from the Emerald Library (wow, libraries now have new books in them unlike back when I was a kid; late fees are only 10c per day – go taxes!) yesterday. WOW. I had NO idea you could do so much with concrete. This is...

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concrete
Warrior

Posted about 4 months ago | Overcast 8°C / 46°F | 1 thumbs up!

In a warrior-esque effort late this afternoon I annihilated the cubby house. A structure that Tanya referred to only minutes before I started as a ‘rather well made cubby’; after two hours of crow-barring, hammering, pulling, kicking and wrenching I’d removed the side panels, pushed the corrugate...

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They're growing!

Posted about 4 months ago | Rainy 11°C / 52°F

We have babies! Sprouty little seedlings are popping up to say hello all over the place! After finding those pots I went inside, just in time for the hail to hit! I didn’t even realise it was cold enough!

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It finally stopped raining for a second...

Posted about 4 months ago | Cloudy 8°C / 46°F | 2 thumbs up!

I headed down the back yard on a compost-deposit mission and ended up around the back of the little galv iron shed. We knew there were a number of old pots thrown back here on the ground under layers of fallen leaves and in two rusty ~200L drums. I ended up pulling out the following, approximatel...

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First tulips

Posted about 8 months ago

After the crocus blooming in February, the tulips have begun to bloom now. Rather dispppointing though as only one tulips blooms at a time and the stems are so short the hardly can peek over the thops of the leaves.

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