From the monthly archives:

July 2003

Catching up in the flower gardens

July 14, 2003

Because we spent the majority of the weekend doing stuff out in the new garden, not much got done in the flower gardens at all. So we went out after work today, really just to do a walk-through because we thought the bugs would be awful, and ended up staying outside for a couple of [...]

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First Sawmill Run

July 13, 2003

We used the sawmill for the first time today. Great fun and very productive. By the way, the mill is the 13 horse model from SMG Morewood. I shopped pretty hard and this one seems competitive with the Norwood and the Woodmizer LT15, and it’s two grand less than the Woodmizer and one grand less [...]

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Drastic Deadheading

July 12, 2003

It’s hard to believe that this is my first real deadheading run on the window boxes, but I don’t think the boxes themselves really took off until the cold and rainy June weather stopped. So once hot and sunny July started, we got a couple of weeks of gorgeous growth on the whole set, but [...]

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Considering Compost

July 9, 2003

I got out after work tonight and turned compost piles. It was way too hot over the weekend to do then. I moved the last of the stuff from the old middle bin over to top up the new bin I turned ten days ago. It looks like we’ll have two full bins ready to [...]

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A Picture-free Entry

July 8, 2003

Lisa’s out of town, and the weather continues hot but no longer totally oppressive. I watered the potatoes and mushrooms, then finished replacing the zone 7 sprinklers with dripperline. I got about 50 feet up on the upper center bed as well, but it needs another run. I was getting hungry so I quit at [...]

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Veg box update

July 7, 2003

I’m pretty pleased with how well the vegetables that I planted on the upper balcony are doing. I’ve never grown peas before, and only planted one window box with them, and they did very well and we are eating peas now, which is neat. My plan to have them drape down didn’t go so well, [...]

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Mycocultural Musings

July 6, 2003

We inoculated the second mushroom bed today. This one is stropharia from Field and Forest. I went to them rather than Paul Stamnets because I figured that it was better to get spawn from Wisconsin than Washington. We still have Hypsizygus ulmarius (which they call “Garden Oyster”) on back order from Fungi Perfecti. Meanwhile, both [...]

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