Curses! A groundhog has eaten 5 tomatoes in just 36 hours: 2 Romas and 3 Brandywines. It’s time for drastic measures. Jared went out last night and set up a camera on the shade cover frame, and caught it on…
This day five years ago
Five years ago I grew my own tomatoes from seeds and grew a couple of unusual heirlooms that I got from C&T. I remember the persimmon and pineapple tomatoes were particularly good. The tomato plants were dying by time I…
I hope I never get so old….
I hope I never get so old that nightgowns seem like a good idea.
Thinning
The thing I hate most about gardening is thinning. I always want to keep all the plants alive — if they got started, the little fellas deserve a chance to live and try to thrive! I try to avoid thinning…
A big harvest!
I admit I’ve been avoiding the garden a little bit out of guilt for burning the plants last week. I’ve been out to check for additional deer damage and such, but I’ve not made any attempt to do anything other…
Youth Conference Pains
I received a text from my Young Women President roomie today: I so remember this. For our last youth conference I managed to be in Morocco — but I ended up having to leave my minivan so the bishop could…
Wednesday Update – Self-inflicted Wounds
I’m posting this a day late, but I took most all these pictures yesterday: I did my spraying (no Miracle-Gro again this week). At the end I had a little bit of leftover fungicide/insecticide mix left and so I just…
On Book of Mormon Geography
I spent quite some time this summer looking at problems with the Book of Mormon. There are certainly some that are difficult to explain, and for me personally, I find it to be not as internally consistent as we claim…
KolbyTroll
There’s a know-it-all troll on Dan Petersen’s FB page who likes to try and stir up controversy. If I thought he might be worth talking to, I’d engage. Some innocently do. I was tempted to engage today when he asked…
Curses! A video of my bean trellis and some deer damage
We had some mishaps in the garden this week. A storm kicked up and knocked over one of the tomatillos on Saturday. We propped it up but it wasn’t staying so I put an old tomato cage over it upside…