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    T Tuesday: tour edition

    Welcome to another edition of T stands for Tuesday. Come with me for a little walk around the yard today. You won’t believe how huge the tomatoes are!! FYI…picture heavy post

    We’ll start were we left off last week. The former playset.

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    The sand box has been removed and all that’s left are some bare spots in need of a load of dirt and grass seed.

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    I got a little carried away with flowers this year but I’m really enjoying them.

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    Of course many of them are perennials which suits me perfectly.

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    Here’s one of the crazy horseradish plants along with some tiny cucumber plants. Only one survived the transplant to out doors after our strange spring. I just replanted some seeds. It remains to be seen if they ever get big enough to produce.

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    Here’s the same deck box garden from a different angle. Those are my yellow pear tomatoes.

    Remember where they started this year??

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    Hey look…there’s the playset in the background.

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    And we can’t forget the obligatory beverage for T stands for Tuesday. Ice water for the humid afternoon we had while taking these photos. Heavy rain early in the day gave way to a sticky afternoon.

    Continuing my backward progression around the house we come to this sad bucket of dirt.

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    There are seeds in there…I set it in the sun hoping they’d germinate. If not I’ll throw something else in there…perhaps some daisy seeds for a splash of texture and color.

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    The big garden or shed garden or perhaps deer feeding station.

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    Some things are doing wonderful like my peppers and a rouge carrot.  My beans not so much. I’ve replanted seeds twice now after only a handful came up.

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    The herbs I transplanted from a Trader Joe’s herb pot are getting really big.  Behind them is the other horseradish plant we inherited.

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    I have beef steak tomatoes in this garden…nice thick stems and blossoms. Hooray!

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    One of my Egyptian Walking Onions is starting to look real interesting. I inherited these with the horseradish.

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    Not surprisingly the clover is looking fantastic. *grin*

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    I picked up these great hanging pots at Walgreen’s of all places. I couldn’t pass them up for the price.

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    The front walk pots aren’t looking the best this year. I was a little late in planting them.

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    I do really like these ones though. I picked up with watering can half filled with dirt at a garage sale this spring for $2. It’s a nice edition to my eclectic bunch.

    It wouldn’t be Tuesday without a full to-do list  for me. I’ll be around to visit my T companions at some point…have patience.

    What are you doing today?

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    T Tuesday: second garden edition

    Good morning! I’m once again linking up with T stands for Tuesday where we grab a beverage and have a little chat hosted by Elizabeth.

    I talked about my garden here at home as well as the one at my in-laws but you’ve never seen the the space at the in-laws.20150606_7893

    It’s a really big garden! They downsized from the original when the critters got so bad they had to put a 5ft fence around.

    20150606_7931She has a huge strawberry patch! We picked almost 4 quarts last Saturday. YUM!!  The boy snapped this photo of us covering the patch with bird netting after the harvest.  He told me he took a few photos when I asked him to put away my camera. He said he found photography relaxing. 🙂

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    After a hot day in the garden there we came home, had a late lunch and a well earned glass of wine.

    Any guess on what these flowers are??

    You’ll never guess…  Horseradish!! My horseradish was blooming. I cut off the tops to save the energy for the plant.

    I, of course, have a few errands today. I hope to be back inside before the forecast 97°F hits this afternoon. YUCK!

    What are you doing today?

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    T Tuesday: updates edition

    Welcome to T stands for Tuesday!  (just a touch early this week)T stands for Tuesday_200Grab your cup and join me for a few updates.

    Where shall I start?  I guess the garden is as good a place as any…update1 update2 update3

    Everything is planted…the Alfalfa’s Secret is around some of the plants. My inlaws swore by this stuff last year and I have to admit that my tomatoes at their house were amazing! So I bought a bag of it myself this year to try here at home.  Only about half of the beans came up so I went back and planted some more seeds, soaking them this time hoping to speed the germination.

    I got my advanced copy of Sew Somerset containing my article last week. You can check out my post about it. It’s so exciting to hold it in your hand vs just seeing it on the computer screen!

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    Yesterday morning was spent on the deck with my coffee disassembling some jeans that no longer fit anyone.

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    I cut the legs off then open the seams and also save the back pockets. All of this will be utilized for other projects.

    20150601_7755Only a little bit of waste….or maybe that should be waist. Oh so punny.

    I have a few errands as usual today and of course, my Second on the 2nd post which will be following shortly.

    What are you doing today?