Can't get here too soon for me.Rg
Good thing I have the "little wood shop" to keep me busy DD. No ice to speak of...I'd go nutz if I couldn't get lost on the lathe. I'm scaling back the tomatoes for sure. Just enough to harvest and eat. I'll buy sauce and salsa tomatoes. Pickles on the other hand.....I'm not sure I can grow enough in the space I have. Fortunately, I've still got a fair stash from last year. I had about 10 plants last year and bought another bushel or so. I'll have at least 15 plants this year. I've been researching growing peanuts too, but I'll probably pass this year. I was reading about growing veggies from the bottom of a hanging 5 gallon bucket. I've got 6 posts that will support 2 buckets each maybe beans or peppers . I'm still contemplating.
Pretty sure Dom could use the help soon. He's a busy boy this time of year. It's a tough time of year. Especially for the "green thumbs" . I've taken to long walks in the woods looking for standing deadwood saplings to turn on the lathe. At least it's out in the light of day.Rg
Maple, ash, beech, black birch, cherry.to name a few. My son is asst. superintendent at a local country club. They've been taking out a lot of trees to open up the course. I've got a pretty good supply of ash and maple. This spring we're going to raid the log piles for bowl blanks.We've just started playing with turning green wood and have a stack that's drying as well. Fun stuff on the lathe. Rg
Doing some gardening research.. thinking about ripping out a few older boxes.. reason being were not planting as much as we use to.. so thinking maybe one small box that will handle it all is in need.. sick of weeding every spring summer and fall.. looking and getting lots of ideas off pintrest and here.. really looking in to a raised bed design you can sit on the edge and weed the garden from so not bending and stooping over trying to weed it.. thinking a 1.5 to 2 foot from ground up box full of dirt with a stable edge you can sit on.. 3x6 foot square ting to face it in to the sun rise for plenty sun maybe a latice wood back so tomato and cucumbers have some thing to grip to in the back half and maybe peppers and garlic etc in the front but will see what happens..
Have you tried the landscaping fabric?We have used it the last 2 years and it has eliminated weeding almost entirely, you get a few weeds from where you cut the fabric for your plant, but literally I spent 10 mins weeding all of last summer.