#PlantChain

My wife would be jealous. Are those elephant ears or monstera?

Hell of a week. Wife, 30wks pregnant with our second daughter, decided she wasn’t getting enough attention (or something idk) and sprained her foot at the 4th and 5th metatarsals (outside toes). So, I’m off work the next couple days.

Dropped the work horse (my old pathfinder) off at the muffler shop this morning to get a fairly simple exhaust leak fixed so it’ll pass state inspection, won’t be ready til tomorrow evening at best. No biggie, since I’m home with the wife and a 10mo old anyway, except I panic a little every time I look in the backyard and she ain’t there lol.

Storm came through the other night, dropped a small limb off a small tree in the backyard, fell right on our cayenne pepper plant and knocked off the stem with 4 peppers on it. Luckily 3 were already of decent size so I currently have them hanging and the biggest is reddening up quite nicely.

Went to IKEA (closest is about 2 hours away) to look at the new bed we plan on getting and confirm for my wife that it won’t fit in our Mazda CX-5 (box is 84” long and 20” wide) and had to bite my tongue in order to keep from saying “This is why I kept pushing for a minivan.” Now we plan to borrow my buddy’s minivan to go get the bed tomorrow. We did come home with our new mattress, though.

Decided the onions and potatoes were as ready to harvest as they were gonna get, as the stems and stalks were all yellow and droopy (and not from lack of water), so once the youngin went to sleep I went to work digging them out. Lesson learned: potatoes and onions have deeper roots than I had expected, go bigger on the container next time. Oh, and doing garden work is still sweaty on 90-degree, high humidity days…even at 1030pm.

My one basil cutting has successfully become its own basil plant, and was rapidly outgrowing its solo cup, so I repotted it in a nice planter. May go bigger later, we’ll see how it does.

Plan to repot the mint plants as they’re all going crazy, probably will put a few in the ground around here to grow along with the grass and maybe mitigate some of the fire ant problem I currently have in the backyard by helping the soil not be so much of the sandy/clay they seem to prefer.

Speaking of fire ants, my gallon of horticultural molasses showed up yesterday, so I went out this morning and sprayed 4 gallons of molasses water on the whole yard and my plants, hoping that will help with the fire ants also (saw lots of conflicting results, but I figure it can’t hurt). Okra plants look really happy since I sprayed them with it, and I also sprayed my compost bins (partially cause fire ants have been raiding them too).

#GrowNostr #Garden #Gardening

Indeed. Finish this gazebo floor and roof, finish the roof on the screened in section and screen it in, then finish bringing the handrails down the ramp. We gotta redo one staircase because the owner decided she wanted it to match exactly the other staircase, but that shouldn’t take too long and then finish the handrails on it and that should be that. Couple more weeks if my day job stays slow lol

We getting real close to being done!

Progress on the #BigDeck

#SkilledTrades #Handyman #GrowNostr #FiatMiner #ItsHotOutHere

So, we got 6 rafters up on Saturday at the deck project. Roof slope is about a 4:12. Spacing is a little funky cause there’s a skylight going up on each side. Saturday was hot as hell lemme tell ya lol.

#SkilledTraded #Handyman #GrowNostr #BigDeck

Probably not, she’ll probably inherit my vertigo at height lol

Thanks bud! Sadly for her she got my ears lol. She’s hard to keep up with too

It’s been real hot here in central NC the last few days, and we been up on a ladder building the roof for the screened in porch on the huge deck project, but I’ve not took any pics cause I’ve been so hot and getting baked in the sun. Promise I’ll get some tomorrow. Today, we mow grass, possibly my least favorite activity in the world.

Until I head out for that I’m enjoying some time with my daughter.

#GM #GrowNostr #PV

I have to be careful with such clearance sales…I have limited space to store stuff at the moment so I have to go through a rigorous process of whether or not I think I’ll need it in the next few weeks, or how much money it will save me if/when I do need it. I have hoarder tendencies too so I have to make sure to keep that in check lol

I have found Sharpies/Inkzall to be the best option for marking that composite stuff. Comes right off with a little scrubbing with a Tub O Towels wipe.

If they end up being good, I see a business opportunity for ya, buying them things from the Hutterites and then reselling them lol

I fully realize my weaknesses and have alarms at 6, 615, 630, 645, and 7. Lol

First, you gotta find out what top speed is. Second, find a spot you don’t care about currently and see just how capable the scoop and the hoe are. After that, we can get down to some business lol

It woulda been, until I took a dremel to it lol

Either way it got me here.

And bruh…I’d be making some killer money if I had a setup like that lol

Well hell, I’ll have to dedicate some real time to it and give it a try.

Oh man, I bet those are nice. They don’t happen to sell online do they? Looking forward to a durability test on them bad boys

I don’t think so, Tim.