Garden - 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

This year was the same story as the last two years. There's not enough sun in my back yard due to all the trees. I really only get about 4 hours of direct sunlight. Besides that, some of the plants did ok. I really only care about the corn, but with the lack of sunlight they are never really going to grow well in my yard.

Here's what i grew:

• peppers - red, green, orange, jalapeno
• corn
• sunflowers
• tomatoes - cherry, giant
• gourds
• carrots
• onions
• pumpkins

After the first month.

The sunflowers did the best this year. They grew so high and big that some broke in half on windy days.



The peppers grew pretty well.
They must not need as much sunlight as other plants. The jalapeno's did the best of all the peppers.
The carrots came out ok. Some of them split open and others had weird mutant shapes.
Notice the weird looking carrot.


The gourds on the fence did great too.

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Garden - June 2011

Monday, 20 June 2011

This is the 3rd year i've had a garden and the 2nd year with good soil. I planted more seeds then last year, i didn't space the rows out as much, so we'll see how it goes.

• 3 rows of corn
• peanuts
• sunflowers
• 3 types of tomatoes
• lettuce
• gourds
• squash
• 3 types of pumpkins
• carrots
• peppers

I planted everything when it was 80, then it went down to 40 degrees at night and rained for a week. But i did mix in mulch and pearlite.
Charlie on guard duty. Again this year his job is to kill any animal that try's to eat my corn.

The corn and sunflowers are doing great, squirrels ate the peanuts and most of the potatoes though.

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Random Pictures from 2010

Thursday, 12 August 2010

I didn't feel like creating separate post for all of these so i just put them all together. They are some of the random things i've done in the past few months.

This was a smoke stack at one of the GM plants i visited last month. It was either in Dallas or Kansas City, i can't remember.
Waiting to fly home in the rain.
Truck frames at one of the GM assembly plants.
Good luck guessing what book this is. Although if you know me you probably have a good chance at guessing it. Katie will probably know since it's her book that i borrowed.
Unfortunately some animal has been eating the tops of almost all my sunflowers. I started with 20 and i'm down to 4. It is not going to end happily for one of us.
Tigers game
Fireworks afterwords
Washing the cars and watering the driveway
Somebody's cookin' chicken
Grandma and Jack
Some pictures from the Toledo Zoo.
No those weren't my footprints, honest.
This lady didn't see that part of the road was missing. She was too focused on that Big Mac.
Just trying to fit in at the LA Dodgers game.

Before going on the Price is Right they take your picture in front of this green screen where you can select different backgrounds. They give you a card then try to get you to buy the picture afterwords. I just saved the proof from the site. Now John and I didn't see a lot of other dudes going up there and i didn't really want to go. It was weird. But whatever, glad i did.

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