Hello everyone,
Sometimes, being a member of a group of people who share the same
interests is more about the people themselves, than the interests we
share. Now is one of those times for us to work together to help one of
our own.
Our sky brother, Michael Kee has embarked on a valiant battle
against a rare but treatable form of cancer. For various reasons, the
financial impact of his treatment will be considerable. We will be
putting together some fund raising events (fly-in, music?) to try to
help Mike and Laurie weather this storm, and Michael has asked me to
help get the following information out to all of his friends and fellow
pilots.
Michael will be working on a blog to keep people informed of his
progress, because unfortunately, part of his treatment will involve some
difficulty in speaking, for a while. The blog is
http://www.michaelkee.org. It is in...

nighthawk50

Spent a couple hours in the garden this morning tweaking this space and that. It's great excercise. By the time I was done, I felt spent and like I had really accomplished something. I had gone to the garden store over the weekend and I was determined to get my new plants into the ground before too much time had gone by and the plants were at risk of suffering from too little water or being neglected in those teeny pots they come in.

So, I pulled up the old arugula and the zuchinni that was taking up half the garden space and put in some asparagus, lettuce and tomatoes instead. I'm excited to see how these new additions are going to do. My old tomato plant that I just pulled up today was a dud and I'm hoping this new one will do better. This spot was such a winner with the tomatoes last year so I'm not sure why I had a hard time with is this time around. I guess I'll be able to tell more about what happened by watching how this new plant does in this same spot.
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lulugardens

AKA Ornamental Bamboo or Mexican Bamboo, this is one nasty invasive plant! A large (and ever-expanding) patch of it is growing on the farm property. Burning it down only seemed to fertilize it, and pulling it out was followed by rapid re-growth. Digging it out is not an option, since the roots can go down 9 feet or more.

So I'm going to try an organic solution on it soon that involves using vinegar and lemon juice. I'll post the results of this latest assault against it here. Keeping my fingers crossed...

hartless

We have been getting our afternoon showers the past three days and my plants are watered when I get home. It has even been raining at my house during the night and when I wake up the deck is wet so I know the plants are getting plenty of water. I have been watering because my plants were not established yet. Most were installed with the house in late November and it was very dry in April and May. So I was watering every night. I feel like I'm on vacation now that I don't have to water. Yeah, June and afternoon rain showers.

southeasttallytown

I am so excited about my new compost bin. I ordered a couple of weeks ago and I received it yesterday. It took all of 10 minutes to set up in the yard and the best part is that it collects the liquid for compost tea so I feel like I got a two for one. I can't wait to start using it.

southeasttallytown