Revising the landscape is this spring's project. I have taken a concerted effort to improve the livability of our backyard. Instead of waiting for the time when we can afford to renovate it properly (to the une of over $20k I might add) which might never come, I took charge. I decided to invest some sweat equity and some charigng at the local nursery and also Home Depot. Here's a few pictures of my results so far. (That's five bags of bark mulch spread out over a 24 x 2.5 area about 3 inches deep. Trust me when I tell you that stuff (dyed reddish orange) stains your hands- and anything else it touches).
Here's the upside down tomato farm. - -->>>Surprisingly this thing really works. We had the most tomatoes ever from it last summer. This year we have four tomato vines hanging below and two that will use a tomato cage on the top. Also there are six Serrano hot peppers planted in the top. I will attach a drip irrigator to the top this afternoon and that will keep the plants moist and watered until the growing season ends in July. Yes- it'll be hot again this summer and with less than normal rainfall again this winter (thanks to la nina) we might face some water rationing when the heat of the summer hits us full force in June- July- August- September) Let's pray it doesn't mean more wildfires!!!
<<<--- Last but not least is our grape vines. This vine was planted last year and has been pruned per UC- Davis specifications. It's doing great don't you think? We planted a pair of vines last year and then added six more this spring. Four red and four white grapes. They should become prolific after three summers in the ground. So until then it's just a matter of giving them water, food, support and pruning them correctly. It seems like I'm raising a child rather than a grape vine... doesn't it?Well enough of this. It's time to play with the irrigation and lay down a feeding of fertilizer before the forecast afternoon rain. They think this might be the last rainfall of any significant amount before the summer heat. Let's hope they're wrong!!
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so you know how when you put white daisies in a glass with food coloring, it will soak up the color, and and the petals will become that hue? i wonder if the chips, which dye everything, will lead to tinted plants and flowers?
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