Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Butter Lettuce. In November! We've had a couple of frosty mornings, so we'll see how long it lasts .

Had I known you could have lettuce growing at this time of year I would have planted more varieties.

I planted this mescalin mix in the middle of september just to see what would happen. We're still getting cuttings off of it - though I planted too thickly. Live and Learn!

Thursday, October 18, 2007



This is the backyard of our home that we bought last fall. The only sign of plant life that existed was the spreading bamboo at the very back and a meadow of dandy lions. We bought when the weather was nice and after the first heavy rain we noticed that a small lake was forming in the backyard. After many hours of mowing, aerating, thatching, digging up sod, removing rocks, tilling, amending the soil, more tilling and more rock removal we've finally got a few raised beds ready for next year's spring planting.



We removed 70 bags of thatch from this lawn! Now it only gets squishy in some lower areas!










Myfriend has romantic visions of a pond here, but all I can see is the excavator coming in and the money going out that it's going to cost to get rid of the invasive stuff! My neighbor poured battery acid on his and that didn't effect it at all!