Today I did a job that I have been putting off for quite a while. Cleaning out the raised beds in the garden.
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As you can see, they were over grown with weeds and wire grass! But there were still some plants growing in there too! |
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The peppers are still dong fine, with lots of flowers and I picked another 13 sweet peppers (2.5 lbs worth). |
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As you can see, some of them were changing color and just asking to be picked! |
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And the "Rosemary plants are still in the land of the living.(more about them in a bit!) |
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And flowers were still blooming. But as can be seen, the weeds pretty well had them hemmed in.
One of the beds have been used to grow tomatoes and as a way to keep the birds out of the bed, I had placed 1/2 inch PVC pipe in the bed and covered that with bird netting. As I pulled that out of the bed, A black snake came with it! He was tangled up in the netting and it took me 30 minutes to cut him loose! As I held him behind the head, I used the other hand to cut the netting. He was pretty calm throughout the whole thing, But I think he was pretty cold and just wanted to get out into the sun. After that, each time I reached into grab a hand full of weeds, my mind kept telling me "There was a snake in there!"
Now about the Rosemary. As today was my day off from the "JOB", and Terri was in school most of the day. Its my day to cook.
I put a pot roast in the crock pot early on and added a onion, beef broth and two can of mushroom soup and let it cook all day. Along with that I decided to roast spuds, onion, carrots, sweet potatoes and summer squash. After chopping everything and getting it into a bowl, I added fresh Rosemary and Olive oil, salt and pepper. Roasted at 400 for 40 minutes in the oven.
And desert was a "French Caramel Apple Cake"! This one was not from a box, but from scratch! Really easy and so good with cool whip and extra caramel sauce drizzled over!!!!
Think I will go get another slice!
See ya!
Tom |
I'm having the exact same problems with weeds and wire grass. In fact, my beds look like twins to yours. Except for the snake!
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